“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly”
Welcome to The Daily Hoosier. We are an independent publication operated by an Indiana native and IU Bloomington alumnus who is season credentialed for IU basketball and football.
We are the only IU athletics site that offers ALL of the following:
- Comprehensive coverage of all IU athletics. We are your one stop shop for all things IU.
- All site content is FREE (please whitelist us from your ad blocker). We will never ask you for a subscription.
- A free commenting community at the bottom of every article for interaction with other fans. You shouldn’t have to pay to talk IU sports with your fellow fans. Save that money for your family.
- Locally owned and operated in Indiana by a small business and an IU alum. Feel good about supporting a small Indiana based start-up rather than the big corporate sites.
If there is anything from a current events or historical perspective that you’d like to see covered, don’t hesitate to ask.
Please feel free to get in touch via the form below or via thedailyhoosier@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Mike Schumann, IU Class of 1995
Founder, Owner, and Editor, The Daily Hoosier
If you would like to be a contributor for The Daily Hoosier, don’t hesitate to contact us.
How You Can Support The Daily Hoosier
Did you know — the top sites for many of the schools around the country are completely free and independently owned?
It’s time for a better option for Hoosier fans.
If you share our passion for IU and believe that there should be a site with great content that is comprehensive, free, and owned by an Indiana-based small business then please consider supporting us.
As you can imagine, the site is not free to run. There are site staff costs, hosting fees, travel costs, marketing costs, and content subscription fees to name a few. Of course there is a substantial amount of time and effort involved as well.
There are several ways that you can support us and most of them are free and quite simple:
- Disable Ad-blockers for this site. Please whitelist us if you use any ad-blocking plug-ins or applications. We earn very tiny fees merely from you seeing the ads on our site. Also, please let us know if you feel like the ads are overwhelming the site.
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- Stay a While. You shouldn’t have to pay to discuss IU sports with fellow fans. Share your thoughts in the comments section of our content and help us create a community. The added activity from a vibrant and engaged comments section helps to substantially increase our traffic. Let’s change the course of IU sports coverage together.
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