IU vs Michigan Post Game Thread

[JaybobHoosier 11,821]

Please post your thoughts there from the game!

[JaybobHoosier 11,821]

Embarrassing defense....sad!!!

 

Offense looked just fine other than those two interceptions. I think Tre will be starting next game. Looked a lot better than Nate. Just can't have a chance when the defense is that awful.

[Parakeet Jones 3,733]

Normally a game like this would just frustrate me, but this one makes me mad.  I am mad that we are showing no progress whatsoever on the defensive side of the ball.  How many games are we going to give up playstation numbers?  I'll just stop here for now.  

[mdn82 25,456]

Hopefully next week the defense decides to come to the game.  They really missed one hell of a game today.

[johnsoniu 6,064]

There is absolutely no reason Mallory should get off the bus in Btown still in the employ of Indiana University.

 

I hope to heaven that that "effort" was rock bottom, but I fear it wasn't. Wisky will probably set some sort of rushing

record against us.

[Parakeet Jones 3,733]

There is absolutely no reason Mallory should get off the bus in Btown still in the employ of Indiana University.

 

I hope to heaven that that "effort" was rock bottom, but I fear it wasn't. Wisky will probably set some sort of rushing

record against us.

You know we have a bye week coming up.  Perfect time to make a move if we are so inclined.  

[All_Hoosiers 873]

Defense is a joke. It's a complete joke. Mallory should not a job right now. I could tackle better than these guys and I'm at least half their side.

Also, Tre Roberson clearly needs to be the starting QB. He was sensational today. I fear Wilson will continue to stick with Sud. No way Nate should be on the field unless Tre is hurt.

Bye week adjustments: Fire Doug Mallory, have the defense practice tackling and nothing else, and make Tre Roberson the starting QB.

[JSHoosier 19,545]

Hopefully next week the defense decides to come to the game.  They really missed one hell of a game today.

They should be plenty rested.  They were on vacation this week, and have only played twice this year.

[djsalway 4,161]

I'm extremely upset. If this team had even a decent defense, they'd have 3 more wins than they do right now.

If they can straighten it out a little, I see us bowling. If not, losing record. It's very disappointing because the talent on offense is so explosive this year and not everyone will be back.

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[johnsoniu 6,064]

You know we have a bye week coming up.  Perfect time to make a move if we are so inclined.  

Yep, and I hope people are fed up enough to stop with the "you don't do that during the season, it won't solve anything" BS excuse. It sure can't hurt, and at the very least let's the team know that we are serious about building a quality program. This D is not getting better, period.

[OliviaPope40 6,295]

Their offense killed our defense and we left a lot of gaps open and do we not know how to tackle players.

[Parakeet Jones 3,733]

Yep, and I hope people are fed up enough to stop with the "you don't do that during the season, it won't solve anything" BS excuse. It sure can't hurt, and at the very least let's the team know that we are serious about building a quality program. This D is not getting better, period.

I agree.  If you're serious about improving as a football program, make a move like a big time football program would.  (Like Texas did).  I am certainly not in favor of firing anyone on a whim in the middle of the season, but there is absolutely no improvement from week to week.  None.  It's not fair to anyone on the team to lest this continue.  

 

There are enough winnable games left that we can still salvage a bowl game.  Don't blow a chance at that by continuing to put an uncompetitive defense on the field.  

[JaybobHoosier 11,821]

Can't add too much, I agree with what has already been said. Changes have to be made on the defensive side of the ball.

[Parakeet Jones 3,733]

UM just scored another touchdown.

[JaybobHoosier 11,821]

This made me laugh! Lol. Well played!!!

[johnsoniu 6,064]

UM just scored another touchdown.

lol, awesome. I was sitting here, stewing, thinking the same thing.

 

I'm just totally disgusted right now. I wasn't even this upset during the Lynch era. DiNardo, yes.

[johnsoniu 6,064]

Alabama is curb stomping Bret Bielema and Arky 45-0, so I got that going for me.

[Parakeet Jones 3,733]

Here is the thing that really steams me.  When UM fumbled the ball near the goal line and we had a chance to drive the field for a go ahead score, my wife looked at me and asked, "Do you think they are going to win?" and my answer to her was, "No."

 

 I have sang this same song and danced this same dance with IU football for so many years, that at no point today during the game did I actually believe they would find a way to win.  Yet in spite of that gnawing knowing in the pit of my gut we would find a way to screw the pooch and lose the game I still talked myself into holding out hope against hope we wouldn't pee down our legs and that we would pull it out.  

 

Then, as inevitably happens with IU football, when your feint hopes are shot down like Matt Painter asking out a prom queen in high school I let myself get mad and worked up over the loss.  

 

How the heck can our defense be so bad?  It's almost as if our defensive coaches sit around talking in team meetings saying, "You know what would be fun?  Let's see just how bad we can be.  I mean anyone can try to get better and be good, but let's go the other way with this."

 

Rant over.   :angry:  :banghead:  :bad:  :farting_smiley:

[All_Hoosiers 873]

"@kbikoff: IU allowed 500-yard passer, a 300-yard receiver and a 150-yard rusher in the same game."

The defense is an absolute joke, and that might be an understatement. Some fans have been making excuses to me on twitter, but there's no excuse. There's too much individual talent for our defense to be that bad.

Coaching is a joke, which makes the defense a joke.

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[JSHoosier 19,545]

Our defense during the game

:farting_smiley:

 

My reaction watching the defense

:bad:

 

:help:

 

On second thought, I take the first part back.  They would've had a better chance of getting a stop if they would've farted.