Str8Hoosiers

I agree that Rob looked good (well i didn't see yet but it sounds like he did)... however I am absolutely not sold that he will get the start once DG is healthy and ready to go... I can't wait to watch the replay tonight to see for myself but there were a couple times on the radio that it didn't sound so good for him... I am probably a bigger Green supporter than most on here, but he is so very impressive to me with the things he can make happen on the floor and it didn't seem like Rob has that same type of vision and energy.... DG definitely needs to bring it in sometimes but I think he is a very important piece this year. I still think he is our starting PG at least through January... then we will see who emerges from there. (but my money would be on him all season.)

Good start to the year. IU 89 Chicago (is not a State) 61

The Exhibition season Results... Congrats to @thebigweave for winning the Pre-season (Note these scores will NOT count during the Regular Season). Congrats to @killerbeezer for correctly predicting IUs Final Score. Congrats to @thebigweave, @KDB, @VO5, & @WayneFleekHoosier for correctly predicting USI Final Score. CURRENT GAME - Southern Indiana RANK Entry Name Score 1 thebigweave 130 2 KDB 125 3 VO5 124 4 coblehoosier09 122 5 killerbeezer 122 6 RatpigHoosier 122 7 WayneFleekHoosier 122 8 The Ola Depot 120 9 Zcorey92 118 10 wirenuts 117 11 biteoftheapple 116 12 Count 116 13 HoosierCoop 116 14 incrediboy 116 15 Str8Hoosiers 116 16 e_powe11 115 17 mdn82 115 18 NRT137 115 19 reconmkd 115 20 LIHoosier 114 21 Napleshoosier 114 22 cappymo14 113 23 johnsoniu 113 24 ellen.walden 112 25 IUfan_Charlie 112 26 jbell833 112 27 rcs29 112 28 IUc2016 112 29 Class of '66 Old Fart 111 30 mamasa 111 31 Woodson1980 110 32 Cr3amnCr1mson 109 33 fwgreenway 109 34 LamarCheeks 109 35 Naturalhoosier 109 36 ThompsonHoosier 109 37 ALASKA HOOSIER 108 38 MemphisHoosier 108 39 coonhounds 107 40 IUsafety 107 41 jrvarner31 107 42 MoyeNeeded 106 43 HoosierAloha 105 44 JHoosier914 101 45 Hoosier987 98

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

Spike the ball.... Go for it on 4th down.... I am not for calling the fouls at the end of the game intentional or changing the current rules, but every sport has things that change when it gets close to the end... both in rules and in actions... From coaching decisions, to player actions.... the team winning does things a little different and the team losing does things a little different. In basketball the winning team has to hit the freebies etc. In Football the winning team may kneel on the ball... or maybe fall down on purpose before scoring a would be touchdown... which is definitely something they would avoid earlier in the game.

Indiana Breakdown: Bring in a potential scoring and all-around college superstar (Romeo Langford), combine him with one of the three or four best players in the Big Ten (Juwan Morgan), team them up with one of the best young coaches in college basketball (Archie Miller) and that's my kind of wild card team. Indiana's forecast for 2018-19 is foggier than almost anyone is willing to admit, so here I am to clear conscience. I honestly believe the spectrum of outcomes for this team is as low as 18 wins and a 4 seed in the NIT ... and as high as a stunning national title run. Who knows, really, what to expect in year two for Miller at Indiana. He's coached himself into some amazing seasons with less-than-ideal roster situations in the past. Now he gets a pretty good IU team that wasn't as good on offense last season as it could have been.

Theoretically though the same could be said for the method they are using... maybe even easier as the timing is always noon... maybe people that aren't available at noon would be available to lineup at 5pm for a 7pm tipoff... And if behind the scenes they are using some algorithm it is very dishonest for them to publicly state that the FIRST 200.... it also says they will be notified immediately of the upgrade.... so if there is something else going on behind the scenes it could very easily get outed quickly and cause controversy.... If you get denied and AFTER that your buddy logs in and gets them we immediately know the system isn't working as stated for example. *** I am in no way attacking your theory or anything.***

I don't know the process they will use... so I am asking in case you do.... How is this better than the current process? Seems to me you still have people reserved into this section that may not show up at all or at least not by tipoff. So 1 hour before somebody has to figure out who responded to the email but didn't show up (maybe not who but how many) and then use some sort of process (presumably the next xx people in line) to fill those empty seats prior to tipoff... Just seems it would be so much easier to say the first 200 students with GA seats in line get this section... that will get students their early for every game and more than just 200.

I agree with you 100%... I would brave the cold, the traffic, the balcony, or whatever else the case was to be there every game if I possibly could.... To me it is so much better than watching on TV etc, but there are a growing number of people who would rather watch in the comfort of their home on their giant TV etc.... I wish they would add a GA section down low for any loud boisterous non-students.... I love being there and I am usually lucky to get a seat right on the edge of the wall so WHEN I stand up the entire game I don't piss people off... but something like that would be great for the rabid fans like us who log on to this website everyday!!!

Wouldn't the seats still be sold already? This isn't a new set of seats, this is an upgrade for those who already have GA tickets... Say there are 10,000 GA Seats, they still sell 10,000 GA tickets, but then just determine which 200 get to sit in that specific GA section...

While I agree in premise that is definitely not the case much of the time... putting a great product on the floor will help immensely but this problem still exists because of all the options... Watch the game at a bar, at home, etc... are good options now... deal with cold walks etc to see IU dismantle Central Arkansas in Mid-December isn't as appealing to many students even if it is the best IU team in history!

So this is a good start, but why not just make it the first 200 in the door? Why make it 2 days before fill out a request and get notified? So what if you have students fill out the request, get the upgrade, and then decide not to go (before Tip Off)? It states they must arrive 1 hour before to keep those seats, so what if they don't... will they then be given to whoever is next in line?

We have a Bye week to get it together and prepare.... Unfortunately I don't think we have it in us. IU 27 Maryland 42

As said before, a Heartbreaking Loss after a Heroic Comeback.... Here are the Standings after Week 9: Congrats to @HoosierAloha as he is now TIED at the Top of the Leaderboard. Congrats to @IUc2016, @IUsafety, @KDB, @mamasa, @Naturalhoosier, & @VPC for correctly predicting IU's Final Score, although all 6 picked IU to win. CURRENT GAME - Minnesota OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 mdn82 118 1 WayneFleekHoosier 807 2 HoosierRobbie 113 2 HoosierAloha 807 3 HoosierAloha 111 3 LamarCheeks 801 4 VO5 111 4 mdn82 792 5 LamarCheeks 110 5 IUsafety 788 6 johnsoniu 108 6 fwgreenway 778 7 Josh 107 7 johnsoniu 774 8 Class of '66 Old Fart 104 8 biteoftheapple 773 9 rcs29 100 9 NaturalHoosier 770 10 mamasa 75 10 jmsgws 766 11 NaturalHoosier 74 11 Str8Hoosiers 765 12 KDB 74 12 JHoosier914 762 13 VPC 71 13 ThompsonHoosier 757 14 IUc2016 71 14 Class of '66 Old Fart 756 15 IUsafety 68 15 VPC 751 16 fwgreenway 63 16 Josh 746 17 jbell833 62 17 IUc2016 741 18 Str8Hoosiers 61 18 HoosierRobbie 740 19 CrossboneIU22 61 19 Old Friend 728 20 MemphisHoosier 61 20 jbell833 725 21 The Ola Depot 60 21 rcs29 725 22 thebigweave 58 22 MemphisHoosier 720 23 biteoftheapple 58 23 CrossboneIU22 718 24 JHoosier914 58 24 LIHoosier 711 25 WayneFleekHoosier 55 25 VO5 711 26 ThompsonHoosier 54 26 The Ola Depot 708 27 Old Friend 54 27 KDB 683 28 LIHoosier 53 28 Napleshoosier 679 29 Napleshoosier 47 29 lucel15 665 30 Alaska Hoosier 47 30 thebigweave 649 31 jmsgws 0 31 mamasa 634 32 Chris007 0 32 RBB89 480 33 DChoosier 0 33 Alaska Hoosier 451 34 323SGrant 0 34 e_powe11 445 35 e_powe11 0 35 323SGrant 222 36 lucel15 0 36 Chris007 192 37 BabyJandJDaddy 0 37 HOOsier Thunder 184 38 thehoosiersound 0 38 BabyJandJDaddy 162 39 Defenserocks28 0 39 Defenserocks28 150 40 RBB89 0 40 Fkfootball1 117 41 HOOsier Thunder 0 41 Dalton26 114 42 Fkfootball1 0 42 DChoosier 111 43 Dalton26 0 43 thehoosiersound 109 44 coonhounds 0 44 coonhounds 107

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

There is another thread called "Prediction League Results" where I will post updates and standings after every game.

IU - 91 USI - 66

Just to bump this so everyone can remember who won last year and where you finished in relation!

THIS WILL NOT COUNT TOWARDS THE REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS!!!! But it will get everybody's feet wet and ready to chase 2nd place!

Ahhh thank you for clarifying... I initially read it as the coach (Archie) didn't love Romeo's intensity level..... but you are saying the coach who watched practice wasn't impressed with his intensity level? I liked it better the other way... with Miller not approving of less intensity and then Romeo picking it up and winning the Gold Jersey

We will have plenty of chances to move up the rankings.... We play a lot of teams that are ranked or at least receiving votes.... we have to prove it on the court but my hopes are high. Preseason Rankings of teams we play: 4, 10 (twice), 19 (twice), 24 (twice), 27, 30, 31, 32, 39, 43

Minnesota is much better at home than on the road and seem to score more... but we can beat them... they are not a "good" team. Vegas has them favored at home and all the stats say it will be very close... IU 35 Minnesota 28

Another Tough week. Nobody got any scores correct but more predicted the correct winner this week. Here are the Standings after Week 8: Congrats to @WayneFleekHoosier as he is now TIED at the Top of the Leaderboard. CURRENT GAME - Penn State OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 WayneFleekHoosier 119 1 ThompsonHoosier 700 2 jbell833 117 2 WayneFleekHoosier 700 3 HoosierAloha 116 3 HoosierAloha 696 4 VPC 116 4 LamarCheeks 691 5 ThompsonHoosier 116 5 IUsafety 681 6 LamarCheeks 115 6 fwgreenway 676 7 NaturalHoosier 114 7 mdn82 674 8 Str8Hoosiers 114 8 NaturalHoosier 671 9 fwgreenway 113 9 IUc2016 670 10 IUsafety 112 10 biteoftheapple 667 11 johnsoniu 112 11 johnsoniu 666 12 HoosierRobbie 112 12 Str8Hoosiers 665 13 thebigweave 112 13 JHoosier914 664 14 LIHoosier 111 14 jmsgws 664 15 biteoftheapple 109 15 jbell833 663 16 VO5 109 16 MemphisHoosier 659 17 The Ola Depot 108 17 CrossboneIU22 657 18 IUc2016 107 18 LIHoosier 653 19 Napleshoosier 105 19 Class of '66 Old Fart 652 20 CrossboneIU22 103 20 VPC 649 21 Old Friend 102 21 The Ola Depot 648 22 jmsgws 102 22 Josh 639 23 mdn82 99 23 Old Friend 632 24 rcs29 99 24 lucel15 629 25 MemphisHoosier 99 25 HoosierRobbie 627 26 JHoosier914 98 26 rcs29 625 27 Josh 97 27 Napleshoosier 621 28 Chris007 97 28 KDB 609 29 Class of '66 Old Fart 95 29 VO5 600 30 DChoosier 65 30 thebigweave 591 31 mamasa 63 31 mamasa 559 32 Alaska Hoosier 52 32 RBB89 480 33 323SGrant 0 33 e_powe11 445 34 KDB 0 34 Alaska Hoosier 404 35 e_powe11 0 35 323SGrant 222 36 lucel15 0 36 Chris007 192 37 BabyJandJDaddy 0 37 HOOsier Thunder 184 38 thehoosiersound 0 38 BabyJandJDaddy 162 39 Defenserocks28 0 39 Defenserocks28 150 40 RBB89 0 40 Fkfootball1 117 41 HOOsier Thunder 0 41 Dalton26 114 42 Fkfootball1 0 42 DChoosier 111 43 Dalton26 0 43 thehoosiersound 109 44 coonhounds 0 44 coonhounds 107

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

I truthfully think this is the first time you have predicted an IU defeat in 2 full years (basketball & Football)..... Such a very SAD day