NashvilleHoosier

I'm not sure the "they should play 9 conference games" thing helps us, specifically, this year. I agree if they played a 9 game conference schedule, one or two of those teams probably have a 3rd loss, and a 1 loss IU (if we lose ;-)) has some breathing room. But they also played: NC State (UT), at Wisconsin (Bama), Notre Dame (A&M), Clemson (UGA), at Michigan (Texas) and at Wake Forest (Ole Miss). Some of those aren't crazy difficult games, but they're all power 4 OOC opponents. Had they been looking at a 9 game conference schedule, you can mark the majority, if not all of those games listed above off the schedule. Also to be clear, this is not me advocating for the SEC. I despise that conference, and I'm 100% in on Indiana making the field with 1 loss. I'm just not convinced this argument is a knock on these 2 loss teams, this season.

This was a good start. Had they dropped us this week, with no logic as to why, we’d be doomed if we lost this weekend.

Surely she meant seeds and not rankings. Has to be. This would make us ranked 9th, seeded 11th. Still trash at the moment. But it highlights my nightmare scenario where the most recent memory of us is sneaking by Michigan, then we were idle while UGA got a "big" win. And if you rank GA ahead of us, you also have to rank Ole Miss ahead of us b/c they just beat Georgia while we were sneaking past Michigan and oh wait Georgia can't jump Alabama b/c they lost to Alabama so they have to move in front of Indiana as well.....

Yeah there are a lot of things that can break our way the next 2 weeks. Not least of which is us taking care of our own business. Others that would work in our favor: PSU @ Minnesota, ND @ USC, UT @ Vandy, maybe Bama @ Oklahoma though I really doubt it. I think if any of the 6 games mentioned work in our favor, we stay ahead of that team in the rankings w/ a loss in Columbus.

This is a nightmare scenario I can’t get out of my head. The 6 SEC teams win out besides A&M beating TX, making them all 2 loss teams. ND, PSU and OSU win out as well. We lose next week in that scenario obviously. You’ve got Oregon, SEC champ, ACC champ, B12 champ, G5 champ, and ND as locks. OSU and PSU are in ahead of us. That leaves 5 spots for IU and 4 two loss SEC teams and the 3 loss SEC team who loses their championship game. I don’t want to be IU on selection day in that scenario.

Yeah me neither. Ideal scenario would be for UT to pull this off, A&M to beat TX, and UT to lay a stinker at Vandy, which would guarantee another 3 loss SEC team after their title game. Or, we just dog walk our way through Columbus next week.

I think 100% we get jumped by UT if they win. Hard to make an argument against it. BYU jumping is would be lame, but also wouldn’t affect our seed, right?

In the real world, I understand a retention bonus to mean if you don’t leave, we pay you this lump sum of money. So if this retention bonus works the same way, the details might be something like each year he’ll be paid $1M on September 1st every year as long has he’s still employed as the IU football coach. In other words, I don’t think it’s added to his salary, we’ll be cutting a $1M check.

Gotta think Maryland pulls this one off no matter what.

I’m no one to take gambling advice from. But all recent things considered, EIU +27 seems like a steal.

It can’t go worse, right? I’m headed to the Palestra in January. If that also goes poorly, maybe I’m just bad at bucket list trips to see the Hoosiers and I’ll let you try Eugene on your own.

I'm sure there are rules against posting something in one thread, and then starting a topic on the same subject, but I'm feeling frisky after locking in tickets for a lower price than expected to this game. Let's fill the Palestra with Crimson! https://pennathletics.evenue.net/events/PSU

My lingering fomo of not going to the UCLA game virtually locks me into the trip to Eugene next season. See you there.

You don’t have to wait. I just reactivated my subscription and cancelled 8 seconds later. It will be active until December 1st.

A bit of a hack here, maybe. You can sign up, pay the monthly fee, and cancel immediately. You still get access for the full month you’ve paid for.

Yeah I assumed I'd be in for way more than that with the secondary market being the only option. I'd love to see a game at the Palestra, and my alma mater playing there is too good to pass up for that price.

Tickets for the game at the Palestra went on sale to general public today. Plenty left to snag. Let's fill it up!! https://pennathletics.evenue.net/events/PSU

Why wouldn’t it be huge IU fan Mark Zuckerberg?

Locked in via VPN for the 9:30pm local time kickoff here in Amsterdam. Wore a IU Homefield crew around all day and got 2 “Go Hoosiers!” w/ a high five. Pretty cool.

https://www.ticketmaster.com/tennessee-volunteers-mens-basketball-vs-indiana-knoxville-tennessee-10-27-2024/event/1B00611CBD4940A8

Looks like tickets for the exhibition at UT went on sale today and they are waaaaaaaay affordable in comparison to any other live event these days.

What are these 3rd down plays? Is this new? I thought 3rd down was for running up the middle for no gain so we can punt or settle for a field goal?? Neat!

I’m irrationally pumped and carrying irrational expectations. It’s bound to go as planned.

I assume there is no info on ticket sale dates out yet for this one? And also safe to assume that sales will primarily be through PSU since it's technically part of their home schedule? This might be a trip I can't pass up.

Ok, I enjoyed chuckling through that article until this: Indiana 28, Kentucky 20 (Music City Bowl) This is a very serious article, Stu. We must do everything we can to make this happen. For me everyone.