NashvilleHoosier

Just to stoke this fire a bit....Kansas with another absolute banger of an alternate uni tonight.

Hah...I was the guy yelling at IU fans leaving at the under 4 timeout. We showed up, we were loud, we had a hint of arrogance, and it was awesome. Sit there and eat it 'til the end!!

I was standing in line to see the original rules of basketball when the Hysterics crew came up to the end. It was pretty long line but it was moving pretty fast. I don't know much about those guys, outside of following them on Twitter. I don't listen to the podcast b/c that guy's voice is unbearable. I gather most people think they have good intentions but are annoying. From that small time observing them, they were far more cringe worthy than I imagined. He cut to the front of the line while acting like he "had to film something". He was just doing a twitter live feed. 2 or 3 of the others with them tried the same thing. I have no idea how they run their collective, but they sure don't make me want to contribute.

It’s the combo of getting worked over/dominated in all 3 of those games for me. We shouldn’t be getting dominated by anybody. If we’re okay saying there is no shame getting dominated by better teams, then we’re no different than any team we’ve had the last 6-7 years or more. Which may unfortunately be true. We are the same mediocre team from last season that somehow got propped up b/c of a couple timely wins in the BTT and adding couple good freshmen. We agree on the fact that we are soft. So damn soft. And yeah, I can’t for the life of me figure out how TJD seems so okay with it so often.

Totally agree. Thoroughly enjoyable experience outside of the result.

Soft and overrated. Fans showed up which was great to see. But we are so soft.

Early returns inside the Phog….we’ve got a really solid crowd. Way more than I thought there would be.

If last night was any indication, we’ve travelled pretty well. Lots of Hoosiers out and about on Mass St. plenty of high fives to go around.

I can’t say I wasn’t impressed with their guards. Krissa and Larsson were pretty damn good and that guy Bal off the bench hit everything he threw up. I don’t think JHS’ impact changes much.

I’m not going to lie. I love this post. I’m not convinced JHS makes the impact you say, as the UNC game was his best game, and so far, a bit of an exception. I most certainly hope that becomes the norm when he’s back in the lineup, but not guaranteed that he has a UNC-like performance tonight if healthy. Whole heartedly agree with your disappointment with TJD. Didn’t seem assertive at all tonight and we are toast if we have a hesitant and passive TJD.

It’s a great question. And honestly I don’t know the answer. Damn you for interrupting my pouting with logic. But the fact remains, even if there aren’t enough teams who have definitively proven they are a top 25 team ahead of us, we certainly haven’t definitively proven we are worthy of a top 25 spot either. FFS that sentence was too long.

I’m not sure what evidence we have yet that we are a top 25 team. The rebounding tonight was mostly our bigs getting out muscled. JHS I’m sure makes an impact but it don’t think he impacts much of any of their offensive boards. I’d absolutely love to have a team that is showboating down the court while the opposing team’s star is dazed on the floor at the other end (this is NOT a shot at TJD, unlucky on his part but a microcosm or the game), and blowing kisses to the crowd (who is decidedly in favor over the other team) after draining another dagger three. Give me this all day.

It sucked, yes. We didn’t lose by a possession or 2. We got worked. Every run we made they had a better one. We fought well at times and folded, absolutely folded in others. It wasn’t the missed goaltend, or the flop. It’s that we aren’t actually that great. And Arizona is. I really wish we were. But we aren’t.

You have to be kidding me. Like have to to be absolutely kidding me. I’d love to grasp at straws like this but they just worked us. Offensive rebound after offensive rebound. Shooting clinic. We played a title contender and proved that we are not one.

We are watching a true contender

I would love to be a fan of a team like Arizona. Would be a ton of fun.

We are an average team. A couple of timely big ten tourney wins last year made a lot of people think we are something we are not.

Definitely felt like that was an Archie team on the floor. Not an ounce of toughness. If any of them listened to the Geo Baker sound bite and then followed up with that…..yikes. If we proved anything it’s that Geo’s statement wasn’t strong enough. Hopefully this team is different and can move on quickly.

Proving Geo Baker right. So soft. No reason at all to worry about playing Indiana. Hopefully this was a wake up call but it’s sad that we needed it. TBD if it actually is a wake up call.

Finally sold the last remaining tickets of our KU mini package. We came out ahead by $6.50/person. That’s with 2 of the exhibition game tickets going unsold. We are going to the Phog for free and even getting our first beer out of it. Now I’m just mad I didn’t buy 2 more mini plans. Would have paid for the trip entirely.

Ah, well, how about that. What do I know, I’m a formula 1 guy so legally I’m required to turn my nose up at other Motorsport, so I do.

Cmon man we wouldn’t seriously be looking at a NASCAR driver to coach our football team!! He’s an Indycar driver!!

I don't appreciate you pointing out that my admittedly unscientific study contains a complete lack of scientific data.

This is interesting. A 100% unscientific, off the cuff, without any evidence case study in NIL for IU. According to IU's website there are 760K graduates of IU. To use conservative numbers, let's just start with the 415K that are grads of IU-Bloomington. Let's assume 20% of that number actually care about football, so 83,000. Of that, maybe 2/3rds of people recognize NIL is a legitimate and necessary thing and are willing to contribute some amount of money to help the IU football program. So now we're down to ~50,000. This doesn't consider grads of other campuses and other fans that aren't alums. If we set a realistic goal for IU football to be a middle of the pack Big Ten program, let's assume our NIL contribution totals will be in line with that, so also middle of the pack. So maybe $5M toward collectives to pay players? That would mean an average donation of $100 across those 50,000 alums to get there. Considering 1 person was willing to contribute $1M, that average donation for the rest is down to $80. Is it doable?

Luckily Nashville -> KC is a cheap flight on Southwest, and the price has gone down twice during sales since we booked. We got a pretty cheap rental car and some reasonable hotel rooms right off their main drag. I'm actually 100% confident this trip to Lawrence will be cheaper than our weekend in Bloomington next year that won't require a flight and rental car.