NashvilleHoosier

Well yeah I don’t see the whole class falling apart but if the few guys who jump are the best players in the class (and they’ll be the ones with the most people in their ear), then it becomes a pretty normal class, which I will consider falling apart b/c I’m at a maximum level of pouting right now.

Looks like signing day isn’t until Feb. 2nd? Oh boy…with how college football recruiting goes I won’t be surprised to see our great class fall apart. Between that and the ease of jumping into the portal, LEO is going to be put to the test this off-season.

I can’t understand how many times we fair catch a kick off when our offense can’t get anything going. Why not take a chance on the return to get better field position?

We have to lead the world the past few seasons by a country mile in the number of times we’ve packed it in for the half when we get the ball with enough time to get in FG range and timeouts.

I feel like we cover this. Maybe after their loss Michigan is thinking too far ahead at their must wins against PSU/OSU and we have our bowl eligibility on the line. We catch them totally off guard and put in a mighty valiant effort culminating in a drive to score in the last minute to only lose by 20. Legendary.

Not only have we thrown our own season in the toilet, seems we’ve ruined Cincinnati’s as well.

Hard to look yourself when you have a guy simultaneously stepping on your thigh, kicking you in the meat and two veg, and possibly farting.

I think the MSU game just absolutely sucked the remaining life out of this team. 2-10 seems nearly inevitable.

That looks to be his personal account. If the program posted that to celebrate him, fine, but him posting it himself the day after an embarrassing beatdown….not a good look in my opinion.

Wow this is so incredibly lame of him to post. This makes me think of teams back in the Bill Lynch years and before when we’d get a tackle for loss or something in the 4th quarter when down 30 and the guy making the tackle would celebrate like it was actually a huge play. Just oblivious.

I thought we were changing what IU football is about? Look I don’t think any realistic IU fan would be unhappy with results like the past 2 seasons. Hell if you told me the next 10 years of IU football would be between 5-7 and 7-5 and we’d win 3 or 4 bowl games in there I’d say sign me up! But it’s not unreasonable to have expected far better than what we’ve seen this year based on what we returned from a historically successful team.

Well damn. Of course it was the best non COVID season we’ve had in a million years. Imagine if we had both in year 3 right now?

Imagine if we had just one year with both at the coordinator positions. I thought we had one but it looks like Wommack was only LB coach the one year DeBoer was here. We can’t have nice things.

As if that wasn’t cruel enough that last FG lost me a bet on the under along with a 4 game parlay.

Hah…I was just getting ready to type this.

Welp this one might over already. My only comment is that it’s the prime time game in ABC and we can’t even get a unique jersey combo? A different helmet design? Let’s shake it up!!

Next time, for the good of the board, order up a second old-fashioned, and maybe a quick rip off of the nearest tequila bottle for good measure, and get over there and shoot your (our) shot.

My apologies to Coastal. I bet on them which made an App State win an absolute sure thing.

To play this dose of reality we are getting this season out a little further, I did some quick math on our wins/losses since the beginning of the 2019 season. Our combined record in those 2.5 seasons: 16-11 (for IU football, remarkable) Against opponents who ended w/ a losing record: 15-0 Against opponents who ended w/ a winning record: 1-11 (Wisconsin who ended 4-3 last season) Combined record of the 16 teams we beat: 42-104 I'm not even trying to pile on. This is just some additional perspective. I for one so badly wanted to believe that IU football has changed. In some ways it certainly has. I'm still happy we had the last 2 seasons. I love that our culture has changed (though culture doesn't shine through as much when you're losing). I love that our recruiting has improved. But has IU football really changed that much? Probably not.

No but we also didn’t beat a single team with a winning record that year and choked away the chance at a bowl win. By IU football standards, a successful season. Don’t get me wrong with our history, I’m still happy with the past 2 seasons. But there were so many factors that made last season unlike any other. We benefited from it. Yet we weren’t able to carry any momentum forward even though we returned a ton of starters/production. If last season were a normal year I think we are probably another decent team, 7-5 ish. Not a fringe top 10 team fighting for a NY6 bowl. So, my opinion, last season was a fluke.

Last season was definitely a fluke. I think we had the perfect culture to weather that storm, among other things. Back to reality this season. I haven’t enjoyed watching IU football this little in quite some time. I’ll continue to hope we can get to 6 wins but my gut says we only get 1 more.

27-23 Hoosiers. LEO baby.

We’ve been to 2 straight January Florida bowl games, recruiting continues to improve, and the image/brand of IU football is better than it’s been in who knows how long. Underachieving this season will not warm up Allen’s seat at all I’m my opinion. He’s safe for at least 3 more seasons.

I definitely took it as option #1. There were a couple other times Trayce and Race started laughing to each other when Woody was talking.

I get that. It’s a 9 inning game not a 7 inning game. But back to a previous point, it’s a series based game, not a winner take all based game, yet we have the 1 game WC. But it’s also a very slow paced game, which in this day and age is a huge turn off. In my opinion MLB could benefit from adding more 2 game 7 inning double headers to the schedule. I thought they were fantastic last season, and much easier to keep someone’s attention for that amount of time. Keep the same number of games but shorten the season by a week or more. Expand the playoffs to 8 teams, division winners are top 3 seeds w/ next 5 best records filling out the bracket. Sure some pretty mediocre teams are going to make the playoffs. But if the season calendar is shortened b/c of the double headers, it would simply replace the last week or more of mediocre or bad teams playing meaningless games (or the best teams who have already clinched playing meaningless games) with another week or more of high stakes and meaningful baseball games. And you still get end of season playoff chases. Overall, more time for fans to watch meaningful baseball. Please, don’t everyone recommend me for commissioner at once. This is the part where I don’t comment on chipper’s career most definitely not ending b/c of that call. And I also don’t say that it was indeed a poor decision to call an infield fly there but if he doesn’t call it, Kozma just catches the ball b/c the umpire making the call is what Kozma thought was Holiday calling him off. If he doesn’t hear that (I.e. if the call isn’t made) he doesn’t back off, catch made. :-)