NashvilleHoosier

Sort of. Lots of Vols fans. A lot. But lots of Hoosier fans as well. I’d say maybe only slightly over the 60/40 mark in favor of Orange. Good showing for IU in my opinion. disclaimer: I cannot see the upper deck on our side.

Even more encouraged about the turnout as the day goes on. But sheesh I didn’t know about any big injury. Yikes. IMG_8772.MOV

Beautiful day for win #9!! Early report (from me only) is that we are well represented down here! The city is certainly not bustling yet but we saw plenty of Hoosier fans out and about on a little jog this morning. We will still be outnumbered but I’m pretty optimistic about our showing at this point.

I know you’re joking but I would love for IU to (and think we should) be a part of an event like this. Archie and bro should spearhead another 4 team event that rotates sites. See if UNC, dook, or Kansas will join another one. If not UNC or dook, Louisville or Virginia. If not Kansas, maybe go outside the power 5 with Gonzaga or Nova. I’m fine with the crossroads classic but I can’t stand seeing OSU and MSU being a part of those events every year while we play in an event no one cares about outside of the state.

I'm going with: IU - 73 Maryland - 65 Coverdale with a heroic performance on a bum ankle, nailing a couple huge triples in the final minutes. Fife shuts down Dixon for only 8 points on 3-12 shooting. Odle does an admirable job banging with the Terps' bigs, and Jeffries is just a matchup nightmare for their bigs. I'll be there in row 32 behind the basket to watch us hang banner #6!! Wait.....what year is it? What game are we talking about? I turned by brain off last night around 7:30pm CST.

Right, but this isn’t your typical IU team playing in a typical IU game. I’m a perfect example here where I went to exactly 2 football games during my 4.5 years as a student and I’ve been to exactly 3 in the 15 years since I graduated. But there was no way I was going to miss an 8 win team playing in the gator bowl. I don’t know where exactly to draw the line at “showing well”. But they (the bowl people) say they expect a sellout. If that’s about 65K, it would be amazing if we had 25K of that. If we had 15K or less, it will feel pretty lopsided. Even though in many bowl games 15k would be great.

Does anybody know how ticket sales are going specifically for IU fans? I keep hearing that UT fans are doing more than their part, though it could easily be their over-inflated sense of where their program stands talking. I fully expect we will be outnumbered, but it would be a huge bummer if we don’t show well. I know ticket sales overall seem to be strong. I just really hope it’s not 75% orange.

Flight, hotel and tickets booked! Considering the "Land only" package I posted about earlier has now increased by $135/person, I'll have saved about $1000 total per person booking on my own, though we don't get all those fancy extras like a lanyard. One thing I am interested in is the Big Red Warm up event the day of the game. Tickets for this are $75 per person. Does anybody know details about this event? Does the $75 include food and drinks of some sort? I sure hope so. EDIT: Emailed the ticket office and they tell me the Big Red warmup ticket includes unlimited food, beer and wine and includes a water taxi over to the field if anyone is interested. We'll be looking for an IU crowd anyway. I think $75 is probably worth it.

https://iusportstours.com/packages/two-night-land-only-gator/?back_to=413 A bunch of extras that I don't really care about. But 2 nights at the Hyatt downtown which would be convenient. Club level ticket to the game, which I'm not really concerned about club level. And in my research I've found all same options as you list so this package is just not worth it.

Ah, thank you! Had no idea this existed. It's exactly what I'm looking for but......holy what the hell? $1100 per person for double occupancy hotel room and a ticket? Yikes! Back to the drawing board. Again, I do appreciate the recommendation though.

Yeah....not trying to derail anything, or start an unnecessary conversation, but I have very strong opinions about STRs for very good reasons that will prevent me from ever booking one outside of very specific and defined parameters. This scenario doesn't yet meet those requirements. Aside from that, flight options have gone from really bad to nearly non-existent from Nashville as well. Another aside, I'm pretty pumped that Music City bowl is an exclusive tie in for the Big Ten the next 6 years. They'll have the 3rd pick of BT teams after those included in the playoff and NY6. Surely we'll land here at least once.

Anybody know if the Ticket Office plans on offering ticket/hotel packages? Not sure if that's a thing for bowl games. But as soon as it was announced I jumped on every site I could think of to check hotel availability there was virtually zero decent (and by decent, I mean close proximity to stadium/downtown) options at all. Not even like super expensive options. Just none. I'm hoping there's a slim chance that each school somehow got an allotment of hotel rooms to offer as part of a package.

Full disclosure, I got those numbers from someone on Twitter last night and I haven't taken any time at all to verify. It seems about right though. That said, I think you're just completely underselling it and missing a large part of the point here. Regardless of how bad the team were that we beat, we still would have lost to several of them in years past and ended up with a losing record, or maybe eked out a 6-6 record. We took a huge step forward as a program this year with on field results. We went from laughing stock bottom feeders who consistently blew some games we shouldn't have, to a team that finally beat the teams we should beat. Recruiting has improved, player development has improved, and finally, results have improved. Does that mean we'll win 8 games every season? No of course not. But don't undersell this as a huge step forward that no other coach in recent history has been able to achieve.

I can't believe how many people are questioning our record in any way. Yes it is what it is. We are 8-4 and our 8 wins came against teams that have a combined record of 25-71. We didn't beat a single team that was any good at all. But WHO CARES?!?! We should not apologize in the slightest bit for that. B/c in the past, the fact of the matter is we would have still LOST to several of those not very good teams. In seasons past there is no way we close the game out against Nebraska on the road, Maryland on the road, or Purdue on the road. No way. we blow those games and end up 5-7. This was HUGE step forward for the program. We aren't Iowa, we aren't Wisconsin, we aren't (fill in the blank). If Iowa or Wisconsin went 8-4 against our same schedule, they'd probably be a bit disappointed. But have some perspective!! And another point about our schedule, just look back the past several years. Not only do we play OSU, Mich, PSU, and MSU every year, our cross over games with the West has included either Iowa, Wisconsin, or a ranked Nebraska. We've paid our dues with the schedule. It was about time we got a break and we took advantage of it! Celebrate it! Gloat about it! Don't apologize to a single person for it! We won 8 games against a bunch of terrible teams and I loved every damn minute of it! Now if we somehow land in the Music City Bowl I'll know this is all actually just a dream and it didn't really happen.

This would just be entirely too good to be true.

Is this a game that will be replayed on BTN at some point? I searched specifically for Indiana on BTN.com and nothing came up but I assume it could still just be listed as "Student U". Anybody know if and when a replay will show?

What an absolute choke job this series was. And to throw out the Memphis Redbirds roster on such an important game....mind boggling. Like baseball is such strenuous activity that the starters couldn't play today....when they have a DAY OFF TOMORROW!!! I understand giving yadi a rest but everybody?? Blowing it yesterday ultimately hurt today....and today was on the bullpen not the AAA offense, but still. It will be a one game lead going to the last series with the Brewers smelling blood. And the cubs with nothing at all to play for besides preventing us from the division title. We're going to play our way right in to a one game matchup with Scherzer on the road. Good night.

How about those Redbirds!!!!!! This has played out exactly as I predicted right?

It was a bad strike zone....for both sides. Weird game. Almost reinforced my feelings that the brewers will just scoot on past while the cubs and cards beat each other a few times. Carlos was due for a WTF outing. Hopefully he got it out of his system.

I honestly am in shock with how these series played out. It doesn't yet change my prediction as I still think the Cards are ripe for folding up like cheap lawn chair. Fascinating matchup tonight. Flaherty has been the best pitcher in baseball (I don't know if this is actually true but it has to be damn close) in the 2nd half but its hard to expect these results every time out. We tend to make Hendricks look like a perennial lock for the Cy Young. What a pivotal game to start the series. I love it and I hate it so much.

I've been thinking the same thing about the Cards. I had high hopes for this season, especially when we traded for Goldy. But we showed overwhelming evidence that we are just an average team....who happened to get hot for a month. So, sooner or later, we are who we are. Big win last night to boost confidence a bit but it still doesn't change my prediction. The interesting thing is how well things have lined up for the Cards with the key injuries both the Cubs and Brewers have had. Though you can remove Russell from your list of "key" players you've lost :-), and Kimbrel hasn't exactly been lights out. Regardless, point taken, and losing Baez and Rizzo is devastating. Yet those are also situations teams rally around, which both the Brewers and Cubs seem to be doing. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong in my prediction. To be honest, the sports fan in me says it would be incredible to go into this weekend series tied for the central. At the same time, the Brewers have by far the easiest schedule left. We could just beat up on each other while the Brewers cruise on past. It should be fun, excruciatingly painful, exciting, and stomach churning all at the same time. Yay sports.

I'd say go ahead and book this. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cards get swept by the Nats (Strasburg, Corbin, Scherzer) while the Cubs sweep the Reds and we go to Chicago in 2nd place. Momentum alone at that point would mean we blow even a chance at the wild card. Losing 2 to the Rockies against two miserable pitchers was a very bad sign. Yesterday was like confirmation. I've never felt more comfortable sticking a fork in a first place team. Yes, this is a very doom and gloom outlook. It just seems like the most likely outcome, even if Rizzo is (also) done for the regular season.

YEAH BUT.... he's pointing to the Stanford logo and just threw an out of date logo on there for us. We're screwed. BUT....the stadium in the background is Lucas Oil, so obviously he's staying home. We're fine.

Do you know how many finalists are being considered? If this one (that you're pretty sure we'd love) doesn't get it, will you be able to reveal who it was? Ugh...so many questions!!

This is certainly interesting. And could be amazing. Could also be a disaster. Could be bad optics. I think I'm all for it.