Magnanimous

Oregon still doing that pre-snap defensive line shift BS. I thought that was a penalty now? They weren’t called on it against us, and JMU is now picking up false starts as a result.

Expanding on my own thought (are self quotes worth a badge here?)…I caught the “Bama-OU but we’re really U of O” postgame with Tebow and a few others… They like us in the next game but “We have not seen Indiana down and have to recover the way we saw Bama do so tonight.” So now we play schleprock football for not starting games down 17-0?

McAfee has our backs, but the door is open for Paul BaldTrollDumb@$$, Matt Barrie, and Stephen A Dipsmith to say “Indiana has never been here before” when picking the village idiot that Alabama football has become.

In 9 OTs.

The more I watch Colorado football this season (5 minutes total), the more I agree with Shadeur having his number retired. How he ever won 8 games with those guys will forever be a mystery :)

Kennesaw State down 34-0 to Western Michigan in the 2Q of the Myrtle Beach Bowl…

Nice discussion https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt7szCk8os&t=3551s

It’s Purdue meets Death Valley, and the result is mid-football.

Another option is we move the press box to the east side (shorter side, like VT). One option I would hate is if we start stacking one side’s seats much higher. Maryland did that and their stadium looks terrible as a result. Even Oklahoma and LSU did that to an extent, although their stadiums are a bit more balanced because of their sizes.

It’s the press box by a mile. We can add “seats through suites” as the first step to expand the stadium’s capacity. Virginia Tech essentially has the same stadium foundation as us (along with Wake Forest and I think Vanderbilt). You can see how much their press box enhances the feel. I would love something like this in Memorial Stadium. VT also expanded their seating in the end zones. Our last two stadium expansions won’t allow for something like they have, but if attendance holds for the next 5-7 years I think we can consider adding additional seats in the south end zone next to where the video board is.

(Before getting silly here, can we please stop hating every individual who accomplished good things at IU, made a good faith effort to improve our university/AD, and in the grand context of things was not a deliberately incompetent POS, like some other ADs and university presidents around the country? [see Penn State, Michigan right now, the Ivy leagues the last few years…] Fred Glass was not the worst thing to happen to our AD and was actually part of a continuum of our AD trending upwards from when it was truly stuck in the past as Greenspan took over). With that said…maybe I’m misremembering timelines, but I could have sworn that Tim Curley was Penn State’s AD while Fred Glass was ours…? Just for some perspective ;) And as we’re patting ourselves on the back while lambasting trivial aspects of our university, I’d like to throw my name into the conversation by stating that between undergrad and grad school, I had season tickets for six seasons of dreadful IUFB and went to every game. So “if everyone was like me,” then IUFB would’ve turned the corner from a fandom perspective decades ago and likely would’ve pulled better coaches much earlier. Just about every IU fan/alum (except me and probably 12 other posters on this site) is to blame for IUFB dogging it for decades, and when Cig came here and wanted to upgrade everything, from apparently our popcorn to toilets to our fans, he wasn’t talking about me! All I can say when looking at these young students and new fans enjoying the fruits of my apparent IUFB fan labor…

He doesn’t realize that if you’re going to be a braindead ram rod in football you at least have to be likable (see Cam Skattebo)

On the plus side, besides arguing that he should have won it, I’m not seeing many Vanderbilt fans condoning his behavior.

Scott’s been a very good AD for the reasons stated above. With NIL, the transfer portal, and basketball only needing 3-4 good players to field a competitive team, IUBB is always one year away from being right back at the top. It shouldn’t be this hard, especially since most of the country doesn’t even care about CBball anymore, but if a coach can scheme properly this program can and will always pull talent if the checkbook is open. We’re competing against our own ineptitude (really indifference) more than anything else right now. I say indifference because we have not been doing what it takes to be one of the best. There are no more 2005-2010 UNCs or 2009-2014 Kentuckys where there is “the program” driving the bus in this sport and pulling all of the recruits. Does anyone here really think most kids around the country give a crap about UConn or Purdue basketball? Or even Michigan this year? If Indiana truly wants to be good at basketball they will be good again, but it will take a real effort by the university and AD to not settle for anything less than fielding a top 10 team. LSU and Ohio State foootball is the mentality this program needs to take if it wants to call itself a big name program. You see a coach you want? Make him say no three times after upping the offer each time. Someone is winning at another school? Ok, go buy him. He won’t leave? Go buy his players. We have more funny money floating around this program than 99% of other schools because that 99% doesn’t even really care about being the best, they just sometimes are (i.e., Florida last year). If CDD is the answer, and he’s shown enough coaching chops to deserve 2-3 years at this point, then get him some real players to work with.

I was a huge (video game) NCAA football fan growing up and bought the game annually until about 2008. When they finally brought the series back last year, I went over a friend’s house and tried it out in July 2024, mainly for nostalgia. Mind you, this was the first time ever they had player names in the game. This was my exact reaction throwing passes with some dude named Kurtis Rourke…

Can’t even pronounce his name…

If our athletic department had any gumption when it came to men’s bball we’d make him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

“Can you see your name, Fernando?”

Pavia has a lot of gall to wear a turtleneck to this thing. Looks like he’s in Savage Garden.

Notre Dame appeared to be peaking because they played no one since mid-September. I’d imagine our team would currently be drawing comparisons with 95 Nebraska and 01 Miami if we played Illinois and Wisconsin every week and ended the season with a +700 point differential. That’s Notre Dame’s schedule after the Miami game - fringe top 25 teams and absolute garbage (pausing here to bask in the fact that Indiana FB can now call Wisconsin garbage). But how does it make sense that Alabama has to play an extra game against a top 3 team, who they already beat, while Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Ole Miss sit at home, and for losing that game then Bama should be out of the playoffs? And the whole “teams playing their best ball later in the season” argument has always been one of the more flawed and subjective metrics in CFB, even before the BCS. Why should Notre Dame’s losses and Alabama’s early big wins be discounted? Notre Dame is more than welcome to join a conference and drop this whole special treatment charade. I really hope that USC cancels that series with them, which IMO is the linchpin to Notre Dame being iced out from playing the big boys as an OOC game, which will either relegate them to a third tier “G5” program that no brand name conference program plays anymore or finally forces them to join a league.