Magnanimous

If they’re not going to have Penix run out of fear of injury, this is going to be a very limited offense.

Take a knee...

We have Ricky Vaughn at QB?

Marcelino Ball out for the year with a torn ACL.

Indiana going to Phase 5 reopening. Any chance we can get fans in the stands? I thought the B1G said no fans.

ND-Wake postponed until December 12. B1G really screwed this up with scheduling 9 straight weeks.

Nebraska president caught on a hot mic that the announcement to play is coming this evening. Link

Men’s gymnastics is going way of the dodo at this rate.

Minnesota is dropping four sports.

Utah just furloughed their entire athletic department Link

We still have 98% of the population that hasn’t tested positive yet!

This may be the final nail in the coffin if true.

Dan Patrick just tweeted this - “From source: If conference can pass updated safety measures and procedures, Big Ten targeting Oct. 10 to start football season.”

Completely random question on something I have very little knowledge about...but is there a chance that the Simon family will have to sell the Pacers if malls continue to die?

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2020/08/28/big-ten-college-football-season-could-start-thanksgiving-weekend/5654578002/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-considering-multiple-domed-stadiums-as-sites-for-potential-winter-college-football-season/amp/

Lakers and Clippers looking to boycott the rest of the season?

They never should’ve fired Vogel. Rumors D’Antonio is a possibility if Houston flames out again?

The regular coronavirus thread got locked. Although this isn’t sports related, it’s a very damning story of how poorly prepared Iowa was to bring students back to campus. Link

Iowa announced today they’re dropping four sports after this year: men’s gymnastics, men’s tennis, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving. Link

Yep. No new information came out between the Bi1G’s schedule release and the fall cancellation about health and safety. The unionizing of the Big Ten and Pac12 players was the final nail in the coffin. I’m not entirely disagreeing with delaying/cancelling the season, but do it for the right reasons and not to protect the financial gravy train for the administrations in the name of health and preserving amateurism. I still think they should have a season and start it Nov. 21 when the students leave campus for Thanksgiving.

Parents from other Big Ten programs are raising hell about no football. With southern schools already seeing cases spike with students back on campus already, I’d say it’s more likely that the rest of country shuts it down than we start up again, but an interesting development. I’d imagine that IUFB would go along for the ride with how this shakes and let the big boys do the heavy lifting.

I wish we could play Nebraska every year. It’s fun to compete (and beat) brand name programs that aren’t special anymore. We should’ve had two of those wins last year had it not been for that onside kick against Tennessee...Maybe one day we’ll get one against Michigan. They’re not quite at Nebraska’s or Tennessee’s level, but they’re a definite step behind what I would consider the current tier 1 programs (Bama, Clemson, OSU, Oklahoma, etc.) and really still trailing the majority of what one would consider tier 2 programs of relevance (Penn St., USC, Notre Dame, Auburn and the like. Nebraska on the other hand is with the Iowa’s and Michigan States of the world. They’re still a CFB blue blood and have a great tradition, but everything that made them what they were in the 70s-90s is gone and it isn’t coming back. “Hey, you could say the same about IU basketball!” No, because we have an abundance of talent in our backyard and the only thing that’s prevented us from being a contender again has been bad coaching hires. Nebraska has no recruiting footprint anymore in the state and they’re not pulling in the troubled yet talented players from the coasts, their power football model is gone as the game has changed, and their once renowned walk-on program can no longer operate as it once did. The landscape of CFB has changed and they are stuck in the far corner of the non-PAC12 portion of the P5 map.

McRobbie is the only IU president I’ve experienced, as my freshman year began fall 2007. The IU that I entered and the IU we see now (COVID aside) feel like two different schools, and depending on when you went to IU that could either be a good thing or a bad thing. McRobbie helped revamp many of the facilities on campus, which were long due for an overhaul when I started. IU held its own and then some in the campus arms race. For what that’s worth in the world of COVID...what can anyone do about it at this point. IU is facing the same issue every other university is right now. McRobbie helped IU become a destination school for OOS students, particularly for east coasters, like myself. Some of you may think we ruined the Breaking Away-like university older alumni may remember, but I see IU apparel everywhere I go now, and that’s a good thing. Like it or not, the extra money brought by OOS students helped transform the campus and help the local Bloomington economy. Now turning to academics, I don’t know what IU was 40+ years ago, but in my time it has always been one of those “A+ schools for B+ students” type of schools. IU offers a great education, which is what is most important. I went to IU for undergrad and grad school, and while it is unsurprising that the grad students were of a higher caliber, I was somewhat unimpressed with many of my undergrad classmates, particularly those in the College of Arts and Sciences. Kelley and Jacobs attract a higher caliber student, but IU was way too easy to get into compared to many of its Big Ten peers when I began undergrad, especially given the quality of the education being provided. Say what you want about college losing its value, but lots of students aren’t living up to the school’s standards either. We haven’t done too well since then moving up in the university rankings lists, for whatever they’re worth, but the admission standards have gone up the last decade. IU remains a brand name university for many high school students, even without the help of a successful basketball or football program during that period. Our graduate programs have not lost steam at all, and this point is more important. McRobbie did also help bring an engineering program to IU, which is a big step for the university even if the program itself is limited in scope right now. I’m not going to get into it again about what McRobbie did or did not do with regard to our athletics department. That was debated to death in the Tom Crean and Fred Glass threads. This discussion really boils down to IUBB fans looking to blame everyone possible for the program’s lack of success the last two decades. We’ve made a couple of bad coaching hires, it’s that simple. There isn’t some massive double secret probation agenda to keep IU sports down by the administration. When basketball was good between 2011 and 2016, this school was ablaze in Hoosier fever. I always find it silly that some folks think if McRobbie “cared more” then we would’ve got Brad Stevens or Billy Donovan, or that Tom Crean could have cheated. So I’ll end this drawn out post that no one is going to read anyway with I came to IU during McRobbie’s first year, earned two degrees from the university, and look back at my time there with a lot of fond memories. College and grad school were two very successful chapters in my life, and I’m better off for having attended IU. President McRobbie played a part in making that happen, and I wish him the best in his retirement.

Those programs are over leveraged and their business models are based on cramming fans together in like sardines with knees in each other’s backs. Modest old IU is better suited to plan around 15,000 fans in the stands. Much easier to absorb that hit than going from 110,000 fans to zero.

Someone explain to me why this couldn’t work... Every P5 school puts their football team in their own bubble on November 1st and begins their season the weekend of November 21. This is the beginning of Thanksgiving break, and students will be leaving campus until mid-January since schools are finishing their fall semesters online. The season goes through January 10th, which gives every program eight straight weekends where football players are the only students on campus. They have all been quarantined for three weeks at that starting point to let any early November positive cases run their course. For Big Ten teams, if the weather got really cold they could rotate the last few weeks on Thursdays between Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Detroit, which all have closed stadiums. An eight game regular season that ends on January 10th will not impact the fall 2021 season. Not sure about what kind of postseason you’d have, but if at that point you’re only talking four teams and no other bowl games, you could have a playoff bubble for a few weeks in January.