Magnanimous

I doubt there will be bowl games this year, at least non NY6/CFP.

Link Big Ten conference only for the fall.

Article on IU’s expected budget shortfall.

These schools are doing everything they can to ensure fall enrollment is high enough. They pull the plug halfway through the semester, an already angry and compliant student body may very well skip the spring semester if they don’t feel like they’re getting their money’s worth. I feel like we’re in a holding pattern right now with how bad things are likely going to be this fall across the country. Right now it’s warm out and we’re outside, we’ve done enough to help support many seasonal summer establishments, and school is out. Let’s see how much longer this can hold up when it’s 45 degrees outside and numbers aren’t going down. I’m not trying to by hysteric. I get that this virus has a low mortality rate and you’re going to get higher positive numbers the more testing there is, but the reality is politics and public administration don’t care. I’m very worried about the financial wellbeing of college towns with no sports attendance or graduation and possible declining enrollment. Bloomington is no exception.

This isn’t going to be a pleasant thread, but with COVID-19 impacts looming this fall on college football, the lack of attendance revenue, and other athletic departments starting to make cuts, it’s a discussion every school is thinking about. Today Stanford announced they’re cutting 11 of their 36 sports programs after the 2020-21 season. Now not all them compete in the NCAA, and a few aren’t even offered at IU, but field hockey and wrestling both were eliminated. UConn also recently announced they’re dropping men’s cross country, men’s swimming and diving, and men’s tennis. IU obviously benefits from having Big Ten media revenue, something Stanford, UConn, and a number of other universities don’t. We also do not have 36 varsity teams. However, every athletic department is vulnerable in one way or another, and we’d be kidding ourselves if we didn’t consider ourselves at least somewhat lucky to be getting all this BTN and Fox college football money with the “contributions” our team has made. At the end of the day, like just about every Power 5 school, we have two programs that bring in all of our AD’s money and largely subsidize the rest of our sports. Also like just about every Power 5 school, money in just about equals money out, and we operate our athletic department’s finances very near the margins every year. The tough spot IU potentially finds itself in is that we are fairly strong in our non-revenue sports and/or just made massive investments in those programs’ facilities. We’re not dropping men’s soccer or any swimming and diving teams. We just built a new facility for wrestling and volleyball. Baseball and softball facilities are seven years old. Our new golf course was just finished. Women’s water polo, field hockey, both tennis teams, and maybe some track and field/cross country programs logically seem like they’d be the most vulnerable, unless I’m missing something going for those programs related to new facilities or team success. There’s also Title IX considerations. I’d be curious to hear others’ thoughts on this and what the logical order of dominos would be. Another thing, I think the Big Ten’s momentum in expanding the men’s lacrosse and ice hockey leagues has just hit a wall.

This is a great concept given what’s available right now. Too bad IU didn’t field it’s own team like Syracuse and Purdue did. I saw that Maurice Creek, Remy Abell, Luke Fischer, and Jordan Crawford are the former Hoosiers participating.

Didn’t know where else to put this.... AD grades https://watchstadium.com/ranking-the-big-ten-ads-with-jeff-goodman-and-brett-mcmurphy-06-16-2020/

Good get for them. But they won’t win it all!

Vonleh was 18 when he was drafted. Has something changed since then?

If there’s no season does this kid ever dress for us?

Malcom Brogdon positive for COVID

After what Franklin did to Tommy Stevens, I don’t see a QB switching from us to them anytime soon. I know we did lose a DE to them recently though. While there is a PSU/OSU game in Happy Valley this year, doubt we’re going to be seeing 100k+ crowds to wow him as Stevens was.

Nice piece about Tom Allen on this issue: https://hoosierhuddle.com/hoosier-blog/tom-allen-a-vocal-leader-for-change-using-his-leo-philosophy/2020/6/4

Thanks for sharing. I’ve been avoiding social media recently.

Wasn’t sure how to properly title this thread without letting it spin out of control...but with everything going on right now in the country related to the BLM movement and protests, I was wondering if Archie has said anything on the matter? Unless I missed something, our basketball team has appeared somewhat quiet on this (not criticizing, just observing). Coach Allen on the other hand has earned a lot of praise for the sentiments he’s offered, while other coaches have been called out for a lack of engagement, or worse (see Iowa football). There was recently a large protest in Bloomington as well. Were any of the school’s “faces” present?

Not rooting for the kid to fail by any means, just that it seems very reminiscent of Tommy Stevens. Yes, PSU football has better crowds, more tradition, and may beat OSU once while he’s there. But he could’ve been a real contributor here early in his career while it’ll take a Herculean effort on his part to get any real playing time for a while at PSU. IU needs to start putting some defenders in the NFL again so we have something more to sell these kids if we want to not see them get picked off by the B1G elite.

Barry just back himself against the wall should there be an impact on fall sports as well.

Our athletic department would be in the red within 30 seconds if that happened.

The Florida State Senate just voted on declaring FSU this year’s national champion. Goonies never say die!

Agreed. Plus the facilities are now potentially compromised. At this point just have to hope everyone stays safe, those who are infected are identified early and have a quick recovery. And I extend those thoughts to the folks on this board. Stay safe everyone. This is going to be our new reality through at least summer.

10 is better than 9 most years.

He was more reputable before the whole Quad metrics.

Demezi Anderson could shoot too. We need guys who do shoot and have in a college game before. We need guys who have confidence already playing at this level. Two Nick Zeislofts and this team is top 15.

There needs to be constant treading upward from here on out.

The little things add up. Smith’s free throw violation, Thompson’s missed put back.