Magnanimous

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.

The problem is that they never should’ve been ranked ahead of Miami to begin win. Miami, Alabama and Notre Dame were all 10-2 in the regular season. Miami beat Notre Dame, so that settles that comparison. Bama’s 10-2 resume was much better than Notre Dame’s, which included a win @Georgia. Bama tied for first in the SEC. Losing the SEC championship game logically makes them second in the SEC. Second place in the SEC, absent a flukey OOC record like Duke had this year, will always make the CFP. Unlike BYU, which needed the Big 12 championship to make the playoff, the SEC championship was a formality this year that Bama didn’t need to win. Bama’s win @Georgia is more impressive than Georgia’s win over Bama on a neutral field. Bama could’ve played (much) better, and Miami should be ranked ahead of them, but Notre Dame winning 10 straight against marginal competition doesn’t jump 10-2(10-3) Alabama.

I wonder what happened during the Covid season that broke their brains…?

The dark nature of this event aside, Michigan fans are actually quite happy they canned Moore a year earlier than they would’ve, with no buyout to boot! It would be wild if they poached DeBoer and even wilder if Lane hopped town to Tuscaloosa due to the Bama job opening. And even even wilder wilder if this girl had previously hooked up with Isaac Haas (if you know you know…).

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By a team they beat this season on the road.

Both went 10-2 in the regular season. Bama second place in the SEC and had a much better resume.

The Committee got it right. Need to quit the weekly shows going forward though to avoid this nonsense.

We’ll know in a few hours, but it’ll likely be Oklahoma vs Notre Dame. Should be Oklahoma/Miami…

Best win in school history. If this same game was 15(?) years ago we just won the national championship.

I’m still not sure what Ohio State has done this year to earn the level of praise they’ve received, which has “solidly put them a tier above everyone.”…They won @Washington and handled an incredibly overrated Michigan team? Texas was a mess to start the season. They did look better against Penn State than we did, but they also played a “different” Penn State team at home. We got Penn State’s best and final shot this year. OSU is not a great running team. They have a great o-line and passing game, but they haven’t faced any semblance of a pass rush this season. If we can make their offense one dimensional and hurry Sayin by a second or two more than he’s used to then I think we have a very good chance to not only win but win by more than one score. Give me IU 34-24.

Hopefully his success is just enough to prove me right, doesn’t come at IU’s expense, and he high tails it out of town when Kansas comes knocking.

This actually began in 2020 when Indiana beat Michigan for the first time since 1987. Consider this moment rock bottom for the Harbaugh era of Michigan football, and we saw what ”measures were taken“ the following season... Now Indiana‘s immediate success under Curt Cignetti is contributing to the rapid firing of coaches all over the country. “If Indiana can do it then there’s no reason why we can’t have immediate success as well!” This is misguided and is getting a lot of quality coaches canned prematurely or due to irrational standards from their own programs. It’s quite incredible to watch.

Just kickem in the bucknuts…

This is pretty much how I view Ohio State fans this week.