Magnanimous

First time I'm saying this, but Kevin Wilson is not HC material. I was willing to give him time to get his players in place and all....but he can't manage a game to save his life. I think he's done now. Go get Rod Carey.

The game has been moved from ESPN2 to ESPN. After getting people's attention last week, we reall really need a statement win here.

Some comments made by Adarius Rayner about Hackenberg are coming to the surface this week. As physical as last week's game was, I think that our front seven are drooling over the thought of this game. 20 points should beat Penn State.

Ok so we have a year to get more signatures. Right now we're at 7...   Wouldn't mind if someone would send this to FG

  So no go on this until at least next season?

  Sign and pass!

During the helmet petition, this appeared to be something a lot of people mentioned they would like to see changed. Please sign and share to help make the Indiana script logo the new endzone art. Link here. 

OSU - ______ "University of Indiana" - ________   This will be the first time these announcers have ever watched an IU game. 

The best part about this start is a home game on ABC next week. We'll finally be getting one of those overhead field cams in Memorial Stadium. 

The new helmets were awesome and we want to keep them. Please sign, share, and send to Fred Glass!   https://www.change.org/p/fred-glass-iu-ad-make-iu-script-helmet-official-helmet-for-indiana-hoosiers-football

Congrats to CKW on his first 3 game winning streak at IU

Those should be our helmets for the rest of time. It only took 118 years for this program to figure out its look.

James Franklin has essentially cost Christen Hackenberg $20 million. He was sacked ten times yesterday. I never thought that Stevens was really in contention to be a serious threat to start for PSU anyway, as Franklin is essentially the Tom Crean of CFB who always has his eye on the next big thing, but this flip keeps looking worse.

  Rather transition to a veteran PG than plug an 18 year old in there. Kid has potential.

He was ranked around the 20th PG in his class. Originally from North Carolina. He's also coming off of microfracture knee surgery. Looks like we may have just got Yogi's replacement. Apparently not a very good shooter, but very quick.

UNC deserves an athletic department-wide ban on NCAA postseason play for two years. In 1960 all of IU sports were banned for four years due to a football scandal. I realize that four years isn't going to fly these days (not even for child rape...), but two years university wide is fitting.

    We should be 4-0 in our non-con this year. I know nothing is to be expected with Indiana football, but three of them are at home, and we're going to be the favorites in every game. Expectations people.   In the Big10, Penn State, Rutgers, Iowa, Michigan, Maryland, and Purdue are all winnable games. For some reason, Ohio State tends to be too, though I wouldn't cross our fingers on that one. We'll get at least two of them (if Sudfeld stays healthy).

  With how much crap there is floating around southern Indiana and Kentucky, it's not surprising some of it would spill over into IU. I think a few fraternities were kicked off campus like 10 years ago for having meth labs.

 

At least Bud Mackey had the decency to do this crap before he got on campus. What a waste....Wasn't Allen an Army AA?

  They went 7-5 that year with one quality win, which is what Penn State has been doing three out of four years for the last 15 years. What about that game would have been so different if it was just another year for them? They still would've been on to a new coach (and they got a pretty good one in O'Brien). They still would have been starting a new QB (and they had a pretty good one in Hackenberg, his freshman year anyway). They still would have been overwhelmingly starting the same players on offense and defense. Silas Redd was their only big loss from the sanction transfers, and he wasn't going to stay there by 2013. If anything, they would have had the same team without the #1 QB in that class, and probably would have been starting some 3-star from Erie, PA.   The fact is that record wise, that team wouldn't have been much different than the team they were going to be fielding anyway. The only thing you could argue would have been different is that Tom Bradley may have still been around as d-coordinator, which they were hurt by. But personnel wise in 2013 they were just about what they would have been. Last year was when the effects of the sanctions started to really hit them, as their o-line was severely depleted.

  Why not? The traditional Penn State hasn't existed in almost 20 years. They're still a good program who pulls in top-tier talent. The sanctions' effect on that game was minimal to say the least. I know that you obviously don't understand how teams build themselves, but most of those players were holdovers from the Paterno regime, the depth issues were just starting to make an impact, and Paterno would have been dead regardless, so them dealing with a new coach was going to happen regardless.

  When this team played to its potential last year, they beat the eventual SEC East champions at their place. That game wasn't a fluke. It has been 20 years since an IU team has even had a ceiling like that, let alone an expectation of what they are typically capable of when things click on both sides of the ball. Not that they will be competing with ranked teams week in and week out, but that is progress. And considering there was literally no one on defense when Wilson took over, three years is enough to still blame Lynch. Year four goes on Mallory, but the program has rectifyed that situation. I agree that the excuse period is over at this point, but I don't understand why you fail to realize there were perfectly legitimate reasons outside of Wilson's control for why this team struggled his first few years.

  IU's football season was over the second Sudfeld separated his shoulder. Outside of Coleman, the offense literally couldn't move the ball, and as a result the defense was on the field more than they should have been and in terrible starting field position a lot of the time.   Knorr made a lot of improvements with the defense last year. Tackling technique, gap filling, pass rushing were all improved, and that was while implementing a completely new scheme. Again, it takes time to build a defense. The talent Wilson has recruited on that end were true freshmen in the 528 year, they were 19 last year. Wilson had no one on defense when he took over, and yes that is Lynch's fault. Lynch also benefited from the players Hep brought in did little to sustain what he started with. This isn't a video game where you get one talented defensive player and he single handidly shuts down an opponent's offense. Depth is crucial to CFB defense. Why do you think Penn State and USC tailed off when they got sanctioned, even though they still brought in four and five star talent on defense? Because they had no depth. IU is bringing in talent, but it takes several successive classes to parlay that into actual results.   The numbers aren't as relevant as the direction the program goes in. Wilson's team is trending upwards, Lynch's teams plateaud at the bottom of the conference after 07. This team is very close to being semi-relevant in the conference. I know that's an idiotic sounding statement, but for IUFB that is progress. There's promise in this team, and I think we've brought in a pretty good d-coordinator whose scheme will alleviate some of the deficencies that were stuck with.   Talent wise and trajectory wise, the defense WIlson is now fielding is incomparable to what IU used to have under Lynch. We have four-star talent on the defensive line an an Army AA playing safety. That's a long way from Richard Council, Chris Adkins, and Matt Ernest covering division 1 receivers.    You want to talk about Lynch's last year? We had an NFL-caliber receiver, the Big 10's leading passer, 8 home games, and we couldn't even make a bowl game (without anyone getting injured along the way either). If Lynch had come back the next year we would have won one to two games and still be in the funk we were in his second and third year. If you don't want to believe in this team that's your choice, and so is hating on Kevin Wilson, but it doesn't change reality.

  Kevin Wilson also had to build this entire team from scratch because Bill Lynch didn't recruit a defensive player for three years, relied on a gimmick offense that included two quarterbacks in the backfield at the same time, and fielded a team that gave up 83 points to Wisconsin. Did I mention our secondary consisted of our baseball team? Meanwhile last year CKW's team became the first Big10 team to ever beat a ranked SEC team on the road. IU has also led the conference in passing, and produced a RB who had one of the best seasons in CFB history.   Kevin Wilson is far from perfect, but this team has looked more like an actual football team than anything IU has put together in nearly two decades.