Class of '66 Old Fart

  Maybe no moral victory but there is a moral to the game, i.e, there is no such thing as a safe lead for IU football!

And a perfect illustration is the play that didn't work for the Colts last week against the Pats  -- oh wait, that was a terrible call.

I like Wayne's thoughts on Brown, Kegler and Davis being realistic commits.  I've never had high expectations that we'd land either Alkins or Thon.

IU football is what it is.                                                    W      L      T Phil Dickens        1958-1964     20     41     2     31.7% John Pont            1965-1972     31     51     1     37.3% Lee Corso            1973-1982     41     68     2     36.9% Sam Wyche               1983          3        8     0     27.3% Bill Mallory           1984-1996     69     77     3      46.3% Cam Cameron     1997-2001     18     37     0      32.7% Gerry DiNardo      2002-2004      8     27     0      22.9% Terry Hoeppner    2005-2006      9     14     0       39.1% Bill Lynch              2007-2010     19    30     0      38.8%       TOTALS                                218   353    8       37.7%   Since 1958 not a single IU coach has had a career winning record.  Only 2 - Mallory and CKW had or have a winning record against PUke.  The last winning football coach we had was Bo McMillin (1934-1947) with 63 wins, 48 losses and 11 ties.   DENIAL:  We can't be this bad every year can we?   ANGER:  Damn it!  How can we blow a 27 point lead and allow 28 unanswered points?  Damn it #2!  How could we not be prepared for the Syracuse zone?   BARGAINING:  Please God, I don't care if we never win another football game just let us hang another NCAA championship banner in Assembly Hall before I die.   DEPRESSION:  Losing to PUke.   ACCEPTANCE:  It's Indiana football.   I'm sure I'm old enough to be the father of the majority of the BTB posters and old enough to be the grandfather of a few more of you.  IU football has been bad for almost my entire life [1968 Rose Bowl and a few other scattered bowls the exception].  Sometimes you just have to have a little humor to take away some of the sting.

OUCH!

IU football is simply not a priority in IU athletics and probably never will be.  Surely this season is unacceptable even to Glass and I think a change is likely, but in the grand scheme of things, we are never "going to open the checkbook" for our football program.  To be slightly above mediocre (and annually beat PUke) is all we can ever expect.  

  And an overall higher level of talent pool to work with.

No reason to wait until Friday hoping for more insight on who can and will play.  Really doesn't matter.   Spartacus 49   Ho(osiers)peless   17

  Bite your tongue woman!

  I'm glad I didn't get to watch any of it!   Thank you wedding planner whoever you were.

Yeah, right!

It's Indiana football.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS2nWLz-AbE

  "Because it's Indiana!"    [Ever heard that one before?]

I'm just too damn old because I've seen this movie way too many times and I know the ending by heart.   Rugrats a/k/a the Cesspool of the Nation     24   The (Groundhog Day) Hoosiers                    17

  History is not kind to our football team once the B1G starts and we've got a hobbled QB and our stud RB who probably won't play.  2 consecutive losses and as the late Yogi Berra reportedly said "It's de ja vu all over again!"  I have a very uneasy feeling for Saturday's game.  It's an absolute must win, not just towards the goal of being bowl eligible, but to salvage the entire season.  Should we lose to Rutgers and fall to 4 - 3, I'm afraid the Oaken Bucket game will be the only thing we're looking forward to for the remainder of the season.

There is a strange aura that seems to follow the 'golden boy' from Iowa to New Mexico and now to UCLA!

Suds better be able to go because Mike Miller just tweeted that Zander left the locker room with his arm in a sling.

We better have some fast healers or it's gonna get worse before it gets better.

Can you use that kind of language on a public forum?

  The only maintenance issue is that you simply can't flap your arms fast enough!  :cheese:

I've waited hoping for more clarification on Suds and Howard but alas, it's not to be.  Latham's reinstatement is a big plus, but.....   Ninny Lions      28   The 4-2 Hoosiers    17   Afraid of letdown after last week and concerned at how much we can truly expect from Suds and Howard after last week's injuries.

Per Jeff Borzello, Fisher will announce his comitment on Wednesday.

I don't know the ins and outs of recruiting and NCAA regs but I would think it would be immensely helpful to have a former IU / CTC player available to talk to potential recruits when they are on our campus.  Recruiting regs seem to be so picky and maybe some of you can elaborate on what role, if any, Derek may be able to play in interacting with potential recruits.  Can he talk with them at all, and if so, under what conditions?

Derek Elston is joining our staff as Director of Player Development per announcement today.    http://indiana.forums.rivals.com/threads/derek-elston-returning-to-iu-in-new-staff-role.57215/

Time for Diamont to give us his version of the famous John Elway drive.