Class of '66 Old Fart

We hold them on downs and force a punt and no one has a comment.  I guess we're all just speechless and dumbfounded.

To brighten our current moment of sorrow, Kyle Schwarber just hit another homer for the Cubbies, his 16th of his rookie season!

That is the correct question to the answer 'no' and you've just won final Jeopardy!

Just saw a tweet that our defense has given up 500+ yards of offense in 12 of our last 25 games.  UGH!  :angry:

  I've got Comcast and it's channel guide has IU scheduled.

The Monday night (9/14) NFL game is the Eagles vs. the Falcons in Atlanta.  Hope he puts on a great show.

Bad omen?

The really sad fact is that we even have this thread.  I don't think very many of us expected the game to play out the way it did and to be biting our nails to the knuckles in the final seconds.  As ugly as it was, it was a W.

Several people have alluded to the impact social media has in today's world vs. my college years of "x" years ago.  And while that's certainly a fact, you'd think by now these bozos would know that their every action is liable to end up on one form of social media or another.  As a college athlete and certainly as a pro athlete you have a target on your back and someone is just waiting to catch you in the act of doing something stupid and be the first to blurt it to the world.  Years ago, most of the transgressions we're learning of today would never have become known outside of the IU campus but that's definitely not the world we live in today.  But what does it take for these schmucks to get that through their heads? 

Let's not overlook the one truly bright spot about yesterday's game.  For the past 16 hours, it diverted our attention from our issues with the b-ball team.   :laugh: 

Who da thunk?

What's the 'rule of thumb'?  On the road go for the tie or go for the win?

Boys and girls, I'm too old for this crap!

Have we crossed into the Twilight Zone?  This just all seems too surreal.

:laugh:

Consider yourself lucky!

Do you really enjoy pain that much?  :D

All of you who were planning on a December bowl trip might want to reconsider.  Just a thought.

What in the hell is going on with IU athletics?  It's almost becoming comical - in a sad not funny way - with the number of players that are creating problems for our football and basketball teams.  To an old fart, this is progressing way beyond college kids will be college kids.

If the link works, you can watch McCutcheon's sectional final game against Logansport in its entirety.      http://www.waltonwebcasting.com/index.php?view=details&id=726%3Alogansport-vs-lafayette-jeff&option=com_eventlist&Itemid=2   If you do watch, keep an eye on Logansport's Jalen Adaway who plays on the UA Indy team with Scruggs, Gunn, etc.  He's had unofficials to both Butler and IU and has offers from Indiana State, Ball State, IUPUI & Evansville.

I saw him play in the McCutcheon sectional.  Wasn't necessarily focused on watching him because frankly, his name didn't mean anything as a potential recruit since he was only a freshman.  But I do remember that he handled the ball very well and found an open man for lots of easy McCutcheon buckets.

Once upon a time...........!   We've also  had a wee bit of problem in keeping the talent we do sign for a variety of reasons.

And Duke picks up a top 10 recruit in PG Frank Jackson.   Paraphrasing a classic 3 Stooges skit:  Slowly I turned; step by step; inch by inch and suddenly all the top recruits were gone.

UConn today picked up its third top-100 recruit for 2016.  We've picked up Grant Gelon who is probably a capable back-up player and Josh Newkirk who at the moment is damaged merchandise after having had microfracture surgery.  I'm worried and I readily admit I'm worried about next season's roster and our current recruiting efforts.  I just can't shake the feeling that we're going to get left at the altar and it will be last minute scrounging to fill the 2016 roster, i.e., MSB, April, Holt.... 

After all that's been going on, we need a commitment from one of our weekend visitors to put us into a better frame of mood.