Hoosierfan2017

Is this allowed?

A real one in Assembly Hall

Party at the Fellas Lounge tonight to celebrate the win?

Good to have a coach/roster I want to root for again. No clue how good we’ll be, and I’m not sure we’ll be athletic enough to compete with the top teams, but it’s so nice not being transported to the early 2000s when I watch IU on offense.

It’s been a decade since our last legitimately good basketball season. It’s been over two decades since we last made it past the sweet 16 (which we’ve done only once in the past 32 years). The Woodson hire showed IU wasn’t serious about winning, and the Devries hire showed that an established coach isn’t coming to save the program. Meanwhile we’re 20-2 over our last 22 football games and on the verge of our second straight playoff appearance. Add in the fact that college football is far more popular than college basketball, and I’d say we’re definitely a football school.

I want to win the conference, but I also don’t want a first round bye. Is that crazy? 25 days is a ton of time between games. Last year might’ve been a fluke, but all four teams with byes lost last year in the quarterfinals. Not a perfect comparison because Boise State and ASU had byes despite clearly not being top 4 teams, but still.

The bias in the rankings is what really annoys me. Why in the world is this mid Tennessee team ranked 14th and Oklahoma ranked 18th when Iowa isn’t ranked at all? They ranked basically every SEC team at the start of the season and then leave them ranked unless the bottom completely falls out.

IU beats a 4-3 Maryland team by 45 points - IU’s schedule is a joke, the Big 10 stinks. Georgia beats a 3-4 Florida team with no head coach by 4 points - what a great illustration of the depth of the SEC. It just means more.

Have to think we’ll have our pick of the field too with the past two years. It’d be silly not to bring someone in.

LSU has been paying players for decades. See Shaq in the early 90s and likely others before him.

YouTube TV needs to figure its crap out by tomorrow. I subscribe solely for the multiview feature and no ESPN/ABC is really going to screw that up.

Hope we land another stud QB in the portal. It’s kind of like the debate we had last year with TJ. A star QB just raises your ceiling so much. Just look at Michigan last year as an example of a bad QB situation capping your potential. Not saying Alberto is as bad as Michigan’s quarterbacks last year, but he’s definitely not as good as the ones we’ve had the past two years.

Idk how good of jobs LSU and Florida really are. Especially Florida. Mullen went 34-15 and got fired. BJ was 34-14 with 3 bowl wins (to the extent that even matters now) and got fired. 9/10 win seasons aren’t enough for those fan bases and the leashes are very short. Of course, Franklin got fired 9 months after making the semifinals, though, so that’s worrisome for candidates too. Of course top head coaches are football sickos who don’t think this way, but the Penn State job seems less stressful. There’s like 8 SEC schools that expect to win nattys every year.

GET HIM OUT

With the way he’s played this year, Indiana State would be the better fit for Arch.

This is crazy. I get that with conference consolidation it’s not entirely an apples to apples comparison, but still… The SEC bias is nauseating.

Private equity makes everything it touches worse. Hope it stays far away from the Big Ten.

Save up the money for football transfers, imo. We have a national title level football coach. To sustain it he needs all the money he can get. No reason to pay money toward a basketball program that has stunk for the great part of the last quarter century. If Devries exceeds expectations then we can talk about allocating some to basketball, but football needs everything right now imo.

Pam’s legacy: To be honest, IU wasn’t an academic juggernaut before Pam took over. The acceptance rate was over 75%. That doesn’t mean IU didn’t have good programs, but no one was mistaking it for Harvard. Sports are the window through which the public views a university. A top football program (with the coming facility renovations, to stay on topic) will outweigh any academic controversies for the vast majority of people. If Coach Devries can turn things around too? May have to start Pam’s statue, or at least name a Mother Bears pizza after her.

Does anyone in the country other than Joel Klat like Big Noon? The IU/UCLA game isn’t a big game, so it’s not a big deal, but I wish Bin Noon would go away.

What a world where we win a conference game by 4 possessions and I feel like we played a mediocre game.

Senator BaldTrollDumb@$$ dialed up an executive order to make that rule.

Dude says that Cig is not in Kirby Smart or Ryan Day’s league, but I doubt even they could’ve done what Cig has done in his first 1.5 years at IU. I think I’d take him over every single other coach in the country all other things equal.

Sounds crazy, but there could be an avenue to Coach Cig being a bigger name than Bob Knight at IU, especially given how Knight’s tenure ended. He’s not getting that anywhere else..

Especially when you turn 65 years old this summer. My extremely crimson tinted glasses say why leave for “greener” pastures when you legitimately have a national title contender at Indiana. Maybe he wants the prestige, and this might sound crazy, but I don’t think his ceiling at Penn State would be higher than his ceiling at Indiana is (because I no longer believe he has a ceiling at Indiana).