Hoosierfan2017

Coach Cig didn’t need time to turn the worst P5 program in the country into a playoff team. Dusty May didn’t need time at Michigan to turn a 8-24 team into a 27-10. It didn’t take Pat Kelsey time to turn a 8-24 team into a Pre-portal/NIL comparisons are null. It’s not 2008 anymore. A great coach can come into a situation like IU and win immediately. DD has everything he needs from a resource standpoint to make the tournament next season. If that doesn’t happen then it’s on him as the coach.

Wonder what the atmosphere will be like. Normally I’d say it’d be worse without the students, but it could be better without them tonight given the indifference we’ve seen thus far this year.

Notre Dame over Miami is crazy work, imo. They jump right to the ”we compared their losses and Miami lost to two unranked teams” argument while glossing over the fact that one of Notre Dame’s losses was to…. Miami. It’d be one thing if the rest of ND’s resume blew Miami’s resume away, but it doesn’t. ND’s resume is very mediocre, but they have the big name. ND probably has the best PR of any school in the country.

With the momentum we have - a likely heisman finalist/first round pick quarterback and an 11-0 start - it’d be coaching malpractice not to try to bring in another top portal guy. Mediocre quarterback play can sink a great team. If we had stuck with Jackson this year instead of bringing in Mendoza we’d almost certainly have at least 3 losses right now.

About freaking time. Idk why we’ve been play calling like we have Zander Diamont at QB.

You’re talking about the preseason #13 South Carolina Gamecocks! What a great example of the depth of the SEC.

IW revenge game for losing the Vanilla Prilla to IU.

Site works perfectly and then keeps crashing once IU basketball starts looking good again…. This has Woodson’s cronies written all over it.

And the last time before the last game was… February 17, 2018

“Vandy has wins against South Carolina, LSU, Missouri and Auburn. Those are all quality teams.” These SEC guys are all grade A clowns. Worshiping a conference the way that they do is just pathetic. The best team in the SEC got dominated by one of the worst teams in the ACC, but sure tell us more about how they’re all unbeatable juggernauts. I’d love nothing more than IU putting BTA against an SEC team in the playoff like OSU did to Tennessee last year.

Homefield

Over the past four seasons, we had 12 games with double digit 3s made (and zero games with more than 12 made). We hit 14 today and 10 on Wednesday. They won’t fall every game like they have today, but you can stay on the court with anyone when you can shoot it that well.

I don’t either but I can’t think of a single thing/experience that private equity has touched and made better, so it’s a firm no from me.

We’ve hit more threes today than we ever did during Woodson’s four year tenure lol.

Captain obvious, but being able to make 3s is such a difference maker. We’ve been called for 21 fouls (Tucker probably just picked up his 5th during this timeout) but we’re up 16 because we’re out scoring them by 21 from 3.

These refs are absolutely atrocious.

There’s a 0.00% chance that IU would be ranked #10 in the CFP with Notre Dame’s resume. It’s ranked where it is for one reason and one reason only - its brand. ND is ranked 8 spots higher than the two loss team that beat it, and it’s also ranked above the one loss ACC that beat the team that beat ND. I generally think the ACC is a joke of a conference, but ND doesn’t play a murderers row of a schedule either. Frankly I think ND should be required to join w conference to participate in the CFP. Every year it plays one or two good teams (who it usually loses to), them a bunch of mid, and gets to hang in the mix because of its brand. We get to hear about how “Notre Dame’s on an X game win streak, no one in the country is hotter!” but that’s not exactly hard when you have no tough games after September ends. Teams in conferences will have years where their schedules break their way, but ND gets that advantage every year given its ability to choose all its games. Join a conference or get out, imo.

IU with Notre Dame’s resume wouldn’t even be ranked. I think I hate them even more than I do the SEC. Though them getting into the playoff and IU having the opportunity to put BTA would be great.

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.