Hoosierfan2017

The destruction of IUFB’s momentum, visualized.

What’s the point then? Playing in the Big 10 East helps us with recruiting. Playing against marquee programs every week is something that’s appealing to recruits when you head into the south or other regions.

I honestly really do not care what IU football did 30-40 years ago. We’re not in 1990, we’re in 2021. Stinking it up in the past doesn’t excuse stinking it up in the present. This is the worst season we’ve had in a decade. That’s great and all that the recruiting classes are better than previous IU football classes, but we aren’t playing against previous IU football teams. If our classes are still near the bottom of the conference then that’s where we should expect our team to finish. We need to make improvements comparatively against the rest of the conference.

How many of those players have actually signed? Looking at recruiting rankings before classes are finished is pointless.

Michigan and Penn State were both terrible last year. Players were going in and out of lineups because of covid protocols. Wisconsin didn’t play for like a month. It was a completely unique year. All that said, you can give last year as much weight as you’d like. The bottom line is we had a chance to prove that last season wasn’t a fluke. We returned most of our starters. We started the year ranked in the top 20. And we crapped the bed. Instead of showing we’re for real, we’re the worst team in the conference. We were down 14-0 to Iowa within the first 2 minutes and 15 seconds of the game, and it’s been all downhill since then.

There’s a big gap between competing for championships and what we’ve done this year. We haven’t beat a single P5 team this year. It’s our worst season in a decade. We got shut out for the first time in 20+ years. We can’t blame it on our schedule when we get blown out at home by a 4-5 Rutgers team. Allen inherited a program in good shape. We went to back to back bowl games the previous two years. Allen has missed a bowl three times in five seasons. Both his 2020 and 2021 recruiting classes were 12th in the Big 10. It remains to be seen how many people in the 2022 class actually sign. He’s 15-26 in the Big 10. 6 of those wins came during an extremely weird covid year playing in empty stadiums. Michigan, Penn State, and MSU all had extremely down seasons. Good on IU for taking advantage of the circumstances, but those circumstances probably aren’t happening again. In his other four seasons, he’s 9-25 in the conference. Is that worth the 4th biggest buyout in college football? Not in my opinion.

We have two very winnable games left on the schedule, including one against our biggest rival. Do you think keeping Nick Sheridan and our other god awful assistants make it more or less likely that we’ll win our last two games? I’m sure we have someone else on our sideline who can call QB draws on third down to take his place. This isn’t the NFL. We don’t get a higher draft pick if we lose out. We just make it more likely that we lose recruits and lose more momentum. We won’t make a bowl game, but winning the last two games will do much more good for our program moving forward than losing in embarrassing fashion like we did today would.

It sends a message that their performance is unacceptable and you aren’t going to accept it moving forward. It sets the tone that you’re serious about fixing this disaster of a team. If we follow your logic, benching players for poor performances and putting in inferior players to replace them is pointless too because it just “sounds cute” but “doesn’t accomplish anything.” What has Nick Sheridan done to deserve a job come Monday?

Yah. No. They’re going to be fired at the end of the season anyway. Send a message by sending them home now. Todays performance was unacceptable Then again, firing a coach before the end of the season got us in this mess in the first place, so maybe you’re right.

If Allen was a serious coach, Sheridan would be gone by Monday and Ty Fryfogle wouldn’t play another down. But he’s not, and I bet the players who blatantly quit today will still trot out and play next Saturday too. #LEO

Tom Allen’s ‘rah rah’ schtick gets really old after his teams routinely come out soft and get blown out. He’s the leader of this team and they’ve completely given up. Getting blown out at home by a 4-5 Rutgers team. Good grief.

Beautiful playcalling.

I’m not a Tom Allen fan in the slightest, but he does have some strengths. In game decisions, though, are a major weakness of his. He makes so many questionable decisions. He probably wouldn’t have pulled Tuttle sans the injury which means he was going to waste the redshirt for nothing.

I wanted Tuttle to play back when Penix was stinking it up but turns out he’s even worse. The fans didn’t show up to todays game and neither did the players. It’s going to take a lot to get the program’s momentum back.

If by #LEO you mean lose every one, yes, we #LEO harder than ever before

Absolutely no idea why Allen burned the redshirt (I believe this is his 5th game?) just to bench him after a couple possessions.

We’ve definitely seen those slow starts before, not sure about the rest though.

Too many good games on right now to give IU primary tv privilege.

He should play more. He’s quick and can make his free throws. I just hope he plays enough this year to where he doesn’t transfer because I think he’s going to be really good one day.

Yes. Mine is so laggy.

Not even his fries

There’s nothing funny about what he did but the thought of Purdue’s hefty center raging out because he couldn’t get French fries does make me laugh.

Holding a team scoreless has literally never happened during the shot clock era. This exact same thing could have been (and probably was) said during the beginning of the Archie era. A great defense is great, certainly. But you need to be able to score. If you can’t score then teams will still be in the game no matter how good your defense is. We held EMU scoreless for the first 7:15 of last night’s game. However, we could only score 10 points during that period. Two minutes later it was a two point game. I'm not saying that the offense won’t get it together. I really hope that it does. But last night felt a lot like what we saw over the past four years.

The viewing pleasure of a good offense versus a good defense is definitely part of it for me. All the talk of Woody ‘prioritizing defense’ right now just brings me back to the days of people convincing themselves that Archie’s anemic offenses weren’t a big deal because he was focused on defense and that the offense would come around later.

That’s because it was an incredibly flawed team with zero post play. We were starting stone hands Hanner Petra at center. When he was injured/suspended, we started a Hartman/Williams front court. Despite that, we managed to make the tournament in large part because we shot 40.6% from 3 as a team, good for 6th in the NCAA. We added Thomas Bryant, and the next year we won the Big 10 and were 5th in the NCAA in 3 pt percentage at 41.5%. Certainly I’d prefer both a good offense and a good defense. But if I had to pick one I’d pick a good offense.