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Luckily for us, with how stupid a large segment of college football media is, it’s likely that we’ll continue to be doubted next season by the same goobers who doubted us until the very end of this past season.

Purdue fans go to the gym??

When Coach Cig took over IUFB, the stadium would be half full at best for games. Instead of whining about how bad our fans are, he built a juggernaut that led to a 95/5 IU peach bowl crowd and then IU fans outnumbering Miami fans in the national championship in Miami’s own stadium. Instead of doing the same thing, Mike Woodson paid guys to trash the fanbase. IU fans are some of the best in the country and I’m just sick of mediocre former players who accomplished nothing at IU trashing the fanbase. Sure there are bad parts, some people go overboard on social media, but that’s in no way unique to IU or worse than what they’d get at other schools with expectations. The quickest way to shut people up is to win, but blaming other people is easier to do.

Some guys want the status without the expectations. They want to be big man on campus without getting any pushback for stinking it up on the court. You see it in the NBA all the time. Guys who just want to get paid and get shots without having any expectation of winning. Other guys handle the expectations, block out the noise, and win. IU football and IU basketball players are at polar opposite ends of the spectrum, and they likely have very different views of IU fans.

There are too many things for people to do these days for fans to grind through watching a mediocre IU team filled with players who fans feel no connection with. I was excited before the season because IU plays at Rutgers and I’d be able to catch a game in person. Now, though, I’m just going to pocket the few hundred bucks and have it on in the background while I watch Netflix or something. Does that make me a “fair weather” fan? Maybe, I don’t know. Every relationship is two-sided, even the fan/team one. If the team doesn’t give the fans something worth watching (I.e., IU basketball for the better part of this century), fans will lose interest.

Devries filled a team full of mid major players and forgot that size and athleticism were important parts of the game. It might not be quite so bad if Tucker was the player we thought he’d be, but he’s got a well-established dad bod and HPER court 10 athleticism. Spamming threes and hoping they go in is the only way we can be competitive against decent teams.

Me turning on the game late and it already being 19-4.

What’s Clif Marshall up to these days?

I don’t know how much he made at IU, but I saw on Twitter that Tennessee is paying him $1.2 million.

Coach Cig the MF GOAT of college football.

Miami is almost disgustingly dirty. But if that’s how they want to do things, let’s give the 7th year sloth a taste of their medicine.

Who here says they expect a national championship in year 1? This team doesn’t even look like an NCAA contender in year 1, and that’s a problem. In no way is it unrealistic to expect a coach to be able to come to IU and make the tournament in year one. Mike Woodson did it and he probably couldn’t name half the players on his team Devries had to replace an entire 13-man roster in part because none of his players or recruits (other than his son) wanted to follow him to IU, which was a red flag. He did a horrible job identifying players to fill the roster. What coach would see Enright and Bailey and think they’re big ten caliber starters? Frankly, I can’t even really tell if Devries is a good enough coach or not because he constructed such a terrible roster. And he’s going to have to rebuild the roster again this offseason because we’re losing most of our players (which isn’t really a bad thing). His high school recruiting has been underwhelming, too, which doesn’t inspire confidence for the portal. People can complain about the fanbase as much as they want, but the fanbase has been the only thing the program has going for it for the better part of the 21st century.

Devries watched Enright every day for two years and thought he was a big ten caliber starting point guard.. that speaks volumes about his eye for talent.

McCollum struggling this year and then his mediocre Iowa team coming into Assembly Hall and belting IU doesn’t really alleviate concerns.. Fan appetite for a rebuild is at zero. IUBB has stunk for a decade. Cignetti took over the worst P4 football team in the country, made the playoff his first year, and then he made the national title game his second year. But iubb fans have been told we need to be patient for 3-4 years so the coach can get things rolling (which never happens).

Devries stinks and should probably be fired but what’s the point? The last few searches show that no big time coach wants to come here. But man Devries has absolutely no juice to him. He do a horrible job building this year’s roster and he has to basically do the same thing again this offseason. His high school recruiting has been incredibly pedestrian. Dude just doesn’t bring anything more than the last few guys did. Oh well. 8 months till the football season kicks off again. Will be here before we know it.

Frankly, I don’t see a point in giving Devries even $10 million. Why spend $10 million to get a fringe tournament team when that’s another $10 million (or $5 million if you want to give Devries a little bit) you could give to the best college football coach in the country? IU basketball just seems like a lost cause. The program is dead and buried. Football makes so much more money and matters so much more than basketball in the current college sports landscape. But my (probably unpopular) opinion is that every single penny of Nil/revenue share should go to football. It’s the only sport that really matters anymore.

Sadly this statement applies to basically every team we’ve had for the past decade.

Probably, but when the program has been grinding since the Obama administration and isn’t in any better of a spot, the fan reaction is going to become “see ya until you figure it out.” The biggest crowd in Assembly Hall this season is going to be to watch a football game…

I was one of the biggest Woodson haters, but I can’t find it in myself to become a Devries hater. What’s the point? The Devries hire showed that no one was coming to save iubb. If we fire him after a few years, recent history shows the next coach won’t be much better. I watch a game like tonight’s second half and just come away thinking yup, that’s IU basketball. The iubb fanbase gets a lot of flack, but apathy is 100x worse than misdirected passion. Apathy is right where the fanbase is going.

This team just isn’t very good. Devries built this roster like he was heading back to the MVC, and that’s not going to work in the Big 10. For better or worse he’ll have the chance to build a better one in the portal a few months from now.

He didn’t even do anything, though. He came to Atlanta to support his new team, and then some rondo took a picture of him and posted it. CFB Twitter has been bugging out ever since we belted Oregon. They can’t handle the new superpower. If Twitter was to be believed, we’re only good because we’ve hacked the other team’s headsets and know all their plays.

McAfee has grown on me (in part because he’s been supporting IU), but Joel Klatt is easily my favorite. Herbstreit leading the poll is wild to me. He’s awful.

Alberto isn’t his brother. He’s several inches shorter and doesn’t have the arm. Maybe he can be a successful college quarterback, but the position is far too important to risk going into the year with an unknown guy, particularly in the portal when you can go out and get a guy with nearly 10k career yards at the Big 12 level.

No, I want to be Alabama or Ohio State, win 10+ games a year, and be in the national title conversation more often than not. Since iubb went to the sweet 16 in 2016, we’ve had four coaching staffs in 10 years and been lousy under all of them. Devries is infinitely more likable than Woodson, but this season is looking like a new version of the same show we’ve watched for the past decade. It’s hard not to think this is just what iubb is now. Money could fix it, but if you’re donating, say, $1 million to athletics, why give it to Devries instead of Cignetti?

Devries picked every single player on this roster, and he hired his staff. If they’re MVC caliber then that’s his fault. At the end of the day, though, who cares. IU is a football powerhouse now. Every available resource should be poured into the football program. Giving more than tuition and housing to the basketball players is a waste as evidenced by the past decade of IU basketball.