Hoosierfan2017

?? Dasan started for Oklahoma today…

Anyone watching this game with the slate of games on tonight is a real one.

Imo the coverage is because college football fans are desperate for something new. How many years now has college football been the Bama/Georgia/SEC show? They (with schools like Clemson/OSU,LSU sprinkled in) have dominated the landscape. Not saying that Colorado is a title contender or anything, but Deion and Colorado are something new and exciting. I like it, personally.

Honestly? Yes. I don’t like Allen’s personality. I find it embarrassing, to be frank. I think he’s bad at holding people accountable. His in-game management is not good. Far too often he plays ‘not to get blown out,’ versus playing to win. The OSU game this year, for example. No one can convince me that he went into that game with a game plan designed to win. As for expectations, I don’t really have any at this point. 6-7 wins more often than not would be nice.

It’s insane to me that guys get ejected for weak ‘targeting’ penalties that are nothing more than guys making football plays but an absolute cheap shot like the one on Travis Hunter doesn’t get you ejected. https://x.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1703243714624200988?s=46&t=LoczziaTWuqlhvyvHGT92A

It gets written off because we returned most of our starters the next season and then went 0-9 in the Big 10. Hard not to see 2020 as a fluke.

Didn’t watch the second half but what an IU football way to lose.

Seriously though this defense is atrocious. We’re getting gashed by a mediocre Louisville offense.

The best we can offer you is manic sideline clapping

I kind of think MSU probably handled this properly (without really reading much). It’s not like they had an incentive to cover this up. Tucker sucks. This is a get out of jail free card for that $95 million contract they foolishly gave him.

Allen giving the new guy an easier time next season. Can’t say enough about the character on that man.

If this game isn’t out of hand by the time I finish working out and picking up my wings I’ll be mighty disappointed.

I haven’t said anything about WB at all. The best OC in the country would struggle for the offensive firepower, or lack thereof, that we have. My issues are entirely with Tom Allen. We runs the program. He brings in the players. He brings in the coaches. He’s been on a nosedive since the Outback Bowl. Do you think he’s going to turn things around?

We’ve lost 15 of our last 17 conference games and just put up a measly 153 yards of offense last Saturday. We played a game plan designed to avoid getting blown out, not a game plan designed to win, which is gross to see in year 7 of a coach’s tenure. Not all of us were “pretty pleased” by that performance.

The Big 10 will be wide open for us now that they’re getting rid of the divisions and gave us favorable protected opponents (Purdue, Maryland, Michigan State). Not wide open for us in the sense that we’ll be competing for the top obviously, but the road to a fairly consistent 7-8 wins will be a lot more manageable going forward. 3 easy non-conference games and 2 of the 3 protected games and you’re already at 5 wins. Now’s the time for the administration to really take football seriously. Edit: I’m actually not sure how the additions of Oregon and Washington will affect the protected games. Looks like the articles I was looking at were written before their additions.

We won 8 games in 2019 but didn’t beat any teams with a winning record. The teams we beat went 5-7, 1-11, 2-10, 2-10, 3-9, 5-7, 3-9, and 4-8. We capitalized on a favorable schedule, but that should’ve been in Dolson’s mind too. Maybe it was, who knows. I don’t think anyone predicted Allen imploding as fast and as bad as he has, so it’s mostly hindsight anyway.

If they can afford to buy him out then my arguments are null. But if he has another season like the past two and he’s back in 2024, being able to afford to buy him out but not doing so would just make that scenario all the more depressing.

By giving him one of the largest buyouts in college football? Absolutely. Heading into the 2021 season, Tom Allen had the 4th biggest buyout in all of college football. The top 5 at that time? Jimbo Fisher, Dabo Swinney, Nick Saban, Tom Allen, and Ryan Day. One of those 5 is not like the others… https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-football-coaching-buyout-ranking-the-10-most-expensive-jimbo-fisher-dabo-swinney-nick-saban-ryan-day-173603213/amp/ We gave him a contract we couldn’t afford to get out of if, as has happened, the program completely imploded. IU realistically can’t afford to get rid of him until after 2024. Giving him the contract we gave him insured we couldn’t move on for at least 4 years. It was malpractice.

I mean, surely there was a middle ground in 2020 between doing nothing and doing what we did. Something that would’ve allowed IU to keep him in 2021 while seeing if 2020 was a fluke or if the program really was ascending. He went 6-2 during an anomaly of a season circumstances-wise and Dolson backed up the brinks truck like we just won back to back Nattys.

One of the top things Allen’s fans (to the extent they still exist) would say in his favor was that if he succeeded here he’d stay forever instead of leaving for a better school. How true is that if we have to give him a contract that effectively renders him unfireable to get him to stay?

Colorado says hi. I’ll preface this by saying that I agree with you that the university won’t do anything until after 2024. Historically we’re the worst P5 program in the country. What’s one more awful season after this one? Basketball is looking good so most fans will be satisfied and the AD won’t face as much heat if he keeps Allen after this year. With that said, I hate that mentality. It’s a defeatist mentality. Allen is in year 7. We had more penalty yards yesterday than rushing yards, and only 7 more passing yards than penalty yards. Our offense is nonexistent. Yet again. The old excuse was that we were limited as a program because we were stuck in the East. Well, the divisions are gone. There’s no reason we can’t become a legitimately decent program now. You don’t hold on to a failed coach because you don’t know who to replace him with. You fire him and try again. A halfway serious football school would send Allen packing after this year. Will we?

11 wins over 45 big ten games when you take out the fluke 2020 season… yikes.

I think anyone would be happy if they were paid millions to go out and suck at their job.. “I’m so proud of our guys. They competed their butts off and only lost by 20 against a playoff finalist. LEO!” *rams head through podium and high fives everyone on the way out*

On the bright side this could be the last seen we’re subjected to Tom Allen…. If we’re lucky.

Meanwhile Michael Penix has thrown for 450 yards and 5 touchdowns today. How many games will it take our quarterbacks to match that?