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Indiana 78 Nebraska 67

This. Dead man walking is a perfect description. I see some commenting "he's one of the best Indiana ever had," and I just shake my head. Kansas had an anomaly season. Lee Corso had one here in 1979. Doesn't at ALL mean the coaches are any better or worse. Last season was without fans, Indiana played teams with injuries and players who were out (COVID opt outs, etc), and literally everything fell our way, including a TD call at the end of the Penn State game that I promise goes the other way in Happy Valley. And when Penix got hurt, Indiana's offense went down the toilet. We were that fragile. Last season was an anomaly until Tom Allen proves it wasn't. 2019 was a solid season..no question, but even still, Allen has a losing record at Indiana (26-32). He's 15-28 in the Big Ten. He's finished higher than 4th in his own division ONCE in 5 full seasons...last place twice and next to last another time. He's never won a bowl game, and finished only one season (last year...anomaly) ranked in the top 25. I don't get the take that he's "the best" of anything. Not with our facilities and the high school football talent available in Indiana right now. He hasn't proven a thing to me, yet...other than he can have an occasional successful regular season when we play bad pre-conference games and get Illinois and bad Purdue teams against the west. Indiana wasn't even competitive this year. That by itself is enough to warm up his seat.

IU 73 MTH 63

Yeah. Couple of "b*ll sh*t" (I know, happens everywhere) and an "a$$hole" chant, too. I hate chants; but the positive/supportive ones are fine to me. The ones on Wednesday were not a good look.

Not at the expense of other people, I didn't. That's not "stupid." It's wrong. There's a difference. I was raised better than that, so were you, and so were the kids who were doing it. It looked and sounded awful for Indiana University and I care a whole lot about that. Perception is reality. Others' perceptions of that were not positive.

Doesn't matter. Indiana should be better than that. The source of that comment is irrelevant in my opinion.

I hope his assistants tell him we're millions of miles better offensively when we push tempo and don't walk it up into a one pass/then iso offense. A reversal? Post touch/inside out? Maybe a little movement? Take the win, but that offense needs to get better. We struggle in the half court just like we struggled under Archie and for the same reasons.

IU 73 ULAL 61

Do you blame him or any radio host? It's a ratings business and football will send people back to work and to turn off the radio.

I did. Now just a girlfriend. =)

Yes. Yes I would. (I just felt like talkin' a little trash to the lad. Mea culpa)

I will compare W2's and career trajectory with you any time. Be careful. (I'll also compare golf handicap, achievements of kids, hotness of wife/girlfriend, number of close friends, cool vacations, resumes, and anything else you'd like) The irony of bold above is thick. For the record : * Success isn't a destination. If you succeed and can't sustain it, it's either luck, good timing, or a fluke. Things change and mentioning last year is a comical reach. * Who gets to define success? Someone promoted to a position he's not ready for isn't successful. See : Nick Sheridan * When changes are made - and they will be - I fully expect to see YOUR vitriolic self here apologizing with a whole lot of humility. Dudes getting on you are absolutely justified in doing so; and your comments are as laughable as they are misplaced and unjustifiably judgmental. * More than you have played the game, other sports at high levels, and coached at high levels. Don't kid yourself.

Be louder. Student section needs to bring it in the Big Ten season, and it's a good time to practice. Granted, the team needs to help you. Our offense is still very raw, and it's hard to cheer for defense..... I was there last night and it was terrific to see the number of students there; but the student section isn't yet "there." Loud reacting...a little quiet other times. Never, EVER wear black gloves and a helmet in the seats; and for the love of God don't mention the purdues unless we're playing them....but raise your game a little. You're needed! =)

IU 65 St. J 58

Are you always this level of a condescending jerk?

If you can't do better than this, you really shouldn't post. This above is garbage. Nobody has to have played or coached to plainly see something is very wrong with this program. Indiana has fallen straight off a cliff and the offense has been abysmal all season. The backup QB was the starter at Utah and the 3rd string guy was a very solid HS quarterback who came in 2nd place for Indiana Mr. Football while completing 70% of his passes in by far the best conference in this state. There is no excuse for their being as hamstrung as they have been, nor as ill prepared as it seemed Tuttle was. There are several people here fully capable of having a more than intelligent, high level football conversation on this matter and others; yet the way you post here, you'd not agree with any of it and insist you've got the right angle. So let's turn the tables. YOU give it to us. Even with everything you say above being true, why should any of us accept not the outcome, but a team that was and is inept offensively and which obviously quit. The effort today was visibly horrid and everyone affiliated with IU media said so publicly. (Fryfogle quit on a ball that got intercepted, Rutgers RB dragged our defense 10 yards. Lots of jogging. Linemen playing straight up and down. I'm sure your eyes work, same as the rest of us.) Tuttle is awful right now. Play calling for McCulley puts him consistently in bad positions because the line is abysmal and slow. Who hired the coordinators? Why is any of this okay without the convenient excuse of injury to the QB position? If Indiana is that fragile, that's also on the coach(es), is it not? So go ahead. Your turn. Let's see if you can reasonably and convincingly excuse all of that while putting the knowledge-deprived armchair quarterback fan boys in their proper place; willing to wait another year. The team is horrid. The effort was inexcusable today. Indiana lost 38-3 at home to Rutgers. Take away Maryland and Indiana has scored 38 points in 7 Big Ten games (they ALLOWED 38 TODAY) with 15 of those coming against Michigan State. Convince anyone here that's due solely to the QB position. Go.

IU 77 NIU 54

To be honest my biggest gripes were tempo (way too slow) and some of the shot selection from what I thought was very lazy offense. This is going to sound a little like Dr. Suess....but... Bad shooters (Galloway, Thompson, etc) taking bad shots is awful. Bad shooters taking good shots is better, good shooters taking bad shots is tolerable; and I don't know that we have good shooters to take good shots, but if all we take are good shots, I'm okay with it Will be interesting to see how that develops, but right now, we are a wretched half court team.

24 wins including BTT #5 seed in NCAA Sweet 16 appearance

IU 91 EMU 63

Assembly Hall is less than perfect as a place to watch a game from some places, but replacing it would be mistake. When Indiana is good. the home court advantage there is one of the best in the country. The angle of the stairs is several degrees beyond what OSHA and other regulations would allow today. WAY steeper (and as a result, fans are "on top" of the floor) than can be built now. Therefore louder. The pic of Nebraska's arena is about how anything new would look. Keep upgrading it, but replacing it is a bad idea for myriad reasons.

I have zero interest in being the next Kentucky, and Mike Kryseiwski has been at Duke 30 years. We won't be that, either. Mike Woodosn hasn't yet coached his first game at Indiana and we're in the conversation for top level kids in the next 3 classes. This isn't even a blip in my opinion. Just a kid we didn't get. Getting him would have been fine, and not getting him won't matter at all. We will never miss Noah Clowney.

FWIW Comer isn't a Big Ten talent. IUPUI and that level a better fit and UIndy or Marian would be better. Having coached a lot against him and having seen true D1 kids, he's not quite at that level.

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I'm unfamiliar with this. Has it really? That's good news. I'd be for a more hybrid schedule every year. It does affect recruiting; and I suppose the argument can be made whether it affects it positively or negatively; but PU can tell recruits they have a legit chance to win that division every so often. We can't do that (and I know what some will say, but look at the last 75 years. Bill Mallory was a far better coach than Tom Allen and he never made it to a Rose Bowl, beating Michigan only once and tOSU twice during their worst couple of years in the last 100). Indiana having to play Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State every year and likely a Wisconsin or Iowa too gives it 2-3 game hole vs. its main rival. Rutgers faces an almost impossible climb in the BTW. I'd be in favor of a mixed bag schedule every season without schedules tied to divisions.