Aaron

Yes it is the most expensive streaming site on the planet for sports. It is $30 a month or $150 for the year. First two games of IU women's tourney in Bahamas on it as well. However, not sure when else IU fans might need it unless they want to watch Big East content or some of the other holiday tournaments. I have defended this streaming model in some ways, but FloHoops pricing is way out of whack compared to other streamers by about double and I am not sure why (maybe because they have fewer subscribers they have to charge each one more to make ends meet?). I'll be there so not worried about streaming price personally this time but just an FYI for IU fans. Don't shoot the messenger;).

It was Michael Nesci not Josh Maher who scored the first goal. However, Maher looked far better than Lindimore starting at center back and would assume has won the job after last night.

Typical heavy weight fight of an IU Notre Dame match that is fun to watch. This is the Indiana we need to see this year and it will be a really good season. That effort tonight beats anyone on schedule except maybe UCLA, Maryland, and Kentucky who are the other top programs we face later in the fall.

Not at all. Similarly tough to the men in every round. Baylor is a ranked team and was one line behind IU in March Madness seeding and has the athletic guards the Hoosiers struggle with. Columbia actually is a really good Ivy League squad and got an at-large bid to NCAA Tourney last year after losing to conference power Princeton in league tourney title game. I do expect IU to beat Columbia although it won't be easy and will probably be somewhat close like Princeton game in last years holiday tourney. However, Baylor is a true toss up. Also, notice that everything but the last game (assuming Indiana beats Columbia) will be streamed on FloHoops which is $30 a month (although it can be bought for one month and cancelled). Assuming many won't see team until the championship or 4th place game depending on Baylor result.

I know. I watched the match:). Also Elliott and Maher play different positions. Elliott is taking Brett Bebej's spot on the wing since Bebej had his eligibility expire. Maher's spot was taken by freshman Jackson Lindamore who looked like a freshman tonight.

This seems to be typical of IU in recent years to really struggle early in the fall and especially lay eggs on the road in big time atmosphere. In the last few years they have always figured it out about halfway through and ended up in the College Cup or close to it. The home opener against ND next week will tell us a lot as this is the best team Indiana will see all season. A good performance means this was nothing more than the annual early season road stinker Indiana always has recently. Another game like this at Armstrong (which has not happened at any point recently) and then some questions need to be asked if this is talented pieces that don't go together as happened in 2013.

I agree with you. I am just giving you what I think the poster meant with their original comment.

I don't take numbers from overseas seriously. I look at the timing of the add. If this is someone that was expected to be a contributor they would have been added much earlier this summer to the roster. It is very rare for this late of an addition to ever contribute and is usually done out of desperation or to provide a practice body as likely is the case here.

I think they mean a streaming service like youtubetv that is basically a cable provider. However, see my above post that this rarely happens with college soccer and increasingly happening everywhere.

Sounds to me like a practice body. Would love for it to amount to more but sincerely doubt it. With Garzon and Sandvik they were ranked players and explicitly recruited to be contributors. Any addition to a roster this late, whether it is foreign or not (see Dallas James for men's team), is almost always to provide practice competition. This is not a knock on the coaches or any of these players and they serve an important role. However, expecting or hoping for them to be contributors at some point is almost always a bit of wishful thinking.

NCAA Soccer has always required a few extra subscriptions for streaming for most games and only a small handful on regular TV. It is only getting worse throughout sports as providers try to make up all the lost revenue from people cutting the cord. It sucks, but bottom line at this point is either you pay several different providers to watch sports or don't watch. I wish it were different but that is bottom line now.

Besides what I have already said, my policy is side with no one in this situation. The Hysterics are arrogant and have cut off many people who don't tote their water much like Woody did to them. Both Woodson and the Hysterics have massive egos and it was bound to end with hurt feelings. In the end the Hysterics get cut off from the program which is sorely needed and Woodson better win big this year. Woodson can think he has support of everyone and if he wins he can do what he chooses. If not, the people who he thinks are his friends will turn on him one by one as well and no one is invincible no matter what Woodson thinks and he will be shown the door. No winners here and we have two people (Eric and Woody) cut from the same cloth who are thin skinned and eventually these personalities eat each other up as happened here. The Hysterics airing this dirty laundry in public confirms they have as big an ego as Woody. If the Hysterics did not have an ego they would keep the meeting in house and not vent publicly. If Woody did not have such an ego he would not have called the meeting and chewed them out. Both are wrong in this sense.

I think if we want change we need to vote in the trustees election right now. It is all intertwined starting at the top. I don't have a particular favorite (well actually I do but will not endorse a candidate in this post) but most important is to get Jeremy Morris the incumbent out of there and get new blood in there. He singlehandedly hijacked all of last months meeting which is another peak into the world of dysfunction in the current administration. Any of the other 11 candidates would be a welcome change and any IU alumni can vote at this link: https://dataforms.iuf.iu.edu/trustee-election/vote

It is important to note that when a university has the dysfunction described above, that sports are often what bring it to the surface and force changes (see the Indiana State Baseball team declining to host among other things). This is likely what will lead to changes at IU as well eventually. It's why I see next season as a "can't lose situation" in many ways. If Woodson does well and wins it will be fun to be a fan again. If he fails it forces a much needed house cleaning from top-to-bottom likely starting with Buckner.

Its a trend throughout the University. No one in the current administration (athletics and academics) at the top can handle any criticism and will remove or marginalize anyone who calls them out just as happened to the Hysterics (albeit they deserved it way more than others who have been given this treatment). The University will lose more great people going forward (I know of at least three wonderful people in their current leadership roles who are leaving this fall due to their disgust with how the school is currently run) until major changes are made and they are currently being replaced with 'yes men and women'. Athletics are the least of the issues right now but definitely a microcosm of a much larger issues starting with Buckner, the trustees, and the current administration. Speaks to a lot of insecure people in charge including Woodson.