Hardwood83

I know the college head coach to NFL seldom works out, but is college DC to NFL a thing? Any history of that?

They are talented, but soft. They played well tonight, but Riley's body of work isn't impressive. Normally you are right about the first string QB, but in our case it would be hard to be any worse. If Hoover is the answer, we're asking the wrong question.

USC catch & run was ridiculous!

IU has earned all the criticism. The special teams should be arrested, charged with crimes against humanity and publicly executed. Sure the 60 yarder was fantastic, but the rest of the game Special teams was embarrassingly bad. The offense with Hoover is horrible. The last 4 weeks have been bad football bailed out by an excellent defense and mostly inept opponents. There is no way IU is a top 5 team in the country.

It is inexplicable. Everyone was saying we'd miss the JMU guys...but what has happened to the coaching?

I'll take that bet. This isn't a top 20 team with Hoover.

Agreed. Hoover must have compromising pictures of Cig? This is bad coaching, plain and simple.

Sure, but what does that matter? GET HIM OFF THE FIELD. What can Wilson possibly do that is any worse than this debacle. Infuriating.

Couldn't be any worse, could it? This is a bad football team. Defense is very good, special teams TERRIBLE, offense (QB) TERRIBLE. I am officially questioning Cig. PLEASE bench Hoover. I don't care why he iis terrible, he is terrible.

I don't watch it much anymore. It was great back in the heyday, but the last several years it tries too hard. Unlike most, I actually don't mind Herbstreit- but Desmond and Saban are the worst. Even though he is pro IU, not a McAfee fan either, just too clownish for my tastes. I have very refined and elegant sensibilities :{

This is not directed at you (or anyone in particular), but annoys me so I am going to rant about it. I have heard several people, including announcers & commentators state "IU struggled against mobile QB's." Spoiler alert, EVERYONE struggles against mobile QB's to some degree. There are 0.00% of Defensive coordinators that will ever think or say "I love facing a really elusive QB!" or "I wish this statue we're playing this week was much quicker and able to get out of the pocket." Of course if a QB can only run and is a terrible passer, that is another issue, but definitively a mobile quarterback is a problem for any and all defenses forever past & future. Thanks, I feel better.

I am not as plugged in as many of you and have to admit, I didn't even know that existed. Mildly curious how that connects to Wade? As pointed out above, L$U is Nike.

Only option, broke the streak, now move on. Certainly not a game I am gonna rewatch.

It was pretty ugly. Burton was pressing, with some bad TO's besides his poor shooting. Harris wasn't effective at all and Sherrell is clearly still searching for his place in this offense. They were also pretty lazy on defense for stretches. Good news is there is a lot of talent and it appears to be quite a deep team. Lindsay has looked like a baller and Alexis is a huge security blanket in the post. As several people mentioned, the Freshmen are exciting. So if Burton leads and the offense gels this could be a very good team. I suspect it will be frustrating at times though, not like we haven't put up with that the last 10yrs, with lower ceiling teams, though.

If he played for Wisconsin he'd shoot 57 FT's against IU.