Artie86

Trent was born to be a Hoosier!
 

Ya posting his kid will never not kill me in these situations.

.....Rocking Alfords old number..... I love it.

.....Rocking Alfords old number..... I love it.

Not having to watch him at Purdue is why this one feels so good. Welcome aboard! 

@IU - Kaulie
What the puck does 'game experience' even mean?!  Attending a Big Ten football game in a large +50k seat stadium doesn't get more game experience than anything else that I can think of. For real. What the heck does 'game experience' mean? Give examples please. And to think waiting for the wheather to get colder will help with attendance is, as you put it, comical.  Ask the folks in Athens, GA or Gainesville, FL or any SEC or ACC southern team for that matter about how much the weather matters for their attendance. I'll bet my entire life savings that 9 out of 10 that you ask, answers, "It doesn't matter."  
 
Us IUFB faithful will never understand this type of mindset. I'd rather read from folks that they just aren't football fans and could care less about the program than read some of these sorry ars excuses. Eff sake, either get on this train or get off.  Enough with the excuses. Change your mindset. Take it from a guy that's watched this program since the 80s, this team is different. In a good way.  

Thanks Nostradamus!!!..... How could I have made such a stupid, far fetched post? I'll will make sure to p.m. you, exclusively before I attempt another one of these senseless, far fetched posts! 
sms, geesh..... 

Anyone else watching Julian Lewis on ESPN right now? Friday night under the lights vs. A. H. Parker HS out of Alabama. Seems to be a good game so far at halftime…

He knew he wanted to be a Hoosier ever since his visit was over, If not before, but he wanted to go to ND and MSU to see if things would change. I could be wrong but we'll see. 

They're going to be really upset when he cancels his Purdue visit this weekend. 

It’s definitely a new era when IU commits are blowing off UM.

Went to the UCLA game with three guys from our IU days and it was the best time I have had at a sporting event in years. Total multi-day blast.
We all know how the game went but I want to add a shout out to the IU alumni association for putting on the tailgate.  We arrived at the 2:00 tailgate early (1:40) after traveling the 1.5 miles from Old Town Pasadena. The neighborhood on the way to the Rose Bowl/tailgate has winding streets with well tended really nice ($$) homes, plenty of green space and beautiful mountains in the background. Awesome setting.  The tailgate, at a golf course adjacent to the Rose Bowl, was $30 a person and included beer, wine, water, sodas, burgers/dogs/salad/fruit/chips/dessert (cash bar for quality hard  liquor, Knob Creek etc) We were allowed to grab a beer 20 minutes before the official start time and what do you know….24 oz beers with IU football koozies .  Grade A+. 
They had round “stand up” tables, scattered around, a huge tent with tons of tables for 8, a couple of food stations and multiple bars with very short lines. I talked to a woman associated with the alumni association and she said that in the early planning stages they guessed the event might have 400-500 people but the final tally was over 1,100. The manner in which they took care of the crowd was also an A+.
The “Traveling Hoosiers” contingent was also an A+. I kind of thought we would meet primarily California alums at the tailgate but we spoke to a number of attendee’s, including Dean Garrett, that came from IN, FL, CO, TX, MN, MI, KY, NY, AZ, PA etc etc. Really impressive. 
 
Fish and Jim Coyle estimated that there were 6-8k Hoosiers at the game. I would lean towards the 8k number as two end zone corners were dominated by IU fans and we also overran the visitors side to roughly the 40 yard line. The cheering for IU completed passes etc, and booing on the sack and targeting calls, was very loud. During the game and after I received unsolicited comments from UCLA fans that they couldn’t believe how well we traveled. At kick-off overall attendance looked light but midway through the first quarter the UCLA side really filled in. The announced attendance was 47k which I find believable (I had guessed 42k). The Rose Bowl holds 92k for football so both end zones, and other less desirable seats, are wide open/empty when you just have 47k/92k.
That night Old Town Pasadena, which has a number of bars and restaurants within a roughly 5 block area, was overrun with Hoosiers in red, candy stripe pants and shorts etc.  Must have high-fived/fist bumped over 50+ people. Had some great food, drinks at a handful of places and heard some really good live music (featuring a number of rather buzzed dancing Hoosiers LOL).
Sometimes things just align. The buzz from Cig, the tailgate, the dominating victory, the Rose Bowl and Old Town Pasadena setting all combined to equal a great event.

We need to get used to a Cignetti coached QB being discussed for post season accolades, including the Heisman. 
 
"Change the way people think." -Coach Cig

Well ****, he's already vaulted way past Ethan Garbers!

Payton Thorne +25000 Ethan Garbers +25000 Haynes King +25000 Tahj Brooks +25000 Zachariah Branch +25000 Phil Mafah +25000 Roydell Williams +25000 Kurtis Rourke +30000 Fernando Mendoza +30000 Ty Thompson +30000 Reese Poffenbarger +30000 Raheim Sanders +30000  

Thanks Nostradamus!!!..... How could I have made such a stupid, far fetched post? I'll will make sure to p.m. you, exclusively before I attempt another one of these senseless, far fetched posts! 
sms, geesh..... 

The one thing that Cignetti would like to see Ferrell change is the way he celebrates after making a big play like an interception.

Love this coach!

This article has one expert, Bill Connelly, putting IU in the top 12 season’s end, playoff pick at # 11 after 3 games…. 
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/page/playoffpredictions091424/college-football-playoff-picks-predictions-week-3

What would have made it worse is if we lost a close game and that happened. Having him for the entire game could have made the difference in a win.

What would have made it worse is if we lost a close game and that happened. Having him for the entire game could have made the difference in a win.

That is something that crossed my mind this morning....lol
That is totally not out of the realm of possibility! It reminds me of how much Penix improved his game and stock when he transferred to Washington.