LamarCheeks

And you can't be stupid against Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State. You can be stupid against FCS teams and get away with it. But not if you wanna compete in a Power 5 conference.

Took all of three plays before a flag. Gotta play a clean game or won't have much of a chance.

NCAA updated its logo to reflect its new power structure.

And to think: We got in trouble because of text messages. TEXT MESSAGES! But apparently, it's OK to create fake classes and give A's and B's to athletes who never went to class, never took a test and never wrote a paper. Well-done, NCAA.

Quote from Roy Williams: Gee golly willikers. I told y'all, we weren't dadgum guilty. When we recruit the dickens out of a player, we tell them: You best get your flippin' hind end in class -- even if you don't have to do any goldarn school work. Shucks, this a friggin' great day to be a Tar Heel!

SI's latest bowl projections have us playing Vandy in the Music City Bowl. Winner gets Garland? (Wouldn't be crazy about playing Vandy in Nashville, though). https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/10/10/bowl-projections-matchups-predictions-schedule-playoff

Really, really, really wanna pick the Hoosiers. But I just don't see it. I definitely won't mind being wrong, however. Michigan 24, Indiana 20

He totally lollygagged it after that ball. If he runs hard after it, he catches it -- easily. I don't understand what the hell he was thinking and/or doing!

I'll say IU, Vandy and Kansas. I'm thinking between now and November, the NCAA finally will rule on UNC. That might push them out. Then again, it's the NCAA -- so a teeny-weeny slap on the wrist is entirely possible, too.

IU 53 Charleston So. 16

Do you not know how to read? Go back and look at what I wrote. I said I have a whole new appreciation for what Joe Tiller did at Purdue. He came in and won right away, taking a bunch of low-star players he didn't recruit and winning nine games. Those same players won five games the previous two years combined. I'm sure people said it would take a long time to turn Purdue around -- Tiller didn't need a long time, or any time for that matter. We have not had a coach ever come in and have a season like that in his first year. Will Tom Allen? I hope so, but I can't imagine we will have nine wins by season's end. If we do, great. I just don't see it happening.

As much as I hate to admit it, what happened Saturday -- and what has happened to IU football pretty much ever since the Bill Mallory years -- gave me a whole new appreciation for the late Joe Tiller. In his very first year with the Toiletmakers, after they were godawful for several years, they went 9-3. Essentially, he took a bunch of crappy players and found a way to win with them. And after that, he just kept on winning. In the five years before he arrived, they won 4, 1, 5, 4 and 3 games. Nothing against Tom Allen, but why can't we get a coach like that? Guess if they grew on trees, everybody would have them, eh? We get a new coach, wait for him to turn it around and when he doesn't, we start all over again. Maybe Allen will be a difference maker, but I'm not holding my breath.

First of all, I don't believe for one second that he had zero to do with it or that he didn't know about it. Second of all, that doesn't even matter. There's been enough s--t go down in his program over the past few years that any coach would HAVE to expect to be terminated after the latest revelations -- even if he didn't know. But he did know -- he's the one who said "If one of my players has a beer in Louisville, I know about it." Jeezus, just stop lying.

I guess in Happy Valley, a receiver wearing blue is allowed to push off?

And we get the ball to start the second half.

In Lagow's defense, he did a helluva job on that kneel down to end the half.

We could go at this another way: If his receivers were 8 feet, 6 inches tall, he might be pretty damn good.

Thanks, but that was kind of a rhetorical question! LOL!

What good is having an NFL-caliber arm if you can't hit wide-open receivers?

Or to stop overpursuing?

Is it too late to change my pick in the prediction game thread? Silly me -- I only had Penn State scoring 38 points today. I need to make that 68. Maybe 78?

Oh, fuuuuuuudge ...

That didn't start well.

I'm wondering if the Louisville acting prez will make a move regarding a coach today. He said on Wednesday that since practice starts Friday (today), he wanted to have an interim coach in place within the next 48 hours. I haven't seen anything yet. I find it difficult to imagine it would be Crean, but stranger things have happened ...

Normally not a huge fan of Bilas, but in this case, I'm all for it. The better Sean looks, the better Archie will look. Although Sean's actions have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Archie, there are plenty of people out there who will associate the two and assume that because Sean's program is suspect, Archie's is, too. Obviously none of us will, but don't doubt that other schools will use that in recruiting against IU.