JerryYeagley23

They got the win, but didn’t come close to covering. If there’s such thing as a “bad win” that might be it.

Tx A&M getting thumped by 15 at the half to Southern. Not even a state after that name. Just Southern somewhere I guess. They’re 25.5 point favorites at home. Ouch.

With you wholeheartedly about the wealth of riches, but will say there’s a big difference between a 4-star bench guy and a probable all-American at the position. I think this will be bigger for them than some are expecting.

Honestly, that road game as an 11-seed against a Penn State team who hasn’t beaten anybody, and then a quarterfinal game against Miami might not be the worst thing in world. That’s the softest path to the semi finals aside from the 5-seed that gets BYU and Boise St. If we lose to OSU I think that’s best we could hope for, a couple winnable games.

I think Georgia is the only team in the country who might still get in as a 3-loss team. Their schedule is just tougher than anyone’s by a mile. But I’d rather TN win tonight to put them as far out of potentially making it as possible. Despite their record, that would be a nightmare matchup for IU to host UGA as a 6 or 7 seed.

Tennessee

Duke looks like a prime example of a team that will eventually get upset by a 13-seed again this year. The high school one and done route hasn’t worked in over a decade. I don’t care how generational Flagg is, they’re gonna get beat by 24 year old men in the big dance.

They must be factoring in our game against OSU and then our game against Oregon. ;)

I don’t know, I was asking you. Legitimately. Not adversarially. If your future opponents are baked in, then when you start the season they judge your whole season for strength. Then is it just adjusted each week as your future (and past?) teams played perform better or worse? I guess I just assumed because commentators seem to use “they haven’t played anybody” and “look at their strength of schedule” similarly, that your SOS was backward looking.

So you start the season with the same SOS that you end the season with? Seems like that wouldn’t leave much room for reassessing your schedule strength as teams over/under perform their preseason rankings.

That keeps getting parroted, but does anyone know what number our SOS will be once we play OSU? Are we just being punished because we haven’t played the best team on our schedule and everyone else has?

You’re not crazy. It’s a bad system as soon as conference realignment happened. And why the B1G and SEC had that strategic alliance meeting earlier this fall. There’s zero reason a team you deem the 9th best team in the country should be seeded 4th. It’s dumb. Seed them 1-12 and stop pretending winning a mediocre conference means anything.

I stayed up until 2am watching that Utah game Saturday night. BYU is terrible. Rivalry game or not, they looked awful. If they played in the B1G they would have 4-5 losses.

When Georgia lost to Alabama they fell from #1 to #4 in the polls. When PSU lost to OSU they fell from #3 to #6. Precedent has been that losing to a top five team as a top five team doesn’t cost you much. But neither of those had the whole brand bias thing IU would be up against.

I feel like all the coverage I’ve read nobody is talking about the obvious here too: the big 12 and ACC suck. Them getting an automatic 3 and 4 seed is screwing up what the matchups should be and creating easy paths for some of the traditional powers coming from the 10-12 spots. Just rank them 1-12 and play ball!

So if they’re rewarding PSU for a close loss to OSU even though they haven’t beaten anyone either. Even if we lose by a TD to OSU we should then jump PSU right? Because we would then have played a top-5 team and be a one loss team. It’s like we’re being penalized for our (hypothetical) loss coming after PSU’s. They really should be rewarding the perfect record more knowing they can move us down if/when the loss happens.

It’s not always gonna be pretty in a long season in a conference like the big ten. That’s unrealistic no matter how talented. You take these wins and move on. I’m sure Miami would rather have a five point win against Georgia Tech right now than their loss. Michigan isn’t a bad team either. Lot of talent. New coach. Still have this too: we’ve only given up five offensive TDs in the last four games. We’re able to win ugly when needed.

Purdue doesn’t even have a soccer team. Even worse.

If there is such thing as the eye test, this Miami game is the equivalent of our MSU game. Except we answered right away and led at the half and ran off 47 unanswered. They are not the 4th best team in the nation. The ACC is weak and they have been down at the half four times now.

Miami has the worst defense I’ve personally ever seen for a top-5 team. We would score 50+ on them.

I touched on something like this in a thread a year or two ago. CTM was getting (deservedly) a lot of love for turning our program around and into a top B1G program. I said then, that we needed to start competing with and landing bigger recruits to capitalize on the success. A lot of the response was “I trust CTM to find her type of players” and “we don’t need five stars, we need girls who will commit to playing the way CTM wants.” That was all easy to say when we had Grace Berger’s, McKenzie Holmes, Sara Scalia, etc. We’re talking first team all Americans and best 3pt shooters in the country types. My concern then was that we weren’t recruiting like a Maryland, Ohio State, South Carolina, etc. So at some point the success we were having on the court wasn’t going to translate into sustainable success as a program. I still think CTM is a fantastic coach for IU. This team will certainly grow and be competitive this year. But next year losing CMM and Syd, it doesn’t feel like we used our best years as a program with generational talent to set ourselves up to stay there and become a great program and not just a couple great teams.

Making roughly $66k a game. They’re all good games from his perspective.

We’re officially a football school now??

Better talent on the court this year. Same coaching on the sidelines. Similar product.

They’re 9-13 from 3pt and 8-14 from 2pt. Something tells me that won’t be sustainable.