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Obviously. The big baby that coaches us clearly wants the inferior quarterback on the roster, and as we've seen in previous years, Tom Allen often gets in the way of us winning.

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The Hoosiers football team was in attendance at WWE Fastlane on Saturday night, including Declan McMahon. ... that's the message.

If we are going to have a thread for Tom Allen that is going to be undermined by his contract buyout, at least let's discuss the other elephant in the room, the offensive/quarterback coordinator Walt Bell (my phone keeps telling me to type Walt Disney, so I'll just call him Bell from here on out). Bell's tenure at Power 5 programs never yielded offenses in the top 50%, and in a few cases, the bottom 20% per season. He likely was always stuck with ho-hum talent but a good coach is able to make lemonade out of lemons, and I assume the stats alone aren't telling the true story. He had a habit of failing upwards for a period, ultimately becoming a head coach, even if it was with the worst program in FBS, UMass. There, he went 2-23 before being fired mid-season in 2021. And now he's our problem. I see this as similar to Darren Hiller, where it will only take drastic measures for Tom Allen to get rid of the guy, as he gets extremely sentimental to all his coaches and that firing people is definitely not LEO. So we're likely stuck with the meathead. EDIT: WELL...

And lose 55-35.

I mean, we are the bad teams, technically.

It's this building in Pasadena, California. Apparently it's a nice place to go to.

Bring in the Louisville fans to troll the audience on that one.

Here's the thing... We have not won since the 1991 Copper Bowl. You may not care. But I do. I want to see us win a stupid bowl game.

If we lose them, we lose them. It's the nature of the beast. Our biggest mistake was retaining a guy during his 15 minutes of fame and now look at us. We got one of the biggest buyouts in America and compared to other coaches who regularly run at Top 10 and FBS Championship aspirations in programs where football is second to going to church, our coach blows chunks. It makes us look stupid. And the worst part is that we're just going to sit on the deal and let Tom Allen run around and blame everyone but himself when the team loses every week.

The problem with Indiana is that we are proud of our heritage as a college basketball institution. However, outside of one month of the year, Joe Blow could care less about college hoops... Even the top programs struggle to maintain interest unless they have some elite NBA draft pick, and last year they didn't have that as the biggest prospect was playing in France's professional league. Meanwhile, college football has built this monster that has consumed television rights, redefined cable, and absolutely destroyed conferences for all sports... Possibly forever. So... What does "five banners at Assembly Hall" IU bring to the table on the gridiron? The most losses in FBS history and no bowl victories in over 30 years. Doesn't fill you with confidence. And it does not help that athletic directors always tiptoe around IU's irrelevant status in football while touting basketball superiority when the climate demands adapting to football. Any upgrades to Memorial Stadium feel arbitrary instead of forward thinking, fir example. We just finally gave the team their own fitness facilities. It feels unfair to extol the handegg boys but the sad reality is that they are the ones bringing home the money that gives our Olympic sports the chance to recruit and bring in more championships and prestigious honors, so it'd be nicer if, you know, they didn't suck @$$?

You know those jokes over the years about the football program belonging to the Mid American Conference? Soon, it will be reality... For the entire program.

No, seriously, the horse has been dead for a long time. You can stop. Why couldn't we live in that timeline?

Some nights, I wake up in a cold sweat.

To be fair at Iowa, offensive performance is graded on a bell curve.

Dude, I'm "woke" AF, and I was one of the first dudes who grabbed a torch and pitchfork at the hiring of Tom Allen back at the beginning. When you never had success, I'd rather have an ******* who delivers results than a nice guy shouting buzzwords (especially one who, based on what I've seen in conjecture, probably isn't as nice as he seems) because Bill Lynch drove me to the brink of insanity.

Bell was cheaper, and therefore expendable. I doubt they'll swallow the buyout option until next season when it becomes economical.

I'll be a ******* son of a *****.

Don't worry, he's into that stuff.

Today was my 34th birthday. I chose not to watch this game as a gift to myself.

He can blame them when the team loses and they won't leave when the team wins.

The fan who insisted that this is a business!

Jaylin Lucas is billed at 185 pounds on Wikipedia; I say that's nonsense. He's lost 40 pounds.

He's going to scout all the JuCos and benches of the top programs!

Without getting into too much detail as I haven't tuned in yet, I assume the game has been "run it up the middle" by the Hoosiers, resulting in no gain, while the Terps have dominated the defense, right?