Game Thread: Foster Farms Bowl - IU vs Utah 8:30ET on FOX

[Trish]

That last play summed up Lagow's career here so far.

 

 

[wirenuts]

they played with heart and effort. thats a whole lot more than i can say for the basketball version this evening.

[ThompsonHoosier]

Probably shouldn't put the guys down, but come on Griffin! You were Big Ten kicker of the year as a freshman!! So frustrating being so close every time and not getting over the hump!

[akhosrof]

For everyone saying horrible offense, I think that is completely disrespecting Utah's defense. That is a defense with lots of NFL talent on it and a top notch coaching staff. Yards weren't going to come easy tonight regardless.

They had turnovers, we had turnovers. Special teams was the difference. Their kicker had two kicks that barely went in, ours missed one.


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[Hovadipo]

Bad clock management. Should have used the timeout earlier. 

It was. But it was *still* lightyears better than Wilson's. We would've somehow had negative timeouts at that point with him. We'll get over the hump next year.


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

We played well against a good team. Not hanging my head here. Everyone, including Vegas knew we'd lose this game.

We were however, 16 point favorites in basketball.


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[Hoosierfan2017]

2 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

I appreciate his effort, coming here etc., but the fact is we would have won a few more with a Suds type QB.

He was not helped by special teams etc....

With this defense Suds might've won us 10 games. 

[Dalton26]

Better than I expected but damn it we should've won that game. Offense and ST hurt us in this one.

[theriverpilot]

It was. But it was *still* lightyears better than Wilson's. We would've somehow had negative timeouts at that point with him. We'll get over the hump next year.


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I was 21 the last time IU won a bowl game and 17 the last time the basketball team won a national championship. I'm running out of "next years"! [emoji28]


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

Oh, and Lagow will be our QB next year. No question about it.

Just like Crean will be our Coach.

And both teams will be decent, but not great.


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[Hovadipo]

I think we can do without the basketball in this thread.


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[323SGrant]

Close game as expected. Their kicker was better and they had an exceptional running back, a la Coleman or Howard. Our backs are serviceable. Didn't see the jumbo back package. Maybe I missed it.

[DChoosier]

1 minute ago, Hovadipo said:

I think we can do without the basketball in this thread.


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Agree...we need to allocate our pain.

 

[Hoosierfan2017]

Idk if the coaching staff had an arrangement with Zander or anything to keep him from being out there much and getting hurt, but I would've liked to see him play more tonight. I also would've liked to see Camion and Natee get on the field. Oh well, I guess /:

[DChoosier]

Did  Natee play a down?

 

[Brass Cannon]

17 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Oh, and Lagow will be our QB next year. No question about it.

Just like Crean will be our Coach.

And both teams will be decent, but not great.


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Aren't people in the know really high on King?

[colonel06]

In any event I think we have a great coach in the making. It was refreshing listening to him discuss the game with Fisch rather than listen to canned cadence responses. Coach A. said "these close games stink and that's what we're going to work on."


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[KingPG21]

So how much different was the offense run with Allen. I know it has come out that he wants to run the ball more and be more reliant on that. But given our roster that would only be so doable, and given they only had a month to get ready. Or was it essentially what we've seen all year.

[KingPG21]

9 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Aren't people in the know really high on King?

Didn't people say he had issues grasping the play book or something like that? Lagow has a lot of the physical tools, but it sounds like if that is why people are high on King it'd be a lot of what we just saw this past year.... kind of

[Brass Cannon]

Just now, KingPG21 said:

So how much different was the offense run with Allen. I know it has come out that he wants to run the ball more and be more reliant on that. But given our roster that would only be so doable, and given they only had a month to get ready. Or was it essentially what we've seen all year.

Seemed more conservative hence reduced turnovers considering the quality of defense we faced.