Game Thread: 11/7 vs Michigan Noon FS1

[DChoosier]

Although I have picked IU to win all three games, in our prediction thread, there is no way that I looked at our schedule and really thought we would be 3-0 with wins over PSU and UM. So glad to be wrong and in my decades of watching IU I don’t remember more than maybe a team or 2, during the Mallory years, that looked like they “belonged” with the better teams (sans OSU) like this team does. 
We scared OSU and UM in the Wilson years but those were teams with Swiss cheese defenses that had to out score people and hope for some fluke plays. 
We have a complete team now. Can’t wait for next week.

[LIHoosier]

CTA just called out ESPN for picking Michigan in a sweep lol

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Incredible!  Love it.   Makes for a wonderful Saturday afternoon.  These guys need to keep their edge.  That extra pushes them over the top.  

[WayneFleekHoosier]

20 minutes ago, KingPG21 said:

Just speaking from personal experience, this is probably the best IU football team I've ever seen

Not trying to count the chickens before they hatch, but I agree based on eye test and success so far.  

[rcbowla]

Awesome win! Not to downplay the win or to be negative but as I watch Maryland/PSU I'm starting to question just how good the competition has been so far. Outside of OSU I really don't know what to make of the B1G this year.

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[KingPG21]

14 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Not trying to count the chickens before they hatch, but I agree based on eye test and success so far.  

True. Also this year just kind of feels different. Like in year past when we got punched in the mouth by Michigan or Penn State I would hope they would respond well. Right now I expect them to respond well

[KingPG21]

Also kudos to the national medias coverage of us so far. It would be so easy for them to act like our success is a huge outlier and shocking. For the most part they have just talked up the program and CTA. While also celebrating it

[LamarCheeks]

1 hour ago, TheWatShot said:

Hate to say it, but I think they got it right. Plus we never get calls against Michigan. 

Still think that was a fumble. But whatever ... We won, and that's all that matters!

[RaceToTheTop]

Before the season started, I looked at our schedule and said if we went 4-4 that I'd call it a success.

Pretty cool to be 3-0.

[Brass Cannon]

7 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

Before the season started, I looked at our schedule and said if we went 4-4 that I'd call it a success.

Pretty cool to be 3-0.

Idk looking now 6-2 is more than doable. 

[Naturalhoosier]

Don’t look now but we are 3 and 0!!!!!!!!!

This ain’t your childhood IU team!!  Other IU teams would have folded like a house of cards early on. These guys have heart!!! It certainly wasn’t perfect, but I will relish in what appears to be the best IUFB team I’ve seen in my 30 years of watching IUFB. 
 

[Hoosierfan2017]

38 minutes ago, rcs29 said:

Awesome win! Not to downplay the win or to be negative but as I watch Maryland/PSU I'm starting to question just how good the competition has been so far. Outside of OSU I really don't know what to make of the B1G this year.

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Definitely seems like a down year for the conference but I’m glad we’re taking advantage of it. 

[RaceToTheTop]

41 minutes ago, rcs29 said:

Awesome win! Not to downplay the win or to be negative but as I watch Maryland/PSU I'm starting to question just how good the competition has been so far. Outside of OSU I really don't know what to make of the B1G this year.

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Worth mentioning, though that Rutgers did beat Michigan State and Michigan beat Minnesota pretty bad.  Michigan might be a middling Big 10 team this year, but being 17 points better than a middling team is nothing to sneeze at.  

[Magnanimous]

This is awesome.

[DChoosier]

The odds that JH is out at  Michigan after this season?  I would guess 90%.

[TheWatShot]

1 minute ago, DChoosier said:

The odds that JH is out at  Michigan after this season?  I would guess 90%.

I hope he gets canned after this season and we beat a reeling Michigan roster in the Big House next year. 

[LIHoosier]

4 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

The odds that JH is out at  Michigan after this season?  I would guess 90%.

His contract is over at the end of the 2021 regular season. Football coaches usually are fired or extended before the last year of a deal begins.

[DChoosier]

1 minute ago, LIHoosier said:

His contract is over at the end of the 2021 regular season. Football coaches usually are fired or extended before the last year of a deal begins.

Yep, that’s why I think he will be fired rather than resign. He seems to know it is over but quitting would be giving up over 8mm next year.....doubt he does that.

[Stuhoo]

We have yet to play our best game.

 

[LIHoosier]

3 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

Yep, that’s why I think he will be fired rather than resign. He seems to know it is over but quitting would be giving up over 8mm next year.....doubt he does that.

I'm in NY and some talk radio guys here are pondering if Jim goes back to the NFL with the likes of the Jets, Falcons, Texans, and likely a couple other jobs open.