IUBB @ Nebraska - Wednesday, 01.03.24 @ 9:00 ET on BTN

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,672]

8 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

You posted the EXACT SAME THING last year.

It’s either extreme pessimism or ‘reverse jinx’.

Probably both. But I wouldn't have been surprised last year. Just like I wasn't surprised about losing streaks in 2022 or 2019 or 2014 or any other time. This team fits the mold of those teams quite a bit. 2014 seems all too familiar.

[IUFAN1976 3,112]

If we lose to Nebraska, would that be considered a bad lose?

[Uspshoosier 45,679]

15 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

If we lose to Nebraska, would that be considered a bad lose?

In the committees eyes?   No.  It’s a road game to a top 63 team.  Q1 game.   It would be a lost opportunity for a winnable Road Q1 game 

[str8baller 5,253]

1 hour ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I posted in another thread about how weird the first 8 games of our 2024 schedule is. 4 winnable games and 4 where we’ll be favored to lose. Since then the 4 winnable games look tougher, and the 4 hard games haven’t gotten any easier…although Iowa isn’t looking great these days but stylistically they present problems for us. 
 

Going 4-4 over that stretch would be solid. Winning tomorrow night would be a nice step towards that. 

[RaceToTheTop 25,657]

3 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

The tweet shows a fundamental misunderstanding of Pom.  

[HoosierHoopster 6,966]

2 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

But we could.

@Stuhoo does kind of have a point…

[OliviaPope40 6,514]

Will test run with my HDMI cord tomorrow.

[DoctorP 1,042]

57 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

The tweet shows a fundamental misunderstanding of Pom.  

Exactly. KP has us going 2-6 (or technically, 2.06-5.94) in those eight games….with under an 18% chance of losing all 7 of the games we are underdogs. 

[RaceToTheTop 25,657]

4 minutes ago, DoctorP said:

Exactly. KP has us going 2-6 (or technically, 2.06-5.94) in those eight games….with under an 18% chance of losing all 7 of the games we are underdogs. 

They actually have it at 2.56-5.44;  the tweet cuts off the last game, which is Iowa.  Pom has that game as a 50% chance of IU winning.

[HinnyHoosier 4,961]

11 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

So far nothing really impressive to me from Ohio State, Wisconsin, Rutgers, or Iowa. All winnable. 

[Uspshoosier 45,679]

9 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

So far nothing really impressive to me from Ohio State, Wisconsin, Rutgers, or Iowa. All winnable. 

Wisconsin has a sneaky good resume so far.  Their style just makes every game close.    Road win at Sparty, home win over Marquette and Neutral wins over Virginia and SMU 

[Chris007 44,066]

It sounds like we should have a full lineup tonight. Go Hoosiers!!

[Stuhoo 80,728]

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

It sounds like we should have a full lineup tonight. Go Hoosiers!!

Mast from Nebraska also was a contact 'go' yesterday.

• X
• Gallo
• Mack
• Malik
• KelEl

AWalk, Kaleb, Gabe, ALeal

Let's get it on!!!!!!!!

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,672]

2 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

Wisconsin has a sneaky good resume so far.  Their style just makes every game close.    Road win at Sparty, home win over Marquette and Neutral wins over Virginia and SMU 

Virginia looking less impressive recently. Not sure their deal.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,672]

20 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Mast from Nebraska also was a contact 'go' yesterday.

• X
• Gallo
• Mack
• Malik
• KelEl

AWalk, Kaleb, Gabe, ALeal

Let's get it on!!!!!!!!

LEAL

[AKHoosier 6,903]

14 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

If we go 1-7 in January, Woodson shouldn't make it to February. 

We won't go 1-7. Come on.

[Stuhoo 80,728]

On 1/10/2023 at 12:04 PM, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

So after this week, Indiana likely to be 1-5 in conference. Two games after are AT Illinois and Michigan State. I think that puts us at 1-7. Then we play AT Minnesota. I think that's our most realistic win right now. Unfortunately fine to reset expectations for the remainder of the season. We are a bottom 4 B1G team now. 

 

At 1-7, I think they're should absolutely be talks, and very serious talks, about Woody stepping down and retiring. 

 

15 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I could see us going 1-7 and the win not even being Minnesota.

 

And here we go! Note the dates of the two quoted posts.

358 days ago after an 1-3 conference start, you projected our conference record was going to be 1-7 after eight games. This year it's 1-7 for the next eight after a 2-0 start in conference. 

Not that it couldn't happen (anything is possible), but the chances of this happening are extremely low (as they were last year) and this is a window into pessimistic bias.

For what it's worth, after eight conference games last year we ended up at 4-4 on our way to a 12-8 overall conference record. 

Finally, while it is fun to speculate, as Bill Parcells once famously said, "You are what your record says you are." And right now our conference record says we are 2-0, which is good to see.

 

 

[Hoosierfan1901 6,272]

Mast had contact practice yesterday, so he will probably have limited playing time today 

[Hovadipo 56,125]

54 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

And right now our conference record says we are 2-0

And 10-3 overall!

(baybeeeeee)

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,672]

59 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

 

And here we go! Note the dates of the two quoted posts.

358 days ago after an 1-3 conference start, you projected our conference record was going to be 1-7 after eight games. This year it's 1-7 for the next eight after a 2-0 start in conference. 

Not that it couldn't happen (anything is possible), but the chances of this happening are extremely low (as they were last year) and this is a window into pessimistic bias.

For what it's worth, after eight conference games last year we ended up at 4-4 on our way to a 12-8 overall conference record. 

Finally, while it is fun to speculate, as Bill Parcells once famously said, "You are what your record says you are." And right now our conference record says we are 2-0, which is good to see.

 

 

I mean after the few games we had last season... Yea 1-5 looked right. And I believe we struggled to get that Minnesota win last year.