2024 IUFB Season

[Hovadipo]

21 minutes ago, HoosierFan1994 said:

We have tickets for this game. First IU football game I've been to since covid. A little ridiculous they can't come up with a game time. Would be nice if they narrowed it down to two time slots. 

I was surprised they didn’t. Only way I’m getting there is if we somehow get a night game. 

[TTT]

Fall 2024 in South Central Indiana:  The weather, colors, and mood have been maybe the best ever September and October.  

[CSP]

26 minutes ago, HoosierFan1994 said:

We have tickets for this game. First IU football game I've been to since covid. A little ridiculous they can't come up with a game time. Would be nice if they narrowed it down to two time slots. 

It really is. It's an epidemic, SEC is the same way. Just flat out middle finger to the people coming to the game. 

[rcbowla]

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/1850922389694980522?t=QWaqZmpvCJjjWZ95CT9law&s=19

[Home Jersey]

https://www.twitter.com/indianafootball/status/1851023193357615595?s=12

4.5 minute hype video. Great work by the creative team. Football team is making it easy for em too

[JSHoosier]

 

 

[Hovadipo]

Yes please! Even better, tomorrow is today!

[Naturalhoosier]

20 hours ago, Hovadipo said:

Six-day windowed again for Michigan. We’ll have a game time announcement after MSU. 

I’ve seen this a few times. Is this meaning they have 6 days to determine the game time?  Is it self-imposed?  Is it a network thing as they try to flex games for the best programming?

[Hovadipo]

4 minutes ago, Naturalhoosier said:

Is it a network thing as they try to flex games for the best programming?

It's this. Basically, they want to see how Saturday's games shake out before they pick games. It's entirely decided by the networks and the schools are at their mercy and I believe they can do this 3 times per season. Part of getting so much money from the TV deal, but it sucks.

[Hovadipo]

21 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Yes please! Even better, tomorrow is today!

 

[monskisprodigy]

This team got better at every level and position...but I still keep coming back to the O-Line, and the improvement from last year is really amazing. What Bostad has done with that group, is wild. Getting Katic back was the catalyst, but have we ever had an O-Line as strong as this? 

[Hovadipo]

3 minutes ago, monskisprodigy said:

This team got better at every level and position...but I still keep coming back to the O-Line, and the improvement from last year is really amazing. What Bostad has done with that group, is wild. Getting Katic back was the catalyst, but have we ever had an O-Line as strong as this? 

Wilson's lines, especially in his last few years, were every bit as good imo. Tevin and Howard were monsters, but they didn't act alone in running all over the conference.

[CSP]

3 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Wilson's lines, especially in his last few years, were every bit as good imo. Tevin and Howard were monsters, but they didn't act alone in running all over the conference.

Two NFL 2nd rd draft picks, another 2 that were drafted, and multiple others who were camp invites/on practice squads for a bit. Yes, OL was cooking then. 

Wilson's lines were undoubtedly more talented, but I think this OL has functioned better/executed better... thus far. 

[CSP]

22 hours ago, Hovadipo said:

Six-day windowed again for Michigan. We’ll have a game time announcement after MSU. 

insane that this is the model

[monskisprodigy]

3 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Wilson's lines, especially in his last few years, were every bit as good imo. Tevin and Howard were monsters, but they didn't act alone in running all over the conference.

Good point. It seems like the Wilson era was 50 years ago for some reason haha. 

[JSHoosier]

 

 

[jmsgws]

4 hours ago, monskisprodigy said:

Good point. It seems like the Wilson era was 50 years ago for some reason haha. 

We have lived through a LOT of crappy football in the few years since Kevin Wilson.  The amount of optimism for Wilson, and then TA was off the charts, and it went sour so fast, it seems like a decade of bad football.  

[Hovadipo]

11 minutes ago, jmsgws said:

We have lived through a LOT of crappy football in the few years since Kevin Wilson.  The amount of optimism for Wilson, and then TA was off the charts, and it went sour so fast, it seems like a decade of bad football.  

It really is amazing. We've been awful (last couple years), pretty bad (right before and right after 2019-20), pretty good (2019-20), and now elite all in the short time since Wilson's tenure.

[Demo]

 

These both seem like easy money, no?

[Hovadipo]

Joel perfectly explains my reasoning behind no longer being interested in being the plucky underdog getting dissed by the AP poll. Checking in at 11-13 in the original CFP rankings would be really non-ideal news.