Second Half ND Game Thread

[go iu bb 6,135]

10 hours ago, DChoosier said:

On paper we won’t have to worry about easy schedule complaints next year.

 

To be fair, the schedule didn't look that weak entering the season. Defending national champs and the runner up both had huge drop-offs. MSU is usually a bowl team. 

[Stuhoo 81,047]

2 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

I didn’t leave the game hating Notre Dame fans. Actually, the crew I sat around were a great time and we casually talked ball the entire game. I mostly left confused at the whole thing. The atmosphere was honestly just weird. Memorial is orders of magnitude louder and more rowdy than ND Stadium. It felt a bit like going to mass? If the PA wasn’t playing music, the wife and I could have regular, room volume conversation pretty much the entire game. 

For being a bunch of IU basketball fans, I figured they’d know how to create a raucous environment for a big game, but those people were lame as hell. Stadium was very nice/clean/cool, not a bad seat in the house. You just very easily could’ve taken a nap in it. 

Yes… and props to the Ohio State fanbase.

Unlike ND, they make it extremely difficult for the visiting team.

[reconmkd 4,405]

I probably won't get many who agree with me but I don't like the home games in the first rounds. Yeah it's great for the home team fans but it absolutely stacks the deck against the visiting team. I think the committee can absolutely use this in the future to try and control what teams advance. It's a playoff keep all the variables equal and may the best team advance.

[Napleshoosier 10,274]

Too bad we didn’t play like we did at the end all game. After that interception it was like offense didn’t want back on the field..  but Dang, we were on fire at the end of the game….

[RaceToTheTop 25,901]

32 minutes ago, reconmkd said:

I probably won't get many who agree with me but I don't like the home games in the first rounds. Yeah it's great for the home team fans but it absolutely stacks the deck against the visiting team. I think the committee can absolutely use this in the future to try and control what teams advance. It's a playoff keep all the variables equal and may the best team advance.

Agree.  I also think those spots are pretty random.

There is no world in which Notre Dame was the seventh best team and no world in which Arizona State is the fourth best.  I would guess that next year they will be changing the whole 'auto top four seeds to conference champions' next year.  Factually, if Boise State had lost the MWC title game, Arizona State would have been seeded three and Clemson would have been four.

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50 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

To be fair, the schedule didn't look that weak entering the season. Defending national champs and the runner up both had huge drop-offs. MSU is usually a bowl team. 

And the fact is Nebraska underachieved as well given the fact that they blew out Colorado and lead Ohio State in the fourth quarter.

[HoosierX 1,572]

1 hour ago, monskisprodigy said:

Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to win, but I wasn’t worried about us losing. Amazing season…

What I was worried about was us losing badly, playing terrible, and keeping this narrative alive that we didn’t belong. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a driven agenda to crap on a team. That narrative was set before the game even started, and our Punting, tackling, game management, etc. surely didn’t help us any. 

But the reality is…We went 11-1 (before last night) in the “second” best P4 conference and curb stomped everyone along the way. With a roster not as talented as ND, we lost by 10 on the road in a difficult environment while playing like dog crap to the team a lot of pundits have picked to win the whole dang thing. 

The media better dog walk every other CFP team that loses outside the spread and call them unworthy…but we know they won’t. Let them hate, let the chip continue to build and come back hungry next year. 

The only reason it ended up being a 10 point game is because we put up points when the game was already out of reach. That was not a close game by any stretch of the imagination. Great season though.

 

 

[DChoosier 8,496]

1 hour ago, go iu bb said:

To be fair, the schedule didn't look that weak entering the season. Defending national champs and the runner up both had huge drop-offs. MSU is usually a bowl team. 

That’s correct and why I stated next years schedule looks tougher “on paper” because who knows for sure how good the teams on our schedule will be next year.

That being said….I’d bet a lot of $$$ that road games at Iowa, PSU and Oregon, and Illinois at home, will lead to a better/tougher SOS next season.  That’s a really tough trio of road games.

[Hoosierfan2017 21,502]

11 hours ago, HoosierX said:

Why would you root for Georgia? It would reinforce the SEC superiority narrative and make us look even worse than ND did.

So that way the ND fan I sat in front of, who was truly the most obnoxious person I’ve met in my life, is sad. Lol

[IUFAN1976 3,229]

8 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

So that way the ND fan I sat in front of, who was truly the most obnoxious person I’ve met in my life, is sad. Lol

Go ND!!!

[IUFAN1976 3,229]

I like the 12 team CFP; however, they need to change the 1st round games to a neutral sites.  All home teams won and the games weren’t really that close.  I think it’s a huge advantage for a good team to play on their home field.  They basically narrowed it down to 8 teams!

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3 hours ago, IUFAN1976 said:

I like the 12 team CFP; however, they need to change the 1st round games to a neutral sites.  All home teams won and the games weren’t really that close.  I think it’s a huge advantage for a good team to play on their home field.  They basically narrowed it down to 8 teams!

I've been an advocate for all games in the CFP being a bowl game.  The 1st round being a bowl that is regionally closest to the higher seed.  It's called the FBS for a reason. 

[Hoosierfan2017 21,502]

26 minutes ago, Lebowski said:

I've been an advocate for all games in the CFP being a bowl game.  The 1st round being a bowl that is regionally closest to the higher seed.  It's called the FBS for a reason. 

I’d actually love for them to make the next round of games on campus too. I hate football in domes personally, and the vibes are just better on campus. I think tinkering with the seeding is the way to go for next year. The first round would’ve been more competitive with ASU and Boise State playing in it. 

[IUFAN1976 3,229]

5 hours ago, Lebowski said:

I've been an advocate for all games in the CFP being a bowl game.  The 1st round being a bowl that is regionally closest to the higher seed.  It's called the FBS for a reason. 

Exactly, that’s what I thought it should be