The Bourbon Barrel Game

[Lebowski 3,272]

It's time to bring it back.  It'll help both schools with SOS and appease us fans. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana–Kentucky_football_rivalry

[Pagoda 4,166]

I'm fine if they bring it back, some random thoughts and opinions:

- It's a great trophy and it's too bad they had to stop using it due to that alcohol-related death of a UK player.  It's nice we kept the trophy in Bloomington.  Also it's kinda funny how IUFB gets involved with so many random rivalry trophies.

- I love playing UK in basketball, I find that game more interesting than Purdue.  But personally, interacting with UK fans one time per year is enough for me.  

- With as tough as the B1G is, I'm fine with non-con cupcakes for a few more years, especially as we are still program building, notably with getting high school recruiting going, which takes a few years.

- If we are going to play a tougher non-con, I'd rather schedule bigger programs like we did with ND.  UK may not help our SOS as much (could be a bad loss early).

- Looking back, attendance increases were modest when UK came to town, indicating IU fans generally don't find UK to be that interesting of a football opponent.

- We'll either get some sort of B1G-SEC challenge to spice up our non-con, or I would try to schedule home/homes with bigger programs where a loss doesn't hurt us too much and a win has more upside.  

That's just one person's opinion, and I'm far from an expert in CFB, so I could be missing something.  I definitely agree it would be fun to have a big non-con game most years.

I can't wait for this IUFB season.  Spring game is coming up!

[IUHoosierJoe 2,097]

1 hour ago, Pagoda said:

I'm fine if they bring it back, some random thoughts and opinions:

- It's a great trophy and it's too bad they had to stop using it due to that alcohol-related death of a UK player.  It's nice we kept the trophy in Bloomington.  Also it's kinda funny how IUFB gets involved with so many random rivalry trophies.

- I love playing UK in basketball, I find that game more interesting than Purdue.  But personally, interacting with UK fans one time per year is enough for me.  

- With as tough as the B1G is, I'm fine with non-con cupcakes for a few more years, especially as we are still program building, notably with getting high school recruiting going, which takes a few years.

- If we are going to play a tougher non-con, I'd rather schedule bigger programs like we did with ND.  UK may not help our SOS as much (could be a bad loss early).

- Looking back, attendance increases were modest when UK came to town, indicating IU fans generally don't find UK to be that interesting of a football opponent.

- We'll either get some sort of B1G-SEC challenge to spice up our non-con, or I would try to schedule home/homes with bigger programs where a loss doesn't hurt us too much and a win has more upside.  

That's just one person's opinion, and I'm far from an expert in CFB, so I could be missing something.  I definitely agree it would be fun to have a big non-con game most years.

I can't wait for this IUFB season.  Spring game is coming up!

As to the strength of schedule, Kentucky is an SEC team, so they’re just a notch below the NFL.  That should be great for our SOS.  (joking, of course)

[go iu bb 9,013]

6 hours ago, Pagoda said:

I'm fine if they bring it back, some random thoughts and opinions:

- It's a great trophy and it's too bad they had to stop using it due to that alcohol-related death of a UK player.  It's nice we kept the trophy in Bloomington.  Also it's kinda funny how IUFB gets involved with so many random rivalry trophies.

- I love playing UK in basketball, I find that game more interesting than Purdue.  But personally, interacting with UK fans one time per year is enough for me.  

- With as tough as the B1G is, I'm fine with non-con cupcakes for a few more years, especially as we are still program building, notably with getting high school recruiting going, which takes a few years.

- If we are going to play a tougher non-con, I'd rather schedule bigger programs like we did with ND.  UK may not help our SOS as much (could be a bad loss early).

- Looking back, attendance increases were modest when UK came to town, indicating IU fans generally don't find UK to be that interesting of a football opponent.

- We'll either get some sort of B1G-SEC challenge to spice up our non-con, or I would try to schedule home/homes with bigger programs where a loss doesn't hurt us too much and a win has more upside.  

That's just one person's opinion, and I'm far from an expert in CFB, so I could be missing something.  I definitely agree it would be fun to have a big non-con game most years.

I can't wait for this IUFB season.  Spring game is coming up!

As an SEC team, losing to them is basically the same thing as winning against them. That's what we learned this bowl season.