Official Iowa Game Thread

[WayneFleekHoosier 49,772]

Honestly though, what is it going to take for this team to field even an average defense? Changing DCs doesn't seem to do it. Decades of recruiting hasn't seemed to do it. Is there like a literal curse?

decades of recruiting average defensive players is likely to yield decades of average or worse defenses.

Our D is slightly better this year than it has been recently. Our O is slightly weaker though.

[Double Down 324]

Honestly though, what is it going to take for this team to field even an average defense? Changing DCs doesn't seem to do it. Decades of recruiting hasn't seemed to do it. Is there like a literal curse?

 

Brian Knorr has to wake up every morning wondering just wondering what he was thinking taking the IUDC job.  

[HoosierReb01 7,511]

The season mirrors most others though really.

Not sure I'd quite go there. I've seen too many IU teams that just gave up and went through the motions. These guys may get beat, but at least they don't give up.

[JaybobHoosier 12,406]

Hey, we caught a pass!!!

[HoosierReb01 7,511]

That should do it.

[JaybobHoosier 12,406]

Wow, that figures!

[LIHoosier 27,190]

That was an absolute duck.

[Dalton26 17,015]

Our offense aside from Howard was absolutely pathetic today.

[Double Down 324]

The FSU/Clemson game is a good one.  Big Playoff implications down in the swamp. 

 

The FSU tomahawk chop might be the most irritating chant in sports.  Not for racial reasons, just for "its dumb" reasons.  

[MartintheMopMan 7,765]

That's game guys. Good first half. Pathetic second half. Who could have guessed?

[JSHoosier 21,491]

Why do we keep going deep to the shortest player on the field?  I mean at least this one wasn't in triple coverage but still.

[Alford Bailey 12,809]

70-3 in the fourth quarter of the last four games. 

WOW! Hard to go bowling with that.

[Double Down 324]

70-3 in the fourth quarter of the last four games. 

 

Ooooouch.  

[LIHoosier 27,190]

The FSU tomahawk chop might be the most irritating chant in sports.  Not for racial reasons, just for "its dumb" reasons.  

Then it was multiplied when the Atlanta Braves tried to own the chop and would start the music for it when someone drew a walk with the pitcher coming up.

[TheWatShot 14,852]

WOW! Hard to go bowling with that.

 

It's why I laugh when people try to argue about how far we've come in the last five years. 

[Double Down 324]

Not sure I'd quite go there. I've seen too many IU teams that just gave up and went through the motions. These guys may get beat, but at least they don't give up.

 

Objectively, you're totally right.

 

Man, it just sucks to keep putting Ls up on the board.  We just can't find a way to get over the hump.  

[JaybobHoosier 12,406]

Hey, first down! Go IU!

[mamasa 15,690]

The FSU/Clemson game is a good one.  Big Playoff implications down in the swamp. 

 

The FSU tomahawk chop might be the most irritating chant in sports.  Not for racial reasons, just for "its dumb" reasons.  

Picture this- you roll into your stupidly wealthy uncle's house, proudly wearing IU gear.  His kids are FSU grads (not him, just your obnoxious cousins).  He says "Come outside, I want to show you this".  You oblige, thinking it may be a great cigar or vintage wine.  Nope, it's a customized FSU van specifically for going to FSU games.  The most annoying part of the whole thing?  The horn plays the FSU tomahawk chant.  Yep, true story!

[Double Down 324]

Then it was multiplied when the Atlanta Braves tried to own the chop and would start the music for it when someone drew a walk with the pitcher coming up.

 

Heh.  With Jane Fonda sitting in the front row chopping with her foam axe.  Someone should have sprayed her with Foam Axe.

 

[Alford Bailey 12,809]

Well we havent given up 50 yet.