College Football Thread

[Alford Bailey 12,259]

2 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Yes. Allen needs all the easy wins he can get to try to salvage his job.

I wonder if IU will try to get out of the ND series too? Idk why they scheduled them in the first place. IU being a crappy program needing easy wins isn’t something new.

Yea let’s not try to improve the program to compete with the likes of a Louisville. Let’s take the easy way out. Cowards.

[Stuhoo 75,756]

I never rule out a legitimate reason that I haven’t thought of, but this seems extremely desperate and baaaad.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,223]

To kick it back "old school" a little bit....

Playing Madden 2007... Drafted three guys from IU. 

 

Antwaan Randle El

Courtney Roby

Kemp Rasmussen

[Hoosierfan2017 19,903]

25 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Yea let’s not try to improve the program to compete with the likes of a Louisville. Let’s take the easy way out. Cowards.

I wouldn’t blame them for not scheduling schools like Louisville. We have a hard enough time being in the B1G East. But just don’t schedule these games in the first place. Trying to back out later is weak sauce. 

[Hovadipo 52,979]

21 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

I never rule out a legitimate reason that I haven’t thought of, but this seems extremely desperate and baaaad.

The only legitimate scenario I’ve come up with is the B1G is trying to do something with the schedule behind the scenes and this leaked without the right context. 

I can’t imagine a program trying to get out of a game contract less than 9 months from kickoff just because the coach is trying to save his job, but our department never ceases to amaze. 

[LIHoosier 25,013]

19 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I wouldn’t blame them for not scheduling schools like Louisville. We have a hard enough time being in the B1G East. But just don’t schedule these games in the first place. Trying to back out later is weak sauce. 

This thing was scheduled in 2015. Cool Dad was still on a Tom Crean high, Tom Allen was a DC at South freaking Florida and Slick Rick was still running the 15 second offense in Louisville.

[Hoosierfan2017 19,903]

19 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

This thing was scheduled in 2015. Cool Dad was still on a Tom Crean high, Tom Allen was a DC at South freaking Florida and Slick Rick was still running the 15 second offense in Louisville.

Ahh 2015, the Zander Diamont era. 

I figured it was scheduled a while ago with how far in advance they schedule football games. The fact he scheduled it then makes it even weirder to me. Louisville was coming off a 3 year stretch where they went 11-2, 12-1, and 9-4. Did cool dad think he was scheduling a basketball series?

[Stuhoo 75,756]

4 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Ahh 2015, the Zander Diamont era. 

I figured it was scheduled a while ago with how far in advance they schedule football games. The fact he scheduled it then makes it even weirder to me. Louisville was coming off a 3 year stretch where they went 11-2, 12-1, and 9-4 while IU was on a 

So maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye.

[LIHoosier 25,013]

10 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Ahh 2015, the Zander Diamont era. 

I figured it was scheduled a while ago with how far in advance they schedule football games. The fact he scheduled it then makes it even weirder to me. Louisville was coming off a 3 year stretch where they went 11-2, 12-1, and 9-4. Did cool dad think he was scheduling a basketball series?

There was a basketball series tied to it from 2016-18, we went 1-2.

[Hoosierfan2017 19,903]

6 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

So maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye.

Could be, just don’t know what that would be. We’d have to pay them $1 million per canceled game. That’s no small sum for a program that made its coach pay to fire his OC .

[Stuhoo 75,756]

29 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Could be, just don’t know what that would be. We’d have to pay them $1 million per canceled game. That’s no small sum for a program that made its coach pay to fire his OC .

That’d be a lot of NIL

[TTT 780]

Forecast for scheduling…schedule with LEOing care.

Louisville beats IU about 38 to 10

So IU could schedule a weaker team and still get beat by a little bit lesser amount of points.

Appalachian State beats IU about 31 to 20

IU and Ball State a toss up (over/ under 34)

and finally IU wins against Indiana State 31 to 7 and finally IU would score over 30 points in one game.

 

Remember the schedule conflicts between KY and IU basketball…home and home vs off campus sites fiasco.

 

 

[Hovadipo 52,979]

This type of thing is why I think there’s more to this story. You’re gonna play, at worst, an AAC team every year anyway. 
 

(It’s still possible we’re just being frickin’ losers which sucks hard)

[WayneFleekHoosier 46,828]

Oooffff. Thought this was bonkers scheduling to begin with. Seems like a bad look at face value.


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[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,223]

I think it's complete BS the Big Ten has a rule as to who you play. They already control 75% of the schedule with conference games. Let teams play who they want. 

[Demo 17,453]

17 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

 

Trying to reserve judgement until it plays out completely, but the idea of a 7th year regime bailing on a series against a regional rival with whom you really should be reasonably competitive and against whom you will certainly be recruiting seems, well, pathetic. I’m not sure you’re not better off playing those games even if you lose them. 

[Lebowski 1,848]

Anybody notice Colorado's transfers coming in? This is exactly how I'd be 'recruiting' my football team if I were a HC in the FCS. It will be interesting to see if this translates to wins.  I'm betting it does. 

[craigyv88 384]

On 1/7/2023 at 9:44 PM, Hovadipo said:

This type of thing is why I think there’s more to this story. You’re gonna play, at worst, an AAC team every year anyway. 
 

(It’s still possible we’re just being frickin’ losers which sucks hard)

I always thought that was the rule as well, in which case I'm curious how Michigan got away with scheduling UConn, Hawaii, and Colorado State in the non-con for 2022.  

[Hovadipo 52,979]

2 minutes ago, craigyv88 said:

I always thought that was the rule as well, in which case I'm curious how Michigan got away with scheduling UConn, Hawaii, and Colorado State in the non-con for 2022.  

I think they grandfathered UConn from being an AAC school when they scheduled the game.

[craigyv88 384]

4 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

I think they grandfathered UConn from being an AAC school when they scheduled the game.

You're probably right, I totally forgot about them being AAC previously.  Still winds me up how weak Michigan's non-con has been both of the last two years and will be next year too.