Purdue was so physically dominant vs. ISU, if coaching errors occurred, I sure didn't see any...
What is proven up front on D?
What’s funny is Brohm blamed Purdue resources for his recruiting issues and Walter’s is still lapping him in recruiting.
Louisville is very poorly positioned in said new world. How long does the ACC last? I think Louisville has Big 12 written all over them but unless they expand to like 30 teams I don’t see them landing there.
I’m just curious. I think on some things I see eye to eye with the optimists. On a few things I’m more realistic/wanna see it before I believe after last year…
On3 has Louisville’s collective at #9. https://www.si.com/college/louisville/other-sports/502-circle-named-a-top-10-nil-collective
Yes. If Cignetti can make Indiana an annual 6 win team, fans will be happy. If you're going to a bowl more often than not, nothing to be upset about.
still chicken shit to drop the L Ville game
Smart. Nobody covers the game like you think about it. They never say “well, if you look at schedules, this 4-8 Purdue team was really more like a 5.5-6 win team.”
an easier schedule is fine w/ me, just don't like teams opting out of tougher games
I found it funny their fans defend this photo saying the game was a blowout and it was late in the game. But the scoreboard says otherwise… (4+ minutes left in 3rd quarter in 17 point game).
We get bigger crowds for high school games in my area. Not joking.
Let's see what it looked like in the 1st Quarter. I bet half the hippy dippy iu crowd was in Dunn meadow having a circle jerk complaining about Israel.
Who said fans are happy right now? Have we won 6 games already? No. I think people are cautiously optimistic. Happy about looking pretty decent against FIU and then torching WIU. I mean last year's team would have lost to FIU and only put up 30 maybe on WIU. So it's progress at this point. Big game at UCLA. Indiana has a good shot at starting 4-0.
A super weak schedule that indinia has that 11 players from Sister Mary's School of dance could be bowl eligible on, will do that.
Not surprising you don't care, the bar for indinia is extremely low. But you're doing your best to make such weak wins look good, I'll give you that.
An IU buddy of mine who went said there were many 15,000 total people who showed up to either go in the stadium or just stand in the parking lot. Said there were no more than 7,500 people in the stands for the second half, and that their fans are far more worried that the pass out system that allows easy in and out access will be taken away. He got a 4 for $40 deal from the university that also included a hot dog and a drink, so he couldn’t pass it up. His gas to and from cost more than four tickets.. Sounds like their coach is already signaling that he didn’t show up to play in front crowds that wouldn’t be good enough at Valpo, so don’t be surprised when he starts publicly trashing his own “fan” base while denying interest in job openings. Talk about circling the toilet bowl.
Getting to a bowl game no longer means anything unless it is in contention for the NC. A big chunk of your best players won't even play in a bowl anymore. It is becoming a total joke. You get into the Carquest bowl and half of your players opt out. What is it even about anymore?
It absolutely means something by. 15 more practices. Publicity. Easier to recruit when you win. Money.
If you want your team to get to 6 wins, you have to do your part and stay in your seat support your team for the entire game.
So IU “football fans” are helping the program by leaving at halftime?
It makes zero sense to an indinia fan because... well.. indinia.... but if all you care about is lining up weak opponents just to get to a bowl game, then moving down to division 3 gets you that every year.
It’s all relative. There was a while where this was Purdues goal. Then tiller got us there every year with some good ones and they ran him out because a bowl game wasn’t good enough. Then we had a period of time we were elated to go to a bowl game. And there are fans on this board who are peeved we are laying Oregon state and ND this year making it really hard to go.
