Tom Allen has to go
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I wouldn't leave a game to tailgate, but I'm not buying tickets for games we won't be remotely competitive in.
Ok, so what's a "good" season in your mind?
I'd like to be in the hunt to win the conf and be a top 4 seed.
You better find a different team or research cryonics and hope
So he’s saying he’s 23 and hasn’t actually seen enough heartache to understand we have been masochists for much longer than he.
Win the conference.
Knock off a marquee team (UNC at home would suffice).
Do something in the conference tourney for once.
Get to Elite 8.
In the old days, that was just good old regular expectation.
There never has been fan support for football. Thirty thousand fans is not fan support. Leaving at halftime of games is not fan support. Constantly criticizing every aspect of the program is not fan support.
I don't watch the football team as much as I once did. Allen was just an abysmal hire with Chuck Pagano/Tom Crean vibes flying everywhere from right when he was hired. And probably not nearly as good of a coach as those 2. I just don't understand our completely inept administration and it's continued hiring fiascos. The fans absolutely should not reward the administration until they get serious about the program.
That's the scary part. We are lucky as hell to be 3-2. It's a minor miracle. The frustrating part is the team has enough talent and experience to be 5-0. If Allen wasn't taking his players out of position with his own stunts, blitzes and general gambling on defense and you had an offensive line that could block like most offensive lines can, and receivers that don't drop six passes a game the team is 5-0. It's not like there is nothing there. The plays are there to be made on both sides of the line, but penalties, drops (on both sides), missed tackles, sacks, blocked kicks and every other mistake a football can make get in the way. Coaching.
Wanting a different coach is wanting better things For the players, not being against them. Sure, some players might be shown they don’t cut it on a real B10 team but these days transferring is easy. And a real OL coach, followed by a real OL would give our backs and ends a chance to show what they can do. And save the QB’s health. But it’s gone higher than just the OL coach; CTA has shown that keeping Hillier is, for whatever reason, more important to him than IU’s being even mediocre.
And you’ll get football fans into IU’s stadium by winning, not by browbeating.
And you’ll get football fans into IU’s stadium by winning, not by browbeating.
Except Nebraska fills Memorial Stadium in good times and bad. Unfortunately, even Assembly Hall has been far from full the last decade or so. The student body seems to be totally detached from the athletic department.
You have to win.
Nebraska is still in the Mike Davis era of suckage. They need a scandal, Tom Crean, and Archie Miller to get them to where the IU fanbase is.
I wouldn’t say totally detached but they have a lot of options in Btown and prioritize on a weekly basis. 8K student seats in TAH is crazy. Sell some of those seat Scott.
IU fired another coach who was another over the top cheerleader, and this football team is far worse.
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IU went cheap on the football coach search last time. And this is where they are now. You get what you pay for. Cause and Effect. IU needs to get serious about investing in a winning head football coach.
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What was telling to me was after the strip sack in the end zone Allen was running around trying to pump everyone up and no one looked at him or showed any emotion at all.
That’s not a great analogy. There is not a pro team in the state. This is kind of the only game in town in the whole state, and they were former national champions who have a tradition too.
We've had well over 40k for each game.
I want the grad assistants stirring up player emotions and the co-ordinaters and HC being calm and calculating.
Cheap? His buyout is around $30M. Stupid? Yes. Cheap? No.
Nothing cheap about Allen’s contract. They paid dearly after 2 good seasons, when they should have gone after the coordinators that got him success.
But you never owe the entire buyout. It’s doubtful he goes back to FL and retires. We’ll end up paying maybe 1/3 of it though.
He's not getting another job. We'll pay whatever buyout we owe him when that day comes. Won't be for a few years though.
Far far longer than you will ever be even if you start today.
win big game run to IU board to pile on.
congrats on your win and our loss. Need more lotion?
Have you ever been to Lincoln? Not much there. Nebraska football is the highlight event in the middle of nowhere. Of course, people are going to attend. It's like IU Basketball. Everyone comes hoping that it's the mid-80's again. Nebraska basketball pulls them in like IU football. It's a choice.
Does this bullshit trolling somehow make you feel superior to IU fans?
You’re obviously lost. We’re here talking IU football. You know nothing about that, especially compared to those of us who have been IU fans / grads for decades. Take your troll act somewhere else.
Seriously, go troll somewhere else. There’s a reason you never, ever come here to talk IU football and just follow me around. It’s what trolls do. Go away.
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