Yes, I am old. I graduated from IU in 1969 and enjoyed my time there rooting on the sports teams and especially enjoyed our one and only Rose Bowl Team. After graduation, I taught and coached in Cleveland, Ohio but never forgot my Hoosier roots. I tried to attend at least one home game a year, usually homecoming, and even brought many friends with me to soak in the atmosphere. When it came to football, we rarely saw a win. As time went on, we heard complaints about coaches, complaints about facilities, complaints about recruiting and plenty of blame as to why IU can't win. Then in 2000 I moved to Florida and still tried to attend one game a year. Yet, victories were still very very rare. It has finally hit me that things will never change regardless of the coach, the facilities or the attempts to get better players. Yes, I always loved the atmosphere, especially at homecoming. The red steppers, alumni breakfasts and the alumni bands were things my friends and I looked forward to. But the games were almost always very disappointing. Last year, my group and I actually left in the second quarter of the OSU game because of the monsoon and because IU was already down by a million points. It is just no fun to be beat to death for over 50 years. Rarely are the Hoosiers competitive. Rarely do they pull an upset. Rarely do they finish in the top half of the league and they haven't won the league since 1967, a year where we didn't play Ohio State. When I worked in Cleveland, I became a loyal Browns fan. I was at the first ever Monday night football game. I saw the Kardiac Kids. I saw the Drive. I saw playoff wins and almost saw my team make the Super Bow. It was a blast to be a season ticket holder for all of those years because of the atmosphere and because in the NFL, every team has a chance to win every game. It happens every Sunday in the fall. Rarely is there a blow out. Rarely is a point spread more than 10 and rarely does a team think that it has no chance to win. College football is broken and broken badly as more and more folks see what I am seeing. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer and the system cannot be fixed. So yes, the atmosphere at IU is still wonderful but you are probably better off in believing in something else if you expect us to ever be a winner on the field.