4NDANA said:

I actually think this is the bottom-line answer but it is impacted by a lot of the others. Coaching but with players that are open to your style and process. The portal allowed the staff the ability to do addition by subtraction and not spend the first year managing egos, parents and a lot of the outside noise. Rourke is mature and the game doesn't rattle him. I think he had some nerves in the very beginning of all of this but now he realizes he more than belongs and has a team around him that is complimentary to the offense. Bostad and the O line are a huge part of Rourke's coolness but he also manages crisis well. Now back to coaching, I saw something in the game that I am not sure has been mentioned or I missed it. We all saw that Myles Price made some rough decisions in the kicking game and then came back and had a key return. Coach laid into him a bit on the early decisions but on his big return Cig actually walked down the sideline across from him yelled out to help position him and stood there with him. I guess you can take that many ways but I see it as coaching the way it should be. "We are in this together son. I have have expectations for you and will ride you a bit to meet them for yourself and now I am going down here with you to support and help get this right."

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dbmhoosier said:

Harris is out there doing rallies with Eninem who regularly calls gay people ******s, wishing them dead, and murders his wife and gf in his music. Yet you're worried about a joke a comedian made that no one on team Trump had any clue he would make and was booed by the Trump crowd. Weird.

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CC Mac said:

I’ve been going to games for 55 years.
Sat through oppressive heat,extreme cold,rain and snow.
Went to games by myself when I couldn’t give away a ticket.
I’ve had numerous surgeries and health issues the past 4 years so I have not been physically able to go to many games.
But I bought tickets for Nebraska,Washington and Michigan.
I was in so much pain yesterday I was almost in tears but I don’t regret going Saturday for a minute.
I’ve been waiting for this for 55 years and if I had to crawl I was going to be there.
My Dad started taking me to games when I was 10,sure wish he was still here to see this.
Now my IU basketball buddies who have given me Hell for wasting my time and money on IU football are hitting me up.
Sorry fellas not a chance but enjoy another winter of Woody 🏀

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Victorbmyboy said:

Looked like he tweaked his back too. He was wincing and grabbing at it.

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crazed_hoosier2 said:

I certainly wouldn't say that it's a good thing, if you're Trump (or supporting Trump).

But I also think it comes up extremely short from being a QED about the event being a Nazi rally. That's like "basket of deplorables" on steroids. And what's interesting is that most Dem analysts, strategists, talking heads, etc. said after the 2016 that Hillary's slam of Trump supporters (or some large part of his supporters) was not helpful for her.

A standard maxim in politics is that, you can slam your opponent all you want, but stop short of doing it to their voters....who are the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, friends, coworkers, neighbors of everybody else.

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GThomas said:

The first thing I asked my dad during yesterday's game was, "Is Ballo fat?"

I'm not fat-shaming or anything (shout out to Big Baby Davis); rather, I'm simply saying he doesn't look all that agile or quick. Ballo will produce because of his size and strength (and Woody's interior-heavy offense), but I expect him to be the fourth option behind Reneau, MM, and Rice. Ware he is not.

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GeorgeStrait IU said:

Shame this game doesent count! Would look really good on the Ncaa resume.

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stollcpa said:

MSM was going to report racist no matter what.

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larsIU said:

Why? B/c some scrawny ass 5'9" 140 lb jerkoff has a gun. Being 6'1" 230 doesn't matter at that point.

Another problem we won't solve.

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El Drado said:

Incredibly sad story here in the Fort, High School Party Killed . My kid goes to school with some of the kids that attended.
Just sad that this stuff happens; kids having guns, parents patting kids down at parties, social media inviting "randoms".

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ChicagoFineForNow said:

Bradstevens neighborhood is not that nice. I’ve seen better. A lot of Harris/ Walz signs. Gross.

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crazed_hoosier2 said:

I don't think it's shocking at all. It's completely expected. And I think it's probably right that they'd be running similar stories with or without the comedian's jokes. They were pushing this narrative before the thing even took place.

I just think it was pretty stupid of the comedian guy to hand them this on a silver platter -- assuming that wasn't his intention.

But it's not like the "Trump is a virulent racist and so are all of his voters" thing just sprang up because of this rally.

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YOTHN said:

Lets be honest, I think IU needs to win every game all season (including post season). I think one loss vs OSU, shouldn't eliminate us from the playoff but if we lose to OSU and finish 4th in the conference standings (after tie breakers)......I don't think we make the playoff.

So really, we just need to win every single game from Sept through the end of January.

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