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Game day Parking

Holy smokes, I can’t explain this season. Anyhow, going to be making my first trip to BTown since the 2014 game against Missouri, I’ve never dealt with a football scene this packed.

I’ve heard about the parking passes and all that, we are fine to walk a decent distance. Any suggestions? Any good places to park early and walk and hop to some bars/breweries along the way even if it takes a while?
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Washington Game Notes

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2024/10/21/football-game-notes-host-washington

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – A visit from ESPN's College GameDay will lead into a noon kickoff on Big Ten Network for the No. 13/13 Indiana football program against Washington. A sold-out Memorial Stadium will host the first meeting as conference opponents and fourth all-time tilt between the Hoosiers and Huskies.

Setting the Scene
Indiana leads the all-time series 2-1, winning one game in Bloomington and one in Seattle. Washington won the last matchup, defeating the Hoosiers, 38-13, in Seattle. (Another series IU leads).
• The matchup with Washington will be the first since 2003 and the first time in Bloomington since 1978. It will also be the first time that the two programs will play each other as conference foes.

By The Numbers
4 -
The 4-0 start in Big Ten play marked the fourth time in program history IU started with an unblemished mark through four conference games (4-0, 2020; 4-0, 1987; 5-0, 1967).
47 - Indiana's 47 (46?) offensive touchdowns are the most among FBS teams through Week 8.
7 - Indiana's seven-game winning streak is the longest since an eight-game stretch during the 1967 season (Week 1-8).

News & Notes
• Indiana enters the game with a 7-0 record ..This is Indiana's second time in program history starting a season 7-0 (2024, 1967).
Curt Cignetti is the only Indiana head coach to start his head coaching tenure with a 7-0 record.

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• Indiana's crowd of 53,082 for the Nebraska win marks the fourth-largest crowd in program history and the largest since Nov. 17, 1979 (53,202).
• The Indiana defense forced five turnovers, three interceptions and two fumbles and turned those into 28 points.
• Senior running back Justice Ellison went for 105 rushing yards on nine carries with two touchdowns. His two rushing scores marked six consecutive weeks with a touchdown. The last Hoosier with six-straight weeks is Tevin Coleman in 2014 (Week 1, 3-7), which was part of a 15-game streak that spanned the 2013-14 seasons.

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• Junior wide receiver Elijah Sarratt moved his consecutive games with a catch streak to 32-straight games with his 28-yard reception in the second quarter against Nebraska. …
• Junior Aiden Fisher led the Hoosiers with 11 tackles, marking the seventh time in his career logging double-digit tackles and the third time as a Hoosier. Fisher is tied for third in the Big Ten with 66 total tackles in 2024.

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• Redshirt junior defensive lineman Mikail Kamara owns at least one tackle in all 30 career appearances and at least a half tackle for loss in 27 of 30 career games. MORE ON PAGE 12
• Indiana's rushing touchdown in the first quarter was the first rushing score allowed by Nebraska's defense all season. IU finished with five rushing scores in the game and have 28 rushing touchdowns, the most in a season since 2014 (29; 12 games).
• With 215 yards rushing, Indiana snapped a streak of 13-straight games in which Nebraska didn't allow a 200-yard rushing game (249; Michigan, 2023). The 215 yards were more than double what the Huskers had allowed on average entering the game (84.2 ypg).
• IU is one of six teams nationally to have scored first in each of its games played (Indiana, Army, Ole Miss, Boise State, Memphis, Illinois) and is one of two teams to not trail in a game this season (Army).
• Indiana's 56 points extended its own program record of six consecutive games of scoring 40-plus points, and with its double-digit win extended its longest streak of double-digit wins in program history at seven-straight games.
• Through Week 8, Indiana is the only FBS program to not allow a first quarter point in 2024.

I was thinking about how fortunate

we are that coach Cignetti was chosen to be IU's FB coach. Several schools have coaches that are in their second year and still struggling in some manner. Nebraska, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and especially Purdue are less than the best this season. coach Cignetti has shown us IU can win now and we don't have to wait wondering when it will happen.

Tourism NIL Tax

With $900 hotel room prices and packed restaurants it may be in the best interest of the local community to start kicking in to keep things rolling!! Sort of joking here but I am sure some smart folks can figure out the money multiplier for a local community. I know we see lost revenue numbers when games have been played in Indy. I wonder what the difference is with X thousands more people in town. Seems like a worthwhile investment or at least kick in some player commercials/billboard $$$.

North Carolina/Tennessee today...

An immediate family member is trained EMT. For 20 years, has trained and fielded German Shepherd dogs trained as 'cadaver dogs' in multiple states, mostly Indiana and contiguous states.
I asked if the authorities had been in contact....here is the answer;
'The CUE Center for Missing Persons is my primary agency.
We must wait until local infrastructure has been restored. We generally do not work disaster call outs, but there will still be people missing when the dust settles. All of our certifications require LE or EMA oversight. FEMA has a few cadaver dogs deployed as well as NC and TN teams. The odor of decomposition is so overwhelming it is causing the dogs to alert far from the actual source(the deceased). It is tricky and dangerous right now.
There can be long term consequences for handlers and dogs. I donated to Samaritan's Purse because they offer spiritual and material support.
I have had handlers call me.
I warn them; You cannot unsee, unhear or unsmell what you will be exposed to. One certainly understands the magnitude of the horror."

Blind faith in a political leader

Through all the back and forth arguing that isn’t going to change anyone’s mind I’ve noticed the following: Not a single soul is espousing the greatness of Kamala Harris or excusing every misstep she makes or has made. But the number of lemmings who literally would fawn over anything and everything that DJT says and does is mind numbing and frankly nauseating. I can’t imagine being this enamored with another human being, especially one as crass and disgusting as that man who “just loves women”
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