Got a couple of pre-season magazines.

Illinois had a weird season last year. Won opener at Nebraska, beat Charlotte in Champaign, won at Happy Valley in 9 (NINE!) overtimes, and closed with a home win against NW.

Lost at home to UTSA, Maryland, Wisconsin, Rutgers and at UVA, at Pee Ewe, and at Iowa. Only blowout was at UVA 42-14 and only shut out was Wisconsin 0-24.

Return 13 starters. Upgraded QB and OL/RB. If the fix their DB’s, their defense will be stronger.

Main worry is that they come in and control the game with rushing, keep their lesser passing game off the field, keep our O off the field, and abuse our run defense with the LB leader gone and a DL that lacks proven stars.

This interview is something else!

Good listen, it’s more than just your ‘IU sucks’ analysis. It gets in to the actual numbers… warning it’s not good news

I found the commentary on Baz interesting. He’s a Mizzu fan, so he’s seen him a bunch.
“Low ceiling, high floor”
Which just feels exactly what Allen is going for. Let his defense win it…

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probably won't watch an inning tonight

Yeah, who cares. Anyhow, I can't say I disagree with his comments.

(The full interview by Talia Goodman with Miller is below)

“We recruited good players, we recruited good kids. I was happy to watch all of the guys that we brought there this season finally crack the opportunity to go to the tournament,” Miller said. “Trayce was a junior this year. As a freshman, he helped lead us to the tournament but it got canceled. So he had still never experienced that Selection Sunday. I was happy to watch their players this year do well.

“In my time there, there’s a lot of things you look back on and say, ‘boy, I wish I’d done this different. I wish I did this better.’ And I think part of what we have always aspired to do and will continue to aspire to do is have a skilled team. Have a team that’s based on the ability to play the game with versatility and skill. And we didn’t shoot the ball well enough in my time at Indiana to get over the hump.

“Offense, at the end of the day, really comes down to, did you make an open shot or didn’t you? Did you make a free throw or didn’t you? And we just over the course of time consistently did not shoot the ball well enough, in my time, to overcome tight losses or games where you played well enough defensively to win, but just didn’t have enough offense.

“I feel like shooting the ball is at a premium right now. We needed to shoot the ball better in my time at Indiana and have more shooting around some of the great post players that we had in my time. We had Juwan Morgan for two years who is with the Celtics. We recruited Trayce and Trayce has been an All-American since he’s been there.

“But we needed a little bit more firepower and spacing around those guys and we just didn’t do a good enough job, in my opinion, of either recruiting them or developing them, or putting them in a situation where they had better shots, whatever it may have been.

“One thing I wish as look back on it, (was that) we had paid maybe more careful attention to the shooting early on in our recruiting rather than just the talent. Sometimes you need bodies. And sometimes you need to get bigger. When you take over a job, you have to have massive turnover in your first two years so you know you’re going to have to recruit a lot of guys. And rather than just take good players and have a plan to develop guys while they get there, maybe more selection early on in terms of identifying shooting would have helped our cause a little bit more.

“But I have no regrets. Indiana is a great school. It’s a beautiful campus. All of the players have a great experience there. It’s a great place to go to school. But I have no regrets. Sometimes the toughest pills that you have to swallow end up being the ones that make you better at the end of the day and I envision that being the case after my time is gone there.”

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used to coach the rams

We've selected your 5 favorite Hoosiers. We've determined HS teammates that both came to IU. Now let's pick the ones that transferred away that disappointed you the most. One rule. They actually had to play a game or at least be on the bench for a game. So no Larry Bird allowed. I have 4.
Delray Brooks
Rick Calloway
Lawrence Funderburke
Rick Rowray

Indiana forward Jordan Geronimo speaking with the media at 2 pm ET.

We will have full coverage and quotes throughout. #iubb

Story here.

Hope to shout.

WEDNESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Dylan Sinn
🚨 Bob Kravitz
🚨 Kyle Neddenriep
🚨 Caleb Knost
🔥 #iubb coaches after Bob Knight
🔥 Frontrunners for #ihsaa Mr. Football in 2022
🔥 An update on Indiana prospects at the Peach Jam
🔥 Ivy Tech's Mat Peters drafted by the Chicago Cubs

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WEDNESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Dylan Sinn
🚨 Bob Kravitz
🚨 Kyle Neddenriep
🚨 Caleb Knost
🔥 #iubb coaches after Bob Knight
🔥 Frontrunners for #ihsaa Mr. Football in 2022
🔥 An update on Indiana prospects at the Peach Jam
🔥 Ivy Tech's Mat Peters drafted by the Chicago Cubs

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seems like mich st has had its fair share of past players with questionable character

Last year, ESS admitted to putting remote access capabilities into their voting systems. Now it turns out that VR Systems opened up remote access to their systems as well. Further, as Politico reports, it appears the Russians infiltrated VR Systems itself.

Now before things digress, this is the disclaimer that I am not suggesting anything untoward happened in 2016.

But the argument we often here is the system cannot be hacked. Well it turns out our vendors are installing remote access and not telling anyone. I do somewhat get the reasoning, how can someone like VR Systems have enough people trained and staged in every county that buys their system to troubleshoot election day problems. It isn't going to happen.

But that is a secondary concern, paper ballots can replace machines that have to be brought down. But IF someone hacks the system there is no good recovery mechanism. Anything on the internet can be hacked. Frankly, probably has been hacked to some extent if contains interesting information to foreign powers or the NSA.

I get that many of us hate the idea of a top down system. But what we have isn't working. To major suppliers have now admitted to doing exactly what they said they would not do. This has invalidated the entire claim that "the system is safe because it is not reachable" invalid. We need to get these systems under control before there is a hacking. Let me ask this. Let's suppose in 2020 a candidate wins and then it is discovered massive hacking occurred. Look at the constitution and tell me what remedies are listed?

Tuesday's games are about to tip.

Indiana targets spread throughout the day with most playing later this afternoon.

We'll be tossing in updates and analysis throughout the day.

In advance of BiG Media Days next week from FS and Sat Trad. More kindly phrased questions than answers from either.

The Hoosiers start the 2022 season with three home games against teams that were a combined 8-12 (.400) on the road last season, which is the perfect setup (hopefully) for another matchup on the road against preseason ranked #4 Cincinnati on September 24th.

A hot start seems available for the taking before a grudge match at Cincinnati.

https://hoosierstateofmind.com/2022/07/18/how-indiana-football-makes-bowl-game-2022/

… they’ll need Mullen to again play at an All-Big Ten level. When he can control his half of the field, it puts tremendous pressure on opposing quarterbacks.

Mullen came back to Bloomington for this opportunity: Both a chance to get the Hoosiers rolling again, but also a chance to show the NFL that he’s healthy and ready to play at a high level.

https://saturdaytradition.com/india...itical-questions-indiana-must-answer-in-2022/