2017 and 2018. UofL and IU home and home

[PushupMan]

It has now been over 28 years since IU and UofL last played a football game - a ridiculously long time for major conference football programs who are 90 miles apart.

I was 22 and a senior at UofL the last time we played. I am 50 years old now, and I have been living in Bloomington and Bedford since 1988.

Enough is enough! Schedule the series before I'm too old to actually attend in person. Our two great fan bases deserve an easy road trip against a quality opponent.

 

[peytonrules]

Yeah that's what we need another tough pre conference opponent
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[BigRedFootballEd]

Unlikely to happen but the two schools should play one another not only in

football but basketball as well. I was there for that home opener against U of L in 1985 when we broke the longest losing streak in the nation at 16 games. We stormed the field after the win as I watched the goal posts go over the west side of the stadium barely missing a pink cadillac. The goal post was then carried across the street to the Varsity Villa Apts for further inspection......Really enjoyed that series along with the old Bourbon Barrel series with UK that we once had. With additional speed on defense needed by IU, that could really be a fun and competitive series with the Cards.

 

[PushupMan]

Originally posted by peytonrules:
Yeah that's what we need another tough pre conference opponent

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In 2017 you have home games scheduled against Bowling Green and UMass. In 2018 you have no non-conference games scheduled.

IU can afford one P5 team on the non-conference schedule each of those years. You beat Missouri this year, so the Hoosiers are more than capable of at least splitting a series with Louisville.

 

[IUninethree]

2019-2022 spoken for

We have UConn 2019-2020 and Cincinnati 2021-2022. I know technically both are not currently in P5 conferences, though I bet that changes by the time we play them.

We have Wake 2015-2016. So there does seem to be a 2017-2018 gap unless I'm missing somebody.

 

[RBB89]

Our AD has said that he would love to play UofL in football...

not really sure what you want us to do though.

 

[td75]

IU needs to play UL like they need a hole in the head

IU needs to figure out a way to build a winning program and that shouldn't go through UL.

 

[indy1203]

Would seem like the obvious thing not to do. Do we have

a totally obliviously AD?

 

[PushupMan]

Re: Unlikely to happen but the two schools should play one another not only in

Originally posted by BigRedFootballEd:
football but basketball as well. I was there for that home opener against U of L in 1985 when we broke the longest losing streak in the nation at 16 games. We stormed the field after the win as I watched the goal posts go over the west side of the stadium barely missing a pink cadillac. The goal post was then carried across the street to the Varsity Villa Apts for further inspection......Really enjoyed that series along with the old Bourbon Barrel series with UK that we once had. With additional speed on defense needed by IU, that could really be a fun and competitive series with the Cards.

That's a great story, Ed! I really wanted to go to those two games in 1985 and 1986, but being a poor college student I couldn't find anybody willing to go with me and split the costs. I'm still kind of mad about that.

 

[PushupMan]

Re: IU needs to play UL like they need a hole in the head

Originally posted by td75:
IU needs to figure out a way to build a winning program and that shouldn't go through UL.

I'm not really sure how anybody would characterize two games in 30 years as "going through UofL".

IU has played approximately 310 football games since 1986. Even if IU were to lose both games of a home-and-home series, that's an effect of less than 1% of your winning percentage. It's negligible.

Regarding IU's athletic director saying he'd love to play UofL - if that were true, it would definitely be scheduled. Louisville has been begging for a home and home with IU ever since we expanded PJCS to 55,000 seats in 2010. Believe it or not, the original contract for the two IU-UofL games stated that IU would schedule a return game in Louisville when UofL built a stadium with a capacity of at least 50,000.

I actually understood IU's reluctance (even if I didn't like it), of having nothing to gain and everything to lose in such a matchup. But now that both schools are in Power5 leagues, that concern should no longer be an issue.
This post was edited on 12/11 9:52 AM by PushupMan

 

[GoBigRed83]

I would like to see it happen.
Games should have good attendance as both fan bases are in close proximity to one another.
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[4th&short]

If we don't have a football team that can compete with UofL in a couple years we have the wrong coaching staff in place. The way some react one would thing we was scheduling the Tide for a home and home.