1. He's still underpaid for how far this program has come.
2. The best recruiting class in IU history was, what, 8th or 9th in the B10? What does that say about where our program has been? Perspective..... IU, talent wise, has no business even being competitive with programs like Tennessee (they are basically Michigan after a few down years...still a lot of NFL level talent as opposed to a handful on out team).
3. That all said, it still pretty much came down to a perfectly executed surprise inside kick (How many times have YOU seen a team try an onside down one score with 4:20 to go and all 3 time outs? It just doesn't happen....especially when a team has a solid D).
4. This still was, easily, a top 10 season in IU football history. Again, have some perspective....
5. I'm sure our program would be much better off firing everybody and starting again from scratch. Coaches would come running to a program who fired the coach who had their best season in 30 years and pays the 10th best salary out of 14 B10 teams (and is just a few years removed from being the losingest program in Power conference history...or did you forget that?).
6. Just making a bowl (let alone their highest quality bowl since 1967), is a huge step in the right direction. If you don't understand why, you ignored the rest of my post and haven't followed IU football for very long. If you expect Urban Meyer or someone similar to come here, I wish I could laugh in your face about it so you could understand how much of a joke that idea is. Or do you want Brohm (who got 4.8 million a year for 7 for beating IU last year)?