I understand and agree. My only point, and it is impossible to have a civil conversation on a board, is that we have to start adding one or two so we can move up.
What IU and most miss about college football these days is what players want. I get it, and it is the right attitude for a school like IU, they want to sell the excellent education and great town atmosphere. Let’s face it, and this is going to get worse, the college game is a business and with the new pay effort it will get worse. The school wants to win, but most of your top tier players are looking to see players you put in the pros. If you don’t have many then you can offset that by getting coaches that have put players in the pros elsewhere. That was my initial dislike at Allen taking over, he did not seem to have the pro connections. You want to build a program quickly, go get coaches who have a past history of putting players in the pro game and the rest takes care of itself. We are not going to leave the big10, so changing the schedule to get weaker teams is not really an option. And I hope everyone would agree that our schedule broke perfectly for us this year in that it did not seem the teams were as stout this year. And now every coach we compete against for a player is going to hammer home that we did not beat a team with a winning record. It is imperative that now that we are losing an OC, we need to replace him with someone with pro ball ties. And we have to add one tough team to our non conference.
If you bring in an OC that has pro ball ties, and Allen is a defensive minded guy, you have a chance to get all the pieces together. We spend way to much time worrying about the head coaches in college, the coordinators are where you make moves rapidly. I would cut the head coach salary and make our OC and DC coaches some of the highest paid in the country. We have to think outside the conventional college box.
But, having a discussion and exchanging ideas quickly descends to childish behavior on a board where people hide anonymously. So I guess on this board I should have been anonymous and resorted to childish behavior.
It is a little insulting that some clowns challenge loyalty IU when our family has been involved and around since the dark ages and we have an IU flag that flies in front of our house everyday of the year......but hey, it is a social board where people hide and I guess I am just too hard headed to be anonymous or quiet. But I do appreciate your comment, and the thoughts, and hopefully IU is on the right path.
