Pretty easy..All the eggs were in Penix's basket.
If you have no Q.B....You have nothing at all ..
Nothing..
It's the most important position in all of sports.
A good Q.B. can make the shitiest team look good....
All time worst coaching performances?
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If you have no Q.B....You have nothing at all ..
Nothing..
It's the most important position in all of sports.
A good Q.B. can make the shitiest team look good....
How Wilson's first season isn't seen as one of the worst is beyond me as IU lost to teams they never should have lost. This season ranks with some of the worse seasons but not at the very bottom.
In terms of expectations this is easily one of, if not the worst season in IU history and that says something. Wilson went 1-11 in year one with a bunch of freshman and sophomores and upperclassmen who had no business playing in the B10. IU currently has 2 wins, one against a bad FCS team and a 2 point win against Western Kentucky. Lose on Saturday, and IU is going to finish 2-10 and 0-9 in the B10. That's a fireable offense in my opinion.
People ignore that coach Wilson drove players away that year to be in the position he was in. I don't excuse this year with the expectations that we had, but the season has really shown the weakness on offense that is a result of coaching or I should say poor coaching. It shows that as the offensive HC coach Sheridan isn't up to the task and we need a new OC that can attack B1G defenses. IU's ranking on offense has gone down the two years he has been OC and now we are ranked below #100. If coach Allen doesn't make the needed coaching changes then it will all be on him.
That article omits a “last straw” issue that was mentioned in the past.The boycott was what I was referring to.
I don't know whether they were correct in their complaints.
Boycott athletes' reconciliation with IU 'almost a miracle'
Mike Adams grew up in Muncie and graduated from Indiana University, but for most of his adult life, he didn’t feel welcome in the Hoosier state. That’s because he was one of 10 black IU football players who boycotted the final three games of the 1969 season over unequal treatment.www.heraldtimesonline.com
I was only 13 at the time. Of the guys mentioned, Bennie Norman and Larry Highbaugh stood out to me as great prospects. There was another fellow, Stevie Porter, that I remember as being very talented. He isn't mentioned in the story. He might have already graduated.
I recall that there was going to be a day long general “strike” by IU students to support civil rights. No class attendance, no practice for arts or sports. (“Gonna have a sit-in and then some sex, drugs and music!“) As well-known students, the black players were being pressured to skip practice and support the strike. They talked to Pont, and Pont told them if they skipped practice they’d be suspended. “Rules is rules.” Most skipped practice anyway and Pont suspended them. They wanted to talk about it again. He wasnt gonna talk. It snowballed, on top of the other complaints, and he tossed them off the team. “Insubordination“ type of claim.
There had been boycotts elsewhere already. Iowa had had an ugly one. IU wasn’t unique as to reasons or outcome.
I know of no football coach back then who allowed players to miss practice for protests, or didn’t make insensitive comments. (One mans smart-ass tease is another mans soul-searing insult.) Times were different. Crazy. Brown v. Board of Education was only 15 years old. Southern schools were still fighting integration. 1970 was the year of the Kent State shootings and also the year Kentucky had its first black basketball player and Bear Bryant‘s STILL ALL WHITE (!) Alabama team lost to an integrated Southern Cal at Legion Field in Alabama - the game that broke the back of segregation in SEC sports. Turbulent times. Very little “hugging it out.”
For the times, and by comparison, Pont was a raging liberal from snooty east coast Yale.
I thought this was the best returning STARTING team in my life. But it turns out we were mentally weak. Not ready to play at Iowa. Impacted by crowd noise. Incapable of overcoming big mistakes. And - to be fair - we lost key players, which we were also incapable of getting past.
Too much hype - not enough nuts and bolts.
Elvis was right - a little less talk and a lot more action!
and for one brief, shining moment John Pont was “10 feet tall”
CTA spent 10 years as a college coach prior to being named head coach of Indiana University. Five of those seasons he was either DC and/or Assistant Head Coach. Sounds like he had progressed quite well after being a "...high school coach."
But hey, don't let these facts interfere with your Purdue company line. You do you.
I don’t think he was showing off, or trying to be a hard ass or “put those black guys in their place” - he was just doing what any other coach would not have done.
Times make the man.
I agree by & large. This years team was expected to be, & should have been even better than those expectations were in '08, plus this team was coming off of 2 good seasons, so it was a solidified
"program" we had/have coming into this year, so for me this year is a bigger disappointment, but I agree that this team has had a FAR tougher schedule than the '08 team did, & I think we're far more likely to bounce back next season because the roster is in much better shape than it was in '08. Remember the '09 team though? EASILY Billy Lynch's best team--we were SO close to having a good year, but lack of depth sunk us time & time again. Shame, that team played same truly brilliant 1st halves.
agree except for one thing--without Tuttle--and where is he--we don't win another game--Rutgers will beat us--sorry guys !!
The 2009 team was screwed over by the Big Ten officials. There were three games that year in conference play that the officials had a blatant hand in deciding the outcome. Michigan, Iowa, and the other game escapes me...
You often hear people say that you just have to play through bad calls, but when your margin for winning is thin, it just doesn't work that way.
Wilson isn't the head coach at osu so doubt he has much say in kids playing hurt
H-m-m-m, maybe but I bet he has a big influence on the head Honcho, a coach under a lot of pressure. It's a mighty fine line, I imagine it to be. If a kid says he wants to play, you think the coaches will argue?
