2015-20 was a nice run. Four bowls in six years. Unprecedented stuff for IU. Finishing a season in the top 20? Ridiculous heights for the program.
Now we have a 2-10 season in the rearview mirror and look to be on our way to a 3-9 record. I'd love to be hopeful, but if you can't put up more than 14 offensive points on the worst defense in the conference, things are not going to get easier.
Has there ever been a coach at a Power 5 level program who was able to yank a program back from consecutive disastrous seasons to being competitive? I'm not talking having a 5 win season or two sandwiched between consecutive bowl years. I mean going from a ranked team to a 2-3 win team in multiple years, and returning to competitiveness.
Because right now I'm thinking we're on a slippery slope that won't stop until we have a new regime in charge. There's something fundamentally broken about this program and I don't think we have the people in place to fix it.
Unfortunately we have a coach with a contract that makes firing/buyout cost prohibitive:
Now we have a 2-10 season in the rearview mirror and look to be on our way to a 3-9 record. I'd love to be hopeful, but if you can't put up more than 14 offensive points on the worst defense in the conference, things are not going to get easier.
Has there ever been a coach at a Power 5 level program who was able to yank a program back from consecutive disastrous seasons to being competitive? I'm not talking having a 5 win season or two sandwiched between consecutive bowl years. I mean going from a ranked team to a 2-3 win team in multiple years, and returning to competitiveness.
Because right now I'm thinking we're on a slippery slope that won't stop until we have a new regime in charge. There's something fundamentally broken about this program and I don't think we have the people in place to fix it.
Unfortunately we have a coach with a contract that makes firing/buyout cost prohibitive:
- Firing after 2022 season - $25.5 m
- 2023 - 20.8 m
- 2024 - 7.95 m
- 2025 - 5.4 m
- 2026 - 2.75 m
- 2027 - end of contract
