I was going to post something very similar about attendance numbers. But I was going to frame it along the lines of “IU fans get the team they deserve.” This post is not directed at you, BTW, just a similar setup with the dead ass crowd.
I’ll start off with agreeing whole heartedly with your last line about the wiscy game.
God bless you for your dedication. I'm truly grateful for fans like yourself.
I’m not necessarily asking everyone to make the investment to go to the games. Lord knows it gets expensive, and that much more so if it’s not a day trip.
Bro. The traffic pattern getting into the grass lots is an unmitigated DISASTER.
I haven't been back since 2019 when O$U shellacked IU. Refuse to spend my money on IU sports anymore. Not a phuqqn dime since that day.
Hoosier Wipeout was more fun when the Announcer used to say "hang ten with the cheerleaders!"
There were likely 60k on site. Beautiful day to hang out with old friends.
Need more people in the stands to mercilessly boo Tom Allen in to oblivion. IU should have given refunds for the coaching malpractice at the end of the first half which effectively lost IU the game.
I'm no fan of Tom Allen and I definitely think he has to go at the end of the season. That said, the game was lost Saturday by two horrible special teams blunders and the inability of our defense to stop simple running plays that everybody within a mile of Memorial Stadium knew were coming. All of it of course is indirectly the responsibility of the head coach but the real problem Saturday in my opionion was an inferior DL. We got pushed off the LOS every single play even though we knew Rutgers couldn't throw the ball to save its soul. We have to find a coach and staff who can recruit better linemen and develop those linemen on both sides of the ball. Until that happens, nothing else matters.
Too many people just don’t care, and the University makes that all too easy with just about everything they do surrounding the program. We really do have the program we both demand and deserve. Hope we someday decide to stop tolerating failure and change our attitude . . . It would be a welcome change.
Rutgers knew what they could do offensively and realized they could be patient, as our ineffectiveness (on offense) and incompetency (special teams) made for a defense that wore out in the second half. We could’ve led at the half and we’re only down three, but you could see us roll over early in the third quarter and that was it. Leadership matters.
I'm not disputing that. Given their absolutely inept passing game, do you honestly think that Rutgers can run like that on any halfway decent defense in this conference ? They were five yards at a clip from their opening drive. Our DL is less than somewhat adequate. We need better horses. You have to be able to beat the OL one-on-one, whether it's vs. the run or applying pressure on passing plays. We aren't effective at either.
No disagreement . . . We’re bad in all three phases, and Rutgers exposed each of them.
Running a 4-2-5 when their QB isn’t a threat to throw the ball more than 5 yards down field is a coaching decision.
From what I observed, our monster( bull, husky, whatever you choose to call him) was in the box all day and our safeties were up. Still, they had tackles and guards pushing downhill three yards every play and usually at the second level. If you can't win those battles individually when you know what's coming, no alignment is going to make a difference. No strategy makes inferior players successful.
I got there at 8:30 and breezed in. Anyone who tries to get to the stadium an hour before kick-off is going to sit in traffic - I learned that a long time ago.
The problem with the grass lots started before the lots opened. We were at 10th and Indiana at 6:45 and did not get to the lot until 9:00. I’m sure getting into the surface lots surrounding the stadium is easy as that actually reflects people going into the game. The grass lots are packed with people just there to tailgate.
Well, for the rest of the year, Rutgers will be joining Indiana in using the 4–2–5 as their basic defense. That is, thanks to your number 76 with his bear hug and bodyslam putting RU’s middle linebacker/best defensive player out for the season. We will see how that defense works out for both Indiana and RU going forward.
Are you just making a joke? #76 is face-to-face with #22 with his left hand all the way around his back on top of the 2 and his right hand around the other side of his back almost touching the other 2. Where I come from that is called a “bear hug.“ If he’d let him go at that point, it would only be a penalty he got away with. But he flung him down and landed on him with his full weight, causing a serious fracture of his hand and putting him out for the season. That elevates it to a dirty play.
After seeing the replay, I’ll concede the hold. But that’s not a dirty play. It’s no more violent than a typical pancake block, just a fluke injury.
It wasn’t dirty in the least. It should’ve been flagged as an obvious holding penalty, but there was nothing malicious about it.
Wow, that was the homecoming crowd?
