OPINION: The Indiana-Kentucky football rivalry needs to return
The Hoosiers and Wildcats have not played in football since 2005.
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Having Cinci in '21 & '22 is a bad break. But if there's any consolation, IU will be peaking as a program at the right time to take on those kinds of challenges.So is Cinnci and they are both potential program stunters in my opinion...
If you're playing a Big Ten East schedule (which we are), you are already playing one of the toughest schedules in the country, year in year out, and going out of your way to add to that type of degree of difficulty is less than helpful for long term program development...
If and when we are regularly winning 10 + games a season, then and only then do you make an effort to add more difficulty to the schedule..., in my opinion... Doing so sooner is just working against yourself...
noOPINION: The Indiana-Kentucky football rivalry needs to return
The Hoosiers and Wildcats have not played in football since 2005.www.idsnews.com
Go Hoosiers!
Having Cinci in '21 & '22 is a bad break. But if there's any consolation, IU will be peaking as a program at the right time to take on those kinds of challenges.
And as long as IU would show out well with another top-15ish ranked team, it's not necessarily a stunter if IU is able to consistently win in the B1G and pick of at least 1 of the big 3 in the East and/or their West games. That may be asking a lot, but a consistent 8 game winner is unheard of at IU and would be a dream come true.
Yep. Could still care less about Purdue. Other than the engineer or ag people, there are no Purdue fans down in this neck of the woods.This was THE game for us Southern Indiana people...It was never about the Purdue game for those of us from below Seymour, I promise you that.
Yep. Could still care less about Purdue. Other than the engineer or ag people, there are no Purdue fans down in this neck of the woods.
I'm not now, I know what it means now. Lolol...However, Kentucky game is much bigger than the Purdue game for the people way down state. Ask anybody from the southern end of Indiana, they'll tell you as much.You guys are really missing out when it comes to the Bucket game...
So is Cinnci and they are both potential program stunters in my opinion...
If you're playing a Big Ten East schedule (which we are), you are already playing one of the toughest schedules in the country, year in year out, and going out of your way to add to that type of degree of difficulty is less than helpful for long term program development...
If and when we are regularly winning 10 + games a season, then and only then do you make an effort to add more difficulty to the schedule..., in my opinion... Doing so sooner is just working against yourself...
Without looking, I think it was scheduled for right after 9-11 and got postponed until the end of the year.I believe the last time we played UK was an IU win while I was in school. Rumor was Bill Mallory took the trophy (bourbon barrel?) and nobody has seen it since.
Without looking, I think it was scheduled for right after 9-11 and got postponed until the end of the year.
Without looking, I think it was scheduled for right after 9-11 and got postponed until the end of the year.
Nah we played them during the Hep era I think. That was the last time we played them. Night game. I thought the barrel was on display in a trophy case. I swear I saw it around 2010 or so.
I don't think Fickell will be there after this year. Things could change in a hurry. UC has never been able to keep a successful football coach. I personally like picking up UC and UofL. Would love to get UK back on the schedule. Just not all at the same time. One tougher OOC game is fine. But the SEC needs to add another conference game as well.
Last UK game had Hep as HC under the lights in '05. Lynch was OC or QB coach at that point.
While nice to have a winning series record, IU lost 9 of the last 11. Some close ones and some blow outs.
I just hope you guys who are clamoring for bigger names on the preseason schedule remember this conversation when you're leading the charge to fire the Staff because they missed going to Bowl games (by one loss ]after losing key players in a meaningless preseason game]...) in back to back seasons...
That is complete BS. I have never led a charge to fire any coach on his board. I said one good OOC opponent is good. I think the Wake Forrest, Virginia etc we have had on the schedule have been perfect fits and they make bowl games from P5 conferences. We are looking forward. You are looking back.
Look at the future schedules for OSU, UM, & PSU. They're scheduling at least 1 straight up HEAVYWEIGHT each year.If you don't know your history you're doomed to repeat it.
Look at the future schedules for OSU, UM, & PSU. They're scheduling at least 1 straight up HEAVYWEIGHT each year.
We're not at their level. We don't need to try and set up a home & home with Clemson. But if we want IU to move beyond the scrappy "little football team that could" image of taking 3 cupcakes & trying to break .500 in B1G play, then eventually there needs to be a strategic scheduling plan to become a "bigger" presence in national college football.
It should happen too quickly. We shouldn't put the cart before the horse, so to speak. But a incrementally tougher non-con and more competitive conference performance is the next step for the program.
How many people remember (or paid any attention what so ever) to Minnesotas pre-Big Ten schedule last year (2019)??? I'll tell how many... Nobody... At the end of the season all anyone saw (or remembers) was that glossy 11-2 record... Playing South Dakota State, a down Fresno State and Georgia Southern didn't hurt them one iota...
It's a process, if we try to pretend we're Alabama without Alabamas depth on both sides of the ball, we will find that we can't replace those first and second team guys who got injured playing in an otherwise meaningless preseason game and aren't able to go when it matters during the Big Ten schedule..., and you know what(?), it won't be their fault, or the coaching staffs fault, when we drop games we shouldn't have because key guys are injured and unavailable..., it will be on whoever is responsible for dreaming up these fantasy schedules (along with the people who pushed them to do it), without any regard to the type of extra wear and tear these early top team tests puts on the players...
there’s a big difference between Alabama and UK or Cincy.