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Charlesroast

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Thirty four years ago the Hoosiers faced a strong Big 10 opponent without a key player; actually one of the best to play his position in IU history. The back up played creditably but 2 misses left the Hoosiers on the short end of the score against the scarlet and gray. While I am not saying Mike Penix will ultimately have an career that approaches that of Pete Stoyanovich, he has been key to this year’s success leading up to Saturday’s game.

IIRC Pete’s Mom passed away the week of the OSU game and he missed the only game of his IU career, prior to a long and successful NFL career. His replacement, Jay Tuttle made both XP attempts but was only 2 of 4 on field goal attempts in the 24-22 setback. The lost would have been the first of what would have become the only streak of 3 straight Hoosier wins over Buckeyes that culminated in a 41-7 thrashing of, as Coach Mallory would say, “the worthless nuts”.

Jay’s son came up huge in his starting debut against the Badgers.
 
Thirty four years ago the Hoosiers faced a strong Big 10 opponent without a key player; actually one of the best to play his position in IU history. The back up played creditably but 2 misses left the Hoosiers on the short end of the score against the scarlet and gray. While I am not saying Mike Penix will ultimately have an career that approaches that of Pete Stoyanovich, he has been key to this year’s success leading up to Saturday’s game.

IIRC Pete’s Mom passed away the week of the OSU game and he missed the only game of his IU career, prior to a long and successful NFL career. His replacement, Jay Tuttle made both XP attempts but was only 2 of 4 on field goal attempts in the 24-22 setback. The lost would have been the first of what would have become the only streak of 3 straight Hoosier wins over Buckeyes that culminated in a 41-7 thrashing of, as Coach Mallory would say, “the worthless nuts”.

Jay’s son came up huge in his starting debut against the Badgers.

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