We are upsetting the balance of power in college football. Make no mistake, all the SEC upper crust believed they were guaranteed spots in the playoff with the expansion to 12 teams. We show up and now someone is left on the outside looking in. So the SEC butt sniffers, in the words of Jeff Lebowski, are saying “this aggression will not stand man”. It’s a tough reality a school like Alabama has to face, that they may not be in the playoff and Indiana could be.
Surprised by the national media hate rhetoric regarding Indiana's CFP status.
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It is true IU's schedule gets much tougher next year and our guys do not have the size and speed of OSU. However, with the team this year Cig was able to defeat Wash, Mich, and Neb; this tells me IU is already a step ahead of those teams and I believe Cig will elevate the talent and therefore stay ahead of many of them. Perhaps not Michigan . . . time will tell but his saying "IU is the emerging powerhouse" was not just blowing smoke . . . Cig believes it and I think he is the coach that can make it happen. Still, I'd take a 9-3 record for next year right now and be very happy with it.
The O didn't fall off the cliff when Rourke hurt his thumb. The turning point was losing our starting LG just before playing the two best defenses on our schedule. Especially the timing of the loss; Thursday is really the last practice of the week. That means he went against UM with just the Friday walk-through as the starter.
I don’t remember anyone mentioning how bad Rourke’s injury was to a quarterback’s throwing hand.
Go hit the end of your thumb with a hammer and try throwing a football.
Rourke making it back as fast as he did was a true testament to his toughness. To say it did not affect him would be a mistake.
Despite the injury to our LG and QB, the offense had an impressive first drive and our defense played an honorable first half. The muffed punt snap and punt return seemed to “destroy our will”.
2 lethal mistakes against a powerhouse like OSU, are “lethal”.
Now that IU has a decent SOS and really good SOR, and the SEC has self destructed, it will be difficult for the SEC and their financially conjoined ESPN, to maintain their false narrative regarding a weak B10/Indiana schedule.
Go hit the end of your thumb with a hammer and try throwing a football.
Rourke making it back as fast as he did was a true testament to his toughness. To say it did not affect him would be a mistake.
Despite the injury to our LG and QB, the offense had an impressive first drive and our defense played an honorable first half. The muffed punt snap and punt return seemed to “destroy our will”.
2 lethal mistakes against a powerhouse like OSU, are “lethal”.
Now that IU has a decent SOS and really good SOR, and the SEC has self destructed, it will be difficult for the SEC and their financially conjoined ESPN, to maintain their false narrative regarding a weak B10/Indiana schedule.
They had the ball three times in the second half, one was a touchdown, one a field goal and one we forced a punt.
We didn't have the speed. It's not hard to understand. Those yards take into account Evans muffing that punt and then all those sack yardage. Our line was horrid on pass pro, more then held their own in the rushing game.
We didn't get pushed around, we got ran around.
Rourke is mature and tough mentally and physically and that is what C3 likes...as do I. He isn't doing tik tok videos.
I think a full year under Cig, Shanahan and Tino will have been a pretty good year for TJ's development.
It wouldn't surprise me if he was our starting qb next year.
The media sobbed about Ahia losing their center who they just replaced with another four or five star while IU lost a started and replaced him with a band aid.
