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.
I tell you who looks a lot like us is SMU.
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.
I am not convinced either. TJ throws a hell of a pass though
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.
They need to get rid of conference champs getting top seeds. That's ridiculous.
I think this has been somewhat under the radar, but Stephens - - as Evans' replacement - - has been outstanding. He played well against Michigan and was our only offensive lineman who didn't allow a pressure in the Ohio State game.
Cignetti: Indiana plagued by 'assignment errors' in loss to Ohio State
Curt Cignetti knows Indiana's pass protection has to improve after Saturday's loss to Ohio State.
Speed kills in college football.
From the time he has played this year I can see a huge amount of improvement in TJ's feet, quick read/releases and touch through the ball.
Jackson's best career game seems to have easily been his efforts in the loss to Louisville last year. I don't think his other efforts are even close to that performance.
If Cignetti can get that effort from Jackson, we'll be looking pretty...BTW, Sorsby has had one hell of a year for Cincy. That kid's a winner, wouldn't mind seeing him back in a Hoosier jersey.
If Cignetti can get that effort from Jackson, we'll be looking pretty...BTW, Sorsby has had one hell of a year for Cincy. That kid's a winner, wouldn't mind seeing him back in a Hoosier jersey.
Sorsby's ship has sailed. Cig is not going to bring back any IU player that left to play somewhere else IMO. I do think that he will get another 1 year QB portal player to start next year of make the position more competitive to see who starts next year. There is just something that bugs me, like he isn't 100% sold on TJ to be the starter.
While that may have happened the biggest problem was crowd noise and not being able to change protections. They were bringing one or two guys more than we had to block and frequently the RB was on the wrong side of the line. If someone comes unblocked they don’t have to have blazing speed. This game at MS is totally different IMO.
They view Us like the long gone uncouth gap tooth Uncle Who shows up at the Family Reunion after 20 years and drops a turd in the punch bowl. Who the Hell invited Us to the party, and Why did We bother to show up? In other Years We would be an annoying gnat buzzing around the outskirts of the festivities. Pesky, but controllable. But this Year We had the audacity to post a 10-1 (hopefully 11-1) and parachute uncontrollably into the middle of the festivities destroying the Buffet table and upsetting the apple cart. How dare We put some of those blue blood SEC elites in peril of missing the playoff. Don't We know our place in the hierarchy and our function as a speed bump on everyone else's road to the Playoff? They can't just look at the School name and School colors and give Us a good dog/attaboy nice try pat on top of our head and sending us packing back to Bloomington. Now They have to deal with us directly and give Us a seat at the table at the expense of one of their cronies or allies. And They have to do so knowing We are dangerous, unpredictable, well prepared and capable of beating anyone on any day. None of Them want to get caught holding the dynamite when it goes KABOOM.
You know, I noticed that the noise was basically making it impossible to draw them offsides because the right guard was very clearly signaling to the center when it was time to snap the ball.
I found it weird. Can we not devise any way to snap the ball that doesn't make it obvious that it's coming?
That technique is used nationwide in college and the NFL ... but I agree and I have no doubt OSU was timing their rush with a silent count after seeing that signal. For those players that could not see the RG do the hand signal they could see the QB do it before the RB relayed it to the C.
Perhaps change up the signal but make sure everyone understands the count; that might result in some offside flags and get the opponent to hesitate at least a little. They were teeing off the instant the ball was snapped.
