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.
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.
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.
