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I take this to mean that every other college was wearing the simple, black helmets and IU opted to actually use school colors in the 1940s?
It’s interesting to note that while teams only played a 9 or 10 game schedule, we played 6 in conference and wound up with 2-4 conference wins for most years in that decade but had overall season records of 6-7 wins for several seasons. And, we weren’t playing puds. We had Notre Dame, Nebraska, Pitt OOC. Against teams like OSU or Michigan, we got throttled and were competitive, if not winning, the others.
We were competitive in the '20s, '30s & '40s. The '50s were our downfall.
So ....basically the post WW 2 era when young men weren’t being sent off to fight and recruiting was back in play and IU refocus on basketball?
Was that it? Bad coaching hires?
Anybody have theories on a cause?
I always contend that the 1987 -1994 period was one that our administration failed to capitalize on our success and did zippo for the program. Mellencamp stepped up but the administration? Nothing.