There's kind of a surreal aspect to all of this. We've gone from worst to ?????
In other contexts that might be considered slumming, or trolling.
Yeah, I’m trying to think of anything like this in my entire sports life, both football and basketball, professional and college and baseball and high school! So easy to remember all the times we were expected to be good and were not. But it’s so fun to have had absolutely zero expectations and be doing this. Looking forward to the Nebraska game. It’s going to be huge and Bloomington should be on fire. Hope the weather cooperates. One rain game was enough.
This is beginning to remind me of the ‘67 season. Every week we kept thinking it was bound to end there but they just kept winning. Of course the games were a lot closer that year, so there is that difference.
I suspect we will with people turned away. Neb will bring by far the most visiting fans this season 4-5K I would guess.
'67 was before my fandom but '88 was close with 8 wins and a tie. They had three L including a one pt loss at ILL and a bad loss at home to Sparty IIRC. '87 was as good incl the win in the rain to Mich and a sobbing whining Bo
A lot of tickets sold yesterday. Eyeballing it there are maybe 2.5K seats left with two weeks to go, so it will sell out a several days before the game.
With their team colors those drone shots will look all IU in a sea of red.
The good thing is they'll wear red too... so it'll look like they're all IU fans. Good day to take some marketing photos, assuming the weather cooperates.
20%? Seems high, especially since they already played nearby (@Purdue). I'd be shocked if they have anywhere close to that many.
Good, I probably estimated too high on this one. Their showing at PU was pretty strong but not that strong.
I'm sure there's plenty of Nebraska fan demand to fill 11-12K worth of seats. Hoping there aren't enough IU fans looking to make a buck for them to get that many though.
Replaces the typical Ohio State-filled stadium photo
We are a 100% a legit team that has a legitimate chance to get to 10 wins. The rest of the games save Purdue could go either way. I had us for 7 maybe 8 wins depending upon how MSU and Nebraska evolved. Nebraska is a damn good team with a GREAT defense that is tricky to play --mostly because of their 3-3-5 look and how difficult it is to pick up and read players--it just isn't a defense people see frequently.
