I have many IU friends. I hope we meet again in a meaningful football game.
You will never truly be informed by being exposed only to what is being said or written about your team, or anyone else, by those who support the same e team. I loved my fraternity brothers. But always enjoyed spending time with friends from other houses as well as independents. Working for the Big Ten was one of the great experiences of a very diverse and expansive professional career. Imagine being able to spend non working time with the likes of Bump Elliott, Elroy Hirsch, Bill Orwig, George King, Tippy Dye, Don Canham, Biggie Munn, Paul Giel, Fred Taylor, Johnny Orr, The General, Ara Parseghian, Fred Schaus, John Pont and many, many more. When the whistle blows there is great competition and everyone wants to win. When the gun sounds foes remain friends and share dedication to the student-athletes and the sport. Never forget the Big Ten is the only athletic conference in the country that no school has ever voluntarily left to go to another conference. One hundred and twenty-four years of association with institutions that share common athletic and Academic philosophies and goals. The folks in Louisville never quite understood why Brohm would not return to his alma mater. In the last seventy-five years you can count on the fingers of both hands the football coaches who have left the Big Ten to go elsewhere. And even most of those who did found prosperity absent in their next endeavor. And yes, the most notable exception is Saban.