Sad but true...and I have less hope than you in a win against a team "on a mission", and one that needs to beat us for bowl eligibility.
Think about that for a second. Maryland will most likely go bowling in a year their HC is suspended for a death on the oline, controversy ensues, the team boils in it all year, fights between players, every reason to tank the season you could ask for, not even counting their injuries. And yet there they are, ready to crush us to realize THEIR DREAMs while once again we send our dreams (small caps on purpose) to the funeral pyres. There is no logical reason they are where they are except by force of will and some good luck.
And where are we? What great roadblock stood in our way to a winning season? What emotional upheaval did we have to overcome? Still looking? There just aren't any.
In the big scheme of things, Maryland is a worse indictment of IU FB than PU this year. We have brought ineptness to new levels, and this is under many coaches, not just Allen, who right now simple doesn't look the part of a savior. That might change, but it requires...yes...a change...somewhere.
Win or lose, I am not looking forward to this game. Maryland has done what's necessary to deserve to win this game, if deserves mean anything. Does IU "deserve" to win? Have we done the requisite things to be ready.
Well, I guess we're about to find out, aren't we? If we win, that's nice, but Maryland losing just means give them another week. Would a win for us have meaning, or just a statistical fluke?
I'm burning out on all of this...