Billingsley99 Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 13 hours ago, IU Scott said: Would think SE Indiana would be prime Indiana territory. I lived in Rush county and it was mainly IU all the way. We had many radio stations that carried IU football and basketball in that area. 8 hours ago, coachv said: what's a radio station? Idk most 5 year olds prefer to watch TV call me forward thinking. I just happened to miss FDR and Fireside Chats they just weren't thing. I got hooked on the beautiful invention called the boob tube and just could not get my small minded thinking to just turn on a radio and look for a team I had never heard of. I was probably in the kindergarten class for the slower kids. Sorry to all you true IU fans that fell in love with IU football and never sinned against it by committing football adultry. I will ask for forgiveness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zlinedavid Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 42 minutes ago, Billingsley99 said: Idk most 5 year olds prefer to watch TV call me forward thinking. That's neutral thinking at best. The sobering reality: my 5 year old doesn't really know what a DVD player is. He'd pick watching something on a tablet/iPad 10 times out of 10, even if the same thing was available on broadcast TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billingsley99 Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 17 minutes ago, Zlinedavid said: That's neutral thinking at best. The sobering reality: my 5 year old doesn't really know what a DVD player is. He'd pick watching something on a tablet/iPad 10 times out of 10, even if the same thing was available on broadcast TV. Exactly. My point was when I was 5 and I could either turn on the TV and watch ND or I could find a radio station to listen to a team i did not know exist . Not hard to figure out why i was not an IU football growing up. Call it neutral thinking or reverse thinking in 1978 it was correct in my household. The comment was a tongue in check reference to me watching TV instead of listening to the radio. I guess I need to learn how to use the coffee emoji now that would be forward thinking (insert said coffee emoji)😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zlinedavid Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 Coming from the SW corner of the state, I'd say the most common Fandom I knew was ND football/IU basketball. Why? Again, easiest to pick up media-wise. It's not as if they actively rooted against IU football or ND basketball, but they had their preferences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zlinedavid Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 6 minutes ago, Billingsley99 said: Exactly. My point was when I was 5 and I could either turn on the TV and watch ND or I could find a radio station to listen to a team i did not know exist . Not hard to figure out why i was not an IU football growing up. Call it neutral thinking or reverse thinking in 1978 it was correct in my household. The comment was a tongue in check reference to me watching TV instead of listening to the radio. I guess I need to learn how to use the coffee emoji now that would be forward thinking (insert said coffee emoji)😉 Actually, it was to further back your point up regarding media availability. Medium of choice turns over quickly between generations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billingsley99 Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 22 minutes ago, Zlinedavid said: Actually, it was to further back your point up regarding media availability. Medium of choice turns over quickly between generations. Exactly. Sorry for misinterpreting it. Already been a long day . My bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 Where I grew up and continue to live, I was fortunate to pull in Fort Wayne and South Bend TV channels. Every ND football and basketball game was on if not nationally then locally out of South Bend on channel 16. Every IU and Purdue basketball game was shown out of Fort Wayne. I can't recall ever seeing an IU regular season football game on TV until the mid to late 80s. However I remember seeing them on TV playing BYU in the Holiday Bowl. Now Purdue on the other hand was on quite a few national broadcasts as they were pretty good. I think they won 9+ games for 3 or 4 years in a row and went to bowls. All that being said I am an IU man first and foremost. And yes I am a Notre Dame backer unless they are playing my Hoosiers. And Purdue does not bother me at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachv Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 5 hours ago, Zlinedavid said: That's neutral thinking at best. The sobering reality: my 5 year old doesn't really know what a DVD player is. He'd pick watching something on a tablet/iPad 10 times out of 10, even if the same thing was available on broadcast TV. mine too. precisely why they don't own one. they can have a smart phone when they can pay for it themselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachv Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 5 hours ago, Billingsley99 said: Exactly. My point was when I was 5 and I could either turn on the TV and watch ND or I could find a radio station to listen to a team i did not know exist . Not hard to figure out why i was not an IU football growing up. Call it neutral thinking or reverse thinking in 1978 it was correct in my household. The comment was a tongue in check reference to me watching TV instead of listening to the radio. I guess I need to learn how to use the coffee emoji now that would be forward thinking (insert said coffee emoji)😉 oops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 On Tennessee from yahoo!sports Throughout his career, Tennessee athletic director Phillip Fulmer has earned the reputation as a relentless backstabber. That began when he took the Tennessee head coaching job from Johnny Majors in the early 1990s, angling while Majors was recovering from heart surgery. Later, Fulmer consistently attempted to undercut a procession of Tennessee coaches — Lane Kiffin, Derek Dooley and Butch Jones — and also played grand maestro in the coup to unseat athletic director John Currie last year. For decades, Phillip Fulmer’s reputation has revolved around consistently and persistently operating to maximize the full glory, attention and financial benefit of Phillip Fulmer. Someone get embattled Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt a Kevlar vest and tell him to watch his back. It only makes sense that Fulmer is going to cover up his own administrative failings to pull off one final machete through the spine and take over an utter disaster of his own creation. If history is any guide, expect Fulmer to begin lining up to take over as the head coach in Tennessee in the next few weeks. Pruitt’s Vols dropped to 1-3 after getting hammered by Florida on Saturday, 34-3, and are almost assured to start 1-6 and won’t be favored until, likely, Nov. 2 against UAB. Tennessee has no identity, no clue and no cohesion under Pruitt, who has looked overmatched from his opening press conference. There’s little empirical evidence in year two that will change, as many fans have flipped to that bizarre vortex where they are rooting for losses to expedite Pruitt’s departure. Tennessee has had recruiting success, but all those star rankings don’t guarantee guys play hard. And Tennessee is a program with no oxygen, relevant only by its weekly self-created disasters and Pruitt’s unfortunate misuse of historical references. Tennessee’s last coaching change ended with the ouster of Currie and administrative upheaval that made many veteran SEC athletic officials debate as to whether Tennessee had ousted Auburn as the league’s most dysfunctional program. There are still divisive factions running amok at Tennessee. Booster Charlie Anderson badly wanted Pruitt as the coach and didn’t think that Dan Mullen had won enough for the job, as the records dump of Tennessee’s athletic department from that time reads like a diary of dysfunction. Booster John “Thunder” Thornton wanted Fulmer back desperately as athletic director, as he like many at Tennessee are so wed to the past that it’s ruining the athletic department’s future. New Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt, right, receives a personalized jersey from athletic director Phillip Fulmer during his introductory news conference Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Steve Megargee) More When big-money boosters are puppeteering athletic departments, it usually ends up working out much like, well, the Haslam family running an NFL team. Tennessee’s last coaching change may appear seamless compared to what the university faces in the wake of Fulmer hiring Pruitt. Mind you, Currie had gone out and courted Mike Leach, who was likely to leave Washington State for the job. (This was after a public coup essentially ended Greg Schiano’s candidacy.) Fulmer also interviewed Mel Tucker, who is off to a strong start at Colorado. Instead, they hired a coach that Mississippi State passed on, much because Fulmer’s world view remains trapped in 1990s football. Pruitt’s hire is an attempt to jam a VHS of his own glory days back on the school. This current overmatched Tennessee staff is a curdling cesspool of Fulmer’s own creation. The final salvo of administrative malfeasance was letting Pruitt hire Jim Chaney from Georgia as offensive coordinator. Tennessee is years behind catching up to rivals like Georgia and Alabama, and attempting to play the same style on offense and eventually surpassing them is about as savvy a strategy as hiring Antonio Brown’s life coach. Pruitt made the classic mistake of so many Saban disciples, attempting to copy and paste The Process and expecting similar results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parakeet Jones Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 That is quite a read Rico. I found it interesting because Tennessee is my second favorite team if you want to call them that. My wife is an LSU alum so “officially “ they are my second favorite, but you know.... When I was a kid there was an independent television station in Louisville that for some reason showed Tennessee games several Saturdays a season for a couple of years. IU just wasn’t on. I spent a number of Saturday’s watching Tennessee with the volume turned down and listening the IU game on the radio when the weather wasn’t nice enough to be outside listening to the IU game. I’m not sure where that puts me on the continuum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 9 hours ago, Parakeet Jones said: That is quite a read Rico. I found it interesting because Tennessee is my second favorite team if you want to call them that. My wife is an LSU alum so “officially “ they are my second favorite, but you know.... When I was a kid there was an independent television station in Louisville that for some reason showed Tennessee games several Saturdays a season for a couple of years. IU just wasn’t on. I spent a number of Saturday’s watching Tennessee with the volume turned down and listening the IU game on the radio when the weather wasn’t nice enough to be outside listening to the IU game. I’m not sure where that puts me on the continuum. As I have stated several times my Mom is a Tennessee native. Grew up just north of Knoxville. So the Vols hold a special place in my heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parakeet Jones Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 36 minutes ago, rico said: As I have stated several times my Mom is a Tennessee native. Grew up just north of Knoxville. So the Vols hold a special place in my heart. I got to go to a game there once. Great environment and great fan base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 13 minutes ago, Parakeet Jones said: I got to go to a game there once. Great environment and great fan base. Neyland rocks. It should be on every college football fan's bucket list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 This will be my 3rd straight year at a UT game. I'll be at UT vs South Carolina the end of Oct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 4 minutes ago, btownqb said: This will be my 3rd straight year at a UT game. I'll be at UT vs South Carolina the end of Oct. Out of curiosity, how much for the tickets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 21 minutes ago, rico said: Out of curiosity, how much for the tickets? Georgia will invade the stadium on 10/5 so those tickets are going higher but for other games I'm seeing anywhere between $17-$30. Unreal actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierinbham Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 Mike Leach would've been a homerun for UT. Could you imagine the coverage his press conferences would've received there! Paul Finebaum would have to dedicate 90% of his show just to cover Leach comments. Would've been great to see how his offenses would perform with the kind of recruits he could get in Knoxville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 4 hours ago, Seeking6 said: Georgia will invade the stadium on 10/5 so those tickets are going higher but for other games I'm seeing anywhere between $17-$30. Unreal actually. There's plenty of South Carolina tix for $80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 5 hours ago, rico said: Out of curiosity, how much for the tickets? After fees.. I paid $48 total for two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 21 minutes ago, btownqb said: After fees.. I paid $48 total for two. So what time am I picking you up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted September 28, 2019 Report Share Posted September 28, 2019 Another road win vs ranked team for Herm Edwards and Arizona St last night. Remember plenty of criticism nationally when he was hired. Good for him. Good coaches are good coaches. Regardless of age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted September 28, 2019 Report Share Posted September 28, 2019 All Cavaliers fans today right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgambill Posted September 28, 2019 Report Share Posted September 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Seeking6 said: All Cavaliers fans today right? Careful. I just said how overrated ND has been over the past several years and I got chewed out for like 2 pages....and I’m a ND fan since they never play IU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted September 28, 2019 Report Share Posted September 28, 2019 1 minute ago, dgambill said: Careful. I just said how overrated ND has been over the past several years and I got chewed out for like 2 pages....and I’m a ND fan since they never play IU. I've hated ND my entire life. Tag me in the next conversation. One of the most overrated institutions of all time. 1 BS title in 88 when the refs stole the game vs my Canes at the goal line. I'll gladly chime in on the anti ND stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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