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He only needed 3 yards if he breaks toward the sideline he should have been able to pick it up. He doesn't have to run right at the LB.

Penix not running with the ball really makes it easy for teams to tee off on him. If he would have used his legs on that last down we would probably still be on the field.

It is just going to blow up college athletics. I think at a certain point you will have many, many schools says screw this and just bow out. They talk about all the money these programs make but the majority of them don't make profit. You still going to charge students an athletic fee to pay employees? Employees who get free classes, free food, free housing, access to free tutors, access to strength and conditioning coaches, who demand constant facility upgrades... Yeah, the athletics used to help advertise the schools but in an environment where kids are walking away with mortgage sized debt, at a certain point the schools are really going to have to explain to the peons who can't throw a ball why they are subsidizing a semi-pro professional team on every campus. The Pacers and Colts are just down the road from IU and Purdue.....

https://www.insidethehall.com/2021/09/30/is-somebody-going-to-guard-me-in-his-own-unique-way-miller-kopp-is-bringing-a-swagger-to-indiana/?fbclid=IwAR0bpkydh73ML7dqPoizpzYpO4PgqBHUJGg7tE4MfOUMyWqWBnuZIvvQo20 I know I have seen this somewhere in the past but IIRC, some people were wishing we had a Will Sheehey type of personality on the team. Thinking Kopp is going to fill that type of role this year.

3 of our first 5 games will have been against 3 current Top 10 teams. WKU was also an away game against one of the better FBS type of teams. I doubt anyone else has played as tough a schedule as Indiana has up to this point.

And that really is the long and short of it. Within our own conference I believe we are still Indiana and BT officials, no matter if we are playing an in conference game or not, tend to dick us over because we are supposed to be bad. Last year was the first time where I felt we got a fairer share of the close calls and look what we were able to do. That being said, if the roles of IU and Ohio State were reversed last year but we had not played enough games because of COVID, do you think there is any way we play in the Big Ten Championship game ahead of Ohio State? I don't. And frankly, I was happy to see Ohio State get beat early this year, I am looking to see them get knocked down a few pegs now that other schools in this conference are going to be able to throw money at players. As we saw against Cincinnati, a crucial call in a crucial point of the game can mean the difference between a win and a loss. We are a program that rarely gets them and a team like Ohio State is one that rarely doesn't.

I don't know why you would ever schedule a road game outside of conference against anything but another P5 team. Do we have a 2 for 1 with WKU? I am not giving up a home game to play any non P5 team, that's just me.

And I guarantee that the narrative coming out of this game if we lose now is going to be "typical..." because if we lose, it is the typical Indiana way of blowing it that I have seen for the majority of my life.

The problem is that we have played that "well if not for..." game for years. Yeah, it was a bad call IMO but we were still up 2 touchdowns and we let them get back in it. So what if they are #8, we were supposed to be pretty good ourselves this year. We have the crowd, we have the attention, this is a game that you HAVE to win. Going out and losing this now would be a totally Indiana football thing to do. We have to prove to people that the "Indiana Football" of old is just that, a thing of the past. Golden opportunity slipping away at the moment.

WTF was that stupid ish. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Man, the refs really turned this game. That should have been our ball, up 14 with about 5 minutes or so to put another score in. We would have had ball back to start second half as well. Now UC is back in it and momentum took a big swing. Also two big missed opportunities in the red zone.

His new nickname should be Casper the way he disappeared.

7th feels low to me. We finish 7th or lower, that is a disappointment IMO.

What do you think the potential alliance will do to their schedule in the future? I know people were focusing on things from a football perspective when it came to that topic, but if the BIG, ACC, and Pac 12 are all looking to schedule with each other more, that could impact who they are able to play quite a bit.

I was reading that all 3 of the ACC, Pac 12, and Big 10 are saying currently that they are not going to expand. I think Indiana is really lucky to have already been a member of a strong conference because schools like Kansas look like they might be getting left on the outside looking in.

Dave Wannstedt is saying he heard Kansas St. and Oklahoma St. to Pac 12 and he had the other 3 going where I did.

https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2021/08/24/big-ten-pac-12-acc-announce-conference-alliance The alliance is official. The SEC may have made a strategic blunder in blowing up the Big 12. I still think we will see the remaining Big 12 schools get divided up so Iowa St. and Kansas looking like the most likely to the BIG? West Virginia to the ACC? Pac 12 adds a few schools to get to 16?

Just watched the video. I haven't been paying as much attention on the recruiting front lately but if that video is reflective of the type of character we are getting, then great pickup. Ranking says we got a baller but those character guys matter in the lockerroom. Welcome aboard Jalen.

Speaking for myself, I am trying not to get too involved on the recruiting side anymore. The Kauffman thing was a big turn off and I just kind of got to the point where I realized how stupid I was acting over a teenager's decision. Also, the past few years it did not really seem to matter who we had on the team. We arguably had at least mid-tier talent in the league and it did not matter. So right now, my bigger focus is on what Mike can do with what he has this year. I think Indiana's brand will be able to hold it's own in recruiting, the most important thing is the staff. We have not had a top flight staff since Knight was fired. That being said, hope the kid picks IU and I hope we get a flood of high rated recruits who pan out on the floor. I just don't think I have the 100 thread of will he or won't he in me anymore.

The BTN selling Indiana vs. Northwestern or Illinois as opposed to Indiana vs. a MAC school.

Knight guys all over.

The SEC would run the risk of being a regional conference only. The othe conferences would be playing games all over the country while the SEC is stuck in the south.

If we have competent leadership for the BIG, you go to the schools you want and show them why joining the BIG as part of a national conference is going to be a more lucrative deal for you then splitting revenue with the also rans of the Big 12.

Phoenix is kind of an area where others move to though. Rutgers does not really move the dial in New York either, but that did not matter. It is just getting that footprint in the area.

If we break up the PAC 12, I think there is a case to be made for several schools depending on what the goal is. The Phoenix TV market that an Arizona might bring could look attractive.