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On to the next but still disappointing. Not being a threat to Iowa for 59 1/2 minutes of the game was worse than my worst scenario. 
That being said the defense looked decent. Just hope we can get it together for Cinci and keep the program momentum.

If I was Barta I’d be tempted to post on this forum. LOL.

Can we decline to receive the ball to start the second half?

Could we have challenged the spot?

That 3 and out was huge. Let’s go!!

On a positive note….lots of time left

For maybe the first time in my life I’m going to pay attention to a Louisiana Ragin Cajun football game. It would be really sweet to see them win at soon-to-be-SEC Texas.

39 minutes ago, IndyHoosier22 said:

I hope we can find a way to pull this out but I’m concerned. Iowa is just solid all the way around and they’ll have the advantage of playing in front of 70,000 for the first time in two years.

 

Penix is also playing in his first game off an injury, he can’t be rusty. He’s gotta be full go. I have confidence we can move the ball on anyone with him, but we can’t look like we did vs Penn State where it took him three quarters to get going. 

Hopefully Carr and the OL help take pressure off Penix.

1 hour ago, Between2Halls said:

Rivals  #20

And fwiw Clowney also moved up 12 spots to 43rd and he is now ranked above #50 Jalen Washington (JW fell 24 slots)

52 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Thompson and/or TJD being able to knock down open shots out to the 3pt line are a huge difference between finishing middle of the pack in the Big Ten and being a 7-10 seed vs. competing toward the top of the conference and being a 3-6ish seed. 

Thompson does all of the things you said, but man how many times last year did he get the ball at the top of the key just completely unguarded and never even looked at the rim? If he can hit that shot at even an average clip, it changes the offense a lot. 

Agree that it will make a huge difference if Thompson and/or TJD can knock down open shots. Aside from them we need at least two of Stewart/Kopp/Bates/Rob to knock down shots. Woody’s offense will look a bit ugly if we still have a team, as in the past few years, of bricklayers.

Not a surprise that the Bahamas are requesting proof of a negative test. Hospitalizations are rapidly rising in states like Florida and Louisiana and it would border on being careless for the Bahamians to allow people to enter their country without testing. They need to be careful as I doubt (but to be clear, I am not sure)  the Bahamas have the infrastructure we have to handle a big uptick in hospitalizations. 
I agree with dgambill and think they should go. Just get tested and feel good about the fact that your opponents had to also prove that they are negative.

Inside the Hall reported that Cody signed for the veteran minimum of 2.33 million bucks.  Hope Portland has a good season as he really wanted to be with a good team.

On a side note…..He took a huge pay cut but still not too shabby to be in your 20’s making over 2,000,000!! If he has a good season I’ll bet he will be able to cash in with a 3 year, at 8-10mm annually, type of deal. In any case, best of luck to him.

35 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

Considering the screwing the ABA teams that "merged" with the NBA took in the transition, it's a wonder any of them have been successful...

The ABA folks that made out were the owners of The Spirits of St Louis...

They received $2.2 million dollars and 1/7 of a share of each of the four remaining ABA (now NBA) teams’ television rights in perpetuity to fold their franchise...

That was one of the greatest deals/heists of all time. There were 3 ABA teams left out of the NBA. The Virginia Squires abruptly folded at the end of the last ABA season and received nothing, Kentucky Colonels received 3.3 million from the NBA but the Silna brothers, owners of the St Louis Spirits, negotiated the TV rights (which weren’t much back then) in perpetuity deal.  Through roughly 2014 they had been paid 300 million per the agreement. In 2014 the NBA negotiated a buyout to end the deal and the brothers were paid an additional 500 million for a total of 800,000,000 !

Scorecard:

Virginia - 0

Kensucky - 3,300,000

St Louis - 800,000,000

12 hours ago, BGleas said:

Not that you're saying this, but I don't think that's really an indictment of Archie Miller. 

It's just the reality that it's tough to "play your game" and get minutes when you miss your entire freshmen season and are basically just trying to get into shape your entire RS freshmen season. 

The medical issues just really set him back and never allowed him to get his game right. 

I agree with the injury part but in regards to Hunter and Archie not speaking at all…..the Archie tenure was really bad and somehow “off”. Countless posts have called Crean a weirdo etc but its hard to deny the many pictures with Crean and ex-players that have graduated/left IU, such as CWat, Yogi, Vic etc,:and those players say great to see coach, happy birthday coach, thanks coach etc, etc.  I don’t recall a single player thanking Archie on senior night, visibly communicating with him etc. So glad we moved on.

3 hours ago, Steubenhoosier said:

Old Style 

Yes, back in the day when I saw the 6-pack they were 54 feet high painted old style cans.

Just googled it and the new owners now have them painted as LaCrosse Lager

2 hours ago, rico said:

I fished in La Crosse once...didn't have much luck.

Ha…I saw the worlds largest 6-pack in LaCrosse :)

1 hour ago, Indykev said:

They dont over recruit, schools like OSU, stockpile. Thats where IU needs to get to.

It is unreal how they stockpile and they don’t think twice about “over-recruiting” . So far in the 2022 class OSU has the 4th, 6th and 17th ranked receivers in the country committed. The 5th, 9th, 16th, 35th CB’s in the country committed, the 2nd and 5th ranked LB’s etc.  And they do this every year.  Some kids are obviously drawn to being part of that while others might wonder about playing time and where they can make a difference.
OSU could be great for Curry or he could be perpetually on the edge of almost getting meaningful playing time. Who knows. He has great choices and it can’t be an easy decision for him.

The Delta variant is rapidly spreading in much of SEC country (in areas with low vaccination rates…..go figure). It will be a massive bummer, although not as important as people’s health, if this ends up impacting attendance levels at college football games. Really looking forward to the excitement of full stadiums but the outlook for that happening is not as positive as it was a few weeks ago.

46 minutes ago, KoB2011 said:

To your point, and many others, about education; does that even hold up now? We have seen what we can do for business and education with telecommuting. It isn't perfect, especially for schools,but it isn't like it's going to get worse. Athletes could do a west coast trip for a week and not even miss class. 

Aside from being sure their players are eligible how much do most schools truly care about the eduction of their revenue generating athletes? Not to mention some of their “majors”…..LOL. 

56 minutes ago, dgambill said:

There would be no playoffs if those teams joined. The winner of the conference would be their own national champion. They’d flip a bird at the ncaa and wouldn’t need them anymore. 

Sadly I agree.
If OK, Texas, UM, OSU, Clemson, FSU, and maybe ND, hop on board with the SEC nearly all of the national “cream of the crop” will be in the SEC. We might end up aligning ourselves with some sort of “B level” football league that is very strong in basketball.  I know basketball is not the money train but our best option might be assembling a group of “B” level football schools that happen to have strong basketball (Louisville, UVA, Duke, Syracuse, Kansas, UK (unlikely, they might have zero chance to win in the football super league but probably would not walk away from the cash), Wiscy, MSU, PU, Maryland, Houston, WVA, UCONN, maybe UNC, etc).

Kids might grow up thinking of the SEC20-30 as the D1 of college football and the BIG20-30 as the D1 of basketball. 

4 hours ago, btownqb said:

No. I'm just laughing at the get "vaccinated" so you don't have to worry about it 🤷‍♂️

You have a rather “quirky” sense of humor.

35 minutes ago, IUCrazy2 said:

Edit:  Also, from an IU perspective, we want the B10 to remain strong.  Look where Kansas is falling on those lists, see how often Duke gets brought up as a desirable add, we would not fair well in a huge realignment that blew up the Big 10.

Very good point. “Mighty” Duke isn’t even a blip on the realignment radar and basketball oriented schools like Kansas, IU and UK could be in the same position.

23 hours ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Looks like OSU is recruiting over him for 2 5 stars 

I’m not holding my breath, in regards to landing him, but OSU has offered 8 (eight!) DL rated higher than Curry and 7 of them are still undecided. As you mention they think they have a good shot at 2 of the 5 stars.  Who knows…..Curry might not want to be the 3rd or 4th rated DL in their class (not to mention who they would recruit the following year). If his dream is to win a natty we won’t land him but maybe staying close to home will grow on him (ie Strickland said he was sure he wanted to go out of state but then had a change of heart). Not counting on it but maybe we will draw to an inside straight. Taking the time to visit this weekend shows we have a chance.
One of our next steps is upgrading both the DL and OL. Man I would like to see us have a couple of defensive lineman that can consistently apply pressure.

25 minutes ago, Indykev said:

I just think we'll have a lot of early misses until we play games. I know I keep saying it but we have a coach who's system hasnt been seen in college. Its going to take time.

I agree. We keep saying that Woodson is going to run an offense that will attract recruits but no one has actually seen it yet. Not to mention that 2022 recruits were born after our last final four appearance and we have not even made the tourney since they were were in 6th grade. That being said…..Woodson gets an A+ for retaining most of the team, the incoming transfers and adding recruits such as Bates. Going to be a fun/interesting year.