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Oregon has lowered the SOS for OOC games for IU. They had scheduled North Texas before all of this movement. LOL .. one interesting thing is North Texas signed a QB in the portal that started at IU two years ago when Rourke was injured and had surgery on his passing hand thumb. I agree with you Jon ... that Oklahoma State game will be interesting. I wonder if they can get that large number of portal players playing well enough to battle a team as good as Oregon, who might be ranked #1 by that 2nd game for each team. People can say well if Cignetti brought 15 JMU players and played well in their second game ... ONE BIG difference. OSU is playing a possible 2026 National Champion Oregon Ducks ... while those 15 JMU players were racking up 73 points against some team called Western Illinois. 😂 I think from what I saw last year, North Texas was a very good team, high scoring ... beat Washington State and Navy .. but that team is not the new Oklahoma State team. IMO it does not matter if they a great staff, good players from NT and OSU ... they will have not faced a defense anything like Oregons. Could it be a shoot out? Last team that has the ball wins? For that to happen OSU's high paced and passing game would have to have time to throw the ball. I don't see that happening. It might be close for a half since it is the 2nd game of the season for both teams but overall I see Oregon blowing them out. The Oregon defensive front will be too much for anything that Oklahoma State can line up as an OL. Oregon will also play another similar game vs UCLA. Chesney has brought 15-17 JMU players with him. No doubt UCLA will be a better team on both sides of the ball than they were last year. By the time that game is played both teams will have played 4 games. I think that will be a more interesting game than the Oklahoma State game.

Your own QB passed for 305 yards and 2 TDs against his defense. I have to wonder where Perich was on that 23 yard TD pass by Darius Taylor?

Keep an eye on that coach at St Louis. When he left Indiana State I didn't know if he was 'big time" although ISU was a good team, a tourney team. I think this year he has proven that the big name teams are going to come after him if they need a coaching replacement. Not sure he could recruit on the west coast but he seems to know how in the Midwest. NIL and this NBA stuff has changed everything. I am sure that has taken a toll on DA. As far as teams ... there are times, great or good players don't blend well enough to make a team. Chemistry is bad in the locker room and that is really hard to fix, especially in today's environment. This just might be a year that all teams go though ... "they didn't mess" ... It happens. Then the more you lose the more you don't care.

Or how Beck in a split second decided to underthrow a pass that I think would have scored a winning TD if he had thrown it to the goal line corner of the end zone. Not back of the end zone just across the goal line. Not sure why but it's interesting that #6 blocking the Miami punt was not #17 that blocked the Oregon punt. #17 was not injured in the Miami game. They both played that same position. I agree with you though, that split second decision to let him pass by outside was strange to me. The only other IU player rushing was being double teamed...

As of today, January 30th, it was mentioned on an IU forum that IU is done with the portal for this year. Counting incoming and red shirt Freshman, they will have a total of 47 in their Freshman class that were recruited the past two years, on their 2026 team. He has filled what holes were needed with some major P4 portal players.

When living in the country of Whidbey Island WA and no US tv reception, the Canadian tv channels came in perfect. I started my first hockey addiction every Saturday night with "Hockey Night in Canada" with Don Cherry. Besides going to Vancouver for NHL games we found going to Seattle much easier to watch the Junior League Seattle Thunderbirds.

From an IU fan, I have never agreed with B10 scheduling since they split to two uneven divisions. Even now their scheduling still sucks and is shocking because computer/AI could do it all. What I found in my research today and posted under a different post ... Once the schedules are in draft form they are given to the schools for negotiation and approval before they are released. Granted those schools may not have much power in their negotiations but when the dust settles, the schools have approved them. Does that mean some approve and are still not happy? Hard to say unless we are in the room. As far as "short changed", I have never figured why they do that because the new schools are not going anywhere for years so why are they paid less than the older B1G schools? Yet, it is still fact, even knowing you would be short changed financially that was probably more than you were going to make with the Pac12 on AppleTV. Basically this new schedule has given Penn State a 2026 B10 Championship ... I mean even the 2020 IU team could have been undefeated with that schedule. 😂

IU drove to campus to play Purdue. They didn't play anyone the next week because it is always their last game of the year, when they play Purdue. I get you point but you must of missed my "this is all in a joking manner btw" I only brought up my examples about bad weather in November.

If Oregon were to "win them all" that would mean IU couldn't be Natty champs again. Although the that is a real long shot to happen and probably won't.

🤣 Let's don't get too excited Jon ... only wanting good weather in November games??? So are you saying other B10 teams should play in inclement weather only because they live there?? (This is all in a joking manner btw) IU played Purdue in the snow in 2024 Thanksgiving weekend. 2022?? IU played at MSU in the snow and wind, only 6 total pass attempts it was so bad. Your favorite Huskies were beat in bad weather last year in Wisconsin as you mentioned. Bad weather is part of B1G football !!! Where else can you take your coat and shirt off in a snow storm at a B1G game as a college student (alcohol was a rumor) besides playing B1G football in November. I'll give you the 8 straight games thing and the flights back east ... but I am going to have to pass on the "before inclement weather arrives in November" request. BTW counting those easy cupcake OOC games at Bloomington in 2026, they will have played 9 games before their bye week. I know I know ... North Texas and Western Kentucky are not B10 teams but not that bad of teams to be included in a streak of games.

However, screw the folks at B1G HQ You and I at least agree on our feelings about the B1G HQ

A 3-star OL Soren Fifer was offered by Dan Lanning yesterday in Illinois. This morning Indiana's OL coach was paying Soren a visit. What are you doing trying to rob "our" 3-star recruits? 🤣

Based on "years in advance" scheduling the B10 claims, I have a feeling 27 and 28 are already done. The B10 commissioner has nothing in his background that is football related. It's been sports media around MLB.

The B10 Commissioner at the time had the mentality of a rock. He is now the Chicago Bears President and threatening the city of Chicago that he will build a new stadium in Northwest Indiana if they don't agree to terms for a new Bears stadium. That 2020 year the B10 Commissioner said prior to the season, teams had to play at least 6 games to qualify to be champs and possibly a playoff spot. Canceled games did not count. MID SEASON when it looked like OSU would NOT play 6 games, he changed it to 5 games. So when undefeated IU lost at OSU as their 5th game, they qualified. Beat Northwestern (west division champ) in the B1G, beat Clemson and lost to Bama in the playoffs. At the time IU was undefeated when they went to Columbus and lost 42-35 with Michael Penix throwing for 491 yards and 5 TDs. As far as your hoops team ... too many key injuries have killed your season.

If IU had lost those two games they would not have been in the B1G Championship game. IMO they might have not even made the playoffs with two losses with those on the committee remembering what their 2024 team did with two losses. As far as those last minute wins ... I will give you only one example that happened to the "Cardiac Kids" of Indiana in 1967 which resulted in playing and getting beat by USC in the '68 Rose Bowl with a Soph RB named OJ Simpson. The last game of the year it's the annual rivalry game with Purdue. With less than 2 minutes to go in the game with IU leading 19-12 against a #3 ranked Purdue, Purdue fumbled inside IU's 5 yard line and IU recovered the ball and won the game. That made a tie for the B1G with Minnesota. By rule the B10 would send the team that had not be to the Rose Bowl the longest time ... so IU got to go. So LUCK was definitely involved then and in 2025. Honestly I thought it was over in the Penn State game after they sacked Mendoza with no timeouts left and 90 yards to go. After IU lost in the Rose Bowl the final AP rankings had USC #1 and IU #4. 7 of IU's 9 wins were by 7 points or less and 8 of the 11 games (counting Rose Bowl) were decided in the last 4 minutes of the game.

I still cannot find an answer on why they moved the playoff championship game out a week further while remaining with the same 12 teams in the playoffs. How does that affect the number or the length of bye weeks in the playoffs?

Injuries are the main problem with your basketball team. Last night against UCLA 3 of 4 top scorers didn't play in that game, some have season ending injuries. Altman can recruit and gets McDonald All-Americans but no matter how good you are ... injuries are killers in college basketball.

I just posted on another thread the requirements the B10 uses to schedule games. I agree with you HappyToBeADuck ... it just doesn't make sense. Oregon is going to be beat up after 8 straight B10 games with additional travel to the east. The Penn State schedule is totally out of whack. They say the schedule is set "years in advance" ... what like 2 years since the 4 Pac12 teams joined? I would think in today's world of high tech and even AI ... the B10 could come up with something more even(fair) in scheduling. PSU (Iowa State) with a new coach will be THE surprise contender for the B10 Championship with two possibly three games they could lose but should win ... USC, Michigan and Washington. As an IU fan I would like a first round home game in the playoffs but after the weather in 2024 at Notre Dame and the weather in Bloomington this year when you played JMU ... I would not want a home game in that freezing cold weather in Bloomington.

Hoping to find answers for us on this B10 scheduling fiasco, with a new cup of coffee I went to ChatGPT and pulled some of these highlights from their answer. Typical Scheduling Goals -- Every team plays every other team at least once every 2–3 years Home/away balance over a 4–6 year cycle No school gets stuck with all road games vs elite teams in one season Rotations are mathematically optimized (this is where spreadsheets and algorithms come in) TV considerations can influence: Which opponents you get When during the season you play them Home vs away timing Media value is a major driver Once a draft schedule is built -- Schools review it -- Adjustments are negotiated -- The Big Ten officially releases it I think it is safe to say that TV schedulers are the biggest influence in the scheduling while "trying" to stay within the B10 parameters. Due to money and viewership vs SEC games at the same time I am sure the TV executives win vs the B10 office when negotiating teams, places and times games will be played.

That is some data that I don't recall ever hearing on a tv broadcast when the Ducks on the road. Thank you for keeping Bloomington off your schedule.

Count me in. Hard to believe by what some people believe but we really do have paved roads and nationwide mail service back here in Indiana (although I haven't a USPS, FedX or UPS truck in my neighborhood for 5 days since the snow took place). I like the timeline of Oregon123 with a February end date and paid after the season. Injuries even in the spring are part of the game and/or off season surgeries. I will send an email to Cig telling him to stop running the score up in B1G games to keep me in the running to win this thing. This was a great suggestion.

I agree. Mendoza the last half of the season and playoffs was the huge difference. I can almost confirm Josh Hoover does not have that "computer" between his ears like Mendoza had. That was a HUGE difference in their results. But as far as those 4 losses ... when he did one of his first sit down interviews after was hired he was asked "how will you feel if you start this season 3-2?" ... Cignetti replied "we are going 5-0" ... and he did. He has lost more than 2 games at those smaller schools as a HC, all rebuilds. I don't see him losing more than 2 games next year, if that. 12 of 22 starters return. In some positions there will be more speed as in RB's and WRs. 4 of 5 OL's return. On3 say #1 Portal class but I am not sure about that as OSU has imported the southern USA called the $EC. So yes not the same guys but I would say that only at the QB position ... the others like WR, RB, DL will be as good if not better.

I wonder if he is asking himself if that 26 year old model was worth it? 🤔

None of it makes sense. Northwestern has to play 11 games in a row including IU, Penn State, Iowa, Oregon, and Ohio State. Then Penn State gets the schedule of the year with a bye after 7 games and not playing Oregon, IU and Ohio State. Besides getting half shares of tv money or some of the new 4 getting more of half shares (I only know they are not full shares of tv money) it is easy to see the B10 Office has decided those 4 teams are going to have to "pay their dues" so to speak to be in the "Mighty Big Ten" ... It really is that obvious. Thank you for the complement. Like I told Charles yesterday, I was on IU forums back in 1997?, have been on many opponents forums before they were bought out by Rivals/On3 last year and after reading this forum a month or so before joining this is the best forum I go to. Most of the other fans including IU decided to follow those that require a subscription.

Just wait until someone leaks the LSU salaries and who is making what. It's bound to happen. Just wait until someone leaks the payroll list so they see who is getting paid what. Combine that with a couple of losses and their season is total chaos.