Being an Indiana Hoosiers Football fan is not a bad experience these days. Beating up on Oregon even made the SEC Mouth of the South, Paul Finebaum, give Coach Curt Cignetti credit. It was a sad day for the Southeast Conference.
The Oregon Game Notes ahead of their game against the Indiana Hoosiers will need some serious overhauling this week. When things are going well, you only need a lackey to change the number of your “streak”. Be it a Big Ten winning streak. Be it a home game winning streak. The person putting the next set of game notes together for Oregon will actually have to get comfortable for a while and do a little thinking as to what to put down now?
Indiana Football is all business. A source I promised anonymity said, “Those players don’t jiggle their butts and wiggle around like fools when they make a good play. They are all business.” Watching the games, you can’t help but to agree with this assessment. This Indiana Football Team is all business. Well said.
This season in Walking on the Moon: The Sequel for Indiana Football fans. How can you improve on the season the Hoosiers had in 2024? You turn the calendar and enjoy it all over again.
Leading up to last week’s Indiana-Oregon game, I wrote in my weekly preview, “…the Hoosiers need to protect the ball, and their defensive front must put pressure on that pesky Duck QB early and often. Oregon has not played a stout defense this year.” First time I’ve ever been right!
Indiana fans got to enjoy complete glory for about a day. Then word that James Franklin was fired at Penn State came out. Coach Cig is the name atop or the near the top of every list looking for Coach Franklin’s replacement. So, there is that to deal with. No one said it would be easy, even in the best of times. That all will be what it will be. Can’t blame the guy for staying at the school that gave him his first shot at the big time and a big-time paycheck to go with it. I wrote when Coach Cig got here that I had always hoped that Indiana would one day hire Mike Leach. Coach Leach was different. Indiana University is a different kind of place. In Coach Cig, Indiana got another shot at different, and it worked out. Did it ever. However, you can’t blame an old Pennsylvania boy from taking the best football job in that state. In the meantime, we’ll concentrate on how many more TFLs this Indiana Defense will put up against Michigan State when the highest ranked Indiana Football team ever runs out onto the field at Memorial Stadium this Saturday. This weekend I floated the idea of playing the ABBA tune Fernando, or at least the chorus, while the red hat comes out on the field for a long media timeout after Fernando Mendoza throws a TD pass. I never heard back from my contact at IU. They’re busy enough.
Tim Brando believes. A road win at Oregon will do this kind of thing to a guy sitting in Shreveport.
The Hoosiers are also #1 for Kirk Herbstreit this week. Who fainted?
Notice how Joey Galloway is in pain when he hears this news.
And RGIII has Indiana on top too.
Look, we are going to enjoy this while we can do so. The moon never looked this close before.