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Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

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  • #91
    Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

    It's possible that we are an incredibly bad football team.

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    • #92
      Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

      Originally posted by BRushWithDeath View Post
      Granted, it's only been 3 games, but having major game management errors in two and setting a record for penalties in the third doesn't point to a well coached team.
      I'm willing to agree with you now.

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      • #93
        Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

        Jeez, can't believe this thing is going down to the wire

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        • #94
          Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

          Dusty Kiel came in and looked a lot better than ****** Wright Baker. We keep digging ourselves in holes to start games. That needs to change. This team still sucks. North Texas is a bad football team.

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          • #95
            Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

            Why are we surprised this football team is bad? The talent is terrible. We all knew this would be a bad year regardless of who the coach was.


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            • #96
              Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

              Originally posted by Trader Joe View Post
              Why are we surprised this football team is bad? The talent is terrible. We all knew this would be a bad year regardless of who the coach was.
              Who is surprised that they are bad? I'm surprised by how bad they are. North Texas is one of the worst teams in FBS and they completely dominated us for most of that game. If you watched the game, it was a lot worse than the final score indicated.

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              • #97
                Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                Originally posted by cdash View Post
                Who is surprised that they are bad? I'm surprised by how bad they are. North Texas is one of the worst teams in FBS and they completely dominated us for most of that game. If you watched the game, it was a lot worse than the final score indicated.
                Ya, i was watching the game by myself on ESPN3 and i still felt embarressed to be a IU fan while watching the game.. Just totally looking outmatched against such a bad team, in their first Big Ten game ever.. I just hope Wilson sticks with us. I think he is special, and will really help our program.

                Even though it takes away our Mobility at QB, I am all for seeing what Dusty can do when hes the starter, hes the only reason we had a close shot at the very end of the game. EWB and crew played terrible. Granted they were without their best playmaker in Belcher.

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                • #98
                  Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                  I don't want cdash to think I'm pissing in his cheerios but.......

                  IU coach Kevin Wilson: Running back Darius Willis' 'career is basically over'

                  Anyone hoping that Darius Willis will be back in action for Indiana this season may want to think again.

                  In fact, Willis’s IU career may be over. IU coach Kevin Wilson made that comment during Tuesday’s weekly press conference.


                  Willis has been out since the fourth game of last season with a knee injury. Wilson said he is not able to practice because of the injury and said the team is exploring petitioning the Big Ten for a medical hardship waiver.


                  “We’re in the process of putting that into place but his career is basically over,’’ Wilson said.


                  Wilson’s announcement comes on the heels of a report this weekend that Willis participated in a pro wrestlingmatch in Bloomington while his IU teammates were in Denton, Texas to play North Texas. The Infinity Pro Wrestling event was held at the National Guard Armory in Bloomington.


                  According to a report by the Indiana Daily Student, Willis executed a “flying shoulder tackle’’ during the match.


                  IU had no comment on the report.


                  Wills was the runner-up for the 2007 Indianapolis Star Indiana Mr. Football award.

                  Too funny.
                  Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.” ― Ricky Gervais.

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                  • #99
                    Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                    Probably one of the most disappointing people in the history of IU football and that is really saying something.

                    RE: Darius Willis.


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                    • Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                      Originally posted by Since86 View Post
                      I don't want cdash to think I'm pissing in his cheerios but.......




                      Too funny.
                      Normally, you are attempting to urinate in my otherwise delicious Honey Nut Cheerios, but this is hilarious, I'd actually read this before.

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                      • Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                        Ray Tolbert to be inducted into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame
                        http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=83185

                        Ultimate IU alumna will mark 75th year of watching IU football Saturday
                        http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/sto...qp-6137997.sto
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                        When Dorothy Stoelting attended her first Indiana University football game as a freshman, the legendary Alvin “Bo” McMillin was in his second year as coach of the Hoosiers and IU beat Centre College of Kentucky 14-0.

                        A decade later she witnessed one of the most glorious seasons in IU history when the 1945 Hoosiers went 9-0-1, won the Big Ten Conference title and ended the season ranked fourth in the nation.

                        Dorothy doesn’t recall which game she caught in Bloomington during the 1967 season but she was there in Pasadena on Jan. 1, 1968, when coach John Pont’s Hoosiers took the Hoosiers to their only Rose Bowl appearance, a 14-3 defeat at the hands of O.J. Simpson and the University of Southern California Trojans.

                        Still, she was taken aback this week when asked how she felt about reaching the milestone of seeing at least one IU home football game each year for 75 years.

                        “Seventy-five? It doesn’t seem possible!” she exclaimed over the phone from her St. Louis home. “Oh my goodness! I hadn’t thought of that.”

                        It’s apparently true, according to her daughters, Jean Burgess of Bloomington and Judy Sanford of St. Louis. Dorothy always has been proud of attending at least one football game in Bloomington every year since enrolling at IU and to the best of her memory never missed a year except for 1963, when she arrived in Bloomington expecting to see the Hoosiers play and the game was cancelled because of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

                        “I think the neatest thing of all is that she’s never wavered from her loyalty or support of IU,” Burgess said. “Even when I was a little girl growing up, we always went to at least one game and sometimes several. Sometimes we were thrilled if IU didn’t lose by 20 points. That’s what we called a victory. But she’s never wavered, not even when people would get down on the team. She’s always been there for them.”

                        Dorothy came to IU from Warsaw, Ind., where she was class valedictorian. She went on to a long career as a public school teacher. For many years, Dorothy and her husband, Richard, came down to Bloomington from their northern Indiana home and met up with a regular group of friends for a weekend of fellowship, fun and football rah-rah. “We always stayed at McCormick’s Creek,” Dorothy said. “It didn’t matter what game we went to. We just got a room whenever we could get a room and there was a game that weekend. We’ll be there again this year.” (And booking rooms for next year before they leave.)

                        Burgess recalled that part of the attraction to McCormick’s Creek for her parents was that IU’s team stayed there on the night before games. “They’d get up bright and early to see the team. It was really sweet in the later years: you’d see eight little old people trudging down to cheer for the boys as they got on the team bus,” she said . . .

                        . . . At age 93 and approaching 94 on Oct. 8, Dorothy will no doubt be one of the few fans in the stands older than Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who is 84.

                        “She’s still sharp. She’s an amazing person — an amazing alumna,” said Burgess. “Her favorite part of the game is when the Marching Hundred comes out. She always cries. She’ll tell you that, too. It always brings tears to her eyes.”

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                        • Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                          I've actually played against Ray a few times. He can still ball.

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                          • Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                            I don't believe I've ever seen a receiver and his defender both get called for pass interference on the same play until now.

                            Despite the score being 6-3 in the 3rd quarter, the game has been very entertaining. With Penn State inside IU's five-yard line, IU gets a much needed turnover.

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                            • Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                              Yeah. I'm not expecting much form IU this year. It's more of a build a foundation for the future season. However, it's really a crying shame they couldn't somehow pull out the Penn St. game seeing how much they tried to hand it over to us.

                              Does anyone else buy some of this favorable reaction I've been reading to Kiel? It's absolutely a lesser of two evils scenario, but EWB just looks better to me. I suppose there were significant pieces missing on offense yesterday.
                              I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.

                              -Emiliano Zapata

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                              • Re: Indiana University Athletics Thread 2011-2012

                                This is a really bad football team. Not exactly a shocker there, though.

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