Terry in Crapchester wrote:
Skull had the right idea. If I knew back then what the real world was like, I would've figured out a way to stay a college senior for the rest of my life.
Had that idea myself. After 4 years of college I needed 12 more credit hours to graduate. I spread that out over the next 2.5 years. College graduation = real world. Had to delay that equation as much as possible!!!
Though what IF said rings true, kids are awesome.
"Our staff is going to ensure that anyone who attends this University and wears the Indiana uniform will make this privilege among their highest priorities and not treat the opportunity as an entitlement,'' Crean said in a statement. "We fully expect our student-athletes to accept the responsibilities academically, athletically and socially that come with representing one of the top programs in college basketball history."
The world as we know it just keeps getting better. jonowen can't make it to the game and we got a babysitter tonight.
Bloomington, here I come. I'll def be getting some Pizza Express...err...Hot Box tomorrow. Is it still called Pizza Express in B-town? In Indy, they had to change the name to Hot Box for some naming rights issue.
By the time I get back home, A&M game should be in 3rd qtr. Perfect timeing for TIVO and I'll probably be able to catch the end of the game live.
I don't know that it was a case of looking ahead much. It's more a case of 'reality much?' Tate isn't the QB that NOJ and the rest of the media seems to think he is.
Ken wrote:I don't know that it was a case of looking ahead much. It's more a case of 'reality much?' Tate isn't the QB that NOJ and the rest of the media seems to think he is.
I never understood the Tate love affair. Easily one of the most overrated QBs to come along in the Big Ten in a long time. Maybe it's just coincidence that every game I see him play, he blows spunk, but every game I've seen him play, he's blown spunk.
You guys have to understand that we've had an enormous amount of injuries at WR and to Tate. He's not the same QB as he was in the past. Dude only practiced 10 times the entire month of September and not many more than that in August because of injury. It's obvious his timing is way off with the new WR's. Tate is a damn good QB. We won 10 games 2 years ago including a CapitalOne Bowl victory over LSU, and Tate was the MVP of that team by far. We lost 5 RB's that year to injury and midway through the year the only RB we had left was a white-boy walkon that probably doesn't even run a 4.9 40. With an average QB, that team would have won 5 games. Tate is a very good QB, it's just the only receiver he has good timing with is our TE Scott Chandler. Now we have another injury to a starting WR, Dominique Douglas. It's a shame because Douglas was having an amazing year for a true freshman. You guys are just expecting too much out of a quarterback. Dude hardly practices at all this year and has a different WR corps every week (most of which haven't played much before this year) and you expect him to not struggle?? Come on now...
TheJON wrote:You guys are just expecting too much out of a quarterback.
I think you're the one expecting to much out of your QB.
You started this thread, didn't ya?
And it ended up like most everything you post.
Ugly.
Rack the Hoosiers!
How am I expecting too much out of Tate? I just said I do not blame him for his struggles this year. Like I said, the guy has proven he is capable of leading a team and being the leader of this team is all I ask out of him. No more, no less. That's not asking too much of a guy that was arguably the MVP in all of college football in 2003 when he was a true sophomore. 10 wins, and 4 of those were against ranked opponents. He won Big-10 Offensive Player of the Year that year.
Tate missed wide open receivers all day on Saturday. He seriously missed 3 to 4 easy TDs to receivers who were 5-10 yards past the last DB.
As for Hoepner, dude is not doing well. Word is he may not even finish the season. He's not responding well to his 2 brain surgeries this year. It's sad...just when IU thought they had something going, they may lose their coach. His doctors are supposedly reccomending he retire but he wants to finish the season.
Well, my in-laws were the ones who told me of his deteriorating health. They know quite a bit that goes on in the IU athletic dept. so take it for what it's worth. I tend to believe what I hear from them.
IndyFrisco wrote:Well, my in-laws were the ones who told me of his deteriorating health. They know quite a bit that goes on in the IU athletic dept. so take it for what it's worth. I tend to believe what I hear from them.
I'm by no means doubting IF or his relatives but nobody I've talked to has even hinted at this. I hope like hell IF is wrong because Coach Hep is exactly what the IU football program needs to get back to respectability.
"Our staff is going to ensure that anyone who attends this University and wears the Indiana uniform will make this privilege among their highest priorities and not treat the opportunity as an entitlement,'' Crean said in a statement. "We fully expect our student-athletes to accept the responsibilities academically, athletically and socially that come with representing one of the top programs in college basketball history."
