We should try to schedule a more winnable non-conference games if we want to have more winning seasons. In 2019 we played a weak UMass team which helped us qualify for a bowl game. I’ll give Judy credit, she scheduled more realistically winnable games than Mike. We have to stop sucking but not make our path to a winning season so difficult.
The year before that we played a weak Umass team and they scored like 35 in the first quarter.
Hey Larry, it’s why I said well that didn’t work this year against JMU and Indiana!!!
Just saying!
That IU game was supposed to be a winnable game against a P4. They have been dog mess forever.
Though I’m not arguing the two “p4” games are unnecessary point. I agree with that. We need to schedule smartly and not just for payouts.
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Beating a P4 team in their place is going to be very tough but I’d rather schedule a buy game against a mid-level Big 10 or SEC team than Georgia and Ohio State that are always in the top 5 in the country.
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Indiana was supposed to be a winnable game? You’re basing that on last years team. This year Indiana is a top 25 teams.
We scheduled the IU game years ago. So yes, it was a winnable game.
It was so long ago that it was back when we had that one QB flip from us to IU, and he later transferred to FAU and finished his career there. I can’t even remember his name anymore.
It’s been a while.
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Don’t give me that. You were talking about the chance of winning the game this year
FWIW, Indiana has been a perennial Big Ten doormat for a VERY long time. Two conference titles - 1945 and 1967 - with an all-time winning percentage of .419 (508-712-44) per their Wiki page. What’s happening this season is definitely an outlier for Hoosier football. In fact, have to go back to Bo McMillan (1934-47) to find a coach who had an overall winning record in Bloomington.
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No. I was specifically talking about how back when we scheduled this game we thought it was winnable.
Sorry if I didn’t come across that way. That was my intention.
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Scheduling a buy game with Indiana was a wise move by Judy years ago. If we didn’t have a clueless coach we would have been in the game.
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I don’t have an issue with the scheduling - except for preferring we never play Chapel Hill. The body bag game is a must for our finances. The home big name sells tickets - which means even more once we expand. We need money. The issue isn’t the schedule. If we were a better program those games wouldn’t be what they have been. We just have to improve. Chapel Hill was a winnable game and Indiana when it was signed was def a winnable game. We could have beaten Tenn, MD, Florida, Ill. We took not great teams into those places and held our own. A better team makes it a 4th qtr game.
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With how carolina pooks now, that shouldnt be a body bag game. They should be beatable.
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That was a H/H so I don’t count that as a body bag game. The one offs just looking to get paid are the body bag games. But yes - that Ch game both now and next year should be one we are in.
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Couldn’t resist checking the forum. We scheduled that IU game in 2015. Wow. That was a long time ago.
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We currently have buy game openings in 2027 and 2028. Given the current state of the program we should be calling up programs like Purdue, Mississippi State, and Minnesota to see if they’d like to pay us $2 million+ for an easy W.
North Carolina native Kevin Wilson was the IU coach in 2015, when Hoosiers finished 6-7 with a loss in the Pinstripe Bowl. The UNC-CH alum and one time NC high school coach would resign the following season after an IU investigation concerning player mistreatment. Now the HC at Tulsa.
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Ole Miss is Home/Home not a buy game. We will totally take the paycheck to play another P4 in 2027.
We should not.
That’s been the gist of the discussion. It forces us to a 1-3 record which is too big of a hole to climb out of.