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Welcome back folks to Crimson 
Cast. 

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I know a lot of people have been
waiting for this episode and we 

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decided we needed to do it live.
I am still processing everything

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that we saw yesterday. 
One of the most fun, maybe the 

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most fun IU athletics day I've 
ever personally taken part in 

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from beginning to end. 
Indiana demolishes Nebraska 56 

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to 7 on national television. 
They move the record to seven 

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and O and we have so much to 
talk about. 

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I know you folks have so much to
talk about. 

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We've already got like 25 
comments queued up and ready to 

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go. 
We wanted to share this moment 

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with you folks. 
We appreciate you tuning in on a

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Sunday morning as we relish this
amazing Indiana team and what 

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they have accomplished so far 
and what they look like they're 

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primed to accomplish moving 
forward. 

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Scott, you're on vacation. 
We were able to get you away 

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from touring distilleries that 
you're going to purchase to come

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in and talk to my you football. 
It's great to see you my friend.

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How you doing? 
I'm good, man. 

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No, I'm a Dominican. 
We're doing Cuban cigar 

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factories today, so, you know, 
it's just expanding. 

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Crimson Cast Industries, Crimson
Pack, Inc. 

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Don't they make Cuban cigars in 
Cuba though? 

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Well, I mean, we're, we're not a
big time podcast yet. 

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We're working our way there. 
So Dominican Cubans, it's dude, 

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we're going to sell them as 
Cubans can't restart the pod. 

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We can't give away our no man, 
It's great. 

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I I, I will say this a couple of
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me that I wasn't there. 
I've been to so many games. 

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It's just our fall break and you
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Saturday for a fall break trip. 
Normally IU football for the 

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last couple of years hasn't 
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equation. 
The Westfield's fall break was a

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year past a week past the 
normal, which sucks or else we 

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would have been on off. 
But anyway, it I I watched the 

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game on the plane, it was 
fantastic. 

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I had to do this. 
This was a great. 

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But what's cool about it is it 
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moment we need to relish, 
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going to be. 
More ahead. 

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So it's like this is the first 
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moments. 
Yeah, I there's a lot that we're

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going to talk about with that. 
I agree with you. 

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It's just weird how both out of 
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this was, but also how it just 
feels like another day at the 

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office for this Indiana football
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And we're going to talk through 
all of that on the pod. 

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We're going to talk about the 
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You're going to talk about the 
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not gotten a chance to go back 
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Anyway, Scott, let's get to the 

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game. 
You know, coming into this 

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contest, we, we did a nice 
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has just some amazing 
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But you know, Taylor and I were 
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looks at me. 
He's like, I'm, I'm really 

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confident this week that 
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And I, I felt the same way. 
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little bit on the podcast. 
You're still a little bit 

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uncertain because a team like 
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the number one defense in the 
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metrics. 
They had a really, really tough 

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defensive line. 
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season, Scott coming into the 
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to win. 
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tossing her up. 
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score 3538. 
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I did not expect Indiana to 
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And Indiana did that despite 
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Just an absolute demolition. 
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We were like, it would be. 
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the game from the beginning. 
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Like, consider the game seized 
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There was a great quote from 
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Osterman's piece. 
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piece where, you know, that 
first run for like 40 yards that

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Ellison had Ellison's. 
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He's like, this might be a real 
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And it just certainly was. 
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looked like on television, 
Scott, but in the stadium, 

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Indiana just felt like they were
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ball was kicked until the final 
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I mean, what was it like on TV 
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What was How did it feel for you
watching Indiana be that 

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dominant? 
I mean, so I was watching on 

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air, you know, on Southwest Air 
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So it was a little bit laggy. 
But yeah, I mean, it turned into

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basically the second-half was 
like a Signeti fest, just them 

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glowing about Signeti. 
It it was, it was wild to watch.

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I really was bummed that I 
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Like, I'm just seeing that like 
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my take on the game just as a 
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apologize, we used to curse a 
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We'll we'll bring it back today.
I'm just like the thing that 

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stuck in my head is like, we 
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them. 
Like that is all we did. 

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We just beat them. 
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we have this next man up 
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running backs, you know, Justice
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know, we come in like the second
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run the same type of place. 
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across the board. 
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over the place. 
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but it's like Rourke goes down 
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offense. 
We have 28 points in the first 

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And for all you know, Rourke had
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Jackson had a great back 
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in the in the end zone and it I 
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I'm not saying these are scheme 
guys because the players who are

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doing it are great. 
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there's a scheme and a way to 
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put guys in and do it. 
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my opening selfo here is again, 
I love this feel that we come 

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out the first drive and you 
know, you, you said it. 

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I'm sure Signetti knows it, 
that, you know, if we can get a 

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lead, it's really tough for 
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pace of scoring. 
The first drive is so huge. 

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I'm sure the stadium has 
electric and it's like we have a

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4th down play. 
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It's like not even a question. 
No time out to think about it. 

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It's like, oh, no, we're going 
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And like even the commentators 
like Gus Johnson's like, oh, you

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know, they're going to go for 
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Like they obviously knew they 
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there's no question they went 
for it. 

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They got it. 
They scored a touchdown and it's

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like this feeling of like we got
our foot on the gas and like you

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better keep up whoever's playing
us because we're coming at you 

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the next drive went forward 
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But like I absolutely love that.
And you feel the pressure that 

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this put on the other team when 
we just come out there and it's 

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like we're just going to keep 
hitting, keep hitting, keep 

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hitting. 
And honestly, what I loved is 

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second-half, you're up 28, 
seven, you have a backup yo, 

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your backup quarterback in a 
total moment for a let down. 

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It's like, Oh no, we still run 
the same stuff we're doing like 

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flea flickers. 
We're still coming at you. 

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You have more interceptions, 
like just the pressure never 

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ends. 
And it's, it's a quiet 

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confidence that I, I, I just, 
I've never seen a team like this

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before. 
And I want to get to some 

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comparisons to the 2000 team, 
but it's like this is just, this

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is a, a, a different level. 
But it was unbelievable. 

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No, I've, I've never seen an 
Indiana team with this. 

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Now that's that's what. 
Yes, that's what I meant. 

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Yeah. 
Yeah, I've seen other football 

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teams. 
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Something that you said earlier.
I was texting with Taylor this 

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morning and I asked him if I 
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and whether, you know what that 
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Like Rourke is definitely a 
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that IU is having right now 
feels like a great offensive 

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line play. 
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It's the system winning more 
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football fans are not used to 
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But that's just not something 
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I mean, normally this is me 
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know, normally Indiana has 
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player or two really great 
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this, and it was a weak version,
comparatively speaking, was 2019

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where, you know, Indiana used 
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they did throughout the course 
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to keep getting better. 
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good point as well. 
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which we'll talk about a little 
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today that he was unlikely to 
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wording. 
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come back and talk about it. 
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not play against Washington next
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might shrink the playbook 
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snap. 
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Offers a lot of athleticism for 
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pocket. 
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difference, I assume. 
I think that's you know, and the

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thing that I'll say is like his 
Jackson's second touchdown. 

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They mentioned this on the 
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You know, came I I forget I 
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like a like not screenplay, but 
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like a wide receiver caught it 
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They were saying the play like 
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about the play because he's 
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the hit. 
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receiver behind the line of 
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But it's a great play. 
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Jackson and Rourke are both 
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confident is it wasn't like that
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Like he was wide open, like any 
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have made that throw. 
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that, you know, Signetti's able 
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to create these schemes and 
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know, some of the throws are 
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touchdown pass was was hard, and
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lot of them are just pitch and 
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All you got to do is throw to 
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Yeah, I mean, let's talk about 
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This was an interesting game, 
and as much as it was not a game

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that Indiana won primarily 
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Indiana really won on the 
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And you know, for all the. 
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I that's the thing, and I feel 
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last time we've said that every 
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this was the Justice Ellison 
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yards, 2 touchdowns. 
This was a Nebraska defense that

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had not allowed a rushing 
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Indiana scored five. 
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So I'm not, I don't take that as
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I'm just giddy. 
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beginning, that first really 
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Justice Ellison had, you know, I
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this was not what I was prepared
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Like, I really thought it was 
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Maryland game where Indiana was 
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quarters to get themselves set 
to figure out exactly how to, 

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you know, find the point of 
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Nebraska. 
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And Nebraska looked completely 
unprepared for the physicality, 

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for the execution that Indiana 
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yards on 8 carries and a 
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Caitlin Black 22 yards. 
Haven Jackson had 21 yards. 

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you know, cold, real. 
Quick on the running, just so 

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many of those big runs happened 
because I we, I keep going back 

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to this happened because of 
great blocking and it was a 

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great scheme, you know, and I'm 
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Galen, how many of our big run 
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You know, you had a couple when 
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Coleman, us for great players or
Anthony Thompson, obviously, but

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they messed his name up on the 
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And anyway, but it's like how 
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the time for IU happened just on
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kind of a weird play where like 
somebody's should have been 

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tackled, but he didn't. 
These were running plays where 

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it was the scheme and there was 
just a wide open lane. 

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It wasn't like Nebraska missed a
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They were playing the right 
defence. 

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We just had a great hole to run 
into it. 

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I can't remember a lot of runs 
like that in IU history. 

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Yeah, I, I'm, I don't know, I, 
I, I just continue to be so 

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impressed by the constant 
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offense, especially that this 
Indiana team has used throughout

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the course of the season, 
receivers, running backs, 

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quarterbacks now and then the, 
you know, the the unsung heroes 

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on the offensive line, who I 
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offensive line in terms of how 
good they are compared to what 

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we've seen over the past couple 
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general is pushing all of the 

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right buttons. 
They're putting guys in the 

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right spots. 
And there's just, there does not

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appear to be at least two, you 
know, the average viewer not 

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going back and watching a lot of
tape. 

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There's not a lot of drop off 
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they're doing. 
And, you know, you rack up 280 

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yards in the air with two 
different quarterbacks. 

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I mean, they were the the 
quarterbacks were effectively 24

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of 29. 
I'm going to, I'm going to 

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excuse the Justice Ellison pass 
that we're just going to act 

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like that doesn't count. 
Yeah, but one shot you shouldn't

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count the the the interception 
was a total. 

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Just just try. 
Well, that's the thing. 

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Yeah. 
So you really get to go. 2428 

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because that, you know, you 
can't really. 

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Paralyze. 
Them on the Hail Mary, but 

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Curtis Rourke, if you take that,
that Hail Mary interception out 

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17 of 20 for 189 yards and a 
touchdown. 

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Taven Jackson was 7 for eight 
for 91 yards and two touchdowns.

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I mean that is. 
This is what the top defense in 

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the Big 10. 
Nebraska are one of the top. 

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Three in the country, according 
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number one in S&P Plus 
defensively coming into this 

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game. 
And Indiana just it it was like,

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I mean, as you know, as I was, I
was reading through some of the 

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comments online, especially on 
Reddit, and it's just like the 

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the shock with which Indiana was
able to so effortlessly move the

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block effortlessly as me trying 
to talk right now. 

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It's certainly a lot of effort 
going into it, but Indiana's 

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ability to move the ball against
this Nebraska team essentially 

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it will was just so impressive. 
You know, Scott, what's our 

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favorite game here on Crimson 
Cast name the it's the. 

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Drive game. 
We're just going to call it the 

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drive game. 
Name the drive, recite the 

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drives, right? 
Recite the drives. 

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Let me recite the drives for 
Indiana on offense, It's great 

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touchdown. 
Turnover on downs, which didn't 

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matter because then it was 
touchdown, touchdown, touchdown,

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Hail Mary, interception at the 
end of the half, touchdown, 

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touchdown, touchdown, punt, 
touchdown, end of game. 

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That was all of the drives. 
And you know, I, when they went 

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for it on that 4th down where 
they didn't get it, I was really

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excited that that was the 
mentality that was already the 

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2nd 4th down conversion attempt 
that they had tried in the game.

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And it was the first quarter. 
The, the, the tone that that 

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sets with this team on offense. 
This team just believes so 

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intrinsically in what they're 
doing. 

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And it's almost something that 
you can't put entirely into 

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words because it's hard to 
really get your head wrapped 

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around it unless you're watching
it. 

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And especially if you're there 
in person, it just feels like 

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the offense has such a heartbeat
to it that they think that 

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whatever they're going to do out
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And especially. 
In this. 

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Especially in the red zone. 
That was the last thing I was 

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going to say. 
The the red zone plays, Indiana 

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Ram were just spectacular, 
almost up and down the board. 

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And you know, by the end of the 
game, Nebraska was so 

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demoralized. 
Like they were basically not 

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even trying to tackle that. 
I've never heard Gus Johnson get

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bored with touchdown calls. 
But like by the 5th 1, he was 

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just like touchdown Indiana. 
I think he was just trying to be

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nice to the Nebraska fans. 
But I mean, when you've worn Gus

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Johnson down because you're 
executing that hard on offense. 

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You're you're in a, a parameter 
that I've never quite 

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experienced before. 
That that should be a Bill 

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Connolly stat. 
That should be one of the stats 

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that he has in his like, Oh, 
you, you have one Gus Johnson 

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Ware down. 
You know, we we talk about the 

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the name, the drive game, recite
the drive. 

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You know, this is this is going 
to get in the psyche of teams 

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heads. 
And I think I felt it a little 

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bit with the way Nebraska 
played. 

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But let me just play the game 
with you here. 

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See if you can remember this 
game. 

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It's a game this season. 
The drives are you had turnover 

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arm downs and a punt and then 
touchdown, touchdown, field 

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goal, touchdown, field goal, 
touchdown, touchdown game that 

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was Northwestern. 
So but it's like this is, you 

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know, Maryland is not quite as 
beautiful as this one. 

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The Nebraska 1 is just 
touchdown, touchdown, touchdown.

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But this is something that 
future teams, you're going to 

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see them, they're coming in, 
They're already a bit white 

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knuckled, All right, this IU 
team, they're going to score. 

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They're going to score a lot. 
Oh, by the way, it's 4 down 

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territory. 
Yeah. 

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Andy Moore. 
Yes, Andy. 

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Oh, sponsored Andy. 
I want my car. 

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My car. 
Keys, I'm sorry, Recite the 

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drives is sponsored by 
Shalhoubis. 

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You've missed. 
You've missed all the Shalhoubi 

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stuff unfortunately. 
I have that later on. 

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But I think that later. 
But but but I think this is 

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where other teams, you're going 
to start seeing them really 

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pressing just the game from the 
minute the game starts because 

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they know we're going to score, 
They know we're coming and they 

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also know that we're going for 
it on 4th. 

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You know, the the thing that I 
was thinking about, it's not the

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perfect Segway, but just with 
the way that this team is wrong 

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and how aggressive, like 
confidently aggressive. 

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It's not stupid. 4th down calls.
Most of the time when they go 

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for it on 4th, they either get 
it or they run a really smart 

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play. 
And it does seem like the really

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high leverage 4th downs, like 
that first drive they get and 

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then they're kind of playing 
with house money on some of the 

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ones they don't get. 
But they were talking about us 

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in the broadcast, you know, 
Shanahan and how young 

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Signetti's staff is. 
And I'm just really struck by 

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how, you know, Signetti is 6263 
years old. 

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Like he's not a young puppy. 
I, I have some, I want to get 

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back to the broadcast near the 
end. 

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But just I was thinking today 
how how modern the staff feels 

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like how ahead of the game, it 
feels like we are in both IL 

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game and the transfer. 
This is they're talking about 

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the broadcast, the transfer 
portal, how many guys are coming

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over. 
It's like this is a new era of 

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football and we're playing it. 
And then you look at the play 

448
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,360
calls and it's all these great 
little motion plays. 

449
00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,120
It's a lot of RPO. 
I mean, it does feel like we are

450
00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:27,320
running one of the most modern 
offenses in football. 

451
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,680
And then you hear, you know, 
talking about the staff as all 

452
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,680
of these young hungry guys who 
are coming up and you know, it's

453
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,600
very, you wouldn't expect that 
from a 6263 year old kind of 

454
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,320
football lifer to come in. 
This would seem like kind of the

455
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,600
young, you know, you know, the, 
the, the guy, USC or something, 

456
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,040
you know, Lincoln Riley, like 
kind of the young upstart coach.

457
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,880
Like I just was taken aback 
thinking about that. 

458
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,200
Like, and we have it like it's 
ours, it's our guy and this is 

459
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,440
our team. 
It was just, it's, it's awesome.

460
00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,720
I have a stat that's going to 
serve as the transition point to

461
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,840
talking about the defense 'cause
I want to get the defense their 

462
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,920
due as well. 
So Max Olson, this was shared 

463
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:10,040
with me via text by by our 
friend Griffin Gonzalez. 

464
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,680
I think or maybe this was might 
have been Matt Cohen. 

465
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,520
One of the two just shared this 
with me. 

466
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:22,800
Max Olson, who is a reporter for
ESPN, post the following Best 

467
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:28,040
scoring margin through seven 
games since 2020 Indiana is plus

468
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:32,480
245 in scoring margin through 
the 1st 7 games. 

469
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,040
That is number one in that time 
period over the course of the 

470
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,360
last five seasons. 
Second on that list is 2022 Ohio

471
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:45,160
State, who was plus 243, 2023 
Michigan. 

472
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,560
Last year's Michigan team that 
won the national title was plus 

473
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:54,360
2/29/2022 Georgia was plus 228, 
and 2021 Georgia was plus 223. 

474
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,840
And as Olsen notes, Hoosiers 
currently ahead of the last 

475
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,800
three national champions in best
scoring margin since 2020. 

476
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,080
I, I mean, what? 
I don't even know what to say 

477
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,160
about that, Scott, other than 
this. 

478
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,400
Then again, like people love to 
pick apart Indiana's schedule. 

479
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,040
I as as we've already, we would 
have predicted this and it's 

480
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,640
already started to happen. 
Indiana blows Nebraska out. 

481
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,960
That was supposed to be the big 
test. 

482
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,760
Now Nebraska who who they 
played. 

483
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:19,720
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

484
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,960
Nebraska's not good now because 
Indiana just beat the pants off 

485
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,960
of them. 
But I do want to talk about the 

486
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,920
defense, 56 to 7. 
Now, we knew that Nebraska's 

487
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,760
offense was not as good as their
defense. 

488
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,440
They came in, I think they were 
in the 80s and S&P Plus and 

489
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,560
offense. 
And it was one of the reasons 

490
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,440
why we were so confident on the 
pregame podcast was that we just

491
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,360
felt like Nebraska wasn't going 
to be able to keep up with 

492
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:46,880
Indiana in terms of scoring. 
But I thought they would score 

493
00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:49,960
like I thought there would be 
some. 

494
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,800
I mean, I, I don't know what's 
the most impressive statistic. 

495
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,720
I think it's probably the fact 
that Nebraska rushed 29 times 

496
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,920
for 70 yards. 
They had a 2.4 yards per carry 

497
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,720
average, which is just nuts. 
I mean, that is that is a 

498
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,600
stellar performance by the 
defense. 

499
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:13,600
Dylan Rayola, who's clearly 
talented, 28 for 44234 yards, 0 

500
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:19,320
touchdowns, 3 interceptions. 
And I mean, just struggled with 

501
00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:21,920
pressure, you know, threw some 
balls that he probably 

502
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,040
shouldn't. 
Just some demoralizing plays by 

503
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,920
Indiana. 
Whether it was the interception,

504
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,000
it was the the tackling. 
Aiden Fisher was just absolutely

505
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,680
stellar in this game. 11 
tackles, four of those solo 

506
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,960
tackles was all over the field. 
D'Angelo Pons did an amazing 

507
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,360
job. 
Terry Jones junior had a sack. 

508
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,240
You know the the two fumble 
recoveries, Jacob Mangum Farrar 

509
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,400
and Mikhail Kamara both coming 
up with with those 3 

510
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,040
interceptions, as we mentioned, 
Sean Asbury, Reliah Hardy and 

511
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,560
Jameer Johnson. 
I mean, as as demoralizing as it

512
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,720
is for other teams to watch 
Indiana's offense do what they 

513
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,440
do, the defense got a lot of 
criticism in the Northwestern 

514
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,520
game. 
Not undeservedly, but I, you 

515
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,120
know, I look at their 
performance in this game and I'm

516
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,240
like, that is a demoralizing 
defense to go up and play 

517
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,720
against. 
Like everything was clicking for

518
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,200
Indiana in this game. 
And as as a one of the 

519
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,120
commenters put earlier on 
Reddit, like at least you know, 

520
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,240
Charlotte scored 14 points on 
IU. 

521
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,800
Nebraska was only able to score 
7. 

522
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:26,360
It really feels like the defense
made some adjustments, really 

523
00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:30,160
amped up their energy and focus 
and just got after it from the 

524
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,080
very beginning. 
I mean that one drive that 

525
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,600
Nebraska had at the beginning of
the game. 

526
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,760
Or close to the beginning of the
game that where they scored the 

527
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,600
touchdown. 
Let's recite the drives for 

528
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,920
Nebraska in this game. 
Well, I was going to do that. 

529
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,520
I wanted to do the the Ray 
Skillman. 

530
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,960
This is the Ray Skillman. 
Recite the drive for Nebraska. 

531
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,240
Sorry, stepped on it. 
It was OK, But please go ahead. 

532
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,400
Do the do do the recite the 
drives for that. 

533
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,640
Sorry, I was I was loading that 
up for myself. 

534
00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,320
No, it's, you know, punt, 
fumble, touchdown. 

535
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,960
I mean, not a great way to start
the game, but OK. 

536
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,560
And then from there it's punt 
the three, three play, punt, 3 

537
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:09,400
play, punt A-15 play drive with 
interception and then an 

538
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,480
interception and then turnover 
on downs and a fumble and then a

539
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,760
one play interception and then a
turnover on downs. 

540
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,040
And that's game. 
And as we've joked, this is the 

541
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,120
bend but don't break defense 
that we were talked about in the

542
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,000
Allen era. 
Like they get down there, you 

543
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,080
know, 15 play drive and then 
Nebraska turns it over. 

544
00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,440
The play that I thought was to 
me very interesting is it 

545
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,320
happened in one of Nebraska's 
first two or three drives their 

546
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,840
their receiver caught a ball IU 
like pulled it out and it was 

547
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,240
like really on the like wasn't 
sure he was down or pulled out. 

548
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,440
He probably was down first. 
Nebraska wisely came up and like

549
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,600
called a quick play. 
But I was thinking again, this 

550
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,840
is like pre 2024, Scott was 
thinking like that would have 

551
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,200
been the play where it's like, 
damn it, Like we let that like 

552
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,920
that was the that was the game 
changer. 

553
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,240
Like we had the moment to get 
Nebraska off and have an 

554
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,360
interception like fumble didn't 
happen. 

555
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,200
And you know, as it turns out, 
it's like, OK, don't worry, 

556
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,720
we'll let's get three more 
turnovers. 

557
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,160
We'll just keep going. 
And that's something with this 

558
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,600
team that when things happen 
that don't go their way or it 

559
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,320
feels like we get a a funky call
or something just like, OK, 

560
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,040
fine, you want to play that way.
We'll just get two more 

561
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,200
interceptions on that. 
Like this team has just such a 

562
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,960
resolve and such a focus of 
we're going to do it. 

563
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,520
And and the last thing I'll say 
on the broadcast, you know, Joel

564
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,400
Klatt, who's Gus Johnson's 
partner, although I could never 

565
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,240
remember the time, Joel, look at
some name. 

566
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,720
You're allowed to change your 
name in broadcasting, like go 

567
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,000
with something different. 
But I know he played. 

568
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,920
So he has to go with that. 
But he he he kept going like 

569
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,560
they they were so positive about
IU's offense. 

570
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,640
But then Joel would be like the 
defense you have just Gus, I got

571
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,400
to say here, man, the defense is
pretty good too. 

572
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,640
Like they couldn't stop glowing 
about both sides of the ball to 

573
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,480
the point that in the middle of 
the third quarter, they're just 

574
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,200
like, this is a good team. 
He's like, this is a really good

575
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,360
team. 
And even, you know, Joel said 

576
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,960
this, which kind of blew my mind
that he was like, I, it's like, 

577
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,760
you know, a lot of people were 
kind of stunned by the TCU team 

578
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,240
last year. 
It's like this, this Indiana 

579
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,880
team, he's like, they don't 
really remind me of TCU last 

580
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,320
year because TCU was in a lot of
close games. 

581
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:11,880
They had a lot of games they 
could have lost. 

582
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,800
They went all the way to the 
national championship. 

583
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,880
Like Indiana's kicking the snot 
out of people. 

584
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,160
He's like, so they actually 
remind me of it. 

585
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,200
Like they don't remind me of 
TCU. 

586
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,800
They remind me of a better team 
than TCU. 

587
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,600
It's like, I think this guy, the
limits for Indiana and I'm I'm 

588
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,160
just like, this is like this is 
a simulation now. 

589
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,600
Like we're talking commentators 
who watch football are talking 

590
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,200
like comparing Indiana glowingly
to national runners up. 

591
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,320
Like, I don't know what world we
are living in, but no, we are. 

592
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,120
We're good on both sides of the 
ball. 

593
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,600
And even our punting was, we 
just don't have chance to punt 

594
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,640
much, but our punting is good. 
I know James Evans is like, you 

595
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,240
know, the Maytag repairman of 
college football right now. 

596
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,000
It's a lonely job being the 
Indiana punter. 

597
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,320
It was just the whole thing was 
just such a total. 

598
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,640
It was just funny. 
Because when you were, when you 

599
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,320
come to Indiana, you're probably
thinking like, all right, well, 

600
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,400
if nothing else, I'm going to 
get 15 punts a game. 

601
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,680
Like I'm going to get a lot of 
practice. 

602
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,840
I'll get a lot of film. 
And Evans just like knew my pro 

603
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,200
career, like I was going to be 
McAfee. 

604
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,960
Like there's no tape on me 
punting. 

605
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:14,440
Yeah, it's, I don't know, it's 
so much, so much to laud Indiana

606
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:19,880
for in this game as it is. 
It is absolutely just nuts 

607
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,800
watching them play as well as 
they did and watching Indiana 

608
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,920
just with the confidence and the
the the reserve throughout. 

609
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:33,200
And I'm I'm just so pleased. 
I'm so thrilled at the way that 

610
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,720
Indiana approached the game and 
this was something that was 

611
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,000
brought up by a couple of 
different people. 

612
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:43,480
I think Zach Osterman brought it
up in The Star, but the, the 

613
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,040
there was so much noise this 
week. 

614
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,280
IU was all over national media. 
Kurt Signetti was doing all 

615
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,240
these interviews. 
Curtis Rourke was on the Heisman

616
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,200
podcast. 
You had Big Noon kick off live 

617
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,960
in Bloomington. 
You had Barstool who had a 

618
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,960
really unique setup, which I'm 
going to talk about a little bit

619
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,480
later. 
Live in Bloomington, there was 

620
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,800
so much buzz. 
IU had a bye week. 

621
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,200
They had two weeks to kind of 
bask in the fact that they were 

622
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,480
bowl eligible. 
That seemed there would seem 

623
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,840
under normal circumstances, like
something. 

624
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,200
Total let down just. 
Really be a total let down and I

625
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,200
think that in the back of a lot 
of people's heads, that's kind 

626
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,320
of what they were expecting and 
Indiana just showed up like it 

627
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,520
was another game that they there
was a let down. 

628
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,680
It was Nebraska, right. 
Well, that I mean I well, but 

629
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,480
it's the kind of the flip I 
think Nebraska was. 

630
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,880
I think they were so unprepared 
for what Indiana threw out in 

631
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,200
this game. 
And there is a level of 

632
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,560
confidence and I keep saying 
competency, but that feels like 

633
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:48,520
it doesn't adequately explain 
how like if if just efficiently 

634
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,400
minded this team is and you 
know, they haven't played 

635
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,440
perfect all season. 
Kurt Signeti, you know, after 

636
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,760
the game yesterday's like, well,
that you know, that wasn't that 

637
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,520
wasn't perfect. 
Like we got work to do. 

638
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:04,240
That mentality that has been 
given by this coaching staff and

639
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,240
imported to some degree, you 
know, because I think this was 

640
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,920
this was one of the underrated 
aspects. 

641
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,840
Everybody focusing on the the 
transfers from JMU and like, can

642
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,400
these guys really compete at 
this level? 

643
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,640
Well, A, they can. 
And B, the fact that they were 

644
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,040
able to bring in that culture 
and then have that culture 

645
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,840
filter through the rest of the 
players on the roster, the the 

646
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,400
ones that came from elsewhere, 
the ones that were already here.

647
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,280
It's just such a, a sea change 
for IU football. 

648
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,920
And to watch them in this type 
of a game, which had let down or

649
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,880
emotional, you know, emotional 
walk back written all over it. 

650
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,360
It just absolutely thrills me 
that they came out with that 

651
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,920
level of intensity and never let
up for the entire game. 

652
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,480
I mean, the the foot was on the 
gas. 

653
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:53,080
There was a great stat that Greg
Campbell tweeted out that I I 

654
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,120
had missed yesterday. 
Let me see if I can find it 

655
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,960
again real quick. 
So Greg Campbell, the Sid for 

656
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,120
Indiana, Indiana had the ball 
for just two minutes and 24 

657
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,640
seconds in the third quarter. 
So Nebraska had the ball for 12 

658
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,160
minutes and 36 seconds and 
Indiana outscored Nebraska 14 to

659
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,280
nothing in that quarter. 
And you know that that 

660
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,920
interception at the end of that 
long 70 yard drive that got 

661
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,800
returned 78 yards the other way,
that that was the the greatest 

662
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,520
distillation of how demoralized 
Nebraska got in this game and 

663
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,760
how focused Indiana was. 
And I've just. 

664
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,240
Asterisk on that stat. 
That was with our backup. 

665
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:32,920
Quarterback, right? 
Exactly. 

666
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:38,360
Yes, exactly. 
So anyway that any other items 

667
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,960
from the game itself that you 
wanted to talk about? 

668
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:43,800
I can, I do. 
I'm just gonna talk about the 

669
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,520
broadcasters for a second. 
Yeah, that's fine. 

670
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,200
It was all like I I will say Gus
Johnson is pro IU. 

671
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,200
Like it's just you can tell 
because in like when we go up 

672
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,400
fourteen to seven, I think his 
touchdown call was like they 

673
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,200
said they've played nobody. 
They said their schedule is 

674
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,160
soft. 
Just ask Nebraska, Indiana's 

675
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,880
here. 
Something along those lines. 

676
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,480
Like he was like speaking for 
all of the Indiana fans the the 

677
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,159
second-half turned into just a 
signeti love fest. 

678
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:17,480
I mean, they're talking about 
his, you know, the the gamble he

679
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,719
took going to Indiana University
of Pennsylvania, you know, the 

680
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,560
the gamble just going down to 
the low levels and just betting 

681
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,159
on himself. 
You know, the Google me all 

682
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:27,560
that. 
But Gus Johnson had a great 

683
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,360
little tidbit of a story that I 
thought about more that actually

684
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,639
is this so signeti? 
I I love this guy so much. 

685
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,960
So we all know at the basketball
game where he says, you know, 

686
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,560
Purdue sucks, Michigan sucks, 
Ohio State sucks too, whatever, 

687
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,080
you know, along those lines, Gus
Johnson was the was calling that

688
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,920
game. 
So he tells us on the air he's 

689
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,400
like, so Signetti comes and sits
next to me during a time out and

690
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,159
Gus is like, you know, during a 
time out, I kind of lean over. 

691
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,360
I was like, Kurt, It's kind of a
crazy thing to say. 

692
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,520
And Kurt just looks at him 
bewildered and says why? 

693
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,160
We're going to kick their ass 
next year. 

694
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,240
And and Gus was like, I kind of 
thought to myself, this guy's 

695
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:03,040
nuts. 
Like this guy's crazy and he's 

696
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,960
like, but I don't think he's 
crazy anymore. 

697
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:08,960
And then I I apologize for not 
thinking of this, but with 

698
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,160
everything, you know, Signetti's
got a plan on everything. 

699
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,560
Galen, those are the last three 
teams we play this year. 

700
00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:16,240
Like I thought it was kind of 
just a Purdue's our rival. 

701
00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:18,200
And then, you know, Michigan, 
Ohio State or the class cream of

702
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,880
the crop, which it might have 
been, but it also could have 

703
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,800
been Kurt Signetti looking at 
our schedule and being like, how

704
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:24,920
are we going to finish this 
year? 

705
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,320
We're finishing the year with 
Michigan, Ohio State and Purdue,

706
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,160
and those are the three schools 
he called out and in February 

707
00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,040
he's thinking we're going to 
kick their ass. 

708
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,560
It it it. 
Anyway, it's a great little 

709
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:36,960
story. 
I just love gusts off and being 

710
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,360
like this guy's nuts. 
It was December. 

711
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:40,760
I think it was December 
actually. 

712
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:46,160
But no, I look and and he got 
asked this by Jenny Taft in the 

713
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,840
post game and he said, you know,
I got a lot of respect for 

714
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,200
those, those coaches and those 
programs. 

715
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,680
And I think he legitimately 
does. 

716
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:58,040
And ultimately what he said was 
in that interview, I didn't, I 

717
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,640
didn't have a very enjoyable 
first day because there was just

718
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,200
no hope. 
There was nothing. 

719
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,120
There was no optimism. 
And we are IU football 

720
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,120
podcasters. 
We're IU football fans. 

721
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,640
We know that. 
We knew I, you know I. 

722
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:10,600
Feel you, Kurt. 
We feel. 

723
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,200
Yeah, the level, the level of 
beaten down that IU football 

724
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:20,600
fans have gotten to by the end 
of Tom Allen's time, it was 

725
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,920
really, really depressing. 
I mean, to the point that you 

726
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,400
and I were having conversations 
about is this do we do want to 

727
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,240
keep doing like this podcast? 
It was so depressing. 

728
00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:31,760
I mean, Punt John, Punt 
literally stopped doing what 

729
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,480
they did because of how low 
morale had gotten and. 

730
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,920
And shout out to Taylor Layman 
and all of this. 

731
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,240
Taylor's like I'm in. 
I'm gonna start to swap it up. 

732
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,480
Someone's gotta be there. 
Not only I'm gonna dig into 

733
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,240
stats, stats just suck. 
I'm gonna. 

734
00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:46,280
Dig it. 
I love you, Taylor. 

735
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,200
We love you. 
But the, you know, The thing is 

736
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:54,960
the that that brashness, that 
that confidence level is 

737
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,800
absolutely what Indiana needed, 
not just on the field, but 

738
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,600
that's clearly where it's had 
the biggest impact. 

739
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,560
But the fan base, I think the 
early adopters were like, this 

740
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,880
guy's different. 
This guy is coming with an 

741
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,160
energy that has been needed here
forever. 

742
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,200
And then to watch it manifest 
and to see the stadium 

743
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,920
yesterday, I mean, to to be in 
there. 

744
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,360
I remember walked in and, you 
know, I've got my family with me

745
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:22,960
and I'm looking out at this 
crowd and I'm just like, I can't

746
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,320
believe what my eyes are seeing.
I cannot believe how packed the 

747
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,120
stadium was, how energetic the 
stadium was. 

748
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,120
The whole day was like that. 
The, the, the vibe around campus

749
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,040
and around the stadium in the 
tailgate lots was just so much 

750
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,920
fun. 
And it stayed that way the whole

751
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,240
game. 
The energy was like that. 

752
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:45,640
The Maryland game was like that 
too. 

753
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,080
It was a little bit different. 
It was a little edgier and it 

754
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,600
was a closer game for a longer 
period of time. 

755
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,960
Like, you know, we've, we've had
complaints about IU fans not 

756
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,520
sticking around after halftime. 
And it's a legitimate complaint 

757
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,880
why you fans started leaving 
because we were beating Nebraska

758
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:01,440
too much. 
Like it was like, well, I don't 

759
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,280
know what else I'm going to see.
And the the ones that stuck 

760
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,360
around to the end got to see 56 
to 7:00. 

761
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:11,240
But that that brashness, that 
confidence that Signeti has 

762
00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:15,320
brought to the table has flipped
the mindset of this football 

763
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,880
team. 
And it is such a joy to watch 

764
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,840
that happening. 
It is such a joy to watch fans 

765
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,840
believing for the first time, 
literally the first time in IU 

766
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,880
football and and feeling like 
they've got something that they 

767
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,480
can really bank on with IU 
football. 

768
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,360
We've got random people walking 
down the street in California or

769
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,520
New York getting stopped and 
say, hey, what about Indiana? 

770
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:43,960
You know, it's it is so much of 
what Signeti has done and people

771
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,080
have been critical of it at 
times or like, who the heck is 

772
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:47,800
this guy? 
Like, why is he acting this way?

773
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,800
But I think he realizes and you 
can see it. 

774
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,160
And if you pay attention to his 
press conferences and his media 

775
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:56,560
appearances, like he realized 
that this place needed a reason 

776
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,760
to believe. 
So you provide one and then you 

777
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,800
got to go back it up. 
And I don't know that in his 

778
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,920
wildest dreams, and he probably 
would never say this, but I I 

779
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,560
don't know that anybody would 
have thought, oh, we're just 

780
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,560
going to go in and get this 
football team to the point where

781
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,480
it's 7 and O and rolling and 
having all of these amazing 

782
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,640
stats. 
But so much of it, and we talked

783
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,120
about it in the preseason, 
Scott, so much of it comes down 

784
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,760
to belief. 
Football is a very interesting 

785
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,040
game. 
It's a game where yes, your your

786
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,320
scheme matters. 
Yes, your players matter. 

787
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,120
But we've seen talented teams, 
really talented teams that don't

788
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,520
believe in what they're doing, 
have seasons that just go off 

789
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,800
the deep end in a bad way. 
It's happening to USC right now.

790
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:43,240
This year, US CS, 3:00 and 4:00 
and they look like a team that 

791
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:45,320
has just had their confidence 
stolen from them. 

792
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,280
The fact that Sigeti was able to
establish that early and has 

793
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,920
been able to maintain it and 
increase it throughout the 

794
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,440
course of the season to the 
point that now people are like 

795
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,520
afraid of Indiana is just a 
baffling turn of events that I I

796
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,920
couldn't be more thrilled for. 
Well, even on the big the the 

797
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,640
big noon kick off show, you 
know, and he's been saying this 

798
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:04,800
for a while. 
He had an interview, you know, 

799
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,200
Urban Meyer had an interview 
with Signetti a little bit ago. 

800
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,480
But you know, Urban Meyer, like 
him or love him, like he's one 

801
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,400
of one of the better coaches in 
the last 20 years. 

802
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,440
It's just saying, you know, this
is the best coach team in 

803
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,000
America. 
Like I've watched the film and 

804
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,320
then halftime, he's like, it's 
it's so unusual to watch a team 

805
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,000
on film and then come out and 
see the exact same thing on the 

806
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,720
field in a good way. 
And Urban is just like this is 

807
00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,440
the best team. 
The best coach team in America. 

808
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,520
And then you also have Mark 
Ingram, who is recruited by 

809
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,160
Signetti at Alabama, talking 
about how much he loves 

810
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,880
Signetti. 
Obviously Saban has a very 

811
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,840
tight, you know, bond with 
Signetti. 

812
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,680
You you look at this and it's 
just it is kind of one of those 

813
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,720
moments and this happens every 
so often where a coach hooks on 

814
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:48,800
with the team and has all the 
pedigree and, and you think to 

815
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,400
yourself, that makes total 
sense. 

816
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:51,960
Like, of course that guy's going
to succeed. 

817
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,320
It just sucks that it's 
happening at, you know, Kansas 

818
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,720
State or I can't think of the 
best example, but it's happening

819
00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:59,520
here. 
And you you have the the 

820
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,840
coaching elite who again, say 
what you want. 

821
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,800
Urban Meyer knows how to coach 
football, knows how to get a 

822
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,240
team to a high level. 
For him to say, this is the best

823
00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:08,320
coach, the best coach team that 
I see this year. 

824
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,960
That's that's high praise. 
Mark Ingram's saying it, you 

825
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,520
know, and, and Leonard is there 
singing the praises. 

826
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:18,280
It is it, it really, it's not 
just beating, you know, the 

827
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,720
schedule. 
The people who know football are

828
00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:25,000
seeing the things that make a 
team great and they're seeing it

829
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,000
all here. 
And it's unbelievable that it 

830
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,600
happened in a one year. 
Turn around. 

831
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:34,320
But you know, it, it goes to 
kind of what, you know, Signetti

832
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,800
says and is true. 
He's, you know, they, they 

833
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,160
played a clip for him yesterday 
where he's, you know, he talked 

834
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:40,840
about how pissed he was that day
at IU. 

835
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,600
And that's why he said that 
Assembly Hall was kind of just 

836
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,040
tired of being losing. 
He's like you, you can win 

837
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:45,640
anywhere. 
It's like if there's support 

838
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,640
from the top down and the bottom
up, you can win anywhere and you

839
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,560
can win quickly. 
I mean, and he's doing it. 

840
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,440
We've always said this, you 
know, so much of the idea of 

841
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,160
what a program is is really the 
people that run it. 

842
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,160
And it's the same thing in 
basketball as it is in football.

843
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,840
You can talk about excuses, you 
can say, oh, you don't have 

844
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,800
support here or there. 
And and certainly there are some

845
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,560
financial elements that more and
more come into play. 

846
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,120
But historically, as much as 
programs like to talk about 

847
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,080
being places where you can win 
or can't win, we've seen plenty 

848
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,720
of examples of people going into
programs like Bill Snyder at 

849
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,600
Kansas State where. 
Virginia Tech Like. 

850
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,080
You can change things if you are
good at what you do. 

851
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,280
And I, you know, the, the really
special coaches are the ones 

852
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,480
that are able to go in and 
change culture and they become a

853
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,200
phenomenon unto themselves at 
the place that they're coaching 

854
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,160
at. 
And look, this is we're just 

855
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,600
seven games into Year 1 of what 
will hopefully be a nice long 

856
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,200
tenure for Kurt Signetti here at
IU. 

857
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,480
But, you know, so who knows what
how the season ends up, who 

858
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,280
knows how things go. 
But just to watch the level of 

859
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,200
confidence that Indiana's 
playing with the level of 

860
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,160
execution that they're able to 
bring to the table and to 

861
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,240
understand that there is an 
attitude that goes with that. 

862
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:05,200
It's not just the plays, it's 
not just the players, but it is 

863
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,360
the attitude with which they 
approach the game. 

864
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,800
And that is, to me, the most 
important and exciting thing 

865
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,640
about Kurt Signeti and his whole
staff. 

866
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,040
And you know, you mentioned this
a little bit earlier, but 

867
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:19,080
watching the way that they 
communicate on social media, 

868
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,320
watching how they approach the 
game schematically and watching 

869
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,360
how their players are reacting 
to what they're doing, it just 

870
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,640
feels very different from what 
we're used to. 

871
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,040
And that is really exciting, 
Scott. 

872
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:35,000
Yeah, no, and I the the thing 
that it's, it's I just it, it 

873
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,200
almost is laughable. 
Now the narrative of, well, they

874
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,840
have a soft schedule and it's 
like, yes, we do. 

875
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,440
But you know, there's also no 
other team in the it's not like 

876
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,080
other teams in the Big 10 have 
to play Oregon and USC and Ohio 

877
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,320
State and Michigan. 
Like this is a the amalgamation 

878
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,600
of a schedule. 
It it broke well for us, but 

879
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:53,880
it's broken well for a lot of 
teams. 

880
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,400
You look at Miami of Florida, 
you know, they played at 

881
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,040
Florida, Florida A&M, Ball 
State, Southern Florida, a lot 

882
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,240
of Florida schools, Virginia 
Tech, California, at Louisville,

883
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,240
not exactly a murderer's row, 
like not a lot of, you know, 

884
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:09,240
ranked in the top five teams. 
And you know, this idea of, you 

885
00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:11,640
know, Ohio State played Oregon, 
look at the rest of their 

886
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,960
schedule hasn't been that tough.
Now we'll play some more tough 

887
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,440
games. 
It's just, it is, it's 

888
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,320
frustrating as an IU fan how the
Gulf Coast continued to be moved

889
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,160
because, you know, it's like, we
got to play a real Rd. game. 

890
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,880
Oh, UCLA sucks, like 
Northwestern, that's not a real 

891
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:26,720
Rd. game. 
And then now it's, you know, 

892
00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:29,400
it's Nebraska, that's your test.
And now it's like, oh, they 

893
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,720
suck. 
It's like, well, they partially,

894
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,920
all these teams partially suck 
because we're kicking the hell 

895
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,120
out of them. 
Like those two things can be 

896
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,880
true. 
I, I saw somebody tweeting out 

897
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,000
about like, you know, nobody 
could have thought this even in 

898
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,080
a fever dream. 
This was real. 

899
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,600
Like, I couldn't imagine us 
doing our preview. 

900
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,200
And like, Dale and I, I think I 
have a seven. 

901
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,880
And oh, and like, I just want to
throw in, I think we're going to

902
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,240
beat Nebraska 56 to 7. 
Like we are. 

903
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,240
Do you realize we win next week?
We've already hit our win total 

904
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:58,080
for the year, which most people 
thought we were a little bit too

905
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:02,880
eager this year with. 8 Scott, 
you, you and I, I think, or I at

906
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,960
least I picked us to lose to 
Nebraska and I picked us to lose

907
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,000
to Washington. 
And yes, the fact that we're 

908
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,760
already on the precipice of 
getting to the eight wins that 

909
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,200
you and I both predicted and 
were kind of laughed at when we 

910
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,400
did so is really exciting. 
Yeah. 

911
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:22,040
I mean, gosh, there's so many 
other directions we could go 

912
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,000
here, but a couple of items 
there was. 

913
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:27,200
I had a question earlier that I 
wanted to get to from Ron 

914
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,800
Mcfaul. 
Where does yesterday's Memorial 

915
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,760
Stadium experience rank in your 
all time IU football moment? 

916
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,640
So I put I tweeted something out
about this yesterday and people 

917
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,520
got mad at me because I didn't 
have the O 7 bucket game. 

918
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,520
I wasn't there. 
So I can't really, I can't 

919
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,080
comment on that. 
But now yesterday was the best. 

920
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,480
The whole day. 
It was such a, it was such a, an

921
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,960
amazing vibe in there. 
And, and even beforehand I, I 

922
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:55,720
was, I was on so little sleep. 
I had 40 minutes of sleep the 

923
00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:57,480
night before. 
Not because I was juiced or 

924
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,160
excited or was like really 
anticipating him. 

925
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:00,640
I just couldn't sleep. 
I just could not fall. 

926
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,400
It was I could not stay asleep. 
It was awful. 

927
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,920
So I was like, am I even going 
to make it to the game? 

928
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,520
You know, do I have to go nap in
the truck at the tailgate or 

929
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,560
something like that? 
But I was, I was in line at 6:35

930
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,440
to get into the lot which 
opened. 

931
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:14,960
Did your rally towel say sleep 
later? 

932
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,400
Not study later, but sleep 
later. 

933
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:17,680
That's. 
Right sleep later. 

934
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:21,320
I love it. 
I was in line to get into lot 12

935
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,600
at 6:35. 
I was the 6th vehicle in line so

936
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,240
5 people got there in front of 
me. 

937
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,640
By the time the gates opened, 
there were about 25 cars behind 

938
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,800
me. 
We got in there, we got set up. 

939
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,360
We, I mean me, I, I did all the 
set up myself because nobody 

940
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,480
wanted to get up that early to 
help set up which shots fired to

941
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,120
the wife. 
No, no, no, that's OK That she 

942
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,640
normally comes later with the 
second vehicle, which is, which 

943
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,640
is needed. 
So no, the, the, she was the 

944
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:51,120
real MVP with that. 
But from the beginning it was 

945
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,360
just the, the, the fans that 
were in the tailgate lots were 

946
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:55,800
excited. 
There were a lot of people 

947
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,440
there. 
It was legitimately a sell out. 

948
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:02,280
I think that the lot that I park
in, I think the last number I 

949
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:06,760
saw on SeatGeek was that those 
passes were going for about $260

950
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,680
each. 
So you know, forget about 

951
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:13,360
Bitcoin, invest in IU football 
parking passes I think is my 

952
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,680
message for all of you. 
But that's what I'm doing here. 

953
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,160
I'm actually buying and selling 
pass. 

954
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,280
I'm Dominican. 
I'm just selling EA Lot and lot 

955
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,920
9 and lot 8, and I'm going to 
the beach to do that in a bit. 

956
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:28,400
Yeah, but. 
Walking around, which I don't 

957
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,480
normally get a chance to do 
'cause I'm cooking pretty much 

958
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,560
the whole time, but I, I shut 
the grill off at 10 'cause I was

959
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,800
like, I really want to go see 
what's going on everywhere else.

960
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:41,400
And walked over with a group to 
17th and Forest, I think to, to 

961
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,440
where the barstool thing was. 
That was cool. 

962
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,560
They had a big stage set up. 
They had a huge crowd there. 

963
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:51,080
It, it felt like a mini EDM 
festival and, or, or like a 

964
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,440
backyard fraternity party. 
And I mean that in the best 

965
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,000
possible way. 
Like it just had this kind of 

966
00:47:55,000 --> 00:48:00,800
cool, cloistered off vibe. 
Then walked over to the fox set 

967
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,680
and that was amazing. 
You know, stood there, we were 

968
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:07,160
right nearby when they were 
doing some of their field demos.

969
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,920
Mark Ingram, yeah, spiked a 
football after, like, he caught 

970
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:13,800
a pass from Matt Leinert, 
bounced up. 

971
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,520
I caught him out of the air. 
So I now have that football that

972
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,920
will I, if I will someday, 
hopefully get him to autograph 

973
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,560
it for me. 
That was pretty, pretty cool. 

974
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,760
But that was nuts. 
Jeremy Gray, beforehand senior 

975
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,000
associate athletic director for 
IU, who's poured his heart and 

976
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,320
soul into marketing and trying 
to get the game day experience 

977
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,080
better. 
This had to feel like a 

978
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,040
coronation for him. 
He had some tweet where he that 

979
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,400
he took a picture from the 
stanchion above it. 

980
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,840
It's like, you know, more 
beautiful, you know, sight these

981
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,960
eyes have ever seen like, you 
know, kind of the Rudy quote. 

982
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,800
And it felt that way. 
Like you just were like, I can't

983
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,800
believe that this is all 
happening at an Indiana football

984
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,200
game. 
And for those of us who have 

985
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,680
been going to games since the 
80s or the 70s or the 60s, it 

986
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:01,160
was, it was almost like an, it 
was like you. 

987
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,360
It was like one of those Star 
Trek episodes where you wake up 

988
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,160
in an alternate universe. 
And that, that's really how it 

989
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,360
felt. 
It's like, how is all this 

990
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,200
happening at IU? 
Everybody got into the stadium 

991
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,040
early. 
I mean, the, the place was 

992
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,080
packed and there were 15 minutes
left on the clock until the game

993
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:16,880
started. 
Like that's how packed the thing

994
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,720
was. 
And I was just thrilled with the

995
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,240
the absolute vibe that was 
flowing through the crowd 

996
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:25,560
throughout the course of the 
whole game. 

997
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,080
So to go back to Ron's question,
it was one of those things 

998
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,960
where, you know, the Maryland 
game had previously from earlier

999
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,840
this year had become my favorite
game at IU because of how into 

1000
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,640
the game the fans were. 
I have to go back the, the, the 

1001
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,000
only other game that really 
ranks in the top three as far as

1002
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,520
games that I've been to. 
And there's and there's been a 

1003
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,360
ton of games that I've missed 
for various reasons. 

1004
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:50,040
Like I remember Jason Kennedy 
and I trying to keep track of 

1005
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,560
that 2015 game against Michigan 
that went to what, 4 overtimes 

1006
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,520
or I was not at the game. 
Yeah, there were a couple of 

1007
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,040
others, but I have to go all the
way back just real quick that 

1008
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:00,720
that game, I remember my son was
there. 

1009
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,960
He's like 2 years old and he 
fell and like fell down like 2 

1010
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,720
bleachers in front and hit his 
head. 

1011
00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:08,400
He was OK, but people like he 
have a concussion. 

1012
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:09,280
Do you need to leave? 
And I'm like. 

1013
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:11,240
It's overtime one against 
Michigan. 

1014
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,400
Like, you know, whatever is 
gonna happen, it's gonna happen.

1015
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:17,640
But I'm staying here for the 
rest of this game that we lost 

1016
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,040
so many of these memories. 
I remember the Iowa game where 

1017
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:21,400
like with so many memories, we 
lost. 

1018
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,520
And so I have to go back for 
games I've been in person. 

1019
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,640
The only other game that's in 
the category, and it's a distant

1020
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,920
third to the Maryland game. 
And then the number one for me 

1021
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:34,680
now is that Nebraska game was 
2001 bucket game in the pouring,

1022
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,480
driving rain for those who were 
there. 

1023
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,520
That was one of those games 
you'll never forget. 

1024
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:45,360
And that game had like this. 
That was not a great game. 

1025
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,440
It was a 14, seven game. 
Indiana had to have a goal line 

1026
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,800
stand at the end of the game to 
preserve the win. 

1027
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,760
I think it was the last time a 
goal post got torn down at 

1028
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,760
Memorial Stadium. 
But it was one of those games 

1029
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:01,120
where what made it so good was 
how into it the crowd was, 

1030
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:08,080
despite the elements and how it 
felt like finally the Cameron 

1031
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,520
era had like some kind of a good
win associated with it was like,

1032
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,120
yes, we did that. 
We weren't going to a bowl. 

1033
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,200
We'd already lost our 6th game 
by that point. 

1034
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:20,600
But yes, as as as Matt Ogle 
points out, Martin Lapostel was 

1035
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,080
the guy that made the tackle at 
the end. 

1036
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,920
So those that were there, it was
one of those games you'll never 

1037
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,360
forget. 
But this was better by every 

1038
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,400
stretch of the imagination, not 
just because of the significance

1039
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,880
of the game and how well 
Indiana's played this season, 

1040
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:38,040
but this was absolutely just a 
demolishing of a team that was 

1041
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,360
supposed to be good. 
A fringe top 25 team, a Nebraska

1042
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:45,760
program that is one of the top 
programs from a brand name 

1043
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:50,320
perspective in college history, 
and a team that did a lot of 

1044
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,800
talking, or at least their fans 
did a lot of talking coming into

1045
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,360
the game. 
The team didn't so much I am, I,

1046
00:51:55,920 --> 00:52:00,400
I, I'll always remember fondly 
the entire picture of this 

1047
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,640
Nebraska game and just how fun 
it was. 

1048
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,560
And for those that were there, I
think you'll probably all say 

1049
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:07,480
the same thing down the line. 
And for those that weren't 

1050
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,200
there, all I can say is buy 
Washington tickets. 

1051
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,520
But you know, come down and see 
this team in person. 

1052
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,240
And and that's The thing is that
there's a there's an opportunity

1053
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:19,080
the Michigan game could be the 
next best experience for for 

1054
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:20,880
fans who are there 'cause that 
could be a team that's 

1055
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,800
undefeated going in to beat 
Michigan, Who, you know, is a 

1056
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,160
bigger, you know, defending 
national champion And also a 

1057
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:28,640
team that we've had our bugaboos
with. 

1058
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:30,640
They could they could could not 
be ranked. 

1059
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:32,360
That could have, you know, not 
you're not going to get 

1060
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,080
obviously big Noon, you know, 
Saturday, again, maybe it's game

1061
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,440
day, don't know. 
And in the Purdue game, while 

1062
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,880
Purdue's not a looks like a live
opponent this year, that that 

1063
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,680
would still be fun to kick the 
snot out of Purdue and maybe 

1064
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:48,360
punch your ticket to something 
Big 10 title game, you know, a 

1065
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,600
College Football Playoff. 
I mean, so I, I, I hear you. 

1066
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,520
This is also the the longing of 
a guy who just scheduled a trip 

1067
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,840
for the wrong day nine months 
ago, you know, but I, I, I 

1068
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,960
again, much like that, you know,
missed fumble that we didn't 

1069
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,360
get. 
It doesn't feel like this is my 

1070
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,040
God. 
I missed the one in a 20 year 

1071
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:08,840
opportunity to catch a great 
game. 

1072
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:14,240
It does feel as if there are 
more great experiences down the 

1073
00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:17,440
road. 
This team just looks focused and

1074
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:20,320
poised. 
And you know, I'm, I'm nervous 

1075
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,760
to play without Curtis Rourke, 
but I'm not frightened. 

1076
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:27,040
It's not like, you know, when, 
when Pennex went down, Ramsey 

1077
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,800
was still good. 
But you know, it was, it was 

1078
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:31,800
different. 
Or in 2020, you know, you kind 

1079
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,520
of felt like all right, going to
Jack Tuttle was definitely a 

1080
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,880
step down from Pennex. 
And I'm not trying to knock, you

1081
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,640
know, Rourke or Jackson. 
It just it feels like the 

1082
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,080
schematics are run so well that 
this coaching staff will be able

1083
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,640
to put together a package that 
works for what Jackson needs to 

1084
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:50,800
do. 
I mean, and that's the thing. 

1085
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,960
So I guess we can talk about the
Rourke injury now. 

1086
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,800
So, you know, it's there's 
conflicting reports about what 

1087
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,080
the injury was. 
You know what I've been hearing 

1088
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:03,560
and I think I think our our 
buddy Huperazzi verified this, 

1089
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,240
that that he had his thumbnail 
ripped off. 

1090
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,760
And so they had to tape that 
background, which is tough on 

1091
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,800
the throwing hand. 
And so Pete Amo. 

1092
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:12,040
Better than a broken thumb? 
Well. 

1093
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,200
But yes, absolutely. 
But, you know, Pete Amo, Pete 

1094
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:16,720
Amo. 
And then we've seen several 

1095
00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:20,200
other confirmations of this 
saying that Rourke is unlikely 

1096
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,240
to play against Washington. 
Jeff Rabjons from Pigs just 

1097
00:54:23,240 --> 00:54:26,160
stated that a source says he's 
not playing against Washington. 

1098
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,880
I mean, I don't want to 
undersell that. 

1099
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,760
I mean, this is a guy who has 
been throwing himself into the 

1100
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:35,520
Heisman contention, quite 
literally, and has played with 

1101
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,360
such a poise. 
I really liked what I saw out of

1102
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,160
Taven Jackson. 
And I liked what Taylor said 

1103
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,160
earlier about this idea that, 
you know, this, this this team 

1104
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,600
is winning because its offensive
line has played great and 

1105
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,360
they've got a really good game 
plan. 

1106
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,520
But anytime you lose your 
starting quarterback, that's a, 

1107
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,320
that's an issue. 
And so I'm really interested to 

1108
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,360
see how Indiana responds. 
They're going to play a team 

1109
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,120
that's got a much better offense
in Washington than what Nebraska

1110
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,080
threw out there. 
And Washington's, you know, 

1111
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,480
proven that they're a, a, a 
decent team at times. 

1112
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,640
They beat Michigan now that that
win looks a little bit less 

1113
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:09,880
impressive every week. 
And then they, you know, they 

1114
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,680
also didn't look very good 
against Iowa. 

1115
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:15,480
So I am confident in Indiana's 
ability to get through that 

1116
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,280
game, but they're going to have 
to keep their focus and, and 

1117
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,240
this is where they just can't 
take anything for granted, 

1118
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,160
especially if you're going to 
have work out. 

1119
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,680
It might be a blessing in 
disguise to some degree because 

1120
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,760
as we've heard a lot of people 
say like, well, IU hasn't faced 

1121
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,720
adversity in a game yet, which, 
which a is false, but this is 

1122
00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:34,400
real adversity. 
Like, you know, anytime you lose

1123
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:39,120
a, a starting quarterback for a 
game in the, in a season where 

1124
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:44,200
you've only got 12/13/14 games, 
you're that's, that's adversity 

1125
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,120
that you have to overcome. 
And maybe that helps them keep 

1126
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,240
their focus even more as they go
into this week. 

1127
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,800
Well, not, not that you're 
saying it, but as somebody who 

1128
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:52,640
would say that, it's like we 
haven't faced a, we haven't been

1129
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:53,720
down because we haven't been 
down. 

1130
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,600
Like because we're up 14, 
nothing in every game that we 

1131
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:00,160
play or we haven't ever been 
down, It's like, yes, we haven't

1132
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,160
faced adversity, but partially 
because we're winning every game

1133
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,880
and we're kind of putting teams 
out of their misery early. 

1134
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,760
Yeah. 
So it's it's just, you know, and

1135
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,080
that Brian Hicks just had that 
comment that I showed there, 

1136
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:14,440
like, can we jump on Washington 
the way we've jumped on these 

1137
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,880
other teams? 
But you know, I'll say this, 

1138
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,400
like even in the Maryland game, 
which was tight for a while, the

1139
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,080
the Northwestern game got tight 
later. 

1140
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,880
We've seen Indiana win 
effectively in a variety of 

1141
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:28,520
scenarios and situations. 
We've seen them jump on a team 

1142
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,680
immediately like that again, get
against Nebraska. 

1143
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:34,560
We've seen them ease into a big 
win like they did against UCLA. 

1144
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,600
We've seen them pull away at the
end like they did against 

1145
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,960
Northwestern and Maryland. 
So I like the fact that 

1146
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,760
Indiana's going to be in a 
position where whatever they 

1147
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,240
face in this Washington game, 
it's not going to be a scenario 

1148
00:56:46,240 --> 00:56:48,560
in a game that they haven't 
faced in some way, shape or 

1149
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,880
form, except that they're going 
to have a different person 

1150
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,760
likely under under center. 
I am curious to see how 

1151
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:58,160
precautionary all this is. 
And I'd feel a lot less, I feel 

1152
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,000
a lot more worried about it if 
the running game hadn't been so 

1153
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,080
strong in this Nebraska game. 
Well, that was the point I was 

1154
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,560
going to wrap up with is, you 
know, we, we scored 18 

1155
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:07,960
touchdowns through passing this 
year. 

1156
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,760
We scored 28 touchdowns through 
rushing. 

1157
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,240
Some of that is I know you get 
close to the goal line and you 

1158
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:15,120
punch it in with the run, but 
we're still averaging 5.3 yards 

1159
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,280
per carry on our run game on A 
and it's not like we're not 

1160
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,200
running, you know, only running 
the ball in a very small sample 

1161
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:21,360
size. 
We're running the ball a good 

1162
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,600
amount. 
So I I like you. 

1163
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,440
This is not like previous years 
where our offense is focused 

1164
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,400
nothing on pass and the run is 
an afterthought. 

1165
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,480
Both sides of the ball are 
functioning well. 

1166
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,000
Now, maybe that's partially 
because you have Curtis Rourke 

1167
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,280
playing so well. 
We're going to see. 

1168
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:39,600
But there's something with this 
team that doesn't feel as if 

1169
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,000
Signeti's not going to know. 
And this is where that breath of

1170
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,440
his career and his experience 
comes into play. 

1171
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,640
And I think you just at this 
point, no question, he gets the 

1172
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:50,440
benefit of the doubt that he 
knows what he's doing. 

1173
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,800
He's had situations with teams 
where people have gone down, 

1174
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,560
either starting quarterbacks, 
running backs or wide receivers 

1175
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,800
that were key. 
How do you build your your game 

1176
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,560
plan differently around that? 
I I feel like Signeti is going 

1177
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,040
to be able to do that. 
And not to mention, you know, if

1178
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:05,800
he if he doesn't have a 
question, maybe if he's 

1179
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:07,720
concerned, he could call up 
Saban. 

1180
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,000
I mean, he's got a great 
coaching treat. 

1181
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,160
He's just like, hey, Saban or 
Urban when you're not, you know,

1182
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,440
going off on me on the big noon 
set, you know, kissing my butt. 

1183
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,320
Give me some ideas. 
I look, I'll say this, the last 

1184
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,440
thing I'll say on this and then 
a couple other things before we 

1185
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,520
wrap up. 
I am, I'm, I'm confident that 

1186
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,680
this coaching staff is going to 
figure it out and, and figure 

1187
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,000
out a way to handle whatever 
they have to deal with. 

1188
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,000
Indiana's been blessed so far 
this season and that they really

1189
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:34,960
haven't had a lot of injury 
concerns. 

1190
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:37,400
They've had a couple and but 
they've been able to cover in 

1191
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,400
those circumstances, whether 
it's on defense or on offense 

1192
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,080
when they've lost people. 
So I'm not overly worried, but I

1193
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,640
any more than I would be just 
generally like make sure that 

1194
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,720
you do business the way that 
you're supposed to do business 

1195
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:52,360
if you're Indiana, because this 
is really where it's, it's 

1196
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,120
tricky. 
And I've thought about this a 

1197
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:58,200
lot with this football team. 
So much success has come to them

1198
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:02,520
so quickly and they've handled 
it so well up to this point. 

1199
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,000
That builds though, week after 
week. 

1200
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,520
You saw this with with 
Signetti's James Madison team 

1201
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,320
last year. 
You know, I mean, they, they had

1202
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,720
one bad game towards the end 
there where they lost the 

1203
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:14,480
Appalachian State. 
That was what they had game day 

1204
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:15,600
out there, right? 
Like that's kind of when it. 

1205
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,880
Felt like the fever pitch of 
James Madison hit, you know, But

1206
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,280
I think Signetti probably 
learned some lessons from that. 

1207
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:23,040
This coaching staff was with him
for that. 

1208
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:27,560
So I really count on them to go 
through this week focused and 

1209
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:30,000
intense and realizing. 
And Signetti even said, you 

1210
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,720
know, something along these 
lines at some point yesterday. 

1211
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:37,120
It's like at the end of the day,
like it's, it's a new week every

1212
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:40,520
week it's a new game that you're
you, you can't bask and whatever

1213
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,760
you're doing at that moment, you
just have to keep pressing 

1214
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,720
forward and that this team 
really does seem to grasp that. 

1215
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,760
It's almost like they don't 
quite understand or understands 

1216
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:53,120
the wrong word. 
They don't have a situation 

1217
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:57,640
where they've acknowledged all 
of the noise and that and it was

1218
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,440
that I think Ethan Barksdale had
the quote I was searching for in

1219
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,600
vain. 
We we wake up the same people 

1220
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,640
and that's. 
The message and so the work 

1221
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,960
thing is, is a concern and you 
just hope that he's able to get 

1222
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,200
back relatively soon. 
We don't know what the extent of

1223
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,440
the injury is, but I'm not I I 
have faith right now in this 

1224
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,960
team and I think this team has 
faith in itself and in the 

1225
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,000
coaching staff to do what they 
need to do. 

1226
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,640
And so that's why I'm not as 
concerned. 

1227
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,800
Any any other thoughts, I guess 
generally on that Scott? 

1228
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,400
No, I mean, it kind of goes back
to what I said in the beginning.

1229
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,640
You know, the the only thing 
that makes me feel, again, I 

1230
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,760
would rather have Curtis work 
behind center and have this team

1231
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,280
humming on all cylinders. 
But the nice thing is you're 

1232
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,240
playing. 
Your next two games are against,

1233
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,480
you know, Washington, who's a 
little bit of a mix there at 

1234
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:43,520
home. 
And then a Michigan State team 

1235
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:46,160
that has a little bit of 
firepower but also has a 

1236
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,600
freshman quarterback who seems 
to have some, you know, 

1237
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,280
interception issues that we do 
well against. 

1238
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,280
That's on the road, but we have 
we saw a preview of it. 

1239
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,120
I would feel more concerned if 
the Curtis Rourke injury 

1240
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,160
happened at the end of the game 
and it's kind of this big 

1241
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,400
question mark. 
We kind of know what it's going 

1242
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:03,360
to look like with Tave and 
Jackson under center because we 

1243
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,560
saw it in the second-half and it
was kind of business as usual. 

1244
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:08,280
But they scored the same amount 
of points. 

1245
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,400
The offense was still was still 
as functional. 

1246
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,480
So that that makes me less 
concerned is that it see, and 

1247
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,080
that that was probably a 
situation where you had less 

1248
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:18,520
time to prepare. 
Like they probably weren't 

1249
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:21,160
putting a whole tape in Jackson 
playbook into the Nebraska game 

1250
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,640
and they did it in 1/2 time and 
got it ready to go. 

1251
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:27,240
So I again, we are at a point 
where Signeti gets all benefited

1252
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:31,680
out for me and I'm I I'm I like 
you. 

1253
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:33,320
I hope that he can come back 
from the injury. 

1254
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,360
The only thing that was, you 
know, concerning they're talking

1255
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,400
about the broadcast is that, you
know, some injuries and hand 

1256
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:41,000
injuries as a quarterback 
unfortunately are really tough 

1257
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,960
because there's not much you can
do because you can't just shoot 

1258
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:44,920
it up with novocaine because 
that's the hand that you need to

1259
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,280
feel the ball. 
So you're kind of either playing

1260
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:49,960
in pain or you lose some touch. 
Like this is something that may 

1261
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,160
may last for a while which which
sucks. 

1262
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:57,000
That's just Yeah, we'll see. 
I I will say the Michigan State 

1263
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,440
game has always been one I've 
kind of had in the back of my 

1264
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:00,480
head. 
It's like that's going to be a 

1265
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:03,120
challenging game. 
They look and as up and down as 

1266
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:06,560
Michigan State's looked so far 
this year, they look really 

1267
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,680
good. 
Yesterday in beating Iowa, they 

1268
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:12,760
beat Iowa 32 to 20. 
You know, they he jumped on Iowa

1269
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,000
early. 
They were up 12 nothing at 

1270
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,400
halftime. 
Should have been up 15 nothing 

1271
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:17,240
if they hadn't missed that field
goal at the end of the half. 

1272
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:22,600
So look, all of these situations
are situations where Indiana 

1273
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:24,680
just has to keep resetting. 
And we've seen this across 

1274
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,720
college football. 
There are are very few like 

1275
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:29,960
really dominant teams. 
Indiana's been one, but we've 

1276
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:33,480
seen plenty of teams not be able
to handle business from week to 

1277
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:34,680
week. 
I've been pleased with how 

1278
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:36,960
Indiana's been able to handle 
their business week to week. 

1279
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:41,960
This ends up becoming this next 
stretch, a really tough stretch,

1280
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,720
not because of the caliber of 
opponents necessarily, but 

1281
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:49,080
because it is so easy to get 
tripped up in college football. 

1282
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,360
It is so easy to have an off 
week where you're not focused 

1283
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,600
the way that you're supposed to.
And that's that's where Indiana 

1284
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:56,000
just this is where they test 
their medal. 

1285
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,480
Washington at Michigan State, 
Michigan at home. 

1286
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:05,120
If you can win those 3. 
Because the team that does like 

1287
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:11,480
let's be honest, the team that 
does that isn't losing to Purdue

1288
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:12,680
at home, which is they just 
aren't. 

1289
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:14,680
So you're, you're giving 
yourself 11:00 and 1:00. 

1290
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,200
Well, it's more it's yeah, 
that's that's exactly right. 

1291
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:18,920
And and I guess my big thing is 
this. 

1292
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:21,680
It's an amazing thing to even 
say that like Indiana in these 

1293
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,360
next three games can essentially
guarantee the greatest season in

1294
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,800
College in Indiana history 
football wise. 

1295
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:33,040
But that is a really, that's a 
tricky thing to navigate as a 

1296
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:36,440
football team when you haven't 
had historically a whole lot of 

1297
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,040
success. 
Now, the James Madison players 

1298
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:42,240
had success at that level, but 
this collective group has not 

1299
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:46,240
been quite in that spot before. 
And I am look, whatever happens 

1300
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,720
the rest of the year, I'm always
going to look back with 

1301
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:52,480
incredible fondness and 
excitement at what has happened 

1302
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:58,360
so far in this season. 
And, you know, so whatever 

1303
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,520
happens the rest of the way, I'm
it's not going to affect that in

1304
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:03,320
a negative way for me. 
But it is really interesting to 

1305
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:06,800
think about like what the 
potential for this season still 

1306
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:10,000
is at the way that Indiana's 
played and, and the fact that 

1307
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:11,920
they've looked so consistent 
week to week. 

1308
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,040
It's become an interesting 
running subplot in my own mind. 

1309
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:16,760
Like how how are they going to 
do it this week? 

1310
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,720
How are they going to come out 
and do what they need to do to 

1311
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,880
have two weeks off like they did
or a week off, I guess. 

1312
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:26,960
And to come out with that level 
of fire against the Nebraska 

1313
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:28,680
team, that was supposed to be a 
big test. 

1314
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,040
How do they handle that now in 
these next few games? 

1315
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:34,080
Because I think that pressure 
internally like it the the 

1316
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,120
potential is there for it to 
build and you start to feel the 

1317
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,440
weight of expectations. 
So how well does the coaching 

1318
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,920
staff work with these players 
and how well do the players self

1319
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:45,480
regulate so that it doesn't 
become overwhelming from a 

1320
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,920
pressure perspective? 
Because we have seen that not 

1321
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:50,240
just, you know, potentially with
Indiana, we we saw it a little 

1322
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:54,080
bit with a couple of Indiana's 
prior good see seasons and 

1323
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,480
teams, but we see it elsewhere. 
You saw that with Texas 

1324
01:04:56,480 --> 01:05:00,000
yesterday where, you know, all 
this build up and everything and

1325
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,920
and they really got roundly 
trounced by Georgia. 

1326
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:04,880
I mean that that shouldn't have 
been as close to the game as it 

1327
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,440
was. 
So I'm just going to keep an eye

1328
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:08,240
out on it. 
It's fascinating. 

1329
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:10,800
I think it's going to be great 
to watch and I'm really, really 

1330
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:15,120
excited to see what occurs as we
move forward with this team. 

1331
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:17,600
I want to say something now and 
I agree. 

1332
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,280
I agree with you. 
And I said this I think last 

1333
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:22,440
week that if we are at a point 
where this season is a success, 

1334
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:25,360
no matter what happens, we are a
success. 

1335
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:27,760
Just point blank. 
We we've hit the limit. 

1336
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,960
But I, I want to take this a 
step for this is the Scots fever

1337
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:32,320
dream. 
Part of the podcast, which I 

1338
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,360
love is a segment now and people
are texting out like fever dream

1339
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:38,680
stuff cracks me up. 
This was kind of hinted around 

1340
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:40,440
on the broadcast, kind of kicked
around. 

1341
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:43,040
Not really said implicitly, but 
I'm just going to say it here 

1342
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:44,880
because we've talked about, you 
know, schedules and soft 

1343
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:47,560
schedules, this and that. 
And even as you and I talk about

1344
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:49,440
this like we win the next three,
you know, you're going to beat 

1345
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,920
Purdue, you're 11 and one. 
I think people are just 

1346
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:54,560
inherently just assuming that's 
a loss to Ohio State. 

1347
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:58,960
And I just want to say that 
right now this looks like a team

1348
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,000
that could go in and beat Ohio 
State. 

1349
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,360
Now it's we've, I mean, we're 
talking, we're joking about 

1350
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,400
National Football playoff, 
making the Big 10 title game, 

1351
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:08,960
which is nuts for an IU team. 
The idea of almost saying we're 

1352
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:10,920
going to go into Columbus and 
win is like heresy. 

1353
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,320
Like I feel like I'm not being 
left back into the US when I go 

1354
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,400
to customs. 
Like, sorry, Sir, there was pro 

1355
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:18,560
IU optimism. 
Like you're going back to 

1356
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:20,360
Dominican, you're not allowed 
in. 

1357
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:24,200
We had to stop Scott at the 
border for trying to smuggle IU 

1358
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:26,240
optimism into the country. 
I love it. 

1359
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,840
So there's too much. 
They're scheduled soft. 

1360
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:31,920
You're staying in Dominican. 
Is there like? 

1361
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:36,720
Is there a duty free IU optimism
store at the airport? 

1362
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:40,360
Let me know, OK? 
It's it's it's daunted. 

1363
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,360
It's definitely daunted at the 
no. 

1364
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:46,080
Here's The thing is you look at 
all the metrics, Indiana's a 

1365
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:47,760
better metric team than Ohio 
State. 

1366
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:49,440
You say, oh, Ohio State, they're
good. 

1367
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:51,600
Like, why? 
Because they started the season 

1368
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:53,200
ranked high. 
Like, that's it. 

1369
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,600
You look at their schedule. 
They beat Akron, Western 

1370
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:57,720
Michigan and Marshall. 
OK, not exactly a murderer's 

1371
01:06:57,720 --> 01:06:59,360
row. 
They played at Michigan State, 

1372
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,800
Iowa. 
They won those games 38 to 7:35 

1373
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:03,920
to 7:00. 
Those are mid teams. 

1374
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,400
We just beat Nebraska 56 to 
7:00. 

1375
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,000
So we can do the exact same 
thing. 

1376
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:10,120
They played Oregon tough. 
They lost. 

1377
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:14,760
I I'm not saying we're going to 
win, but I, I do think I'm at a 

1378
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:18,520
point now where I'm going to say
like I'm not taking 12 and O off

1379
01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:20,560
the table anymore. 
I'm not just going to assume, 

1380
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:22,760
hey, we can win 3 and then we're
going to get our bucks kicked at

1381
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:25,840
Columbus and come back. 
And why can't this team go in 

1382
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:27,600
and beat Ohio State like it it 
it? 

1383
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:31,480
I agree and I and I was not 
implying that Indiana would lose

1384
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,960
to Ohio State but but my my but.
Everyone kind of talks. 

1385
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:37,640
I'm using you as a scarecrow 
like everyone kind of talks 

1386
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:40,080
about it that way and Scarecrow 
argument. 

1387
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:42,800
No, a straw man, not a 
scarecrow. 

1388
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:47,120
You've done this for like 20 
podcasts in a row. 

1389
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:50,920
I've had a bunch of people write
me and say why not say Scarecrow

1390
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:56,080
argument so. 
I wish I was better at this 

1391
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:58,280
stuff. 
I really think maybe maybe in 

1392
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:00,440
year 40 I'm going to get better 
at this. 

1393
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,600
To be fair, I'm on vacation. 
I spent an hour and 10 minutes 

1394
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:08,760
talking about, you know, AI was 
I actually, I was hoping I was 

1395
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:11,360
going to be able to check off 
that square on the bingo card 

1396
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:12,960
for scarecrow arguments. 
So thank you. 

1397
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:19,080
I appreciate it. 
It's straw man, but everyone's 

1398
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:21,520
going to talk, everyone's going 
to talking around it. 

1399
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:24,960
And I do think it we, we have to
come to the realization that 

1400
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:27,040
this team could, this is the 
kind of team that could go in 

1401
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:29,000
and beat Ohio State. 
If, if, if you just took the 

1402
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,640
names off the jerseys, you know,
this, this would be a team where

1403
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:33,680
you're like, man, Ohio State 
should be concerned. 

1404
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:36,840
So I just, I think I'm at a 
point where I'm, I'm ready to be

1405
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:41,160
12 and oh, I, I mean, I am too. 
And my only point was simply if 

1406
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:45,720
Indiana wins the next three. 
I think if they're 10 and O and 

1407
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,800
we assume a win against Purdue, 
which I mean, I hate counting 

1408
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:50,640
games before they've been 
played. 

1409
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:54,600
But if in the end of 10 and O 
going into that Ohio State game,

1410
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:56,840
I think they're making the 
College Football Playoff unless 

1411
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:58,720
something like completely goes 
off the rails. 

1412
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:02,040
And that is just a wild thing to
think about. 

1413
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:05,720
And your point is is a good 
point, and one that is backed 

1414
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,479
up. 
By, you know, Bill Connolly, the

1415
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,800
expert, the guy that runs S&P 
Plus, where he he had a great 

1416
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:13,760
tweet, something like, I guess 
they're for real or just 

1417
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:16,560
something like very like he, 
he's, he's on our side too pass 

1418
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,600
the test is what he said. 
But yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1419
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:26,040
The the resume S&P Top 10. 
So what this is, is it looks at 

1420
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,399
how you played over the course 
of the season. 

1421
01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:30,560
It takes everything into 
account. 

1422
01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:34,359
It takes schedule, it takes 
opponent, all of that and, and 

1423
01:09:34,359 --> 01:09:36,160
how well you've you've played in
these games. 

1424
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:39,200
Indiana's the number one team in
the country if you look at their

1425
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:42,000
resume and what they've done. 
And that is that, you know, 

1426
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,960
Texas is second, Ohio State's 
third, Miami's fourth, Oregon's 

1427
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,240
fifth. 
Indiana is number one in this 

1428
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,760
list. 
That is that's it. 

1429
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:57,640
That's all there is to it. 
So yeah, anyway, no more 

1430
01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:59,520
scarecrows to knock down. 
We're done at all. 

1431
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:03,520
So anyway, we got to take a 
quick football team, we got to 

1432
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,520
take one quick break, and we'll 
be right back. 

1433
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:08,880
Just just need to take one quick
break here, folks, and we'll be 

1434
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:12,280
back in about two minutes. 
So just hang on for one second 

1435
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:13,320
here. 
I'm going to put the countdown 

1436
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:14,600
on. 
We'll be back here in just like 

1437
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:51,720
2 minutes, OK? 
The. 

1438
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:31,880
The. 
OK, well, we lost Scott there 

1439
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:33,560
briefly, but he'll be back in 
just a second. 

1440
01:11:34,160 --> 01:11:35,840
You lost me too briefly, but I'm
back. 

1441
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,880
There were a couple of other 
quick things we wanted to hit 

1442
01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:42,120
before we wrapped up here and 
just kind of talked through 

1443
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:43,400
Scott. 
Sorry about that. 

1444
01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:45,080
We, I came back a little bit 
early. 

1445
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:51,680
One thing that is really 
interesting is that attendance 

1446
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:56,760
yesterday was what, 53,000? 
OI forget what the actual number

1447
01:11:56,760 --> 01:12:00,360
was, but it was like the fourth 
highest attendance in IU 

1448
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:04,360
history. 
And what is it, 53,000 O 82? 

1449
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:07,520
But I'm confused here, Scott, 
because the capacity for 

1450
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,680
Memorial Stadium is listed as 
52,626. 

1451
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:12,360
Where did all the extra people 
come from? 

1452
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:14,960
Have we figured that out yet? 
They're probably, I mean the 

1453
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,160
upper areas, some of the new 
areas that are just walking 

1454
01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:21,560
around SROI don't know. 
SROI like that we wanted to 

1455
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:23,680
mention the tickets we're. 
Definitely not sliding down the 

1456
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:25,680
hill on cardboard boxes. 
There's an old. 

1457
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,840
Reference, not whole park, not 
exactly how it used to be, but 

1458
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:32,120
that's a lot of people. 
I did want to also note when 

1459
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:37,040
people were asking about 
tickets, there are 675 total 

1460
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:38,880
tickets left for the Washington 
game. 

1461
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:43,800
They sold 4299 tickets yesterday
to that game. 

1462
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:47,280
This is all courtesy of Tony 
Adronia's database. 

1463
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:49,520
There are 22 tickets available 
for Michigan. 

1464
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:51,800
It's technically sold out, but I
think a couple of tickets came 

1465
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:55,880
back on the marketplace and 
Purdue's only got 456 tickets 

1466
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:59,160
left. 
There are 3455 tickets were sold

1467
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:03,680
for that game there. 
This team could have multiple 

1468
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,080
sellouts in a row, which goes 
out this game. 

1469
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:07,880
It's basically guaranteed at 
this point. 

1470
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:10,840
I'm glad to see so many people 
hopping on and and getting 

1471
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:13,240
excited about this. 
The as Patrick points out in the

1472
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:17,000
comments, the student section 
was packed, absolutely packed. 

1473
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,120
The aisles were completely full.
There were lines in the 

1474
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:21,280
bathroom. 
I will say concessions did a 

1475
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:23,120
great job of turning people 
around. 

1476
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:27,800
But as we heard from Tricia 
Whitaker, they ran out of beer 

1477
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:30,880
at several of the stands in the 
third quarter, which we've only 

1478
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:35,080
been selling beer in Memorial 
Stadium for a year, basically 

1479
01:13:36,440 --> 01:13:37,960
for a year, a couple of years, I
guess. 

1480
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:41,560
So that's the first time I think
I can remember them actually 

1481
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:43,920
running out of beer. 
But God, the the game day 

1482
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:46,280
experience has come so far from 
when they were running out of 

1483
01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:49,840
water against Cincinnati. 
I mean, it's just it was so it 

1484
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:51,400
was so good. 
And I got to tell you, like even

1485
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:54,120
the bathroom lines where I was 
at, I was, I sit over in Section

1486
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:56,080
11. 
They were not bad. 

1487
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:58,160
They they moved pretty quickly. 
I thought it was pretty 

1488
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,280
efficient overall. 
But I'm, I really would like if 

1489
01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:04,120
you have not bought a ticket to 
IU yet and you can make it down 

1490
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,120
to that Washington again, that 
may be your last chance because 

1491
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:07,800
all the tickets might be sold 
out after that. 

1492
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:11,440
So jump on that if you can. 
I think it'd be worth your time 

1493
01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:13,800
to come down here. 
It might be worth your time in 

1494
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,760
more ways than one from from 
what I'm hearing, if you catch 

1495
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:18,640
my drift. 
But we'll we'll see what happens

1496
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:22,000
with all of that. 
I'm just, I'm bummed. 

1497
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:23,840
I mean, just again, let's let's 
worry about. 

1498
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:25,560
Scott, actually, we can break it
now. 

1499
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,280
We can break it. 
It's been published. 

1500
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,920
College Game Day is coming to 
Bloomington, officially just got

1501
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:33,480
announced by Indiana Football. 
It's gonna be there this 

1502
01:14:33,480 --> 01:14:36,920
upcoming week. 
That's awesome. 

1503
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:39,520
Scott, what's so back-to-back? 
What? 

1504
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:43,200
Planet is this. 
Yes, we got Big Noon kick last 

1505
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:46,440
week or this past week, and we 
got College Game Day going to be

1506
01:14:46,440 --> 01:14:49,480
in Bloomington for the first 
real time in the history of the 

1507
01:14:49,480 --> 01:14:51,120
program. 
Yes, they came for that fake 

1508
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,760
game day that they did before 
the Ohio State game in 2017. 

1509
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,800
That was on a Thursday. 
Wow, Scott, I don't even know 

1510
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:00,080
what to say at this point. 
I know I, I had a feeling about 

1511
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:01,680
that because we had talked about
the Washington game. 

1512
01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:03,280
So again, let's worry about 
Scott. 

1513
01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:07,120
We fly in at like we get in at 
midnight, 1:00 in the morning 

1514
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:10,560
Friday night at coming back. 
And I was hoping that, you know,

1515
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:12,760
with Washington coming across 
like that would be a 3:30 or 

1516
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:15,080
7:00 kickoff. 
And then they announced it as a 

1517
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,480
noon game a couple days ago. 
And I'm like, damn it, that's 

1518
01:15:17,480 --> 01:15:20,720
going to be tough to get there. 
We're going to just kids are 

1519
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:23,360
going to have to deal with it. 
Like we're going, we'll be up at

1520
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:25,120
like 7:00 AM. 
Don't want to get down there 

1521
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,280
early because it's going to be 
that's going to be nuts again. 

1522
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:30,680
It that's awesome. 
I mean, it's awesome. 

1523
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:33,760
I just, I, I do feel so bad for 
Curtis Roark because he's having

1524
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:37,080
this magical season. 
It would be great for him to get

1525
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:41,480
that a game day game experience,
but that's going to be awesome. 

1526
01:15:41,480 --> 01:15:43,440
back-to-back weeks. 
It's wild. 

1527
01:15:43,440 --> 01:15:46,520
It feels like we are the one of 
the central points of college 

1528
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:48,520
football this year. 
Yeah, it's wild. 

1529
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:51,760
It is so man, I don't know 
that's that is such great news, 

1530
01:15:52,440 --> 01:15:54,320
so huge for the program. 
And someone mentioned this in 

1531
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:57,240
the comments earlier, just the 
recruiting benefits that IU is 

1532
01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:59,240
getting. 
Somebody said that yesterday, 

1533
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:00,720
like any. 
Recruit who was there is going 

1534
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,800
to IU. 
That was yesterday, Dave. 

1535
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:06,320
Dave Portnoy said that he was 
right. 

1536
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:08,560
Anyway, we don't want to belabor
this too long. 

1537
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:11,200
We've been on for 75 minutes, so
we should probably wrap up any 

1538
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:14,600
final thoughts from you before 
we we we tail off here. 

1539
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:18,240
We're good. 
This is a good football team 

1540
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:20,200
with a good schedule ahead of 
them. 

1541
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:22,480
There's nothing to apologize 
for. 

1542
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:24,480
If your friends are giving you 
crap about the schedule, just 

1543
01:16:24,480 --> 01:16:26,640
tell them that's fine. 
Like whatever like be like 

1544
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:28,920
signeting. 
Just be quietly confident and 

1545
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:32,320
continue moving forward and and 
there's better days ahead. 

1546
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:36,240
And this is, you know, I said it
a little bit earlier. 

1547
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:39,200
I don't want to keep comparing 
to 2020 just because that was 

1548
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,200
the last time we were ranked or 
were, you know, good. 

1549
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:44,640
It's just this is this is unlike
any IU football team I have seen

1550
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:46,520
and they're doing things I have 
not seen. 

1551
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:50,400
And it's not knocking other good
teams, but this is a team that 

1552
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:53,760
is not winning in fluke ways. 
It's not winning because of one 

1553
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:56,080
player. 
It's not winning because of 

1554
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:58,120
scheduling. 
It's not winning because of, you

1555
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:01,040
know, I don't say COVID, but 
just there's no extenuating 

1556
01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:03,400
circumstances. 
They are winning and kicking the

1557
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:05,680
hell out of people. 
And it looks like they're 

1558
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:07,800
getting better. 
I mean, that's the thing too, is

1559
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,200
this team looks better as the 
season has gone along. 

1560
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:14,320
We have a coach who has a plan. 
He's executing that plan and 

1561
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,720
everything seems calculated and 
understood. 

1562
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:21,080
And the people who are plugged 
in to football think this, they 

1563
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:23,000
see something special here. 
The people that are plugged into

1564
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:26,920
the stats see something here. 
This cannot all be a 

1565
01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:30,120
smokescreen. 
Like it's just this is, we've 

1566
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:32,400
been kind of saying this every 
single week. 

1567
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,360
This is a really, really good 
football program. 

1568
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:37,760
And you know, I don't know where
we're going to be ranked. 

1569
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,760
We'll probably move up a couple 
of spots. 

1570
01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:42,600
Like we said a couple weeks ago.
I don't, you know, the fever 

1571
01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:45,120
dream of us being ranked number 
one in the country, I guess is 

1572
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:48,640
still there. 
This is probably not a top 1234 

1573
01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:52,080
team in the country, but this is
definitely a top 10 to 15 team 

1574
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:55,160
in the country, like hard stop 
and maybe a top 12 team. 

1575
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:57,880
Like, we are there and 
everything that I've seen in 

1576
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:01,680
college football, we are a team 
at a caliber to play in the 

1577
01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:04,120
National Football Championship. 
We just are because I think we 

1578
01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:06,000
are one of the top 15 teams in 
the country. 

1579
01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:08,720
Hard stop. 
And that is, it's a wild thing 

1580
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:12,080
to say if you have the IU 
football history behind you. 

1581
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:16,320
But if we were seeing this 
happen at, you know, Purdue or 

1582
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,880
Northwestern, we just think, 
damn, they got figured out. 

1583
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:20,320
That's the team. 
I wouldn't want to play any 

1584
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:21,920
other team. 
I would feel that way. 

1585
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:26,040
So just embrace it, enjoy it, 
and I'll see you all Saturday. 

1586
01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:29,840
That's about as good of a way to
close out as I can think of. 

1587
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:34,480
All I'll add is this. 
I've had so many friends and 

1588
01:18:34,480 --> 01:18:40,360
people that I know reach out via
text and express something along

1589
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:42,840
the lines of I can't believe 
that this is real. 

1590
01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:45,720
We're living in a dream right 
now, a fever dream as you would 

1591
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,920
say. 
Scott, this what this football 

1592
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:52,280
program is doing right now just 
means so much to so many people,

1593
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:56,720
myself included, you as well. 
You know, there's just there's 

1594
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:59,920
just this level of energy and 
excitement that we have never 

1595
01:18:59,920 --> 01:19:01,320
really experienced with IU 
football. 

1596
01:19:01,320 --> 01:19:03,240
We've come close in a couple of 
things and you could make an 

1597
01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:06,440
argument maybe in 87 it was kind
of feeling like this, but this 

1598
01:19:06,440 --> 01:19:08,400
feels like a different level 
beyond that. 

1599
01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:11,840
So I'm just thrilled. 
I thank you to the players, 

1600
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:13,760
thank you to the coaching staff 
and thank you to everybody 

1601
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:16,920
that's making the season happen.
It's been so special so far. 

1602
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:19,640
Really looking forward to seeing
what happens here over the rest 

1603
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:22,200
of these these five regular 
season games and then whatever 

1604
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:26,000
comes afterwards for Indiana. 
So anyway, thanks to all of you,

1605
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:28,280
thanks to Home Field Apparel, 
our presenting sponsor, thanks 

1606
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:31,160
to Upland Game Day or Upland 
Upland Brewing Company, 

1607
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:33,920
producers of Hoosier Game Day 
Logger, and thanks to all of you

1608
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:37,120
folks for sticking with us 
throughout all of these years. 

1609
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:41,560
It's been great to be able to 
podcast about IU football and 

1610
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:44,120
it's great to be able to say 
that it's been great to podcast 

1611
01:19:44,120 --> 01:19:47,160
about IU football. 
And we certainly appreciate all 

1612
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:51,800
you folks in in the the audience
that come up and see us and say 

1613
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:53,240
hi. 
It's it's been a thrill getting 

1614
01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:54,840
to meet a lot of you over the 
course of time. 

1615
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:57,560
And I hope we all see you here 
for some games the rest of the 

1616
01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,480
season. 
So we'll go ahead and wrap up 

1617
01:19:59,480 --> 01:20:01,440
with that. 
Thank you for joining us here 

1618
01:20:01,440 --> 01:20:03,760
this morning. 
If you're watch live or if 

1619
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:05,960
you're following up by listening
afterwards. 

1620
01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:09,680
Thank you as well for Scott. 
I'm Galen, this is Crimson cast.

1621
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:11,840
We'll catch you folks on the 
flip side. 

1622
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:15,280
Bring back the bison. 
Stay never daunted. 

1623
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:16,440
So long, everybody.