1 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,300 You're listening to the back home network. 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:22,100 Presented by home field, apparel, Happy Thanksgiving 3 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:23,500 week, folks. Galen klaviyo. 4 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:27,900 Here it is Friday. Black Friday, the day after 5 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:32,000 Thanksgiving and The second to last day of the IU football 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,100 season as the Hoosiers, enter into this last game of the year. 7 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:41,400 The old Oaken Bucket game going to Purdue and frankly at this 8 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:46,400 point needing some miraculous turnarounds in several phases of 9 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,700 the game to put up a good showing maybe even pull off a 10 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:52,000 victory. We're going to talk a little bit 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,700 about that and there's not a whole lot else to talk about 12 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:57,900 beyond that. 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The Just twenty percent off 52 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,300 everything. Anyway, let's go ahead and dive 53 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:09,600 in to the football as Indiana. Comes into this game, to a 90 on 54 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,200 the season, coming off, another disappointing loss. 55 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,700 At home this time to Minnesota, meaning that Indiana only won 56 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:19,500 one game at home throughout this entire season, and that was 57 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:22,900 against FC. S opponent Idaho, in the first 58 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:27,200 home game of the year. So Indiana currently on a 59 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:33,100 seven-game losing streak and in That time they've only broken 15 60 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:35,600 points on offense once. And that was of course, in the 61 00:03:35,608 --> 00:03:38,700 loss to Marilyn back on the 30th of October. 62 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:42,000 This has been a season that has been circling the drain. 63 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,900 Now, basically, since October started. 64 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,300 And if you watch that Minnesota game, we talked about it quite a 65 00:03:49,308 --> 00:03:50,700 bit. Obviously, in the postgame press 66 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:54,500 conference, there's just not much to take out of this team's 67 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:56,500 performance. That would make you think. 68 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,000 Oh yeah. I you, they'll be able to figure 69 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,800 it out. Bucket game against a motivated, 70 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:07,300 Purdue team, the offense has just continued to be frankly, 71 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:11,400 just an Abomination. I mean it's I said this before. 72 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,900 I've said it for several weeks now and I hate saying it because 73 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:16,800 it sounds like I'm being over-critical. 74 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,700 I'm not when I say that Indiana. At this point has one of the 75 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:24,300 worst Power 5 offenses, I've ever seen. 76 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,800 I mean it like it's you know we talked about this in the podcast 77 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,200 on. And a this past week. 78 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:36,800 But Indiana has managed to assure itself of not having the 79 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,300 record for the worst scoring offense in the nine-game, Big 80 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:44,800 Ten Conference season ERA but just barely and they still have 81 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,300 to score a couple of touchdowns to get themselves out of the 82 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:52,100 second-worst scoring offense in the nine-game conference season 83 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:55,300 Big Ten era. That's a real bad offense all 84 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:58,400 the way around. And, you know, when you dive in 85 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,900 and look at individual numbers, Just it's hard to find a lot of 86 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:06,200 positive things to talk about with this offense and I think we 87 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:11,500 finally saw Tom Allen really to some degree kind of hit the wall 88 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,200 when it came to his patients on talking about this offense and 89 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,600 what's going on you look at Pro Football Focus which as you know 90 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,900 we're want to do here because I think they do a good job of 91 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:26,200 helping to quantify things in college football. 92 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:33,900 There's there's 130 teams in division one FBS and you have to 93 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:39,200 scroll all the way down to 119th to find Indiana's overall 94 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,600 offensive ranking. They are only ahead of two other 95 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,100 power 5 schools. One of them is Vanderbilt, who 96 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:50,600 is of course, to a 9 on the season and the other one is 97 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,100 Arizona, who's 1 and 10 on the season? 98 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:57,100 So, you're talking about a really bad, Indiana offense, not 99 00:05:57,100 --> 00:06:00,500 just in terms of scoring, but in terms of just, Overall 100 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:04,800 performance, you know, and, and really, for Indiana it's hard to 101 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,700 nail down a single area where you would point to and say, 102 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:11,900 well, that's the absolute worst, but really, it's the passing 103 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:17,400 game has probably been the, the part of the overall offense that 104 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,500 has been the worst for Indiana. Surprisingly, it's not the worst 105 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:24,000 by itself. Like, you look at the overall 106 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 rankings and it's again, it's 119th in the country. 107 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,700 There are some schools that have worst passing a tax right now. 108 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:34,000 In fact, three of them are in the Big Ten, Rutgers 109 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Northwestern and Illinois, who are, of course, the Gabriel 110 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,600 Byrne, Benicio, del Toro and Kevin Pollak of teams, you know, 111 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,300 when you talk about that offenses. 112 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:48,000 But Indiana, I guess is filling the Stephen Baldwin role in this 113 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 instance. I'm not sure who Kevin Spacey 114 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:56,400 would be in this metaphor, maybe well, this year, it's Wisconsin. 115 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,300 Weirdly enough will anyway, but bad passing offense. 116 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:02,300 This is not Category. We've seen Indiana in as much 117 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:05,300 over the course of time and unfortunately that has been the 118 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:07,200 real Bugaboo and what makes Indiana's offense. 119 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,100 So bad is that there's not really a counterbalance 120 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:14,000 elsewhere that you can point to and say, hey at least they've 121 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,500 got this going for them because it just it doesn't exist right 122 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:21,200 now within the Indiana sphere and you can really just kind of 123 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:24,200 throw a dart in the general direction of the IU offensive 124 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,700 board as we know, and you're just, you're going to hit 125 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:30,900 something that is problematic. When it It comes to how this 126 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:35,300 team is playing offense. Now they play a team in Purdue 127 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:38,900 who has been a bit up and down, like you look overall, I mean 128 00:07:38,907 --> 00:07:43,500 produce offense is pretty good in general, their overall 129 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:48,500 offensive rating is 42nd in the country which again, is not a 130 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:51,300 bad rating. This is not a particularly good 131 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:53,900 Purdue team, from a defensive perspective. 132 00:07:53,900 --> 00:07:57,500 In fact, this is the one area where Indiana over the course of 133 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:01,200 the season has outperformed, Purdue Purdue is ranked only 134 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,600 105th in defense in terms of overall ranking on Pro Football, 135 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,600 Focus Indiana's 83rd which is nothing to write home to Mom 136 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,000 about but is at least better than their opponents. 137 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,800 The problem for Indiana and this has really been the case in the 138 00:08:16,808 --> 00:08:20,200 last few games. Is that even if you get some 139 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,400 good individual series out of the defense early, the 140 00:08:23,407 --> 00:08:26,100 combination of the number of injuries that this team has 141 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:30,500 suffered and the number of issues that Indiana Anna has on 142 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:34,600 offense creating opportunities for the opposing team's offense 143 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,700 over. And over again has eventually 144 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:40,100 rendered this defense kind of impotent when it comes to doing 145 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:41,900 what we expected to do. You still got some good 146 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:44,800 individual control contributors out there? 147 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,100 Mike McFadden has certainly continued to do what he does out 148 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:52,800 on the field pretty well. But by and large, this defense 149 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,900 has kind of been dragged down, not just by injury. 150 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:59,700 But I think to a large degree by the Stark reality. 151 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:02,900 Whatever they do out there is probably not going to matter 152 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,700 because the offense is eventually going to stop moving 153 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:08,800 the ball and it's going to put the defense in positions that 154 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,800 they just can't ultimately stopped down the line. 155 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,500 That's really what happened in that Minnesota game defense 156 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:18,100 started out pretty well, and really played well, I thought 157 00:09:18,100 --> 00:09:21,700 through most of that first, half up until that interception 158 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:26,100 return, that put Minnesota in a position to score their third 159 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:27,900 touchdown of the day right before half. 160 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:30,700 And at that stage, it's hard to ask the defense to do a whole 161 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:32,500 lot else. But you know, as you go through 162 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,700 the season and you look at what this Indiana defense is done, 163 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:38,900 it's hard to say they've been bad, they've been they haven't 164 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:41,200 been great. And certainly, you know, they 165 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,000 you haven't seen the turnovers being generated and things like 166 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,300 that. There's been some regression in 167 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:49,500 that area, but it's hard to blame the defense for the 168 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:53,100 problems that the offense is had when the offense is problems. 169 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:56,000 And the Special Teams problems to some degree, are directly 170 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,800 creating additional issues for the defense. 171 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:04,100 So, Purdue team that Indiana plays has been a little bit 172 00:10:04,100 --> 00:10:07,000 Jekyll and Hyde in terms of its overall performance has this 173 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:13,300 season, you know, the Purdue has had only one loss that I would 174 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:16,000 really point to and say, well, that's a peculiar one and it's 175 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,800 the loss that they suffered earlier on in the season, to 176 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,300 Minnesota for whatever reason. PJ Flex seems to have Jeff 177 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:24,900 Brahms. Number Minnesota, winning that 178 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:26,700 game. Actually dropped Purdue to 3 and 179 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:29,100 2. And with Purdue at that point 180 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:31,800 having to Able to Iowa, this was right around the beginning of 181 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,900 October. Like a lot of people thought 182 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:37,700 that produce season could really go downhill but instead returned 183 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:41,500 around beat Iowa, like a drum and really killed off, whatever 184 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:45,200 chances in Iowa, had of maintaining even a top 10 185 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,700 ranking for the rest of the season. 186 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:48,400 They kind of got exposed in that game. 187 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:52,600 Purdue did get beaten pretty soundly by Wisconsin and I think 188 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,800 you could say that was their worst overall effort of the 189 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,100 year. And then, of course they lost 190 00:10:57,100 --> 00:10:58,700 it. In order to aim, they lost it, 191 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:01,500 Ohio State. But I think you'd be 192 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:04,000 hard-pressed in either of those games to say that Purdue it 193 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,100 played as badly as Indiana has played in some of their losses 194 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:11,900 at least offensively. I mean Purdue put 31 points up 195 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:15,000 against Ohio State on the road. Indiana could only put seven 196 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,100 points up at home against Ohio State, so I think it's dangerous 197 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:23,200 to look at this Purdue team and draw a lot of equivalencies with 198 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,500 IU. You know, Purdue has managed 199 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:28,700 over the course of this season to pick up a lot of really 200 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:31,600 impressive wins. 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How well are they tackling? 233 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:22,400 How well are they getting pressure on the quarterback? 234 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,800 How well do they covering receivers the problem for Purdue 235 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,500 has been when they've played teams that have been able to 236 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:33,600 overwhelm, Well, name them from a, an offensive perspective, for 237 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,800 one reason or another, they really struggle in those games. 238 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,200 And certainly that Ohio State game was probably the biggest 239 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,600 example of that. That was their worst overall 240 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,100 defensive performance of the year and really, it was in the 241 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:48,100 running game that they really struggle, but they also 242 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:51,500 struggled covering receivers. And you know what, you ended up 243 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:54,600 with all of that was an Ohio State team that almost hung 60 244 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:57,700 on Purdue now, they've run into trouble and a couple of other 245 00:13:57,700 --> 00:13:59,800 games in order to aim was certainly able to take advantage 246 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,900 of Meanwhile, Notre Dame, did not throw a ridiculous number up 247 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:05,100 on the board. It was clear that Notre Dame was 248 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:09,200 the better team that day and then that Minnesota game. 249 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,000 And that's the one I keep coming back to Purdue was just 250 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,600 incapable of stopping the Run, consistently in that game and 251 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,500 that helped to lead to the defeat even though they didn't 252 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:21,500 give up a tremendous number of points. 253 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:25,500 You look overall on the season and produce averaging 26 points 254 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:31,300 scored and only giving up 21.7 points on The season but they're 255 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:34,700 rushing attack, surrendered per game. 256 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:38,400 There's they're giving up 4.4 yards, a carry while only 257 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,900 picking up two and a half yards, a carry themselves. 258 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:44,700 So you look at that and you say well is there a chance that 259 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:47,300 Indiana might be able to take advantage of that a little bit 260 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:50,100 and that might end up being the one route that Indiana could 261 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:55,200 focus on and say, look, we know that Purdue has struggled at 262 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,700 times, not just to run the ball themselves, but to stop the run 263 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,000 and You know, if Indiana can figure out a way to get there 264 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,500 running blocking together and pick up four yards and attempt 265 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,300 in the running game. They have a lot of the pieces 266 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:10,500 that you would want for that. Yes, you don't have, you might 267 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:12,600 have Stephen Carr. We don't know for sure, I'd be 268 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,000 surprised if you play, but Tom Allen was trying to leave the 269 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,900 door open for car, as well as several other Hoosiers. 270 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:22,500 I mean, he mentioned an ex he mentioned Tuttle, I'd be 271 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:25,300 surprised if any of those players ended up playing, but I 272 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:27,600 guess I wouldn't be shocked because it got mentioned during 273 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,900 the press conference. But you do had, you know, no, 274 00:15:29,908 --> 00:15:33,000 David Ervine Poindexter. You've got some other backs that 275 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,700 Indiana has tried to use and then you've got about a McCauley 276 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:41,000 who has not passed the ball very well or enough. 277 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,400 I guess if we take the commentary from Tom Allen 278 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:47,200 himself and the Monday press conference, but he has shown an 279 00:15:47,208 --> 00:15:51,100 ability to run and especially going into this last game of the 280 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:54,800 year you do get these sorts of situations where sometimes 281 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,700 anything goes as far as your offensive plan is concerned. 282 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:03,300 And while Indiana has Certainly struggled mightily with being 283 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:07,900 able to pass the ball, they have shown a commitment For Better, 284 00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:11,700 or For Worse to trying, to run the ball on a regular basis. 285 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:14,400 And and using that as their primary methodology of getting 286 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,000 the ball down the field. I don't know if that's actually 287 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,200 going to work against Purdue, but I don't think it's 288 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,500 completely out of the question that Indiana could keep this 289 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:26,400 competitive for a bit simply because that particular aspect 290 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,200 of, I use offensive game if they dedicate themselves to it has 291 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:35,300 shown somewhat of a consistent ability to at least pick up some 292 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:39,000 yards early on most of the problems Indiana's running to 293 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,400 whether it was against Rutgers or Minnesota and certainly 294 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,300 against some of the bigger teams is that the opposition was 295 00:16:45,300 --> 00:16:49,400 eventually able to figure out what Indiana was doing. 296 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,700 Make adjustments accordingly and then Indiana had no plan B to go 297 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:58,900 with the other question ends up. Being how much of Grant Grumble 298 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:04,000 do we see Of this Indiana team and The more I've thought about 299 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,099 it, the more I'm saying to myself for whatever reason, 300 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,200 Nick, Sheridan and the offensive coaching staff seem to feel more 301 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,599 confident in Grant Grumble, to throw a variety of routes than 302 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:19,200 they do Donovan McCully. And I think that's been obvious 303 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,700 in the couple of times we've seen grumbles so far this 304 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:24,400 season. He gets the ball out relatively 305 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,200 quickly. He's pretty good about finding 306 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,800 targets and I think you might end up seeing Like a true dual 307 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,400 quarterback approach here, where you've got McCulley in for 308 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,900 running downs and maybe a little bit of passing and then grandma 309 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:38,900 Lynn for, you know, passing the ball. 310 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:40,900 I would hope that they won't do it play-by-play. 311 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:43,700 Like we've seen in some of the series and would instead do it 312 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:46,700 series by series just so they're not too terribly predictable. 313 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,200 But I think there's a possibility there and you know, 314 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,400 if Indiana can figure out some kind of a rhythm on offense, 315 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,800 where they can at least gain some yards and put themselves in 316 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,100 scoring position. It's not inconceivable that 317 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:03,100 Indiana could At least keep this within a touchdown or two 318 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:07,000 heading into the second half. All that said, I really don't 319 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,000 see Indiana winning this game. So Purdue, you know, just with a 320 00:18:10,008 --> 00:18:14,200 lot to play for just in terms of Bowl positioning, and putting 321 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,000 themselves in a better higher tier bowl. 322 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:18,500 And they've got a really good shot at that. 323 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:21,400 They probably don't have a realistic shot at getting to the 324 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,600 Big Ten title game. But they have a realistic shot 325 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:29,100 of going 6 and 3 in conference and they have a realistic shot 326 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:33,100 of you know potentially getting a Florida Bowl. 327 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,000 Not too different from the situation that Hannah's been in 328 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,600 the last couple of years and for a Purdue team that certainly 329 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,500 struggled the last couple of years, this has been a nice 330 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:46,300 bounce-back for Jeff brohm. Now we've seen in bucket games, 331 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:50,800 Indiana teams with chances to go to bowls, get derailed by Purdue 332 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,600 we've seen Purdue teams, you know, your struggle in important 333 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,900 games, because of the way Indiana's played. 334 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,100 I just really worried about whether this Indiana team has 335 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:05,000 anything left in the tank and whether they've, Basically 336 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,700 gotten to the point where they can see the finish line and they 337 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:12,200 just want to get across the finish line and try to regroup. 338 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:19,000 It's a peculiarity to me trying to evaluate exactly what the 339 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,400 mentality of this team is going to be heading into this final 340 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,900 game because there's just, there's so many opportunities 341 00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:29,800 for Indiana from a mental perspective. 342 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:34,100 To say, you know what, we, this was the season didn't work out. 343 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,300 And at this point we just don't have any fire left in us. 344 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:39,900 We've seen that happen in past games. 345 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:41,700 I mean, and it's not one of those situations where I'm 346 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:44,300 saying Indiana is going to quit. But when you have two teams that 347 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:47,900 are on very different motivational spectrums you end 348 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:51,500 up with a situation where the game snowballs. 349 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:54,500 Yeah, I remember very clearly that game in 2000. 350 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,900 Indiana had a very disappointing season. 351 00:19:56,900 --> 00:19:59,100 They came into that game, three, and seven, really didn't have a 352 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:01,100 lot to play for. Meanwhile, they played a Purdue 353 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:04,000 team that needed to win that game to secure a rose. 354 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,000 Bowl bid and not only, did they win that game but they 355 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,100 annihilated Indiana. I was at that game. 356 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:11,400 I broadcasted that game for student radio, when I was a 357 00:20:11,408 --> 00:20:15,800 student and it was one of the more mortifying football 358 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,100 experiences, I think I'd ever seen just give, just because of 359 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,300 how fired up Purdue was, and how not fired up. 360 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:25,300 Indiana was, you know? And then certainly there have 361 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:30,100 been examples going the other direction as well. 2007 was a 362 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:33,100 good example of that although that one wasn't a blowout by any 363 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:37,300 stretch of the imagination. 2015 was a great example of that kind 364 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:39,100 of thing, though. Indiana needing to win to go to 365 00:20:39,108 --> 00:20:41,400 a bowl. And not only did they win? 366 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,600 They won at Ross Aid and they won very convincingly. 367 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:49,200 So, you have to think that the motivational factors and the 368 00:20:49,208 --> 00:20:54,300 intangible aspects, all of those elements really do add up in 369 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:58,200 favor of Purdue for this game. It's been interesting though 370 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,100 because, you know, as I've been keeping an eye on the betting 371 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:05,700 lines for this game, it's They'd right around 15. 372 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,500 It was 15 and a half for a little bit and I was very 373 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:10,900 surprised about that because if you look at Indiana and the way 374 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:14,300 that they played and their inability to really get anything 375 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:18,500 going on offense, you would assume that given how well 376 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:22,100 produce offense has played in general that they would have 377 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:24,600 been a much bigger favorite. Maybe a three touchdown favored 378 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,300 but they're barely a two-touchdown favor. 379 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:29,700 And in fact, the line is dropped from 15 and a half back down to 380 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:31,300 15. So I don't know. 381 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:34,400 Vegas knows something or if they're just trying to In that 382 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:39,100 spot where they can get enough people betting on Indiana to 383 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:42,000 keep the rhythms of the bets, right? 384 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,200 About equal either way. But when I look at this in 385 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,500 general I you know I think the Indiana can probably come out 386 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:53,800 will probably score maybe on that first drive since they seem 387 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,600 to do pretty well on those scripted drives and then you 388 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,700 have to if you're going to look for Indiana to try to do any 389 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:03,700 more damage beyond that they got to force some turnovers which is 390 00:22:03,708 --> 00:22:07,100 something They really have been able to do all year and they've 391 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:09,500 got to try to get Purdue in a situation where they start to 392 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:12,000 feel a little bit nervous. You're not going to fully get 393 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,700 that here because like the worst that will happen for Purdue is 394 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:18,400 that they'll finish 7 and 5, which is still a perfectly good 395 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,500 season, that probably sends them to the Music City Bowl, or the 396 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:23,900 Las Vegas Bowl that, you know, certainly nothing to sneeze at 397 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,200 in either case, but it just, it feels like one of those games 398 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:28,900 were produced got a lot to play for. 399 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,900 They don't have a whole lot, that would be negative if they 400 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:35,100 lost, so they can kind of go. Out there with a minimum of 401 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:39,200 pressure Indiana to some degree has to win this game to keep 402 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,600 their whole season from looking like a complete failure. 403 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,300 And you know, this is the one thing that I think that Tom 404 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:47,600 Allen on this coaching staff could do to try to redeem a 405 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,600 little bit out of the Season, would be to win the bucket game. 406 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,000 It's important to remember that Alan has only won one bucket 407 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,500 game so far. Yes, they didn't get to play 408 00:22:57,500 --> 00:23:00,000 last year, but they lost those first two bucket games in his 409 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,800 first two years as head coach. And these are the Kind of games 410 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,900 where if you can essentially galvanized your forces and get 411 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:11,100 everybody to forget about what's happened up to this point and 412 00:23:11,108 --> 00:23:13,900 figure out a way to get everybody excited enough that 413 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:17,000 they can win against a superior opponent. 414 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,700 Just based on record that goes a long way towards taking a little 415 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:23,700 bit of a bitterness of the taste of the Season out of people's 416 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:26,500 mouths and getting them at least a little bit excited for the 417 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,400 offseason that said, I don't see it happening. 418 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:32,400 I think this game might end up looking very similar to what 419 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,800 happened in the Minnesota game. Close early, as both teams, find 420 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,600 their sea legs. And then the team that's playing 421 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,800 better. In this case, Purdue gradually 422 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,700 pulling away as it gets a little bit further in. 423 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:46,000 So I'm going to give it a similar score. 424 00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:53,800 I'm going to say, Purdue 38, Indiana, 10, and that would be 425 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,100 it for the season for Indiana. Will have a lot to talk about 426 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,000 afterwards, one, way or the other on this one. 427 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,800 So my thanks to all of you for tuning in throughout the course 428 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,600 of the season. On these preview podcast, it's 429 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,200 been a lot of fun just to talk about IU football, even if the 430 00:24:09,208 --> 00:24:11,300 results certainly haven't been much fun. 431 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,000 But we've always appreciated the input and the thoughts that you 432 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,400 folks have been kind enough to send in, whether it's via 433 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:22,100 Facebook or whether it's via Twitter, sometimes we'll get DM, 434 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:25,900 sometimes we get email messages, but it's always gratifying to 435 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:28,800 know that there are people out there listening and is a long 436 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,800 time. I a football fan, it's exciting 437 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,700 to know that there's enough people out there that care about 438 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:36,000 IU. Football that they're willing to 439 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,800 at least, spend some time, listening thinking and 440 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,000 occasionally, contributing to the podcast. 441 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,200 So thanks to all of you for a great season. 442 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,500 Be sure to tune in this weekend as we will have our recap 443 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:49,600 podcast, where we talk about, what happened in the bucket 444 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,300 game. We talked about some of the 445 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:54,200 things to think about going into the offseason. 446 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,300 Some of the things that Tom Allen is going to have to do to 447 00:24:56,300 --> 00:25:01,300 get this program back on track after a disastrous 2021 and 448 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,700 we'll do some forecasting as As what next year would look like. 449 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:10,900 And how Indiana navigates the spring and the summer heading 450 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:15,400 into fall of 2022, that will wrap it up for us today. 451 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,000 My thanks again to the power Rank and the home-field apparel 452 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,800 also wanted to remind you all go to dark canvas. 453 00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:26,400 Design company on Etsy. 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