🏈 Maybe we're not as bad as we thought

['65 Cobra]

Watching this game with 00:59 left before half and it's 35-7. We were down 17-0. Maybe Indiana is that good. Maybe we weren't as bad as a lot of people thought. Maybe we need to have some patience.

 

[Bama Guy]

Indiana is a well coached team. Period

 

[Rolltide24]

Our game with Indiana was like a slow train wreck. This game is more like a bullet train wreck.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Well. Wont be late nite like last night. And ole ms may be glad they don't have to play indiana.

 

[EasyTider]

Sounds like loser (Aubarn) logic.

 

[sean]

Earlier, I was thinking how good Miami is and how they might get another one this season. But after seeing Indiana dismantle Oregon (again), Miami may not have much of a chance.

The game is in Miami, so a home game for them. And I expect them to play a bit harder to defend their home turf. But Indiana just looks unstoppable. And Curt Cignetti is looking like Nick Saban 2.0.

 

[ElephantStomp]

No, we were that bad. We played terrible.

Miami is going to get the same treatment I believe.

 

[mando]

I expected someone to make a post like this. No Bama team should ever get done to them like what happened against Indiana. Just completely unacceptable and should never find solace in what happens against other teams.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Sometimes you run into a team or have a game that goes awry and your opponent goes on to greatness. Since 2007, we've been the latter more than the former. When we've been on the receiving end - Florida '08, Clemson (once, I don't count the pick play year as dominance), auburn 2010 (why have Mark playing with one arm?), LSU 2019 (although I never understood how they called the WR in bounds after having stepped OO bounds unassisted ahead of that catch), a few more and then this year (inaccurate passing, turnover, their OL holding) - it's no fun and we rightfully default to "it's not them, it's us".

My parenthetical excuses above (my versions of "if Colt hadn't gotten hurt") are as pithy and off-base as those calling for a housecleaning.

A good thing about college football today is the bad thing about it today. A coach and an administration used to say it took four years for a new coach to get his players (for his system) into the team. Now, it only takes a year or, more charitably a full year and then the second portal. It only takes a year to lose them, too. It's the NFL with one-year contracts and immediate free agency. The dollars will speak, personnel evaluation becomes more acute, continuous retention efforts will vault, and directors of operations/player personnel salaries will close the gap on head coaches.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Indiana has 17 Juniors of which 15 are RS Juniors & 28 Seniors of which 15 of them are RS Seniors. . . . . .

Alabama has 8 Juniors of which 4 are RS Juniors & 20 Seniors of which 10 of the are RS Seniors. . . . . .

45 upper classmen to 28.

In short, Indiana has grown men practicing & playing to standard that many of them have been a part of when they followed Cignetti from JMU. 45 of a 99 man roster are grown ass men who have not been coddled with the NIL dollars that softens & entitles many of the starting football players of today's rosters. Also, the coaching staff that Cignetti developed probably has the most continuity of any college football team.

Indiana is doing exactly what it should be doing to their competition.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Indiana has 17 Juniors of which 15 are RS Juniors & 28 Seniors of which 15 of them are RS Seniors. . . . . .

Alabama has 8 Juniors of which 4 are RS Juniors & 20 Seniors of which 10 of the are RS Seniors. . . . . .

45 upper classmen to 28.

In short, Indiana has grown men practicing & playing to standard that many of them have been a part of when they followed Cignetti from JMU. 45 of a 99 man roster are grown ass men who have not been coddled with the NIL dollars that softens & entitles many of the starting football players of today's rosters. Also, the coaching staff that Cignetti developed probably has the most continuity of any college football team.

Indiana is doing exactly what it should be doing to their competition.

I get that perspective, as well the post from another thread showing Indiana didn't have a single 5 star recruit with an @TerryP response asking the age/tenure of those players. We knew this was a seasoned team.

Much has changed in college football over the last two to five years, but much has changed the same. Player development is paramount, whether you're developing freshman to replace juniors departing for the NFL as Saban did, or today trying to rebuild your roster multiple ways with players departing in multiple ways. As has been said, Indiana looks like an overnight success story until you seen that Cignetti's been leading his band of wandering players and coaches to the Promised Land over the past seven seasons. Again, it's about talent evaluation. Few coaches could take a core of players from high FCS/Sunbelt, add a QB and speed, and make the playoffs, much less do what he's achieved to date.

 

[TerryP]

I get that perspective, as well the post from another thread showing Indiana didn't have a single 5 star recruit with an @TerryP response asking the age/tenure of those players. We knew this was a seasoned team.

I just posted this in another thread. One of IU's DB's played with Trevor Lawrence.

 

[sean]

No, we were that bad. We played terrible.

Miami is going to get the same treatment I believe.

And I'll love every second of it.

Fuck them 'Canes!

 

[OldPlayer]

Earlier, I was thinking how good Miami is and how they might get another one this season. But after seeing Indiana dismantle Oregon (again), Miami may not have much of a chance.

The game is in Miami, so a home game for them. And I expect them to play a bit harder to defend their home turf. But Indiana just looks unstoppable. And Curt Cignetti is looking like Nick Saban 2.0.

Home turf? They play in a rented stadium. The only benefit is many of their fans won’t have to pay for hotel rooms.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Home turf? They play in a rented stadium. The only benefit is many of their fans won’t have to pay for hotel rooms.

Shitty turf incoming. Wonder which conference supplies the officiating team.

 

[sean]

Home turf? They play in a rented stadium. The only benefit is many of their fans won’t have to pay for hotel rooms.

It's still their home stadium. It's where they play their home games. So it'll be like another home game to them...obviously with a bit more on the line. Still...home stadium.

 

[alabama mike]

Indiana’s OL is much quicker that our OL, their RB’s hit the hole quick and hard, fantastic skilled players and an QB that has excellent touch and they play a swarming, attacking defense. Bottom line they are an outstanding team. I am hoping the Hoosiers wipe the floor with Miami. I like Cristobal but the Canes are 3rd on my list of hated teams, behind nd and Ohio State.

 

[OldPlayer]

It's still their home stadium. It's where they play their home games. So it'll be like another home game to them...obviously with a bit more on the line. Still...home stadium.

If it’s a home game, the home team gets 90%+ of the tickets. Miami will be allocated ~15-20% of the championship tickets and tickets had to be “purchased” before the conference championship games (you request the tickets through the school who then decides who will get them when they are officially in the game). The remaining 60-70% of tickets are then sold via the venue/bowl organization or given to sponsors and advertisers. Ticket brokers then scramble for what they can get.