Have to give IU credit for going all in on being a football school. Good news for their fans, and bad news for other teams in the Big 10 like Illinois and Ohio State if they succeed.
The problem is going to be if they can continue to maintain a war chest of money like Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Penn State and Oregon will always have. I don’t think they will be able to keep up with those teams in the arms race over the long haul. But for now, Cignetti would be silly to leave the short term machine he’s built. Penn State will take a step back for a couple seasons. Michigan can’t recruit receivers whatsoever to keep up with what USC, Oregon and OSU will always have offensively. So Indiana can be in the 1-3ish range in the Big Ten for the next couple years.
It would be so Cristobal-like to drop this game. Absolute chaos ensues in the ACC as to who gets to the championship if Miami loses since so many of the teams with top conference records don’t play each other.
