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.
Louisville-Miami was one of only two games I caught this weekend. The other was OleMiss-UGA - *cough* - live between the hedges. Imagine the comments from half a dozen Georgia fans, all gearing up for Saturday, watching Louisville-Miami, and all still sour about Carson Beck. Heh. The Cliff's Notes version - I was nowhere near the worst.
Firing Brian Kelly is likely the right move. He was a goofy fit down there from the start with faking the accent and shit. This is a bad year to fire your coach. Everyone’s doing it and it sounds like LSU, Florida and maybe Auburn if they fire Freeze will be in on trying to get Lane to leave Ole Miss. Franklin makes a lot of sense at Virginia Tech but he’ll draw SEC interest and maybe Florida State interest as well.
