Again, recall those multiple explosive plays in the passing game. He of the explosive offense that tends to capitalize on the latter’s defensive system. There isn’t exactly an abundance of energy for a team that’s has 2-10 and 4-8 records the past two seasons after perhaps an all-time high in energy heading into 2021.Įnergy that Louisville had thanks to a member of the Indiana football rogues gallery: Jeff Brohm.īrohm is, of course, the former head coach at Purdue where he went 4-1 against Tom Allen’s Indiana. It doesn’t look like the word got out that this game was happening and, if it did, can you blame fans. There wasn’t a shuttle system to ferry students from Bloomington to Indianapolis and there didn’t appear to be a system to get students from IUPUI, an IU satellite campus with ~27,000 students, into the stadium. Indiana, a university with one of the largest alumni bases in the country and in a city absolutely full of said alumni was outnumbered by Louisville, a city multiple hours away albeit in driving distance for a day trip. Louisville was flying high and it looked like things were making way for an embarrassing blowout.Īll the while, Indiana fans were outnumbered by those of Louisville. Or a snap that flew beyond the quarterback and way into the backfield for a loss of 13 yards.Īlmost everything that couldn’t go Indiana’s way didn’t. It was uninspired play calling that led to Tayven Jackson taking the ball on the ground multiple times or passing to a receiver who was short of the sticks. It was the multiple blown coverages that allowed Jack Plummer, he who completed 57% of pass attempts on the day, to find the same guy way downfield multiple times. That was probably gonna end up in a punt anyway and I don’t think the pass was off by that much. There was a miserable first half that saw the Cardinals go up by a (seemingly) insurmountable 21 points as a comedy of errors kept the Hoosiers from advancing the ball downfield in any meaningful way. Yes that includes those otherworldly highs and the crushing lows. Saturday afternoon’s 21-14 loss to Louisville was a love letter to this entity, all it’s meant and done with a particular emphasis on the past two years. In an ideal world, Hoosier turf.īut this is the real world and, more importantly, this is the Indiana University football program. Their canvas? Beautiful, picturesque Lucas Oil Stadium in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. For Indiana football, that pen was numerous playcalls and decisions be they on the field or off.
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