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nelsonmuntz said:
I don’t get why programs fire coaches in mid season. There is no financial incentive to do so, and it sends the message to the players that the season is over and they should prepare for the Transfer Portal. It can turn a 7-5 season into a 2-10 one pretty quickly.

The wheels really need to be off for a mid season firing to make sense.
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Preseason 2 lost 3 in a row including 2 where they were 20 point favorites. That qualifies as wheels off at some places.

Some reasons schools would change mideseason
1) You’ve decided to get rid of the coach and you have a rush of donors revved up willing to pay the buyout (and you think that might fade)
2) you think he’s lost the locker room
3) you want to get an early jump on getting a replacement
4) you want to stave off pkayers opting out for the rest of the year or already lining up transfer destinations
5) you feel pressure from alums to act NOW, and not doing so makes you look weak

Im not saying I agree either all of these for this case, but #2 looms large for me. The players were flat for the last 2 games. That’s coaching. It’s his job to make sure they are focused on the task at hand and ready & not just feeling sorry for themselves.
 
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Never thought I would see IU -donors shell out 100milion for Football.

If you asked 100 Hoosiers would they rather win a BB Championship or Football....99 would say Basketball
 
BigTenFan said:
Never thought I would see IU -donors shell out 100milion for Football.

If you asked 100 Hoosiers would they rather win a BB Championship or Football....99 would say Basketball
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"If you asked 100 Hoosiers over the age of 65 . . . "

I wouldn't be surprised if football were actually in the majority today. Indiana is sitting atop the Big Ten standings and ranked 3rd in the country. You gotta strike while the iron is hot. Bonus is becoming the best football school in Indiana.
 
I wanted Cignetti before we hired Mora. Dude literally just wins. Google it.

Indiana absolutely did the right thing to prevent Cignetti from getting poached by Penn St and continue the upward trend of the football program and this is only year two.
 
Vowelguy said:
And recruiting is about to get a whole lot easier.
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The is winning mostly with the previous coach's players. Imagine what he's going to do when he has "his" players there. I'm not saying they'll be in the OSU echelon of things, but they're going to be very close. Cignetti basically can go in and be le like "i made the playoffs year one and Top 5 year 2. Can you imagine where we'll be next year with you on the team?" I'd run through a brick wall if someone recruited me like that.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
The is winning mostly with the previous coach's players. Imagine what he's going to do when he has "his" players there. I'm not saying they'll be in the OSU echelon of things, but they're going to be very close. Cignetti basically can go in and be le like "i made the playoffs year one and Top 5 year 2. Can you imagine where we'll be next year with you on the team?" I'd run through a brick wall if someone recruited me like that.
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Yes, except for that last sentence. This is a fan message board. No one here could run through particle board even if their life depended on it.
 
I get the criticism that Franklin had an awful record against top 10 teams. At the same time, college football is so stacked with the top 10-15 being so much better than everyone else. Everyone loses to top 10 teams unless you are one of the few like Ohio State. Sure Penn State wants to be one of those elite programs. Now Penn State has to really be worried because Indiana seems to have filled in the best of the rest Big Ten slots. Add in Oregon and USC, it may be a long time before Penn State has this level of success again. Very curious to see who will go coach in that environment.

particle board can be some heavy sheet. all that compressed wood and glue that holds it together.
 
Kolumbo said:
I get the criticism that Franklin had an awful record against top 10 teams. At the same time, college football is so stacked with the top 10-15 being so much better than everyone else. Everyone loses to top 10 teams unless you are one of the few like Ohio State. Sure Penn State wants to be one of those elite programs. Now Penn State has to really be worried because Indiana seems to have filled in the best of the rest Big Ten slots. Add in Oregon and USC, it may be a long time before Penn State has this level of success again. Very curious to see who will go coach in that environment.

particle board can be some heavy sheet. all that compressed wood and glue that holds it together.
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I get what you're saying and Franklin is still a good coach. He just isn't THAT guy that's going to get teams to the championship game. It's like Nebraska with Pelini, they just can't get passed their past and realize they are most likely never going to return to the JoePa days.
 
Kolumbo said:
I get the criticism that Franklin had an awful record against top 10 teams. At the same time, college football is so stacked with the top 10-15 being so much better than everyone else. Everyone loses to top 10 teams unless you are one of the few like Ohio State. Sure Penn State wants to be one of those elite programs. Now Penn State has to really be worried because Indiana seems to have filled in the best of the rest Big Ten slots. Add in Oregon and USC, it may be a long time before Penn State has this level of success again. Very curious to see who will go coach in that environment.

particle board can be some heavy sheet. all that compressed wood and glue that holds it together.
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I believe Indiana's stadium has a capacity of barely over 60k and I wouldn't be surprised if as recently as last season (they made the CFP) they had a game or two with less than 50k in the house.

I imagine that you would have to go back a few decades to find a Penn St home game that had less than 100k in attendance (likely to when they couldn't hold that many).

Cignetti has done great things in a very short amount of time but before it can be viewed as sustainable, they will need to have achieved over long stretches, with multiple coaches.

Penn St, due primarily to gravitas their history and current, sustained fan base provides is one good hire away from being back among the top few in college football's pecking order. Indiana would at a minimum need Cignetti to complete his contract with quite a bit of very successful season's, win it all once or twice and then replace him with a home run hire once he retires before they could be considered at Penn State's level.

Last season and this season for Indiana football could end up being nothing more than a football equivalent of Butler men's hoops in 2010 & 2011.
 

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