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re: Indiana is the most impressive team of all time
Posted on 1/10/26 at 2:35 pm to TigerBait2008
Posted on 1/10/26 at 2:35 pm to TigerBait2008
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You dumb..
No I think people are wanting to argue a different point than I’m trying to make.
Indiana started the season ranked 20th and have boat raced multiple big spending blue blood programs without any high profile superstars in the NIL era.
It is the most impressive thing I have seen, personally. Maybe of all time isn’t the right word because I haven’t personally watched teams from before the 90s. But as far as I’ve seen they are the most impressive.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 2:42 pm
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Posted on 1/10/26 at 4:46 pm to msutiger
Their strength of schedule this year is 100th. LSU’s in 2019 was 6th. Huge difference.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 5:12 pm to Oddibe
The 2019 season was the best we'll probably ever see CFB at. Post COVID football is markedly worse. Teams have no depth. Coaching has fallen off. NIL makes it to where few teams gel until the second half of the season because total roster turnover. It's basically not the same sport anymore. This is more like UFL than anything else
Posted on 1/10/26 at 5:41 pm to msutiger
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t what they are doing is the most impressive thing I’ve seen from a team and it isn’t particularly close.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 6:00 pm to msutiger
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None of this changes the fact that they are running teams out of the stadium
His point was that is why they are doing what they are doing. So this run being impressive, isn't actually as impressive.
I like IU, but most impressive team of all time? No shot.
Not to mention, they haven't even played their last game
Posted on 1/10/26 at 6:01 pm to Oddibe
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Their strength of schedule this year is 100th. LSU’s in 2019 was 6th. Huge difference.
What does Indiana’s regular season strength of schedule have to do with anything?
I’m not calling them the greatest team of all time. Relative to their expectations, their pure “talent” level and their program history, what they have done dismantling expensive blue blood rosters is the most impressive thing I’ve seen in college football.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 1/10/26 at 6:06 pm to msutiger
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What does Indiana’s regular season strength of schedule have to do with anything?
What kind of question is this? Is it more or less impressive if your SOS is in the triple digits vs the single digits? 100th SOS and trying to claim most impressive doesn't go together.
Their regular season schedule outside of Oregon was absolute dog shite.
I like IU and the turnaround Cig has done is amazing. But this sudden need to crown them most impressive / best team ever / saying Cig is the next Saban....is nonsense at this point.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 6:18 pm to JoeyBiscuits
Because that argument only holds weight if you are claiming they are a product of their schedule. That argument might have been legitimate prior to the playoffs but then again, I wouldn’t have made that statement prior to the playoffs.
It doesn’t hold up now. They clearly aren’t a product of their schedule.
It doesn’t hold up now. They clearly aren’t a product of their schedule.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 6:40 pm to msutiger
So it’s more impressive to look like the best team (they still haven’t won) in a watered down era than all those great teams who had to beat real competitors in the past? I like Indiana, I took a lot of shite last year for telling people Cignetti was gonna be great, but this era is a train wreck of bad football. Indiana isn’t bad but they’re the prettiest fat girl at the dance.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 6:44 pm to msutiger
Come on.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 6:51 pm to msutiger
Great season for the Hoosiers and insanely impressive.
Not sure I would put them with 95 Nebraska, 01 Miami or 19 LSU.
Title game will be a big factor in how they are remembered.
Not sure I would put them with 95 Nebraska, 01 Miami or 19 LSU.
Title game will be a big factor in how they are remembered.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:05 pm to RollTide1987
You formally good programs like to try to criticize Indiana because of how they've taken advantage of the new system
you realize all Alabama did when it was successful was take better advantage of the current system than most others
quit whining and focus on women's sports
And Rice has never lost to alabama
you realize all Alabama did when it was successful was take better advantage of the current system than most others
quit whining and focus on women's sports
And Rice has never lost to alabama
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:05 pm to Madking
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So it’s more impressive to look like the best team (they still haven’t won) in a watered down era than all those great teams who had to beat real competitors in the past? I like Indiana, I took a lot of shite last year for telling people Cignetti was gonna be great, but this era is a train wreck of bad football. Indiana isn’t bad but they’re the prettiest fat girl at the dance.
What’s more impressive, a Kenyan finishing 20th in the Chicago Marathon or a second grader running a sub 23 minute 5K a street over.
Just because you call the second grader the most impressive runner of the day doesn’t mean you are saying he’s a better runner than the Kenyan.
Impressive doesn’t necessarily mean the best. It is an evaluation of performance versus expectations.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:09 pm to msutiger
Must not be so sure to answer a question with a question then totally evade.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:10 pm to msutiger
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None of this changes the fact that they are running teams out of the stadium who spent millions, if not tens of millions, more than them in roster construction.
Paying more for something doesn’t make it inherently better, especially in sports.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:17 pm to Madking
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Must not be so sure to answer a question with a question then totally evade.
What are you talking about. I gave you and example of how you can analyze an event and say that one aspect is more impressive without necessarily claiming they are “better.”
I’ve repeatedly stated in this thread that trying to determine the outcomes of hypothetical matchups in different eras of football is a useless conversation.
I am looking at Indiana in the vacuum of the NIL era.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:19 pm to msutiger
I asked you a question, you dodged. I didn’t argue that what’s impressive to you is objective I simply made a comment suggesting something you may not have considered.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:19 pm to msutiger
They were so impressive against
Indiana beat:
Old Dom 27-14
Iowa 20-15
Penn St 27-24
3 terrible unranked teams
Ohio State 13-10
Recency bias and social media are a hell of a drug for some of you or you just like the attention. We are playing in an era where the level of talent has gone down. The product on the field has dropped drastically. No one is getting coached up anywhere because they are on their 5th team.
Indiana beat:
Old Dom 27-14
Iowa 20-15
Penn St 27-24
3 terrible unranked teams
Ohio State 13-10
Recency bias and social media are a hell of a drug for some of you or you just like the attention. We are playing in an era where the level of talent has gone down. The product on the field has dropped drastically. No one is getting coached up anywhere because they are on their 5th team.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 1/10/26 at 7:39 pm to msutiger
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Indiana is the most impressive team of all time
I realize it’s an opinion but it stinks. They beat a bad penn st team on a lucky catch that was an inch from being out. They beat Iowa by 5. They beat an FCS team by 13. There are dozens of teams in history with more impressive seasons.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 9:12 am to msutiger
95 Nebraska says hello
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