Your list. Feel apparel Welcome back to Crimson Cast Galen Clavier Scott Caulfield with you. It is September happy September everybody as we've wrapped up August and Indiana's one and O in the in the record books they they pick up their first win of the season as they knock off Florida International yesterday at Memorial Stadium. We are going to talk in depth about that game and about some of our reflections from what we saw in the game. And Scott overall, really kind of a perfect day.
A little sunny at times, which was I think a little unexpected given how the the day started off. But a pretty good start to the new era here, the Kurt Zignetti era at IU and just nice to have football back, nice to be back in the stadium. It, it did feel good having been, you know, out of it and all this anticipation that's built over the course of the spring and the summer. It was nice to finally actually be in the midst of it all. Yeah, and see a team doing something that that was
different. And it was funny for us because, you know, we have season tickets, had them for years with with two younger kids taking them to the games. We kind of checked out last year and didn't go to a lot of games. So being back, it's like, wow, it's like really, I feel like we haven't been here in two years even though we went to a couple of games last year, just didn't feel like we had been there a while. Some new changes in Memorial
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community. Almost 1000 people now in the Crimson Cast Substack community. So Scott, let's go ahead and dive into what we've got going on today. We'll recap the game and let's just start with that process. Indiana picking up their first win of the season. And that in and of itself is not abnormal. I mean, outside of years where Indiana has to open with, like Ohio State, IU has has pretty traditionally won their first game of the season. But there was a lot of intrigue
around this one. Obviously, you know, purely because it's the first game for Kurt Signetti as head coach. It's the first game for most of his assistant coaches at IU. It's the first game for a lot of players, including some key players. And everybody, I think, was kind of curious what they were going to be getting out of this IU
team. And I tell you, you know, everybody had to feel really good over those first 30 or so minutes of the game, 25 minutes maybe, where it just looked like Indiana was going to dominate the entire game in both phases. The offense was both crisp but also methodical. It was clear they were trying things out. The defense was swarming and really creating problems for FIUFIU, as we talked about in our pre season podcast.
Not a good team, maybe the worst team in FBS depending, you know, at least as far as pre season predictions go. But you know, we've we saw teams struggle in these last two weeks with FCS opponents, with other opponents.
Anytime you can kind of throttle an opponent the way Indiana was throttling them in the first half, that's a real positive thing to look at. And I certainly was vibing in a very positive way in the stands there, Scott, as as we entered that last possession of the first half, I was like, this is about as good as I could have possibly scripted it. I agree. I was trying to think of like how how can I be a little more objective because I came away
really positive with what I saw. And The thing is, it's one of those where you look at the score, you know, the final score of, you know, 31 to 7 doesn't exactly look like what Purdue won, like 56 nothing or, you know, 50 to nothing or 60 sixty to seven. Like one of those kind of scores we've beaten Indiana State in years, like, you know, 73 to 7. And those are games where you look at the score like, oh, my God, that must have been a throttling.
This is one where the score didn't really reflect how much we were just kind of dominating Florida International, You know, it was 21, nothing. They had done nothing on offense. You know, in the first half, they were showing, you know, in the stadium. There was like, you know, a hundred 200 yards to 12 or like 14, like Florida National had done nothing. You know, there were a couple of mental lapses. They had the one drive where they got the touchdown.
But then, you know, Indiana kind of came back and put everything together and continue to throttle them again. And you know, it, it it was, it was really impressive to see, especially on the defensive end. And then we'll talk about the offense as well. The offense in my mind, and again, I'm looking at this from a very positive lens. It looked really good, even though you could tell they were
doing really vanilla stuff. They were kind of running the same three or four runs every single time, but they were getting yards out of it. They were moving the ball around. So no, to me it was a unbelievably impressive showcase for a team that really looked like they were not bringing everything they had to offer in
the game. Yeah. You know, so it's one of those things where and I was, I've been trying to track some of the post game commentary and you know, both from media and from folks in the in the Twitterverse and elsewhere. And I think if you were going in expecting Indiana to just like dominate offensively, as we saw like Ole Miss do last night playing against Furman or, you know, as we saw some teams doing this weekend, you probably left
disappointed. You know, I I saw a couple of people's comments like, well, this looks like more of the same. And it's like, well, it wasn't
like an offensive showcase. And, and I think we do need to talk about some of the struggles of the offense was clearly having and what those were and like what the nature of them was, you know, but but I look at it from the standpoint of, I think if you were going and expecting Indiana to just wallop FIU, that was not a reasonable expectation because of how new this mesh of personnel was for Indiana on both sides of the
ball. And you've got new coaches, you've got new players and you're playing against live competition for the first time. You know, there were certainly some things that needed to be cleaned up at least on offense. But I will say that in terms of like being positive, a lot of people are expecting to be one over. I think by being hit over the head with Indiana being really good, I think this is going to be an incremental process.
And it's why having these first two games of of the season, being against FIU and then Western Illinois is really important 'cause I think it was clear yesterday, especially on offense, that this team is going to need some time to round into shape as far as being a really efficient group. The pieces all look like they're there, but they don't seem to have the timing. They don't seem to yet have the the the command of what all they're doing and their teammates are doing play by play.
That's really how it felt on a lot of the penalties. It felt that way on a lot of the drops that we saw. You know, and I think he listened to Kurt Stignetti's comments afterwards and he was clearly frustrated with the number of points or the number of big plays that IU left on the board just through mistakes that they made on their own as
opposed to being forced by FIU. Those are good things to have in a first game where you win anyway by 24 points because it's like way we won and we still got a ton of things we got to work on. I think that that's almost the ideal Stew for a team like this coming out of Week 1. So 1 signeti thought I'd like to share at this point. And and this is there's there's no other way to talk about it
than the contrast where we were. But I'm not here to re litigate and talk about Tom Allen. But it's, it is just, you have to, for me, it's like, I cannot not notice the difference. I was watching Signeti a lot on the sideline just because last year I, I, I didn't want to look at Alan in the last couple years as much. But he was hard to not look at because every time something happened, it was either total
exuberance or complete despair. And he would be slapping helmets and going nuts or he'd be screaming and yelling and it was like highs just complete peaks and valleys, high and low, high and low. I was really struck by how professional Signetti was on the sideline and how the team reacted. As such. I was also really interested to see, you know, when there would be a time out and the offense was gathering. Signetti was not in there. He might stick his head in and
say one or two things. He would then pull back and just kind of walk down the sideline. And it's like, oh, you're letting your coaches coach like you're letting your offensive coaches coach the offense. You're letting your defenses coaches, you know, coach the defense. And, you know, there was one play where we have like a, you know, false start. And he was pissed. And he just kind of walked up and on the side and came down and, you know, yelled at a player.
But I, I do think it was really refreshing to see a coach kind of have a a firm grip on the team, not letting them get too high, too low. And you know, you, you felt it in it was very much, you know, we, we get up 21, nothing, you know, Florida International is up.
You know, they, they score, they start the second-half with the ball and in, in other situations we've had it suddenly it's like you could feel that the team tense up in previous years, like, Oh my God, like if they score here, it's 2114, like, you know, that half the fans are gone. Like this is not going to be good. You never felt that. It's like, all right, you know, it's almost like a, you know, a, a cat playing with his food a
little bit. And it's like, all right, well, now we're just going to go ahead and just we'll continue to throttle them now and we'll be done with this. And you never felt the team get too high or too low, but it was definitely you. You felt it coming all from Signeti on the way he was handling himself on the sideline, which is just such a change from what we've seen in the last couple years. Yeah, and I mean, he's just his propensity for just standing by himself.
This was pointed out by several friends of mine. I I was, I'm I was sitting on the side of the IU bench and didn't really have a great angle, so I wasn't really paying attention. But the people who were were like, yeah, it's really interesting watching where Signetti's standing, how he's reacting.
And what, what what I thought was great just kind of in general about how Signetti approached the game was, you know, again, as you said, it was a very Workman like approach, but it was also one of those approaches where he was clearly very frustrated by a lot of the mistakes. And even in the post game, like his post game interviews were, were pretty no, no BS. It was like, well, we got, you know, we played OK, but we've got a lot of work to do on these
things. And I'm frustrated by this. You know, I think part of the issue with Alan a lot of times was it it really did feel in press conferences and and in interviews that he was unwilling to lean into the idea. His team really need to do a lot better, like with specifics. And Signetti clearly had a lot of those things in his mind already. Like he was he had standards that he was trying to uphold even with a game like this where the game was largely out of reach within the first half.
Now, I think Indiana's got a ways to go. And we were very curious coming into this game, Scott, about where Indiana was at in terms of that development and meshing process. And I think, you know, it'll be interesting because I'm sure some people will seize on what happened in this game and say, well, this isn't really what we were hoping for. We were hoping for more. But there was an alternate scenario here.
Let me try speaking in English. There was an alternative scenario here where IU look like absolute garbage for 3/4, kind of like Wisconsin did against Western Michigan earlier on this week where you're just like, uh oh, this really could be bad. And I, I never got the sense at any point that Indiana was ever
in trouble in this game. It's more like, OK, there's some things they're not doing yet or not able to do yet, but I never got the sense like, wow, they got a lot of fixing they've got to do. It's more tweaking and finalizing execution as opposed to, Oh my God, there's like tremendous problems here that need to be addressed. And that's for a new coach with this many new players, especially this many new players in key spots. I'm actually a little bit buoyed by how far along they are,
especially on defense. And you know, there's even a little tweaks. This was I I thought a really good point from if you if you're not subscribed to bite sized Bison folks, we're going to just annoy you all season about subscribing. But Taylor did a good job of of writing out his initial thoughts, looking at some of the
advanced statistics. One of the things that he noted was that Indiana, I'm going to quote the the newsletter here, Indiana was fantastic in run defense, particularly keeping dual threat quarterback Keon Jenkins contained. Part of this was because compared to Tom Allen's defensive scheme, the linebackers were actually available to spy. You know, they were like little things like that where there were play breakdowns or it got
to the second level. And normally like we've gotten used to the last couple years to be like, OK, well, now there's real trouble. Now Indiana's got a problem. But then there was always somebody there it felt like to clean things up. And even offensively, I mean, there's there's the the, the, the pass blocking could have
been a lot better. But the flip side of that is for a team that is not necessarily run first, this team looked amazing running the football all game last year and the year before with Indiana trying to establish a running mentality. They never looked anywhere close to this good running the ball. And I think that, you know, these these are the kinds of things where it's like, I think people are going to dwell on the
negatives. But to rack up over 230 rushing yards, which I think it was and really just look like they could have moved the ball whenever they wanted running the ball. I'm not used to that. Like that. We got to go back to like Tevin Coleman, divine writing era IU for me to really feel like we were at a time when we had that kind of running attack. No. And you talk about this being kind of the perfect way to win. You know, again, they, they were never really threatened.
I, I watched that Michigan State game Friday night. Like there's a team that with a new coach where they could have lost that game. They're like 3 plays away from losing that game. Also having like 12 targeting penalties. It's like Michigan State's just ready to take your head off at all times. But that was they, they could have lost to Florida Atlantic.
And you know, this this is a situation where you you know, they've made IU has made enough mistakes and looked non crisp enough to give signetti enough to work with. But it wasn't like now, Oh my God, we really got to get together like this Looks like a team that should win three of their first four games. You know, UCLA will talk about separately, but it looks like the other two kind of quote UN quote Gimme games should be wins now.
So now it's like, all right, we can breathe a little easier because that wasn't the case for Indiana last year with Akron. Like we we've had issues with this before. I'm not saying it's going to happen. And you know what happens this season will kind of reflect back on this game as to whether this is a mirage or just like, well, FIU sucked and you know, we weren't that good.
But all we can look at is right now, the thing that I, I looked at from offense in this game is, you know, we've had a couple of years, like you said, of, of it looks like Indiana's trying to get the running game going with just runs right up the middle and you'd run it up the middle and you would get nothing or
you'd get a yard. And that was always so frustrating to me. And it also didn't work, by the way, just side note, never worked in the in the red zone because we'd be 4th and, you know, first and goal from the one and we'd run four times in the in the red zone and we would lose. We wouldn't get a touchdown this year, you know, So this game obviously we're keeping a lot, you know, they, they kept a pretty vanilla playbook. They ran a lot of RP OS. But First off, they didn't run
them right up the middle. They ran them to the side. But I thought it was interesting that even for a team where you could tell, like it was like we're just kind of trying to run some plays to kind of get things going, they were still getting 234 yards every time they ran an RPO and sometimes they would break it. I mean, they finished the game you mentioned with 239 rushing yards, the average 6.2 rushing yards a play. They're 6.2.
Yeah, rushing yards to play. I went back and looked like Akron last year, just one example, Like they were like 4.2 yards a play, you know, and that's a huge difference when you're, you know, second and six instead of 2nd and 10. Having just gotten slammed. I I was very impressed by that because my thing is like, I think they were running the same two or three RPO plays every single time, which is fine.
You're not going to open up your playbook, but they they obviously have a different playbook because they had the one flea flicker in the red zone where was a the half back through it for a, you know, the guy was wide open for a touchdown, but he threw it like 5 yards short. I have some crazy plays and there's not going to pull them
all out here for FIU. But I that's the thing that I was most impressed by is that, you know, in previous years, even against subpar opponents, when we would try and get the run game going, we really couldn't get it going like we were doing yesterday. Even when we were kind of running the same type of running actions every day, everybody.
I know it's easy to, you know, essentially not take the statistics that you rack up against FIU seriously, but Indiana last night, this is the official rushing per like the average per rush, 40 carries, 234 yards, 5.85 yards per rush. The last time IU had that good of a rushing attack was the game at Michigan State in 2022. That that bizarre game. And a lot of that was like Jalen Lucas breaking that huge run where they chucked off like 80 yards.
The last time they had that high of a total against anybody was against Idaho. But if you go back and try to find a game where Indiana rushed for more than 5.85 yards against an FBS opponent, you actually, believe it or not, have to go all the way back to 2019 when Indiana played Rutgers when they averaged 6.84 yards per carry. So. And is you anybody really breaking a lot of like 80 yard runs, right? Yeah, that was the thing.
I mean, you know, it was impressive I think yesterday about the way the rushing attack worked was that it was a lot of a lot of five to six yard gains, but it was pretty consistent. And they had a couple that were better than that obviously and that was nice to see. But I I just look at it and I'm like, you look at the mixer. Which is something to feel like we just haven't had for years. Like it's like we will just run
up the middle. We get stopped and like our rushing comes from like when there's just a complete breakdown and then we we have an 80 yard run. And like you really didn't see that. Like you saw a team that looked like they knew how to run, run to the holes, make blocks and and make openings.
Because 5 or 6 yard runs to me consistently is almost more impressive than getting 180 yard run 'cause that's normally just a blown coverage or somebody made a mistake that you can't, you can't help on every single game. Right. The other thing that is impressive is that Indiana had three players with well, I'm going to take Curtis Work out of this cause all of his runs were essentially either scrambles or sacks.
But 3 running backs with at least 5 yards, 3 running backs with at least 50 yards, excuse me, 5 carries, 50 yards. So Elijah Green, 5 carries for 82 yards and a touchdown. Tyson Lawton, 16 carries, 74 yards, 2 touchdowns. Justice Ellison 10 carries, 68 yards. You know, so to be able to spread it out, and I'll note all three of those players were not here last year.
You know, Elijah Green transfers in from North Carolina, 5th year player Tyson Lawton came from James Madison, but he was at Stony Brook for three years before that. And then Justice Ellison was at Wake Forest for the last four years before coming here. And you know, these are all essentially this is Indiana's rushing attack right now.
So even that, it's like, well, here's 3 capable ball handlers, you know, three guys that you can give the ball to, three guys who I think everybody was wondering how are they going to fit into this attack? And I still don't think we know. But for all three of them to be that effective when Indiana has struggled to have any running backs being effective for any length of time in some of the previous seasons, that was good
to see. The other thing on the offense I'll mention, so we're we're driving down, we're listening to your preview with Taylor from bite sized Bison. So there second time we'll try and get like 5-5 mentions in a a podcast because Taylor is awesome and as is bite sized bison. But like I'm like asking the the boys. My, my oldest son is starting to get into podcast. He likes like NB, he's NBA guy,
like NBA podcast. I'm like, hey, do you want to listen to a preview for for this for this game? And he's like, yeah, he's like, this is the podcast you're on. I was like, we yeah, but I'm not on it. And we start playing. He's like, oh, that's your buddy Galen. He's like, he sounds really chill. He's a good podcast like. He doesn't you, you haven't been to a game with Galen.
Like not chill in a game. I will say I have new seats this year, as I do every year, mostly because of my lack of chill in the stadium. But I was pretty chill in this game. And I'm fortunate in that there's at least three people in my section who are significantly louder than I am right now. And there's still early seasons early, My friend. I am trying to take a new approach in the stadium. I really am. I I need to chill out more and just to relax and I'm new era.
I'm gonna try to dial it down. Just gonna try to vibe with what's going on in the stadium. The only time I got mad like really mad the whole game was that ridiculous roughing the passer penalty that they called in the first quarter. I think it was like that was that was worth yelling about. But the rest of it your your son is correct. I'm actually very chill now. This is. James So James thinks you're chill? James is definitely a a fan of Chill Galen. This. Is the one love era of Galen
Clavio? So but you guys, you and Taylor were talking about kind of lamenting the days when we would pass the tight ends and we would pass the ball around and then it was great to see. You look at the receiving, how that was passed around. There are there's 87 receivers who got receptions yesterday, three of which Zach Horton are tight end, great little plays for 36 yards a touchdown. And you know, again, I'm reading into this. I'm very positive with what I'm seeing.
But it felt like they ran those plays to Horton and it's like, oh, those work. Like, all right, we're done doing that. Like we're not going to do any more of that and show that on tape. Like we'll save that for UCLA or Big 10. Because all three of his plays, he was wide open.
It's like he was just wide open. But it was really nice to see us pass the ball around, pass to a tight end, have a passing attack that seemed to be. Calculated as opposed to just kind of throwing it to wherever we can, you know, while we're trying to get it out. Yeah, no, I one of the things that stuck out to me just in general about the game was everything felt competent and measured and that it's hard.
It's a hard thing. And I think for for many people, it's likely to be something that they don't acknowledge. Because I think I'm trying to think of how to delicately put this. A lot of people don't carefully watch the games and I don't blame them 'cause I mean, you really have to watch a lot of football over a long period of time. And, and I think be focused on like what the full equation is supposed to look like with it. And, and most fans are just not armed to do that.
I'm I'm and it took me a long time to even get to the point where I felt close to doing that, But I was really happy with how this was not like let's throw the kitchen sink at everybody and try to like show how much we can do. It really did feel like, especially after the second touchdown Dr. and really even the second touchdown Dr. itself, it was like, we're not going to just go down the field. Let's try all these things out. Like you were saying, let's see
what works. Let's see what how we're doing. And, you know, I think there were clearly things that needed to be fixed with that. And, and the penalties were a big one. I actually think Indiana could have rushed for like 400 yards in this game if they wanted to. But they purposefully ended some drives preliminarily because they were trying to get their passing game working and they were trying to see what they could do.
And look, I, you know, I think some people, a lot of the, the messages I got from good football observers afterwards were like, well, Rourke still seems like Atba and I, I think we'll see. And it may be a situation where, you know, maybe Rourke is, is a TBD in terms of how good he actually is. But I thought he looked good. I thought his fakes looked good. You know, he, he had a very mechanical approach in the pocket, which I think will contribute well to making the RPO sell better.
He seems to have the arm. A lot of the balls that were put right where they needed to be were just dropped. You know, there were several drops where, you know, I'm just yeah, I think the the first drop I was like, well, that's too bad. By the third one, I was like, really? And then there was even one later in the game where, you know, there was a nice completion or should have been a completion. I think the miles price over the middle that he dropped and it's
like it's right there. I think that'll get fixed. But I'll also say I think it was interesting how if you look at the way the stats broke down, Indiana really did not try to target their their best receivers very often. Donovan Mccully. I actually was texting with with Taylor at one point during the game. I was like, has Mccully even been targeted yet? Now literally as I hit the send button, they threw the ball to Mccully and he caught that ball for 9 yards.
But I don't know if he got targeted again the rest of the game. Like he was just kind of out there as part of the collection. Elijah Sarat saying thing. With an with an injury, right? He was like, not medically clear. And it was right. It was right when that that that happened. He didn't come back, but you know, but it was just it was interesting with Sarat, the same thing where it's like they're they were targeting different people.
It was great to see Zach Horton, the tight end, the transfer from JMU get in there and and catch a couple of balls over the middle. And it was just cool to see the tight end position being used again. That was nice. But you know, they they clearly were, you know, they there's more things that have to do with the passing attack.
The blocking is going to have to get a little bit better and I just think the timing is going to have to get better and obviously the catches are going to have to be there. But overall, given that they didn't need to show anything else, you know, I think people were hoping for maybe a bigger blowout. And I certainly love big blowouts in these sorts of things. But at the end of the day, they covered, they win 31 to 7 and they were in control the entire game.
And a large part of that, Scott, I guess the flip sides of the ball was on the defense and the defense really did look awesome. And I think it's what's really fascinating to me is most of the statistical leaders on the defensive side were not guys that were here last year. You know, you, you go down the list. Aiden Fisher, transfer from JMU, led the team in tackles, had 12 total tackles, had four solo tackles, had a sack. You know, he so he he's a
transfer from JMU. Jalen Walker, transfer from JMU. He was the second leading tackler. D'Angelo Pons, another transfer from JMU, third leading tackler. Sean Asbury, transfer from Old Dominion was, was high on the list of tackles. Tyreke Tucker was a a James Madison transfer. Like the only guy in that list of tacklers that was here last year was Isaiah Jones, the linebacker. He he didn't play very much at all last year. He had two total tackles last
year he had six. Sorry, that was two years ago. That wasn't even last year. So the the import of talent really showed out early and there were guys I think that we were expecting to see play that just didn't get much play at all in this game. Now you know it. I mean, there was a a big play made by one of the walk ONS in
this game. It's really interesting, like how there's a tiered system it appears already in terms of who Cignetti's going to play on defense, what players are getting opportunities, what schemes are being run. And I think that's it. It's just revealing with so many players that were on the team last year, most of the statistical standouts came from people who weren't on the team last year. Yeah. No, I mean, and the defense was, was swarming.
I was going to say this, there probably is a stat for this now. But the thing that I was very happy to see that had kind of gone away and is always my, my indicator of how well the IU defense is playing is there's the first defender who touches the other team, tackle the guy. Because for so many years we've seen it where it's like you go and you know, they go for the tackle and they grab them and it's like he just pulls away. And then it's like if he breaks 3 tackles, he's gone.
Our, our first guy who tried to tackle was tackling most of the time, which is good. But you look at, you know, it it, it's also the offense. The offense held the ball for a lot. But you know, FIU, their first four drives, it was 3/3 and out -5 yards 6 and out with 16 yards, 5 and out 16 yards. They did get a touchdown in their last drive. They only had four drives in the first half, only one drive in the second-half. In the second quarter, 12 yards, they only had two drives that
had more than 10 plays. And the second one that, you know, 1 was a touchdown for 12 plays. The other one in the third quarter that had 10 plays was an interception. I mean, so their, their drive chart for Florida International was all under 10 plays. You know, the Indiana kept them off the off the offense kept them from running any kind of drives and everything was three and out or six and out. It was really a a pretty stifling defense that had kind of one laps and that was it.
No, it was it was impressive. And it it again, it it like you, I I love blowout wins, but you know, it's kind of fun. I came home and then I watched UCLA and Hawaii and no great shakes there. You know, we're we're probably not going to see another blowout against Western Illinois. It does feel like this team, this IU team is kind of keeping things close to the vest. But watching UCLA, it's like I watched that. It's like I don't I don't see how they're much better or worse than we are.
Right. Yeah. UCLA looked pretty bad. I mean, they they had to really pull something out at the end there against I guess Hawaii last night. I mean, here's the thing I I was thinking about this like there were some teams that really did struggle quite a bit. There were others that did not. But I think for Indiana in particular with its particular set of circumstances, you almost, it's a completely different equation from most of the other teams in the Big 10,
UCL as A-Team. That's kind of in the same boat as IUI. Mean, you get a little bit of credit because they were playing on the road and that that's a long flight to Hawaii, obviously. But they had some continuity, whereas I us had very little continuity in terms of their coaching staff, in terms of the players that are out there. I mean, it's just like a brand new team out there. I mean, think about on offense
too. You know, it, it wasn't it wasn't just the defense where I think 7 like 7 like six of his top eight or seven of the top 9 tacklers weren't here last year. But on offense, you know, Curtis Work starting quarterback, but wasn't here. Elijah Dream, Tyson Lott and Justice Ellison, Miles Price not here last year. Zach Horton, not here last year. Miles Cross, I don't believe was
here last year. You know, I mean, it was like Omar Cooper Junior I think is the only guy that was back out of the statistical leaders on offense and. In the postgame radio and they talked to one of the players at JMU transfer and he was talking about how like, yeah, we're trying to, you know, we're trying to keep the, the, the we're trying to push the JMU, you know, ethos here in Indiana. It's not like we're trying to push, you know, Indiana on JMU.
It's like, no, JMU is trying to push Indiana on, you know, on to Indiana. So it really is a, an interesting spot. Like you said. I mean, it's 95% of the contributors in the game yesterday were not here last year. And it wasn't just JMU people. I think this is the important thing because that's they've they've dominated the conversation. But it's like the ACC guys and the the Mac guys, you know, I was who was the other one that I saw CJ W who was at Kent last year.
It's just, I think it's less the, the JMU ethos as we've heard talked about and like that level of work that has been what they wanted to bring in. But it's also been just the basic concept of you're going to practice hard and you're going to bring it in practice or you're not going to play. And it does kind of feel like there's some churn going on where it's like, well, if, if, if what we saw out there is an indication of who's playing hard in practice.
And those are the people that got the opportunities. It does say a lot about the status of the roster that Signetti took over and where they're still at in terms of trying to get all those people on the same page from an output perspective. And this is, you know, the the last thing I'll say about one of the last things I'll say about the game is, you know, you saw it in the end of the game where and again, it's a different talent, you know, breakdown
here. But you also have a team from Florida where they should be used to hotter, you know, hotter sunny or weather. It looked like for international was kind of just wilting and getting tired. They were just kind of walking around on defense. We had one of our explosive, you know, runs at that point. I think it's a good sign that, you know, it felt like we were continuing to kind of almost like a, you know, a, a, a snake
like constricting on that team. And it did look like if that, you know, the game went another quarter, we would have won, you know, 64 to 7. Like it didn't look like Florida International was bringing anything more like they were beat down. They were tired. It was nice to see that we were not tired.
You know, obviously they're doing the right thing in the offseason in the workouts because we look like, I don't say we're getting stronger, but we we look like we were keeping up the intensity throughout the entire game. And we definitely, you know, broke and wore out for international, which again, no great shakes. Maybe one of the worst teams we're going to play this year, but we we still did it and that was impressive.
So you know, Indiana, as they as they recap what goes on in this, there's, there's clearly a lot of things that they'll want to fix. And the nice thing is they've got another week to fix those things. Half the. Almost a week? Well. I, I actually kind of like that even better because, you know, they're gonna have to do a short week, which means they're largely gonna stick to, I'm guessing many of the same things that they were planning on doing
in this game. They'll be a weaker opponent that they'll play in this next game, which should allow them to do a little bit more in terms of getting timing down. And, and I think that's the thing it, it was so many of the mistakes that were self-inflicted on offense were really, as I said earlier, they were detail oriented things as opposed to what we can't execute against this FIU team. And the defense just in general, I think that is that is a renewable resource when it comes to football.
If your defense goes and shuts down the opposition in such a way, again, they'll have a lot of opportunities to try think some different coverages out and some different approaches and what they're doing, but also maybe to get some more depth out there. And you'll also get an extra week where it's like, well, OK, you've seen we mean business when we talk about you're going to have to practice hard if you're going to be on this team again.
It's like it's a gradual building of culture and a gradual changing of ethos. And for IUI think that's so important because it was so clear in the last couple of years, really the last three years of the Allen era that the culture, something in the culture had broken. And the the level of output you were getting out of players was it was not just a matter of we're making mistakes. A lot of it was we're just not executing properly. And so it's, you need this sharpening.
And this is where this whole month of May, of May, the whole month of September May end up being like, I don't know, there's been a more critical month in terms of an early trajectory of an IU team in a while. Like we talked about this in our preview podcast where it's like, you know, you can get off to a good start and you can win while you're fixing things and getting things into shape. You really do set yourself up for a good rest of the season.
If you can get through these first four games, four and O or even 3 and one with a close loss, that's what I saw in the game against Florida International tells me that that pathway is possible. I mean, we talked kind of, I don't say talking out of our butts or anything like that, but we a lot of it was what we think this is how this is going to go. We'll see how it actually goes, but we hope that this is the direction we're going to bank on that as being what happens.
Well, having seen what we saw in this first game, with the caveat that there's still a lot to work on, it does feel like the trajectory that we've talked about is possible. Because again, you look around college football and the Big 10 in particular, and I'm just not seeing the level of dominance from a lot of the other teams in the conference.
And I think Indiana, there's there's a talent level there and there's a mental approach that seems to be setting the scene for the ability to build on it as they move through the season. And that is about as much as you could have asked for, I think, coming out of the first game of this new era. Yeah, I'll, I'll go back to something you said earlier that I definitely felt, just felt professional and like a Workman
like attitude. And you know, we if you go back and look at some of, you know, Signetti's teams and James Madison, they didn't run, they ran a more dynamic offense than we saw yesterday. And so that that's the other thing is like I, I would be shocked if this is all we see from the offense all year, like we're going to see more. They definitely kept some stuff in reserve.
And so no, I, I, I agree with you and I, I look at this as like, all right, walked away, be like, all right, we're we're going to be 3 and one worst case going into game 4, which I, I don't think I felt as as good about some of those Gimme games last the last couple of years based on where the team was. And I, I'm with you. I think that's a good thing. And it also feels like, you know, some of those kind of, you
know. Announcers speak things that you're like, oh, the most, the biggest improvement you see is from week 1 to week, from week 1 to week two. It felt like we never really met those things in football. It's like, well, but not an IU, We don't, we don't seem to do that. It feels like maybe we are going to start doing some of those things or like a real program has real improvement from week one to two. Maybe we'll see that. Maybe we see it in week three
against UCLA. But it does feel like, oh, we might be on the trajectory of a real football team. It's like Pinocchio, Galen, the the, it's turned into a real boy. We have a real team. But no, it, it does feel like we might, you know, the, the, it it again, I'll go back to the math. It feels like there's a steady hand on the wheel kind of leading this thing.
Well, we'll see what happens. I mean, obviously, you know, you're not going to learn a lot new in terms of how good the team is on Friday. This is more about all right, let's sharpen what we've got and figure out where things are AT and try to avoid injuries. I mean, the the only other things I'll note statistically that we're worthwhile out of this game. No turnovers. You know, that was nice. There were a couple of fumbles, but they weren't lost. I don't they weren't even
actually recorded as fumbles. You did get the one interception, which that was nice. So Indiana did turn FIU over once that Yeah, you know, the, the no turnovers thing is almost more important to me than the penalties. The penalties weren't great. 9 penalties, 80 yards and and just some sloppiness on the penalties. It also didn't help, frankly, that I'm not sure if any member of that officiating team had ever officiated a football game before that.
That was a that was a struggle and not, not just with bad calls, There were a few of those, but just like the basics of hey, where should the ball be or hey, what was the clock supposed to be? Or that that whole stupidity with the lateral towards the end of the game, it's I mean, just like stuff like that where I'm just like, what is going on with this crew? I will say, watching a lot of college football this weekend, that was a problem everywhere.
It wasn't just limited here, but I, I, so I don't know how much of the penalties are actually penalties that wouldn't get called, but were in this case and how many of it was something that actually needed to be fixed. But that is certainly something that they're going to have some improvement in. It's one of the maybe it's a good offseason pod. It's like it's all this stuff happens, all this money, all these conference changes and NIL
money. Like at some point maybe we have professional refs, like for a 2 to $3 billion industry that's putting out a product, like maybe we don't have guys who were just, you know, contracted and working 12 games. That's a totally different, you know, totally different discussion. The other thing I would say is the numbers weren't, you know, eye popping, but James Evan at punter, his punts, you know, he only had three of them, but they were really high as punch should be.
But just he was, he looked crisp and that the punting unit looked good to something I listen to on the pot, your podcast coming down, just how special teams always seem to make a mistake along the way. We didn't have a special teams mistake yesterday either. And that was nice to see. Yeah. I mean just little things, little, little detail. We've talked about this for years with the Allen era, we talked about it with the Wilson era, we talked about it with the all the eras, all the eras.
The details are the devil for Indiana and to watch Indiana have a pretty good day where you know what what problems they had detail wise. It didn't really hurt that much and they were able to do a lot of good things, especially with run blocking. I I was so impressed with just the little subtle things that opened up holes in the run blocking game for IU. There's so much to build off of. I'm just really excited about it.
So any final thoughts from you, Scott or anything else that was worth noting for in terms of the on the field play? No, I want to talk atmosphere, but no, not on the field, no. Let's talk atmosphere. So I got to say I love the new section, the new student section where they moved to start the game. I told my wife we were both like, this feels like a college game. Like I've been to tons of games in Royal Stadium. The the way the students were before.
It's just a slight change. Just kind of moving the students to behind the end zone there on the North End. It it felt louder. You can hear the students starting chance and like it continued it it's going to be good. Like that's a really good change. I feel like the students have ownership over that section now. It just I was like, wow, this feels like a really loud student section that's way more involved by just kind of adding that little ribbon because the other
area is still there. I will also say like I I don't understand how things work sometimes my friend, because like Marlboro is still a company that exists that is a multi billion dollar company. They don't sell as many cigarettes in the US. The the student section shirt, the signetti with the Marlboro logo for those of us who are old enough like, oh, Penske and Marlboro, like I remember that logo. It's a great looking shirt.
Like I was like, that's awesome. I'm also like how I I don't think I you got, you know, permission from Marlboro to use the logo. Like how was this possible without getting into a copyright infringement thing? Not that I want to be captain bring down, but I just. Mean. How does this stuff how how are you able to do this like this is this is a big. I'm going to, for those of you who are on the YouTube channel, I'm showing you what this the shirt look like.
So you have some visual aid. And yeah, it is an absolute Marlboro RIP off. It looks like the top of a cigarette box. Yeah, it's great. I mean, look, I I love it. It looked awesome. It's fantastic. It's got like Elio's first winning car in Indy. It's fantastic. But I just, I see that and I'm like, how like do you want to use the Disney font too and just go for like pissing off everybody who can sue you? But I I love it. It was awesome. It's a great start.
But no, the, the students section where they were was awesome that the crowd at the beginning of the game, it was, it was a really good feel that probably the best feel for a game of that kind of opponent I can remember in a long time. I, I, I, I word it that way because obviously, like, you know, first games you played Ohio State a couple times, like that's a great crowd, but just for a, for kind of a nondescript first opponent, that was a pretty fired up crowd.
Yeah, and I mean, it wasn't a huge crowd. I mean they announced attendance was I think 44,000 something. There were definitely not many people in the southeast corner of the stadium and the attendance was even a little bit pumped up because it was band today. So you had a bunch of high school kids with instruments in the stands. But I'll say this, I think the I agree with you, I was sitting very close to the student section. There was a lot of energy on
that side of the field. I thought that overall the in game experience was good. You know, it was a pretty constant flow of energy throughout. It really never felt like it lulled too badly until about the third quarter. The overall presentation was good. Like the introduction was nice. There was a, you know, the, the coming out to Thunderstruck and it, it felt like a little more of an occasion. So you know, then, then, but it's also, it was like middle of
the afternoon. So it was you didn't have the full dramatics of coming out at night and things like that. Well, the thing that I'll say with that, I, I, I, I wrote a note about that. Like I, I remember going to the Iowa game. I think they play, they play it back in black to enter. It's like you can tell they've been playing that for years, right? And everyone's fired up and they know, oh, this is the sound.
It's like, you know, Metallica, you know, like Enter Sandman for Mariano Rivera coming in. And I, I, I took a note like this is the problem of kind of a lack of consistency or any real ethos with IU footballs. You just, you have a different song every two or three years. You have a different intro set up. I'm with you. I also liked the intro. I liked having the video with a minute left kind of doing the, the, you know, the the Mets
closer horn song. I like all that, but it's like we need to stick with again, we need to coach, we need something just kind of stay and stick because all this stuff is good. But we've done Metallica before. We've done all of these songs before we and they keep changing. And I think fans like just the only thing that stays is like that stupid first down March and like the up and down arms, like somehow that that won't go away. And the Jaws theme on 3rd down,
third down. Those will not go away. But I agree with you. I liked it, but it doesn't resonate because it's like, oh, it's always new. And it's like, oh, well, we'll have a, you know, a new one in three years. But anyway, it's just like that's where we need some consistency with football, but it it will come with success. Anyway, sorry, I interrupted. You no, it's a good point and it's one of those where it does feel like we hit the reset button like every three years on
the in stadium experience. So it's like this time it's going to be better and it's rarely the problem of the experience itself. It's that it never mores to any success on the field. And and so you end up people really get down on the team, they're not there. The the atmosphere is bad because of that. And then you got to build it back up again. And so you almost have to do the reset regularly.
And I think that'll continue to happen until Indiana just has a 5 or 6 year run where they're successful all the time. And that that will really be I think the key element as we think about all this moving forward. But I thought for for an A reopening I guess on. The outside team, it was good walking in the tunnel, which I always think is cool. Yep, yeah, it's there's just, there's a lot of little quality of life and there's, there's other things that go on behind the scenes.
I think the video board shows are better just in general, you know, there'll be, there's some kinks to work out, but they, they tried to make the on field promotions a bit more fun, as fun as you can make on field promotions. I think on field, on field promotions like that was one of those things that like in the 80s and 90s, it's like, oh, guess what? We could have people come on the playing surface and then and then everybody's tired of it by now. So within what you can do there,
it was nice to see. And then when we were in college, they're like, we can bring people in inflatable mascot costumes, like weird inflatable IU guys. I will say that my 8 year old hot dog gun is high on his list of things like that. Came out once and then was like every time I was like, are they bringing the hot dog gun back out? Like when's the hot dog gun coming back out? Like I think that's one time only my friend. Sorry, Gray. Let's talk about the rest of the stadium though.
New a lot of new food options. Did you get a chance to to try any of those out? I didn't. But I did, we walked by a lot of them. I like the the quick that right out of our gate 8:00 they have a quick serve section where you can just grab and go, which is like, Hey, this is a great idea for, you know, 2017. Like I'm happy we brought this in a lot of new vendors that, that I saw, which is really good. So I, I like, I like that they're doing that to me.
The quick serve thing was, was so necessarily needed just a spot to grab popcorn, hot dogs, drinks and beers. And they've also, they zigzag the lines. It used to be the lines just go straight out on the concourse, which would create this huge mess. They kind of zigzagged them. So a lot of nice little things like that, which I thought were this, Oh no, I was very happy to
see all of those. Things yeah, I I found the social cantina tent that was nice and got a chick got some tacos over there and got I mean it was just it was good overall. Like they're all the all the old favorites are there there's some new stuff there. Buffalo Louie's has a stand on the the concourse area right when you enter on the the very North End of the stadium. And that was pretty much hopping the whole time. So it was just it was neat to
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how everything was spaced out. I am interested to see what happens when there's eight more 1000 people in the stadium so that. Thing is, like everything looks good in these kind of environments. Like the stress test comes when Maryland, Michigan or Ohio State comes and you, you're, you're suddenly pushing the limits. Like then, it seems like that things fray at the end, but we'll we'll see. Yeah, Maryland is is probably the because that's the best parents weekend.
So you're going to have a ton of people in like it's already, if you haven't bought parking passes folks yet for that Maryland game, I wish you a lot of luck. They are, they are really, really expensive even on SeatGeek right now. So keep an eye on that. And as we move forward with, you know, the, the look, I just, I like the fact that IU continues to make small but meaningful changes to the way the game day setup is, is working.
That's going to really be what is the key, I think, is adapting to that as they move forward. And it does, it is nice to see so many of the local vendors now in there doing what they're doing. I think that makes a big difference because I think everybody within the IU orbit can agree the standard like IU concessions items are just not good. They're, they're, and they haven't been good for a long time. It's nice to have something different and and actually tasty
in the stadium. I, I, to the point that like, you know me like I do a huge tailgate, we had, we had probably over 100 people that came through the tailgate over the course of the six hours we were out there. And I was so intrigued by what was in the stadium from a food perspective. I didn't even bother eating lunch at my own tailgate. A bunch of other people did. But I was like, I really want to try at least something in there. And I, I'm glad I did. It was nice. Good. Good for you.
Yeah. So I, you again want to know they'll be taking on. We had we had one or two questions that might be worth getting to. Let me let me track those down real quick. So Patrick noted it's one game inevitably quote, don't want to show too much, but thought run blocking was pop promising thought pass protection was concerning and the work deep ball incomplete data. There's there's something to be said for that. But Patrick, I guess I'll go back to what I was saying a little bit earlier.
A lot of it I think is I'm I'm choosing, at least for the moment to say, let's not show too much of the playbook and also let's work on short and intermediate stuff. The pass protection does need to get better. And I think that that's that's going to be an interesting thing to see. I do think that in a game like this where the pass protection isn't working, but the run blocking is working so well, I think they probably just run the
ball even more. Like IU almost look like they put themselves in a position where they were going to be likely to lose yardage because they wanted to see if they could run certain plays. I think if they were actually trying to gain maximum yardage on every play in this game, the play calling likely would have been different. But it's still something that needs to get fixed as we move forward that that's going to be an interesting thing to watch.
I agree with Patrick on the the I'm happy mentioned the pass. The pass blocking was rough, like the pocket was never really clean for Rourke. I mean, the the positive side is work looks like he's able to move around the pocket very well. He kind of he he doesn't get stuck in a spot. He also has kind of a great up and under move to get out of out of sacks. Like he had four or five where he just kind of like just dips down low and then comes back up and gets out of a sack.
But he he was, it was a very, very not clean pocket for F for a team against FIU that you I'd like to see that cleaned up a little bit. Yeah, no, it's there's so many little things that are going to have to be fixed, but you'd rather be in this position to fix them. And that's really where I think we're at with everything. Yeah, and I was wrong. That was the only questions we had. Everything else was about tailgating and we've already talked about that.
So did you have, did you tailgate a bit before the game did? And so we. Came down and we we do not do what nothing close to what you do. We are in the the Mack of tailgating or we're not ready to go to the big, big time conferences. I'm not no, we, we it was great, though, a couple of teachers that my wife teaches with also, we realized we're kind of close by. So we had probably about like 7 to 10 people kind of hanging out around ours. It was fun.
We had can jam set up, had a couple friends walk by say hi and the kids brought some chalk. It was awesome. My my son took a huge thing and just said IU tailgate, just come in and chill. So he's the he's writing letting people know where to come in. It was great. We had we had a really good time. I had some dogs and brats. I mean we are definitely doing the small scale just, you know, bag chips, not generic. We went with the some some really good BBQ.
Oh God, the place out of Pittsburgh wise wise chips really good. I'm not. Familiar with those? They're good, but not, not generic. And then also the the hint of lime Tostitos I'm a big fan of. So no, we had a really good time. It was fun. We had a, you know, the people are like we're going to come back. And so I think, I think we we're starting to get our little tailgate crew together as well. So we had a great time. That's great.
Well, we're looking forward to more of course, coming up this week, a Friday game for IU of a Friday evening kick, which I know is a huge. I will say this, I'm curious from your perspective, first of all, since you come from the north side of Indianapolis, how was the transit yesterday like? What was the process like? The the the opening of I-69 and 465 was awesome. Like it, it saved a ton of time. My my one thing to anybody with N dot who's listening, you have
a huge ceremony. It's been, I don't know, 50 plus years. I've been hearing about 69 connecting to Indy and you know, three years of getting this last section figured out and they had a huge ribbon cutting ceremony. So I'm I'm excited. Like we turned the music down like, all right, kids, like we're all I had not driven it yet. Like super excited. We get there. It's like 2 lane exit, but of course one lane has cones on it. It's already in one lane shut down. It's like I've been waiting
three years from this. Like if you're going to open it, just open it like open the whole thing. If it's not ready to be open, then just don't open it yet. Like why is one lane already closed on this exit? So it was like jammed up and there was a little bit of a backup getting off. But that said, it made, you know, from my house up here in Westfield, once I got on Meridian, there was not a stoplight or a stop until I got to Bloomington, which was just awesome.
So it shaved, you know, from up here in Westfield, I plug it into Waze, it's like an hour and 9 minutes to Memorial Stadium from my house. So it, it shaved a good 3035 minutes off the route. Getting out wasn't bad. We left with probably about like 4 minutes to go in the game. So we miss in and I think the stadium was kind of clearing organically as this as the game went along. So there wasn't a big traffic. We'll see about how it is
getting out. But you know, getting out again, you just get on 69, you're good to go. So no, the, the drive for anybody up here who's been thrown off by the traffic or the construction on I-69, it is done and you, you are, you're free to go and you're doing 80 miles an hour all the way down. And it is. It's awesome. Yeah, it's I, I thought overall, I mean, I got there so early and I, you know, we, we ended up leaving with the with the kids got horrifically sunburned.
That was the one, the one downside to yesterday was I didn't just didn't think about, hey, the clouds are out. Typical Indiana stuff, right? Like, I have no idea. It's that very, very Indy 500 kind of thing. So we left a little bit early. But yeah, the the set up at least in Bloomington was, was good. But I was curious how your experience and those of the experience of people leaving were like, because you're going to deal with that on Friday, obviously coming down for the
game and then trying to get out. So I'll be curious to see how it is there. But but good, good to see at least most of an open in the Interstate between not here in Indianapolis and long overdue after what, 5 decades of this or
whatever. Yeah. I. Mean it's been 10 years of actual construction and then another 40 years of talking about it. It's nice to finally have it done and the the exit out is in. I mean, they're they're going to take some time getting that that work rate figure out, but it's it's open. It's nice.
Anyway, we will have coming up later this week, we'll have some content related to IU taking on Western Illinois, a game that will mean a lot for the season in terms of they win that game and they will be 33% to bowl eligibility. And I mean, no, it's true. It's true over numbers.
That's a real number. But also just a way for this team to continue to improve itself and a way to get AI think, a clearer handle on who we can count on in this season and who's going to go out there and give effort regardless of the level of the opponent like does Indiana. Is this a team that ends up having a trouble with taking
their foot off the gas? There's a little bit of an implication of that from Signeta yesterday when it came to like the way his team approached the end of the first half and then most of the second-half and this whole idea of you got to play and learn how to play with the lead. They're going to have the lead a lot against Western Illinois. We'll see what they do with it there.
We'll see how they're able to improve as, as we know, you only get one more week of this and then you're in conference play and you're on the road. So a lot to learn in a short period of time. On the road game, you and I are both going to be there. Our schedule might get a little bit jacked up that week because that is a, it's a, it's a long
trip. But I will also say talking to a lot of people before the game, couple during the game, you know, there, there's excitement about that UCLA game and you know, a couple people I know are going a lot of people I talked to that I told them I was going like, damn, I wish I could go. Like I was really looking at it like I, I, I think the energy is real. And I continue to say I think the turn out there is going to be is going to exceed expectations as the Indiana crowd in in Pasadena.
But I just, it's, that'll be a really, really interesting first Test. But the, the interest around this, you know, two years ago, you, I don't think you got anybody to fly to California to see IU football. Now most people I talk to, they're either going or they're really bummed they're not. Yeah, it's, it should be fun. And I mean, I keep hearing there's going to be a ton of people out there, but we've got we'll talk more about that the following week. But it is not.
It is interesting to think about how much is going to happen with IU football over the next 4 weeks with with. 12 days. Yeah, I know. So anyway, that'll wrap it up for us. We appreciate you folks joining. We appreciate the folks at Home Field Apparel for sponsoring and we will be back later on in this week. You'll be able to catch Crimson cast preview shows throughout the course of the week. Also be sure to check out bite sized bison and the entire back home network for Scott.
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