Just an FYI, 60 Minutes is doing a segment on IUFB. Sunday, 12/14 @ 7:30 Eastern.
Well, that was fine but Memorial Stadium is 65 years old, Sixty Minutes, not 55.
Can anyone here play this game?
I didn’t realize the facilities were that shitty. The North and South Endzones along with the Tallen Football Complex are fairly new.
@iugradman yeah, when I first heard it I thought that was a head scratcher too, but he was talking about his first day on campus and I’m not sure what he saw. I’ve never toured the whole building. So, I assumed he was talking about offices in the athletic department or something, but he did say in another interview he didn’t have enough time to see all the facilities and someone from his staff called him while he was in Indy to tell him they were nice.
It does seem that some of these pieces are over exaggerating how bad IU football was. Not every game had a half empty stadium and we weren’t getting blown out by 30 points at halftime every game. It did happen more than we would like, but during the Allen era there were only a handful of games that we lost by more than 30 points. My worst memory of those kinds of blowouts was during the Lynch years. We had extremely bad defenses during the Kevin Wilson eras, but those games were usually shootouts where we often could score but just couldn’t stop anyone. That was until Allen arrived and gave us some semblance of a defense. I guess it all makes for a better story though when we are made to be like an fcs team playing in the big ten. 😂
Cignetti is about the details. To him, hard work on the details defines you.
I mised the 60 minutes. Will watch it later. So maybe this was the story:
So he has said other interviews, he arrived and the huge banner on the side of the stadium was pink, not red, from the sun. He hears hangdog attitudes already. Then says they get in the elevator to go to the coaches offices and he says just the rug in the elevator made him angry, because it was shabby. Then the desks in the coaches offices, and more.
Now remember, he was sold by Scott Dolson on how we had invested a ton of money and had premium stuff. He hadnt been here. So apparently he was none too pleased to be told the office stuff was the next phase. To Cig, the details show who you are. I doubt if the plushness mattered to him anywhere near the pride part, what visitors and recruits experience.
But goes straight to a car to go to the Indy Big Ten interview, and gets a phone call from his assistant coaches who are seeing the actual football stuff, weight room, training table, film rooms. And said they told him, its really NICE! And he calmed down. Said it was a relief. But Dolson has also said they wanted the new staff to pick out their desks and stuff. So that office upgrade did happen fast.
So his first impression was formed by what people hadnt thought was all that important. Impressions matter, LOL.
I thought the segment was outstanding. It featured mostly stuff we (IU football fans) already know but probably news to much of 60 Minutes's audience. The segment was well-produced and compelling.
As others have mentioned above, the narrative did somewhat exaggerate the "rags" portion of this "rags to riches" tale, but let's face it guys - - we've been pretty shitty for most of our history.
Finally, it was great to see Fisch prominently featured in the segment. Man's a legend.
A program like 60 Minutes probably doesn’t get the whole story exactly right, but it’s close enough and at the end of the day great publicity.
I thought the segment was outstanding. It featured mostly stuff we (IU football fans) already know but probably news to much of 60 Minutes's audience. The segment was well-produced and compelling.
As others have mentioned above, the narrative did somewhat exaggerate the "rags" portion of this "rags to riches" tale, but let's face it guys - - we've been pretty shitty for most of our history.
Finally, it was great to see Fisch prominently featured in the segment. Man's a legend.
One major point he made was about the "defeatist" attitude he detected from day one (my word, not his). Made me think of Kevin Wilson, who met that head on himself. While no miracle worker like Cig has proven to be, CKW identified many of the same problems with the IUFB culture and made some progress addressing them.
Link if you wanna watch it
I did not know that Jon Wertheim, the 60 Minutes reporter that did the story is a Bloomington native. Good job by a local kid!
This was a great segment.
Well, that was fine but Memorial Stadium is 65 years old, Sixty Minutes, not 55.
they said 65 years old on 60 minutes unless they referenced the age twice
@walt542 You made me Google him (Jon Wertheim). I see he is also a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. You could tell from his questions and comments that he's got a sports background.
Very well done.
@olympian97 my favorite blowout story was when we played Nebraska with I M Hipp ( my favorite football name). There had been an accident on 37 so we were about 10 minutes late. Score was 21~0 before we sat down!
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