There is so many. I am sure there are others that pissed me off more at the time but for some reason these 2 stick out...
Damarlo Belchers(RIP) dropped pass in the end zone against Iowa on the final play. That would have been the game winner.
The Jordan Howard vs Michigan overtime game. Why in the fuck did they try and pass. GIVE THE FUCKING BALL TO JORDAN HOWARD!
There is so many more. I don't care about any of them anymore. 16-0 UNDEFEATED. UNDISPUTED. FLIPPING NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!
That Michigan game….Howard ran the ball behind Spriggs and Feeney all day and then we pass the ball. I was so pissed.
A 2-year-old has only known IU football as a great program.
There are some horrifying memories in this thread that I had completely forgotten about. Thanks, thanks a lot, for nothing. LOL
Oh, and - Long Live Coach Cignetti!
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In the neighborhood, I still get the hair on the back of my neck standing up a little when I see Dinardo on BTN, especially last season..
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I was just a very young kid at the time but my dad and I were listening to the IU-Michigan game in 1979 when Anthony Carter split two IU defenders on the final play to beat IU 27-21. Corso had played for the tie and Michigan went down field in the final possession also thanks to an illegal forward fumble out of bounds by the Michigan QB. That was our Holiday Bowl year..
It's such an odd thing. To think that on the morning of Nov 30th, 2023, IU had 19 players in the portal (not counting graduates leaving), mostly our best players, and no head coach. Not in any lifetime did anyone even begin to consider the possibility that from THAT exact moment on, we would go 27-2 with 2 trips to the CFP and a national title. And one could surmise that is just the start of things. The lack of a run-up to our success from the depths of hell we were in, it's the one thing I still can't wrap my mind around.
Yeah, I remember being pleased with the roster, thinking he did a pretty good job - and the JMU guys would be serviceable until he could get better players. 🤣
And I thought we might even win 8 games, but 7 or better would be a great start. 🤣
Yet Cig before he even has a roster, or the job, was telling his wife "there's 10 wins on this schedule!". Awesome.
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I actually didn’t have my heart ripped out much because I didn’t expect much. A few Purdue games. And I guess the Tennessee bowl game that we blew. I remember an Iowa game that ended with us on the two yard line or something and time ran out due to mismanagement.
The kick was good, Pinstripe Bowl.
This. I was convinced IU Football was forever cursed because of this call.
@big-red-cb-v-2-0 I saw that Carter game and it was painful. The referees gave that game to Michigan.
I was just a very young kid at the time but my dad and I were listening to the IU-Michigan game in 1979 when Anthony Carter split two IU defenders on the final play to beat IU 27-21. Corso had played for the tie and Michigan went down field in the final possession also thanks to an illegal forward fumble out of bounds by the Michigan QB. That was our Holiday Bowl year..
It wasn’t a forward fumble but it was very likely against the rules, though it was a gray area. Had it been forward, it would’ve been a clear penalty, since it would’ve been a forward pass beyond the line of scrimmage. It was a smart play by Reid, and it preceded our total collapse on the next play. Remember it well.
Well, I remember watching that game as well. My recollection is that it was a forward fumble but there was no rule against it that year so in fact it was the proper call by the rules. Then in the offseason after that game they changed the rule.I was just a very young kid at the time but my dad and I were listening to the IU-Michigan game in 1979 when Anthony Carter split two IU defenders on the final play to beat IU 27-21. Corso had played for the tie and Michigan went down field in the final possession also thanks to an illegal forward fumble out of bounds by the Michigan QB. That was our Holiday Bowl year..
It wasn’t a forward fumble but it was very likely against the rules, though it was a gray area. Had it been forward, it would’ve been a clear penalty, since it would’ve been a forward pass beyond the line of scrimmage. It was a smart play by Reid, and it preceded our total collapse on the next play. Remember it well.
Well, I remember watching that game as well. My recollection is that it was a forward fumble but there was no rule against it that year so in fact it was the proper call by the rules. Then in the offseason after that game they changed the rule.I was just a very young kid at the time but my dad and I were listening to the IU-Michigan game in 1979 when Anthony Carter split two IU defenders on the final play to beat IU 27-21. Corso had played for the tie and Michigan went down field in the final possession also thanks to an illegal forward fumble out of bounds by the Michigan QB. That was our Holiday Bowl year..
It wasn’t a forward fumble but it was very likely against the rules, though it was a gray area. Had it been forward, it would’ve been a clear penalty, since it would’ve been a forward pass beyond the line of scrimmage. It was a smart play by Reid, and it preceded our total collapse on the next play. Remember it well.
There’s a video that clearly shows it went backward. Like I said, had it been forward, they would’ve thrown the flag since it would’ve been a forward pass beyond the line of scrimmage.
Maybe my memory is bad but as I remember it UM had a fourth down and short. If the QB had not thrown that ball forward they would have turned the ball over on downs. That is what made the play so difficult to take when they completed the TD strike to AT on the next play.Well, I remember watching that game as well. My recollection is that it was a forward fumble but there was no rule against it that year so in fact it was the proper call by the rules. Then in the offseason after that game they changed the rule.I was just a very young kid at the time but my dad and I were listening to the IU-Michigan game in 1979 when Anthony Carter split two IU defenders on the final play to beat IU 27-21. Corso had played for the tie and Michigan went down field in the final possession also thanks to an illegal forward fumble out of bounds by the Michigan QB. That was our Holiday Bowl year..
It wasn’t a forward fumble but it was very likely against the rules, though it was a gray area. Had it been forward, it would’ve been a clear penalty, since it would’ve been a forward pass beyond the line of scrimmage. It was a smart play by Reid, and it preceded our total collapse on the next play. Remember it well.
There’s a video that clearly shows it went backward. Like I said, had it been forward, they would’ve thrown the flag since it would’ve been a forward pass beyond the line of scrimmage.
It was a pass from the QB (John Wangler) to the FB (Lawrence Reid), who then threw it slightly backward out of bounds. Had Reid thrown it forward, it would’ve clearly been an illegal forward pass (both because it was forward beyond the line of scrimmage as well as because it was the second forward pass on the same play). We crapped our pants on the next play.
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