@thehoosierhuddle Yeah, the towels are here to stay. It's amazing to me how anyone could complain about anything related to what's happened with IU football the last 2 years.
The towels work.
- Each game has a unique design and people like collecting them
- It’s a bit more rare in CFB vs something like Pom Pom’s. I’m sure there are more schools but only South Carolina comes to mind as another towel school.
- The towels are associated with IUFB’s amazing run
- The towels look cool. One issue is you can’t clap when waving them so I think the noise is slightly less but who knows
- I’m guessing Cig likes them since he’s probably a Steelers fan or at least remembers the towels from Pittsburgh
This is a good new “tradition.”
Why in the world would we retire the towels? The fans still wave them constantly, they’re sponsored, people sell them on eBay, and there were literally thousands of people lined up outside of MS and AH to get towels for the playoff. One line was a half mile long. That’s an odd take to have.Short take on your post.......
Most of the activities you speak of are not old enough to rate as 'traditions'. For 50 years we had three traditions: grass tailgates, the OOB, and obese Marching 100 members who are out-of-step...
No Bison? Like him or leave him, he was all over the field this past year. I don't think he's going anywhere. Skydiving bison was pretty big.
Flag pole? Great idea by Glass. I'm surprised it has not been copied, up to now......I see Purdue now has a 160' flagpole, 6' taller that ours. Flagpole envy?
Traveling fans? I've always thought we'd hold our own if we ever got good. I remember the Peach Bowl years ago v. Tennessee. We had maybe 15000 fans there to watch a good not great team in a probable loss situation. So there always was some untapped potential there. The NC is so surreal and the journey so unique it's hard to say how much of the improvement would survive Cig's departure.
Indiana our Indiana....not a great fight song to sing, by any measure. Like the intro, the middle part (2nd strain) and the "IU" at the end tho. Still sounds better in basketball, played at a faster pace.
The other music is just all noise to me. I wish we could do without any of it, and just watch football and let the band play. I know, not possible.
Towels.....nice idea at the time, but will get old very soon. Retire it at the end of this year.
They still do the first down march song. Allen brought it back in 2017, it’s just a shorter version. They also still play Jaws, and the towels replaced the chomping motion.@mushroomgod why will towels get old soon?
They're a fad.
I did forget one budding tradition that got cancelled.....the 1st down march. That had some umf to it. Aldo like(d) the 'Jaws" theme on 3rd down. Are they still doing that? I know it went out with Wilson's quick O, but then resurfaced some......
@walt542 Believe Terrible Towels are still a thing in Pitt. I have a friend who's a fan and she at least has a towel when she watches games!