The Indiana Football Hoosiers 34-24 season opening victory over Ball State in a cavernous Lucas Oil Stadium looked about the license plate on the front of 2008 Ford Edge.
It was nothing pretty.
But, in the truest of football parlance, “a win is a win and we will take it”.
I have already been ridiculed over my prognostication that the Indiana Hoosiers will finish with a good season. I have predicted at least eight regular season wins. Guess what? I still BELIEVE.
Saturday’s game was as ugly as a bowling shoe. Get past the glitz of the big stadium…that was mostly empty. The Hoosiers won’t have another road game with a football atmosphere that was as close to a flat line as this one was. I for one can’t wait to get to Bloomington to hear a few bars of “INDIANA FIGHT”, my personal favorite, from the IU Marching Hundred.
The Ball State athletic director can be proud that his team’s name we planted in both end zones. Good for them. That is nice.
But know that the appetizer is over and it is time for the big dogs to eat.
Indiana made too many farts Saturday to compete with a Big Ten opponent.
Catch the ball! Don’t make a fool of yourself with silly personal foul penalties. Know where thou is standing when it is time for a fair catch. Run the correct route. When tackling, keep thy head up and wrap up!
Those things can be remedied and they will be. Eastern Illinois better be ready.
We saw some great flashes on offense. Penix can sling it for sure. The defense showed it can hold’em. Stevie Scott will get his yards and he will find five guys keying on him at times and that will help the pass.
We saw pure greatness out of Logan Justus the IU field goal kicker. He knocked in four field goals, three of them 48, 49, and 50 yards. You would have to blow dust off the annuals to find three distances like that in one game from an IU kicker, wouldn’t you?
The pieces are there. The rust is off and if this team stays healthy look out!
There is plenty of game film to splice that would worry the best of them when looking at the Indiana team.
Go Hoosiers!
If Notre Dame beats Louisville tonight, it will be a 10-4 opening week picking winners straight up for fun. I am like the Hoosiers, I can do better.
Speaking the rights.
Danny Johnson