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FWIW My Indiana Oberservations/Thoughts

Nihilist Rodgers

Freshman
May 29, 2001
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did for the PSU board.

1) their D is a bit improved (at least they seemed that way until the last 2 weeks).. but they seem to have dropped off a bit from their start.. they gave up 517 to MD, MD gave up 600+.. classic Indiana Football. They sacked Perry Ellis 4x .. surprised he didn't try and wrestle them afterwords.. Hills will go down as one of the worst QB's in MD history.. that's saying somethin!! Unfortunately he did not run head first into a LB and knock himself out this game.. making it far less entertaining than it otherwise could have been. Defense.. got used by Maryland, the only thing that stopped Maryland was that clumbsy candy armed Pittsburgh Perry missing wide open WR's all day long with his stellar 50 QBR.

2) their Base OFF is bad, their QB is not as good as the kid we played at Purdue. Vs. Maryland they were struggling a bit and went to wildcat 35+% of the time. In the the cat they have this fat dude (Tyler Nattee 6'1" 260 lb RB) about the size of a young Jerome Bettis take the snap, and at times they line him up with Diamont in the backfield--this way they can rotate back and either can take the snap. On Diamont's first big play he got a personal foul for taunting (this kid is a total tool). Diamont will sometimes throw.. this is generally more beneficial to the opposition than it is to IU. Not sure how effective a wildcat running game vs. PSU would be as none of their RB options are on the level that the Maryland kids were.

IU did their best to piss the game away late.. but when you playing a bunch of Chuck E Cheese Clowns (ie Maryland) that is pretty hard to do.. thus they prevailed in the "we hope we can make a bowl game" bowl.

BOX SCORE http://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=400869680

TEAM STATS http://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup?gameId=400869680

1 sg out west, 3 minutes ago
 
LOL, I'm a Chuck E. Cheese guy but I enjoyed this description of the game (which was not wrong)...

No, he's generally pretty accurate. Sometimes I wish he just didn't always show his softer side while writing these little things up.
 
I think you can get IU.. best bet is to sell out vs the run and make their passing game beat you.. polar opposite of the normal IU teams.-sg
 
again,to win Rutgers must find a way not to play at where they are ranked against the run,last in B10. Hoosiers 400 plus yards on ground vrs Maryland is just a wee bit worrisome vrs RU which cant stop run due to no linebacker talent.RU can win another barnburner IF Gio stays healthy and RU outscores Hoosiers like 47-42 type game..
 
Coleman just murdered us two years ago and he looks pretty damned good on Sundays as well Everyone is going to push us around but if Giovanni is healthy and can keep our D off the field we always have a punchers chance.
 
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