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Game Thread: Northwestern vs. No. 23 Indiana

AdamOnFirst
jensberg said:
Okay and you think we have a good defense? I'm sure it's capable but can we beat anybody who's a good offensive team? It looks very very questionable.
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I think we can probably deal with the likes of Maryland, Iowa, and Purdue, albeit those aren’t very good offensive teams. Illinois too probably. Even still I agree with you that performance was discouraging, I didn’t expect the defense to be the side that really failed.
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Game Thread: Northwestern vs. No. 23 Indiana

AdamOnFirst
phatcat said:
Well said, even if NU gets better every week, might not be enough
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We have a few very winnable games coming up that look like must wins to have a decent season. Long term the trend is challenging, the bottom half of the Big Ten is starting to look like the top half of the other P4 conferences, cupcakes are going away in the P2, giving way to mostly better and best.
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Four Huge Games Coming Up

AdamOnFirst
This next stretch is our whole season, barring a meticulous win over Michigan or Ohio State (Michigan is sort of conceivable, I guess, they’re gettable). Maryland isn’t impressive, we can get Wisconsin at home, and Purdue is a train wreck who we frankly need to beat. Iowa will be tough but that’s a comforting sort of rock fight football we ought to be able to compete in. None of those offenses are remotely the threat IU’s is.

The team absolutely improved over the bye week but we need to go out there and do it.0
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Game Thread: Northwestern vs. No. 23 Indiana

phatcat
AdamOnFirst said:
Positives: this team and coaching staff are clearly able to improve over the course of the year. Lausch and offense look much improved despite the offensive line struggling in the run game with so many guys hurt.

Negative: Everybody in this conference is so good already or improving rapidly and you have to run at fast as you can just to stay in the same place
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Well said, even if NU gets better every week, might not be enough
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Game Thread: Northwestern vs. No. 23 Indiana

AdamOnFirst
Positives: this team and coaching staff are clearly able to improve over the course of the year. Lausch and offense look much improved despite the offensive line struggling in the run game with so many guys hurt.

Negative: Everybody in this conference is so good already or improving rapidly and you have to run at fast as you can just to stay in the same place
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Game Thread: Northwestern vs. No. 23 Indiana

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jensberg said:
Let us put this into perspective. This is indiana. Last year they barely won three games. Now they're a top 20 team. It's all about transfers and the portal. Going to be very hard for us to keep up.
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At the same time, anybody can turn around very fast, so teams are going to rise and fall based on how they do with transfers and the like.

And those same teams that have booms can go bust as well after transfers graduate/leave if the next group isn't as cohesive.
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Disappointed there are so many Indiana fans in the crowd.

AdamOnFirst
zeek55 said:
Yeah, I suspect the lasting damage of last year's offseason will take years to overcome and a coach having some consistency here to get back to those levels of purple in the stands with that commitment that we had pre-Covid.
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We went 8-5 last season and the games were sellouts to our fans before the season started, tired of the damn excuses
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