Indiana coach Cignetti facial expression while his team is leading 66-0
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No Hoosiers were harmed in the making of this blowout.
They could very well have been laid out and wouldn’t have surprised me. Some Purdue player easily could lose his mind in the last quarter of a winless season that Cig is rubbing your nose in it. Who cares about a 15 yard penalty or ejection, I think you saw all the nonsense from the flag planting yesterday as emotions can run high. It can happen.
Amazing that those Hoosier fans were complaining when Day scored that meaningless TD against them as unnecessary. Pot meet kettle.
I don’t get why more coaches don’t intentionally try to score 69 on garbage opponents. It is the ultimate insult.
I get your take but also think it’s okay to kick your rival’s ass. Also get an opportunity for the second and third string guys on senior day. Like it or not style points matter for rankings which all of a sudden are extremely important.
Fans will always complain. But that’s why they’re fans.
I didn’t watch much of that game but I looked at the box score and drive chart. First, for ranking purposes IU had to soundly beat PU. Maybe not 66-0, but PU had sixty seven TOTAL yards and FIVE turnovers. This resulted in a lot of time of possession as well as several short scoring drives for IU. What were they supposed to do?
It was 28-0 at halftime, game decided, not unexpected.
After halftime:
Purdue fumbled the first play, of course IU scores.
The next 2 drives were 3 and out w/ short punts, IU getting the ball in plus territory. Scores.
2 of the next 3 drives, Purdue almost immediately turns it over, resulting in very short scoring drives.
By my calculation, after halftime Purdue had a net -4 yards of offense.
So you can see how this outcome unfolded.
Only criticism is it doesn’t show any stats for QBs other than O’Rourke, who probably shouldn’t have been in after the first drive of the second half.
Although Purdue somehow scored like 40 points in the second half against a pretty good Illinois team.
It was 28-0 at halftime, game decided, not unexpected.
After halftime:
Purdue fumbled the first play, of course IU scores.
The next 2 drives were 3 and out w/ short punts, IU getting the ball in plus territory. Scores.
2 of the next 3 drives, Purdue almost immediately turns it over, resulting in very short scoring drives.
By my calculation, after halftime Purdue had a net -4 yards of offense.
So you can see how this outcome unfolded.
Only criticism is it doesn’t show any stats for QBs other than O’Rourke, who probably shouldn’t have been in after the first drive of the second half.
Although Purdue somehow scored like 40 points in the second half against a pretty good Illinois team.
Well at least it's incentive to get better. In 2000, NU beat Illinois 61-23 in Champaign. At least we showed them some mercy. The Illini won the next two years.
I think we saw in the OSU game what actually unacceptable behavior in a rivalry looked like. We can quit the pearl clutching about pounding your rival on the actual field of play, especially when IU gets a very real boost out of this, eliminating any remaining tiny chance they get left out.
