Didn't they run the fake punt against us about this some point in the game last season in the SEC title game? Game was never the same for us after that.
I watched the MNF game because of fantasy football championship and the entire postgame interview with Bijan and his 2 OL was nothing but a bible study episode, god this, god that. To the point where the interviewer was getting annoyed about it and trying to get them to pivot. Why not just recognize that the talent of you and your team got the win?
The writing on the wall was already there for Deboer when he lost to a dogshit OU team last year and not only that, was dominated. In a game where if they simply won, they are in the playoffs. And this year, loses to them again in the regular season. Then got down 17-0 to them on a 3rd try but OU choked as they always do in these games. He followed up that terrible loss last year to OU to a very bad FSU loss to begin this season. Lost to OU again and got dominated by Georgia in the SEC title game. Now a 38-3 playoff loss. This guy isn't it. He built his entire reputation in the semifinal game against us when every single Penix moonball was brought down by Odunze
Yep. And they also played one less conference game in place of the FCS cupcake game. Therefore, every team in the conference would get an extra win instead of half the conference getting an extra loss. So many of these teams were inflated in the rankings to begin the year and it just compounded from there. It was all a huge marketing scheme. The media really had people thinking Tennessee and Mizzou were quality teams this year because of the SEC bias.
It's always been overrated but until the playoffs, it couldn't really be exposed because they manipulated the system so much in their favor. To the point where in a 2 team system in 2011, we get a rematch of a shitty game of LSU/Bama game. We also got 2 SEC teams in the 4 team format formulated so we could get a SEC vs SEC matchup in the championship a few times, I believe both were Bama vs Georgia.
Also, he will be a god at IU. No pressure at all. Making a ton of money. Why would he want to go deal with the fanbases and politics at some of these blue blood schools at his age? As you mentioned, he's not some young guy trying to build his career.