Various Gophers notes and reviewing everything that's happened since the 2021 football season.
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July 29, 2022
July 25, 2022
Can a Good Season Lead to a Short-term Recruiting "Bump"? (Part I)
The 2020 season was the best for Indiana football in decades. Caveats about the pandemic-shortened schedule aside, the Hoosiers posted their highest winning percentage (.750) since 1967, when they split the Big Ten title and made the Rose Bowl. Starting with a miraculous overtime win over Penn State, Tom Allen's team became one of the few truly fun parts of a dour year in the sport.
Following their 14-6 win at Camp Randall Stadium, Allen's players disrupted his postgame interview to tell everyone watching that he was the "best coach in the nation," encouraging high school prospects to sign with Indiana.
That it was only about a week until National Signing Day meant there wasn't enough time for this pitch to land. Indiana's 2021 class ranked 50th in the country — not dramatically far from the program's average rank over the previous seven seasons, about 52nd.
The next fall, the Hoosiers' on-field fortunes weren't so exceptional. Their record plummeted to 2-10, the first actually bad season in Allen's generally competent tenure but the school's 17th time this century missing bowl season. They looked less like Indiana: 2020's miracle and more like... well, Indiana.
There was one place where IU saw success, though: recruiting. Allen signed four four-stars as part of the 30th-best class in the country and fifth-best in the Big Ten. It looks like the 2020 season paid off, potentially setting up a better future for the Hoosiers than their most recent results indicated.
July 19, 2022
We Are Maroon and Gold Episode 199
Trampled by Turtles in Duluth and previewing the bands who will play the Minnesota State Fair.
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July 07, 2022
We Are Maroon and Gold Episode 198
Big Ten realignment and where the Wolves stand after the Rudy Gobert trade.
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