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Some scary things are coming out about the state of the IU football program. Given this past season and the historical context of IU football, that statement should carry some weight. Tom Allen actually took a personal pay cut in order to fund the buyout of OC Nick Sheridan. Connecting the dots, that indicates that there isn't enough money currently available to fund any more staff changes. So some of the incompetents that helmed this season (Tim Hiller - O-line coach chief among them) simply can't be fired because there's not enough money available to do so. This has been verified by a writer with inside access to the program and athletic department. So with this and already having 10 players in the portal it looks like Tom Allen is going to have to perform a miracle with the staff he currently has or the catastrophic season that just occurred could soon spiral into several apocalyptic seasons in a row.

It sure would be nice if the football program had some deep pocketed donors like the ones who ponied up the dough to get Archie Miller out of town last spring.

Every big ten team is making money hand over fist from the TV deals alone.

It's a well known fact that the previous IU president was siphoning significant amounts of BTN money into building projects and other university ventures. His term ended just this past July. So the football program wasn't always getting what other conference programs got. Couple that with IU's typical attendance issues and a season with no fans at all and now the chickens have come home to roost.

It's a well known fact that the previous IU president was siphoning significant amounts of BTN money into building projects and other university ventures. His term ended just this past July. So the football program wasn't always getting what other conference programs got. Couple that with IU's typical attendance issues and a season with no fans at all and now the chickens have come home to roost.

Yeah, that's what I am saying. It is a self inflicted poverty.

It's like saying that you only have a dollar to your name because that's all that you put in your wallet. 

It sure would be nice if the football program had some deep pocketed donors like the ones who ponied up the dough to get Archie Miller out of town last spring.

All of these guys should be given base salaries and the rest objective met incentives.Giving goofballs millions to fail,should have gotten into coaching....or politics

My step son in SF envies our rental prices here, which are relatively high, most nicer 2 bdr units are $3 K a month and up.

A condo near us went for $2.8 recently.  It was a nice condo.

There is an amenity war happening, similar to the weight room wars in CFB.

High rise everything walkable city life might be for me a couple decades from now... For now I'm quite happy with the SFH in suburbia.

I can't imagine having a tiny patio where I can't use my smokers/grills tho lol...

I've often thought about the walkable city life, after the kids finish high school and move out.  It seems like a fun and vibrant lifestyle.

But that's when I remember how much I hate people, and being stacked right on top of so many of them, likely wouldn't work out well for me.

So my actual downsizing/retirement plan is to build my dreamhouse on a boatload of acreage in the middle of nowhere and perhaps never again interact with another human outside of my immediate family.

We are in a "midrise" of course, the high rise life over say 25 floors seems different.  There is a proposal for a 61 floor condo building near us, not for me.  It helps enormously that the park is across the street, we can get very away from people in the park if we choose.  Or I sit on the deck and read.