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I don't think McCord is that bad. He just isn't to the level that OSU has been accustomed to under Day. They went on a pretty high level run from Haskins to Fields to Stroud- who imo was the best of them all. Bama went on a great run with QBs as well. Now they have Milroe. 

Hard to have elite QBs every single year.

I don't think McCord is that bad. He just isn't to the level that OSU has been accustomed to under Day. They went on a pretty high level run from Haskins to Fields to Stroud- who imo was the best of them all. Bama went on a great run with QBs as well. Now they have Milroe.

Hard to have elite QBs every single year.

Exactly and I'll add this:

IMHO, the main difference between McCord and recent prior tOSU QB's is consistency. McCord can be great but he can also play like he did in Camp Randall, or worse. 

McCord always takes a long time to get going, but he is clutch down the stretch when the game is on the line. 

He finished 13/15. 

I am seriously rolling my eyes at this little fit. Yes.

is anyone actually asking for Air Force to go? It seems like everyone feels good with the decent number of contenders at the moment.

Ban the SEC from the playoffs. 62-24

next year Cinderella doesn't really have a shot, but upsets are fun to root for and it will make $$$$

also gives Michigan too many possibilities to scout

might be a bit of a hot take here but imo Marv is the best WR in the B1G since probably Charles Rogers or Braylon. 

He’s just an obvious top 3 NFL draft pick and Pro Bowl player. OSU has put out some dudes lately- but Marv is the best and it’s just like ok…duh…that’s what an NFL receiver looks like from a height/size, speed, strength, body control, hands aspect. A prototype.

Allen's buyout is $20 million. The university hasn't demonstrated the financial and institutional commitment necessary to make IU football even moderately competent on a regular basis. There's no way they'll cough up $20 million to do it this year. It doesn't matter anyway. They could hire prime Nick Saban and they'd still be the worst program in the Big Ten because the university braintrust doesn't understand the importance of football. They either refuse to provide the infrastructure and budget for football relevance, don't understand what that is, or both.

It's not a matter of infrastructure or budget. You're Indiana. You're never going to compete, even with money. We're Purdue. Neither are we. It's one of the reasons I don't pay attention any longer. I've lost interest in the rigged game.

Fundamentally Indiana isn't a shiny enough helmet to recruit at a level much better than they currently do. They're in a moderately-populous state with three in-state major programs (and one G5). One of those in-state programs is a legitimate helmet, with two others in neighboring states.

Playing the arms race to get to parity with a school like Purdue or Illinois or Minnesota will result in a program achieving less than those schools due to the recruiting hangover of being the Big Ten's historically weakest program. 

In order to get to "moderately competent" I would argue you must out-spend those programs by a significant level to overcome the recruiting disadvantages, NIL, transfer portal, etc.