Notre Dame job demanding, still appealing
When it comes to college football, there are coaching positions, and then there is the position. Or so it used to be.
When it comes to college football, there are coaching positions, and then there is the position. Or so it used to be.
Fresh off a more than disappointing 4-8 season, the Hoosiers can officially pack up 2009 and prepare to unfurl 2010. Returning next season are the figure heads of IU football in junior quarterback Ben Chappell, sophomore wide receiver Tandon Doss, and, of course, IU coach Bill Lynch. But past that, the Hoosiers will enter their first season this decade with questions all around the board.
Now, as it’s been every few years in recent history, it’s back to the drawing board for the Notre Dame football program.
Athletics director Jack Swarbrick announced the decision to fire Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis on Monday.
A person familiar with the decision says Notre Dame has fired coach Charlie Weis.
For one quarter, Purdue was on pace to win by more than it did against the Hoosiers in the 2008 Old Oaken Bucket game.
For 21 seniors on Saturday, their time under the lights against Purdue was not only the culmination of a 4-8 season. It was also the end of their collegiate careers.
The 2009 Hoosiers preached from August to November about the changes in the program and about how they were going to make football relevant at IU. In a 38-21 loss to Purdue, that progress was hard to find.
Joey Elliott threw a career-high four touchdown passes to help Purdue beat Indiana 38-21 on Saturday and retain the Old Oaken Bucket.
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The 4-7 record for both IU and Purdue is not the only thing they have in common as they prepare for the game at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Bloomington. Playing for pride is simply the most obvious.
When the Hoosiers storm the field for the last time in 2009 to take on Purdue, it will be a reminder that this is what college football should be.
When IU senior safety Nick Polk – originally from Milwaukee – first visited Bloomington, he didn’t know anything about the school’s rivalry with Purdue. Things have changed.
IU used to show off its animosity every year by re-enacting the burial of Jawn Purdue, and Purdue counteracted with their burning of Miss Indiana, which died out in the mid-1970s and 1960s, respectively.
After expanded student section tickets sold out, Fred Glass announced Wednesday an additional 2,500 student seats for Saturday's IU-Purdue football game.
With both teams suffering defeats last weekend, IU and Purdue will meet for their annual contest with nothing to play for but the Old Oaken Bucket.
For the 15th time in 16 seasons, the IU football team will not be participating in a bowl game.
With more than 40,000 tickets already sold for this week’s Old Oaken Bucket game against Purdue, IU will exceed a 40,000 average game attendance for the first time since 1992.
IU senior running back Bryan Payton couldn’t help but be disappointed in his own offense that turned four Penn State turnovers into just one score during the first half.
IU lost to Penn State 31-20 in State College, Pa., and fell to 4-7 on the season. The defeat eliminates any chance of a bowl game berth for IU.