Indiana's Football Team Is Clearly Not Ready For The Big Leagues, But Their Fan Base and Reporters Appear To Be Even Further Away

Look I'm done with Indiana and probably will be for another 30 years. I'm on to bigger and more important things like beating Michigan and winning the National Championship. But I have to make one more point before I tuck the Hoosiers into a time capsule that I'll dig up the next time they have the weakest schedule in the sport for 10 weeks until the Buckeyes have to remind everyone who they are again. And the point is this: if you're going to put your chest out and say you're THE emerging superpower in college football, you cannot have the softest fanbase and beat reporters in the entire country. 

The fact of the matter is that Indiana went on a late 4th quarter drive against the Buckeyes, went for 2, and then onside kicked it. They kept playing against the Buckeyes when the game was fully in hand, and then once they didn't get the onside kick, they got upset with Ohio State for running the ball down their throat into the end zone when they could've kneeled out the clock. I'm not going to get too far into why they're wrong or how Cignetti said "Ohio State sucks" or how they've done the same thing up 50 against Nebraska when they punched in a late 4th quarter touchdown, but what I'm going to say this is: THIS is not how superpowers of college football respond:

I could literally do this for hours. Instead, we'll end with the universally hated Gregg Doyle (guy who gave the heart to Caitlin Clark because he at best has zero social skills and is weird, at worst is creepy as fuck), and his embarrassing tweet:

Risking injury and teeth of the IU defense cannot be said together, Gregg. But again, not going to get too far into it, just wanted to let Indiana fans and their reporters know that if you didn't want us to score, stop us. That's how big boy football works. Find me one instance of Ohio State or Georgia or Alabama crying about a late touchdown. You guys clearly have a long way to go on the football field, but it appears you have an even longer way to go mentally.