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Bleak outlook for winning IU season (The News-Sentinel)
"Wasn’t Indiana supposed to be beyond submission football? Isn’t this supposed to be a new era, a kick-rump mindset, a veteran team that has learned from past folly to set a winning tone for the future? Sorry. We had to ask." -
Missd tackles, out-of-position players plague Hoosier defense (Indiana Daily Student)
"Virginia, ranked third worst in the country in total offense entering the game, totaled 536 yards against a Hoosier defense that missed tackles, played out of position and seemed one step behind throughout the Cavaliers’ 47-7 rout." -
QB Ben Chappell laments Virginia game: 'That wasn't us' (Indiana Daily Student)
"'That was pretty rough,' Chappell said. 'That wasn’t our football team. We’re going to have to do something to find it, because that wasn’t us.'" -
Hoosiers flatline in crucial contest (Indiana Daily Student)
After dropping the last two games to tough opponents, a reasonable person would have expected an IU team ready to pounce and claw the life away from a sub-.500 non-conference team. Instead, the team countered with an uninspired output and left with a hazy view of its future. -
Let the venting begin (Hoosiers Insider | The Indianapolis Star)
"The truth is it was difficult for me to provide a lot of indepth postgame analysis because I wasn't in Charlottesville. Virginia wasn't a game that we opted to travel to this season. So I listened to the first half on the radio and then went grocery shopping at 30-0." Geez, Hutch. You get paid to follow IU. IU plays only 12, maybe 13 (ha!) games a year. And you didn't watch? Not even the first half? -
Virginia pounds IU on the ground (Charlottesville Daily Progress)
"There’s absolutely no truth to the rumor that Craig Littlepage filed an application for Virginia to become members of the Big Ten late Saturday night." -
Big Ten power rankings: Week 7 (ESPN)
Down to #9, which seems charitable. Saturday's effort wouldn't have been good enough to beat either Purdue or Illinois.
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Hoosier Headlines for October 12, 2009: slaughter at Charlottesville edition.
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