The Indiana Hoosiers and Purdue Boilermakers are state rivals that don’t like each other at all. I know because I went to both schools and my friends won’t ever let me live it down. My degree says Indiana University so let me be clear. However, both schools claim to be polar opposites and during this football season they are proving the theory to be 100 percent correct. The Hoosiers jumped out of the birthday cake red hot going 3-0 as the Boilermakers were tripping all over their shoe laces down the stretch of ball games making bone headed mistakes as they got out of the raggedy big body Chevy going 0-3.
The Hoosiers then went 1-1 before losing 4 straight including a 38-31 loss on the road at Minnesota on Friday night. The Boilermakers, on the other hand, have won 4 straight since falling head first out of the Chevy including beating the brakes off of then No.2 Ohio State last week 49-20. I’m sorry, let me say that correctly, THEE Ohio State University.
Purdue takes on an angry Michigan State bunch in East Lancing coming off of a loss to their rival Michigan last week. So why do the Hoosiers and Boilermakers insist on being polar opposites in everything? It blows my mind but IU’s on the wrong end of the stick if you’d ask me. In looking at the remaining schedule they won’t win another game playa. That’s just real talk.
They may not even have an answer for dull Maryland with all of the problems that they’ve got and they don’t have a chance at competing with Purdue on November 24th either. By then the Boilermakers confidence will be so high that they’ll roll in like a Spike Lee Joint on IU.
I’ve been saying it all season but boyz don’t want to listen. Peyton Ramsey is a decent quarterback but he doesn’t give their offense a threat or make them a better team. They’ve got THEE most athletic kid on the roster, Reese Taylor, running back and forth across the field in the slot and they aren’t using his super powers.
He’s Antwaan Randle El reincarnated that could give the IU offense an immediate threat to score on every snap but they won’t use him. He had two catches on Friday night for 4 yards. Most games he’s got 1 or 2 touches lining him up at running back, and maybe 2 catches at receiver.
Reese Taylor needs the ball in his hands on EVERY play. That means that he needs to be playing quarterback ASAP. They’ve got nothing else to lose at this point. They’ve only won 4 ball games and if they’re lucky they’ll beat Maryland in a nail biter the way they’re playing right now.
Purdue, on the other hand is rolling. I just hope that boyz paid attention to the coaching staff this week and studied film. It’s real easy to start listening to the hype and falling for all the fine women hollering at a boy this week telling them how fine they suddenly have become. Some of these duns were dating a “2” last week and now all of a suddenly has the cosmetic 10 on their arms this week. That’s a dangerous wall to climb when you’ve got to turn around and play another game this week on the road against an angry Spartan squad. They’re still upset about Devin Bush tearing up their field last week.
However, the Boilermakers, if they can remain focused, like a said in my crazy Hot Joint entitled, “Staying Hungry” has the potential to do big things this year even after starting off 0-3. Forget just trying to become bowl eligible. They can literally compete for a Big Ten title.
“If” Northwestern can get caught slippin’ and Purdue can somehow keep this momentum going and knock off Michigan State and then beat both Wisconsin and Iowa at the crib. They could get to the Big Ten title game in Indianapolis in December. Now that’s a big “IF” but they’re playing well enough right now to win out.
So to summarize all of this foolishness, IU is literally falling apart at the seams while Purdue is taking over like gang busters. Stop me when I lyin’!