Northwestern safety Brian Peters forces Indiana wide receiver Terrance Turner to fumble on the punt return during the game on Saturday. Chris Howell | Herald-Times
Welcome to Hoosier Morning, a daily batch of links intended to keep you informed of what is going on at Indiana, in the Big Ten and throughout the college sporting world.
AT HOOSIERSHQ.COM
- Bill Lynch said the Hoosiers lost Saturday because of a tragic collaboration of circumstances and mistakes, Dustin Dopirak writes.
- No doubt about it — this was a coaching loss, Chris Korman writes.
- Mike Kafka if your player of the game, in this notebook from Dustin and Chris.
- The Indiana basketball team went on the road Saturday, and the open practice proved that competition is an everyday thing, but there is always another chance for success, I wrote.
IT’S INDIANA
- The Indianapolis Star’s Terry Hutchens ledes with the cold, hard fact — up 25, then down by 26.
- With 13 days remaining to the Hall of Fame ceremonies, Bob Knight should at least RSVP, the Star’s Bob Kravitz writes.
- Rodger Safforld taking a knee as the Wildcats celebrated around him tells it all — this was a devastating loss, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette’s LaMond Pope writes.
- Observations from Sellersburg, from Inside the Hall’s Alex Bozich.
THEY PLAY FOOTBALL, AND THEY’RE SMART
- This was like a NBA game, the Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein writes, where each team plays around until the last five minutes.
- This was the biggest comeback in Northwestern football history, but it was not fun to watch, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Jim O’Donnell writes.
BIG TEN FOOTBALL
- Michigan is better than a year ago, but is still not ready to compete with the best of the Big Ten, AnnArbor.com’s Dave Birkett writes. The defense, AnnArbor.com’s Michael Rothstein writes, looked confused for much of the game.
- Penn State solved all of its problems in the Big House with one stomping of Michigan, the Harrisburg Patriot-News’ Bob Flounders writes.
- Iowa refuses to awaken from this crazy dream of a season, the Cedar Rapids Press-Gazette’s Mike Hlas writes.
- Iowa’s final drive both shocked and disappointed Michigan State, the Lansing State Journal’s Joe Rexrode writes.
- During another loss, this one to Purdue, Illinois AD Ron Guenther guaranteed Ron Zook’s job security for this year and 2010. But Champaign News-Gazette columnist Loren Tate wonders if Guenther sees light at the end of the tunnel, or just an oncoming train?
- Purdue put two wins together and that has the Boilermakers feeling good, the Lafayette Journal & Courier’s Mike Carmin writes.
- Ohio State’s special teams delivered a turnover, and the offense and defense took it from there, the Columbus Dispatch’s Ken Gordon writes.
- Minnesota paid for a wave of mistakes, turning a close game into a rout, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Kent Youngblood writes.
TAKE A LOOK
Keane’s “Nothing in My Way.” A bit of self-loathing, and also wondering why not admit the real problem?