Saturday Skull Session: Get Dumped Then, Indiana

By D.J. Byrnes on October 3, 2015 at 4:59 am
Cardale Jones on the move.
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Indiana is the first team to get another swing at the Get Dumped Then Express. Spoiler alert: They're moving to 0-2 in 10 and a half hours.

What is Indiana, anyway? A lazier, more boring version of Ohio if you ask me. Even Indianapolis feels like a hobo Columbus. I don't mess with that state outside of Ohio State's forays.

Today's slate is top heavy, but it's not bad. (Full viewing guide here, courtesy of Vico.)

TIME (ET) GAME FAVORITE TELEVISION
12:00 No. 23 WEST VIRGINIA at No. 15 OKLAHOMA OU (-6½) FOXS1
12:00 TEXAS at No. 4 TEXAS CHRISTIAN TCU (-15) ABC
12:00 No. 22 MICHIGAN at MARYLAND MICH (-14½) BTN
12:00 PURDUE at No. 2 MICHIGAN STATE MSU (-21½) ESPN2
12:00 MINNESOTA at No. 15 NORTHWESTERN NU (-4½) BTN
12:00 IOWA at No. 19 WISCONSIN WISC (-6½) ESPN
3:30 TEXAS TECH at No. 5 BAYLOR BU (-17) ABC
3:30 No. 11 FLORIDA STATE at WAKE FOREST FSU (-20½) ESPN
3:30 No. 13 ALABAMA at No. 8 GEORGIA UGA (-1½) CBS
4:00 WASHINGTON STATE at No. 24 CALIFORNIA CAL (-17½) PAC12
4:00 KANSAS STATE at No. 20 OKLAHOMA STATE OSU (-7½) FOXS1
7:00 No. 3 OLE MISS at No. 25 FLORIDA MISS (-7½) ESPN
7:00 EASTERN MICHIGAN at No. 9 LOUISIANA STATE LSU (-44) ESPNU
7:30 No. 22 MISSISSIPPI STATE at No. 14 TEXAS A&M A&M (-6½) SEC
8:00 No. 6 NOTRE DAME at No. 12 CLEMSON CLEM (-2) ABC
10:30 ARIZONA at No. 18 STANFORD STAN (-14) PAC12

My (2-2) upset pick: Iowa over Wisconsin. (I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)

THE HOOSIER DOSSIER. Here's everything you need to know about Ohio State's undefeated foe to the west:

WHAT IN THE HELL IS A HOOSIER? I know that I've researched what in the Hell a Hoosier is, but right now I'm realizing I couldn't define it for $1,000,000. To me, it sounds like a little weasel in line for an L. 

Let's go to the judges.

From Indiana.edu (via Matt Gutridge):

The best evidence, however, suggests that "Hoosier" was a term of contempt and opprobrium common in the upland South and used to denote a rustic, a bumpkin, a countryman, a roughneck, a hick or an awkward, uncouth or unskilled fellow. [...]

From the South "Hoosier" moved north and westward with the people into the Ohio Valley, where it was applied at first to the presumably unsophisticated inhabitants of Southern Indiana. Later it expanded to include all residents of the state and gradually lost its original, potent connotation of coarseness in manners, appearance and intellect.

As for the word itself, it probably derives from the Saxon word "hoo" meaning promontory or cliff or ridge or rise or hill. Jacob Piatt Dunn, a diligent scholar of the word, believes a Saxon beginning, and such a meaning survives in various place names in England. There is some sense in the notion, too, that those who applied the insult and those to whom it was applied (and who understood it) came primarily from British stock. 

 The unusual (ier or sier) ending has always been difficult to explain. Might it be from "scir" the old form of "shire?" The Hoo Shire would then be the Hill Country, the High Places or the Mountain Region. Would that meaning then extend to those who lived in the hills, making them the "hooscirs" and later the "Hoosiers," the mountain people, hillbillies by another name? 

That's a... hmmm, well...

*long awkward silence*

Get dumped then, Hoosiers?

RECRUITING THE HOOSIER STATE. As I've talked about this week: Ohio State has a few players venturing to their home-state today. Indiana is a basketball-first state, but that doesn't mean Ohio State can ignore its western neighbor in recruiting. 

From Scout.com:

“Administratively, community-wise, it always struck me when I went into Indiana that they have gymnasiums and arenas that are off the charts,” [Tight end coach Tim Hinton] said. “The football facilities are nice, but the basketball arenas are like, ‘Wow!’ In Ohio, the nicest ones are football stadiums. I think the emphasis sometimes changes. It doesn’t mean there aren’t good players there, because there are. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t recruit the state, because you absolutely should. It doesn’t mean the quality of high school isn’t good, because it is.”

[...]

Recruiting success comes down to how schools choose to allocate their resources. At the end of the day, it doesn’t make sense for Ohio State to spend as much time in Indiana as in Georgia or Florida. The good news is that the talent tends to be concentrated, which makes it easier for the coaching staff to make the rounds.

“The nice thing is that you’re talking about recruiting two pockets of talent in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne,” [Scout recruiting analyst Allen] Trieu said. “You can crank through both of those areas if you spend one day in each during the recruiting period. It shouldn’t be super time-consuming.”

Once Notre Dame is pushed into Lake Michigan, Indiana will officially become an annex of Ohio (that we'll actually want).

#PERTINENTHEISENBERG. Jesse Pinkman is basically how I envision Indiana fans and their psychosis: 

Final prediction: 51-34, good guys.

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