IUP Football 2020

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Cherokee is only coming back unless it's played in the parking lot. Its name is offensive according to certain people.

Pretty epic swing going from maybe the best fight song in the country (small school) to the worst.

[IUPNation]

Interesting Tweet on the IUP Football page (via Matt) ... IUP has the longest home winning streak in D2 history at 31 games from 1986 to 1992.

I can remember in the heyday of the Frank era ... when they'd come through the band to Cherokee teams were defeated before the game started.

They don't lose at home often in the modern era but that Crimson Express (debacle) doesn't quite have the same intimidation factor. Of course, I think the band playing Ghostbusters 5-6 times per game really psyches out opponents.

[ShoNuff]

LB transfer headed to IUP from Happy Valley.

Denver Light (6'2", 220 lbs). Preferred walk-on as a true freshman a year ago from Tyrone. Four years eligibity at IUP.

It appears he had scholarship offers from St Francis and Fordham. He committed to Fordham during last summer, then flipped for the PWO Offer from Penn State later in the Fall.

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/5387600...53fd0ad862a418

We shall see if IUP can get some productivity out of him.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

The Homecoming date has been announced ... Oct. 10 vs Clarion.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Interesting Tweet on the IUP Football page (via Matt) ... IUP has the longest home winning streak in D2 history at 31 games from 1986 to 1992.

I can remember in the heyday of the Frank era ... when they'd come through the band to Cherokee teams were defeated before the game started.

They don't lose at home often in the modern era but that Crimson Express (debacle) doesn't quite have the same intimidation factor. Of course, I think the band playing Ghostbusters 5-6 times per game really psyches out opponents.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

Love the headline on KDKA today: "House Shot Up in Drive-By Shooting Near the IUP Campus"


That house is on North 3rd ... nowhere near campus. Shameless plug.

My favorite drive-by of all time was in Boyz N The Hood when Monster took out those three Bloods with what looked to be an AK-47. I think he was on probation to boot.

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[IUPalum]

Love the headline on KDKA today: "House Shot Up in Drive-By Shooting Near the IUP Campus"


That house is on North 3rd ... nowhere near campus. Shameless plug.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Love the headline on KDKA today: "House Shot Up in Drive-By Shooting Near the IUP Campus"


That house is on North 3rd ... nowhere near campus. Shameless plug.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

LB transfer headed to IUP from Happy Valley.

Denver Light (6'2", 220 lbs). Preferred walk-on as a true freshman a year ago from Tyrone. Four years eligibity at IUP.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

Zion Williamson could have left Duke and transferred to IUP. He'd have been redshirted upon arrival.

The Red Out is hilarious. Redshirts everywhere.

LOL. Air Jordan. Wilt the Stilt. Magic. King James. Shaq. Red Shirt City all the way!

Joe no doubt had the family dog do a redshirt year before he actually got to obedience school.

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[IUPbigINDIANS]

Instead of a white out night you should push to have everyone who cheers for IUP to wear a red shirt to an assigned game. Joe would no doubt be beaming seeing all the red shirts. Maybe he would even have "Lady In Red" piped in again. LOL.

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Zion Williamson could have left Duke and transferred to IUP. He'd have been redshirted upon arrival.

The Red Out is hilarious. Redshirts everywhere.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

Love it !! We should start the campaign.

Instead of a white out night you should push to have everyone who cheers for IUP to wear a red shirt to an assigned game. Joe would no doubt be beaming seeing all the red shirts. Maybe he would even have "Lady In Red" piped in again. LOL.

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[CALUPA69]

Aaaah, fond memories of an evening at ADAMSON...
September 29, 2018...

[Ram040506]

Probably one of the biggest detriments to the Tep era was that the Cignetti Mafia was not overly supportive of having an outsider take over the program. Funding for IUP football scholies really dried up quite a bit. The Cignetti crowd wanted their own man, Tom Rogish, to take over and when he was passed over for the job many of them up and left until Curt Cignetti took the job.

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Rogish came to Shepherd shortly after that and coached OLB's. From what I heard, he was an excellent DC for IUP during his time there. Although Rogish was a great guy, I thought he was a terrible coach. I get that he was out of his comfort zone within a new defense, but the guys he was coaching on our team knew the defense better than he did so he had a really tough time gaining the respect from some of his players at the start. I know he and the DC certainly weren't on the same page, we were lucky we had a very veteran Defense. He didn't seem to really care either and Shepherd was happy to see him go to Frostburg when he did.

I think IUP lucked out by not hiring him. He ended up being way over his head, with no perceived plan on how to succeed at either stop after IUP. 14-45 at Frosburg State as the head coach.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Easy. Maybe more than that even. But I guess in fairness to the Lou Tepper he did lose his starting QBs to injuries his final two seasons IIRC.




No, that was basically a different time period. Gary left by early 2006 which was about the time or so Tep got hired. They never would have worked together for very long. Joe Lombardi had established his team as a national power by the end of the Tep years.




Probably one of the biggest detriments to the Tep era was that the Cignetti Mafia was not overly supportive of having an outsider take over the program. Funding for IUP football scholies really dried up quite a bit. The Cignetti crowd wanted their own man, Tom Rogish, to take over and when he was passed over for the job many of them up and left until Curt Cignetti took the job.




The street will probably be named either Bravado Boulevard or Redshirt Road. LOL.

Love it !! We should start the campaign.