THE IUP Football Thread

[Ram040506]

Well, we cared when they were winning.

A good athletics program will have good coverage and not just for the "big" sports.

IUP has fallen out of that category. The coverage across the board stinks. All of the other schools have their Spring football rosters up on their website. IUP does not. That's just one example. I really don't want to hear about how the Sports Information department is short-handed and there is an interim director. They need to get it together and have more and better output like the SID used to and like the local media used to.

If it makes you feel better, Shepherd's spring football roster is missing about every newcomer/transfer that is there. I was at spring practice last week and there were a few guys that popped but nobody knew who they were.

[Fightingscot82]

I just read the tallest stack was 1217 feet tall making it almost the tallest structure of any kind in PA. The American TV Tower in Philadelphia is 1250 feet and can be seen for miles. I’m not sure if there is anything else taller.

The Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia is the tallest building in PA at 1121 feet.

I read somewhere that it was the tallest chimney in the USA and third-tallest worldwide.

[IUPNation]

Speaking of falling, the Homer City power plant was imploded yesterday. That's a huge part of the skyline driving along 422.

I just read the tallest stack was 1217 feet tall making it almost the tallest structure of any kind in PA. The American TV Tower in Philadelphia is 1250 feet and can be seen for miles. I’m not sure if there is anything else taller.

The Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia is the tallest building in PA at 1121 feet.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

They lost all four to Seton Hill and are now 3-17. This free fall after what they did last year is hard to comprehend. There’s something deeper than baseball going on.

And Bingo was his name.

[EyeoftheHawk]

I'm catching IUP for the first time, third game of the weekend at Seton Hill. Your best starter, Jake Black, is getting knocked around pretty good and doesn't have good command. They're down 6-0 in the fourth, don't have a hit yet, and just gave up an SF-6.

IUP's decline this year is a mystery to me.

They lost all four to Seton Hill and are now 3-17. This free fall after what they did last year is hard to comprehend. There’s something deeper than baseball going on.

[EyeoftheHawk]

Most of them won’t have a car. So that makes sense. What is the Uber situation like in Indiana?

You can usually get an Uber in just a few minutes. I saw a lot of kids taking Ubers on Friday night as I happened to be uptown.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Unrelated to IUPatties, the article mentions eight DUI arrests and sadly that’s about the average per weekend. Anyone else feel this is an epidemic that isn’t being talked about much? It’s astonishing how many DUI’s are reported in the paper each week. These are hardly ever kids or young people. They skew middle-aged and it’s not uncommon at all to see people in their 60’s. So sad and dangerous.

I don't think it's an Indiana thing, per se. Most towns of similar size could arrest a lot of DUIs each weekend. I'd say it's more a tribute to the police efforts here.

To your point, you'd think people would start getting the hint that the po-po isn't messing around.

That said they could sit on each end of Philly Street on Thursday-Saturday and probably triple the 8 average to 24.

Indiana does have an incredibly high number of bars and clubs for a town this small.

[IUPNation]

I'm catching IUP for the first time, third game of the weekend at Seton Hill. Your best starter, Jake Black, is getting knocked around pretty good and doesn't have good command. They're down 6-0 in the fourth, don't have a hit yet, and just gave up an SF-6.

IUP's decline this year is a mystery to me.

We were cursed on 9/23/24.

Since that day, our foosball, basketball and baseball teams are a combined 21-35.

The Golf Team finished its worst in the conference in years at 4th.

But it was an EXCITING day for Indiana.

[IUPNation]

I would lean toward stupidity. Where the people come from varies but it’s rarely college kids.

Most of them won’t have a car. So that makes sense. What is the Uber situation like in Indiana?

[EyeoftheHawk]

Are they people who live outside of Indiana? I mean going out and drinking and driving would be more common in a rural setting than anyone living in an suburban/urvan area where u can easily Uber home.

If they live in Indiana and get a DUI..that’s pretty stupid where you can just walk home

I would lean toward stupidity. Where the people come from varies but it’s rarely college kids.

[jrshooter]

I'm catching IUP for the first time, third game of the weekend at Seton Hill. Your best starter, Jake Black, is getting knocked around pretty good and doesn't have good command. They're down 6-0 in the fourth, don't have a hit yet, and just gave up an SF-6.

IUP's decline this year is a mystery to me.

[GregD]

No disagreement here. Their coverage absolutely stinks.

It doesn't take a freaking year to hire an SID. They could have 40 applicants tomorrow.

Something needs to change over there.

The excuses are all used up. The lack of an SID after all this time is a prime symptom of the deterioration. It’s been talked about before but the press box at Miller is and has been an atrocity that one day will result in a serious injury or even a death, but before that there are pig pens that look better and could replace the working conditions there.
You may not know it but there are rust holes in the floor of the box and water can collect inside it.
The problems at Miller merely reflect issues that make the whole mess an embarrassment on multiple levels.

[IUPNation]

Unrelated to IUPatties, the article mentions eight DUI arrests and sadly that’s about the average per weekend. Anyone else feel this is an epidemic that isn’t being talked about much? It’s astonishing how many DUI’s are reported in the paper each week. These are hardly ever kids or young people. They skew middle-aged and it’s not uncommon at all to see people in their 60’s. So sad and dangerous.

Are they people who live outside of Indiana? I mean going out and drinking and driving would be more common in a rural setting than anyone living in an suburban/urvan area where u can easily Uber home.

If they live in Indiana and get a DUI..that’s pretty stupid where you can just walk home

[Fightingscot82]

Unrelated to IUPatties, the article mentions eight DUI arrests and sadly that’s about the average per weekend. Anyone else feel this is an epidemic that isn’t being talked about much? It’s astonishing how many DUI’s are reported in the paper each week. These are hardly ever kids or young people. They skew middle-aged and it’s not uncommon at all to see people in their 60’s. So sad and dangerous.

It doesn't specify, but in a lot of places DUI from weed is as much as half of those arrests. The current college population doesn't drink as much. Many will pop a gummy or two then head out to party.

[IUPNation]

Nuclear would have been cleaner.

The blasts shook houses in Indiana and other nearby communities. There’s still a similar plant standing between Indiana and Elderton, but probably not for long. I personally had no interest in going to watch but I know several people that did. In other Indiana related news, IUPatties has been pretty tame so far this year.

It was always a theory that The plants in Homer City and Shelocta were the reasons why it rained a lot in Indiana because of the steam coming out of the towers.

We always carried a small umbrella in our back packs because out of the blue rain showers were not unusual in Indiana at any time.