THE IUP Football Thread

[ShoNuff]

Wow IUPNation ...you may have a good point there....

[IUPNation]

And I would add, even from his interviews, that Tort is pretty much straight forward with some tact. You have to appreciate and respect that.

[ShoNuff]

And I would add, even from his interviews, that Tort is pretty much straight forward with some tact. You have to appreciate and respect that.

[IUPNation]

[EyeoftheHawk]

[EyeoftheHawk]

Sounds like sour grapes.

[EyeoftheHawk]

It's a pipe-dream, but I would love for IUP to build a duplicate of their stadium. It checks all the boxes.

It's cool as a fan, too, because there isn't a track -- a somewhat rarity in D2.

[ShoNuff]

Sounds like sour grapes.

Fightingscot82 - I do not believe IUP has that 15 Oct game circled on their calendar, not when IUP plays in the Coal Bowl on 8 Oct. That would be implying that IUP is "looking ahead", and we all know IUP can not afford to "look ahead" at that point of the season, or they will lose the Coal Bowl again.

[Fightingscot82]

Sounds like sour grapes.

[Ram Tough]

I mean, they did beat IUP.

[Iupgh]

You and I think alike.

On social media, IUP and its promoters love to talk about its elite status. But they definitely don't schedule that way. It's almost like they'd rather brag about their win percentage than play an elite schedule like the elite team they are.

[IUPNation]

Act 180 created PASSHE.

[iupgroundhog]

Act 180 created PASSHE.

Act 180 took away IUP's independence. I'd say the culture persisted for 15-20 years after that. But it was never the same culturally. Today, the direction of the school is almost entirely in the hands of PASSHE.

[Fightingscot82]

Act 180 created PASSHE.

[IUPNation]

I believe there was a big lead donor (with the stadium naming rights). One thing that separates a lot of these projects and IUP is aspiration. They view a flagship stadium as part of their climb to a higher level, where I don't ever get that impression from IUP folks. They want to win but from a larger university perspective I think the Act 180 protections have robbed IUP of that aspirational lean.