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Semifinal No. 2: Indiana vs. Oregon

Pearson704 said:
I have a ton of respect for what Mendoza has accomplished and how well coached IU is. That said, he's a different QB with pressure, and looking back at Ole Miss their QB and OL did a great job to neutralize our strength.

Tonight's game shows you can't turn the ball over and give up 28 points on D. Gotta make them play in a phone booth and earn every inch.
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I don’t think Ole Miss neutralized our strength. Our gameplan was to stop 1. Scambles. 2. Sacks. We achieved #1 by staying in our lanes. We gave up only 1 long run. As far as sacks it probably hurt us that Bain had the super flu and Mesidor was hurting. Hope we can get a bit more healthy in next 10 days.
 
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FtLaudCaneFan said:
I don’t think Ole Miss neutralized our strength. Our gameplan was to stop 1. Scambles. 2. Sacks. We achieved #1 by staying in our lanes. We gave up only 1 long run. As far as sacks it probably hurt us that Bain had the super flu and Mesidor was hurting. Hope we can get a bit more healthy in next 10 days.
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Bain had flu to?
 
IRememberSchnelly said:
I don't understand all you guys hating on Mendoza. Yeah, I know he's now an adversary and we have to figure out a way to destroy him, but all this personal isht is really distasteful and totally unnecessary.
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Tell me the short backstory of why he has never suited up for us with two cracks at recruiting him. Has that been on him, or us?
 
hotshot said:
Tell me the short backstory of why he has never suited up for us with two cracks at recruiting him. Has that been on him, or us?
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How would I know? I'm not in the guy's family. There could be any number of reasons. Maybe he just didn't get along with Mario. Maybe his family didn't. It isn't just him at Indiana. His brother is there too. I don't have a portal into this family's brains.
 
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FtLaudCaneFan said:
I don’t think Ole Miss neutralized our strength. Our gameplan was to stop 1. Scambles. 2. Sacks. We achieved #1 by staying in our lanes. We gave up only 1 long run. As far as sacks it probably hurt us that Bain had the super flu and Mesidor was hurting. Hope we can get a bit more healthy in next 10 days.
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I'll disagree. Excuses aside, they did an excellent job.
 
IRememberSchnelly said:
So you would prefer I make fun of him and bag on him for doing....what, exactly? Just choosing a different school than Miami? Go eff yourself, loser.
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Look at you moving the goalpost and creating a strawman argument to save that smug face. As if anyone asked or encouraged anyone to make fun or bag on him??? Who did that? That’s not what happened. U decided to dive out in front of him like Captain Save-a-H$3 and insult other Canes fans in his defense while we are experience the best times of the last 20+ years. This is the definition of Slurping. If U don’t like the posts ignore them. No one said a thing to U, lame.
 
hotshot said:
Tell me the short backstory of why he has never suited up for us with two cracks at recruiting him. Has that been on him, or us?
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The previous staff refused to let him walk-on after HS. I tend to believe that could be the reason ...especially since his mom was an ex U tennis player. He mentioned that he loved the U and grew up playing at the rec center

No need to hate on the kid or his family who is a Cane family
 
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caneworld said:
The previous staff refused to let him walk-on after HS. I tend to believe that could be the reason ...especially since his mom was an ex U tennis player. He mentioned that he loved the U and grew up playing at the rec center

No need to hate on the kid or his family who is a Cane family
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I dont think people are "hating" on him

I think people are annoyed at the way the media perceives him and now makes this game about him

Its a bit much
 
caneworld said:
The previous staff refused to let him walk-on after HS. I tend to believe that could be the reason ...especially since his mom was an ex U tennis player. He mentioned that he loved the U and grew up playing at the rec center

No need to hate on the kid or his family who is a Cane family
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I don't hate on him at all. Or his family. Just, in hindsight, the badly missed (in hindsight) opportunity for us.

Saw IU play Maryland at College Park this past season. His brother, Alberto, backing him up at QB got to play in that game. Ripped off like a 50 yard run and showed a nice touch throwing as well, in limited attempts (2-2, 20 yds, 1 TD).
 
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