A basketball season is over 35 games. Also, I’d much rather have our QB1 play through an injury (like he did with an ACL tear in Brohm’s first year) than be out for nearly the entire season.
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It doesn't need to be an exact comparison. Basketball is a sport with only 13 scholarship players so when you lose a handful of rotation players injuries become a valid excuse.
At least he played. Wish our QB1 could play through his current injury, but he’s out the rest of the season.
Langford was a SHOOTING guard. Who tore a ligament in his hand. I mean, I don't know what else to tell you. Kid still dropped 16ppg---with a bum hand.
I mean is your hate for IU making it incapble for you to realize how impactful injuries were to last years team? Dude---IU was 12-2, and ranked . Then the injuries come. Its no coincidence that the bottom began to fall then.
Jesus.
It doesn't NEED to compare. It's not a dick measuring contest to see who had more injuries.
1. Indiana's injuries were a valid excuse to why Indiana sucked.
2. Purdue's injuries are a valid excuse to why Purdue sucks.
Purdue fans acted like #1 is b/s and injuries shouldn't be an excuse while using #2 as a crutch.
And is your hate for Purdue making it incapable of realizing that having a team’s QB1 completely miss all but two games impactful to this year’s team.
What does it matter? The injury to Langford still hampered his ability. I wish we could have had a 100% Langford. If so, I'd say we win more than 19 games.
Its always a dick measuring contest
Yes, I would argue that Purdue injuries have been far worse. Missing 3 games in basketball is the equivalent of missing one game in football.
It's not about who had worse injuries. Indiana's injuries don't need to be as bad as Purdue's to be a valid excuse as to why they struggle last season. If you can't see that then you are incapable of reasonable.
Why are you stuck on the amount of games? He was out a month. No practice. No games. No nothing. When he returned, it was clear he wasn't the same player. So what he only missed 3 games. That's irrelevant. The injury cost him a month of basketball. Missing a month in basketball, is like missing close to half of a football season.
We’re not comparing who has it worse. We’re trying to get you guys to admit either you all were overly critical to IU last year given the significant injuries they went through or you’re not being critical enough on your own football team for not producing like you all thought.
Also, lost in this.......
While Purdue's injuries are worse than Indiana's, their season is going significantly worse too.
Indiana: Not as bad of injuries, not as bad of season. Injuries still a valid reason why expectations weren't met.
Purdue: Worse injuries, worse season. Injuries a valid reason why expectations weren't met.
Any of you Purdue fans that don't think this is fair are slappies. Period.
While Purdue's injuries are worse than Indiana's, their season is going significantly worse too.
Indiana: Not as bad of injuries, not as bad of season. Injuries still a valid reason why expectations weren't met.
Purdue: Worse injuries, worse season. Injuries a valid reason why expectations weren't met.
Any of you Purdue fans that don't think this is fair are slappies. Period.
We can be done after this post. Hail nailed it exactly.
WHich are worse, or more impactful, isn't relevant. WHy is that so hard for you to understand? I mean I could have a flat tire....but you have 2 flat tires. EVen though you have it worse, we both get the same result---A car that isn't 100%. I don't see how why this is so damn difficult for you to comprehend.
VulvHa sits here and tells you that you can't be reasonable while lobbing Purdue slappy grenade after Purdue slappy grenade.
B-Westy is bad but wtf is VulvHa doing today? Not a good look.
Nearly the entire team. We also had guys playing through injury. And you’re not really making any point, either.
I really wish posters would stop using some posters comments and equating it to an entire group of posters. Obviously I’m a Purdue guy but don’t recall diminishing the injuries IU had last year - if I did it was completely a troll but to be honest I don’t think I did. For the obvious reason that the assertion is stupid. IU got nailed with a lot of injuries affecting key players and/or depth. Also hard to get the roles and rhythm down. It hurt them significantly. For the same reasons to ignore that Purdue has gotten hammered with injuries in football is equally as stupid. You can argue impact but that’s a lot of crap as well. IU got hurt in b-ball - Purdue is getting hurt in football and honestly Purdue wasn’t looking deep anyway. And clearly the top two trolls in this thread really don’t give two ****s about an honest dialogue.
I was in the middle of this and bailed out. Drinking and football plans getting in the wayCame to say good morning...
I agree with this. Sorry not sorry you didn’t speak up sooner. You could have posted this during the basketball season while a lot of the other Purdue guys were railing on IU and downplaying the injuries. Now, we’re doing the same thing to you guys and your delicate feelings get hurt. Again, I agree both teams were negatively impacted, but I wasnt the one to start the injuries don’t matter discussion. That was the Purdue guys...
It's Snu and Hail's schtick. We've got a couple of Purdue fans who do the same. It's what weak minded people do.
And you guys had nearly the entire team playing in your loss to Nevada.
My point is that Purdue fans were mostly unforgiving during that run, when IU had almost the entire team playing. Degree of injuries are certainly important. Hell, Purdue would be much better with guys playing through injuries than missing the entire or large portion of the seasons.
I don't think that calling out Purdue fans for being unfair in how they treated Indiana's injury rittled season is deserving of personal insults but okay.
No we didn’t. On defense we were missing our only all-B1G players. Bailey will be out the entire season and it’s looking like Neal may be out the entire season as well. On offense, RB1 and RB2 have been out the entire season so far. We started a walk-on at RB.
Edit: with the above being said, they absolutely still should have had enough to win that game.
So you were only missing starters in 3 of 22 positions that game?
