Indiana State is ranked 9th of 10 teams in the Missouri Valley preseason poll. So there's that. Indiana State is not terrible, but you could have picked a better MVFC team and a team that would travel well to MN. Miss and miss, you have to wonder about MN's objectives.
Is Indiana State basically a MAC team
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Indiana State is ranked 9th of 10 teams in the Missouri Valley preseason poll. So there's that. Indiana State is not terrible, but you could have picked a better MVFC team and a team that would travel well to MN. Miss and miss, you have to wonder about MN's objectives.
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Indiana St. would be the perfect team to play the 1st week (little chance of losing, can work on some things). Unfortunately the schedule didn't work out that way with a power-5 team the first week. With 9 guaranteed big 10 games and another game against a power-5 team, I think it's perfectly fine to play against a team like Indiana St. The objective is to win and not get anyone injured. Colorado St. is typically decent too so why not schedule an easier opponent for at least one of your games? I don't care about how well the other team travels.
From the weekly presser:
"Q. What is if about the last three or four years, FBS teams seem to be -- it's not stunning when they beat an FBS team. It happened more the last two years than it used to.
COACH CLAEYS: Right. I think that they get some awfully good kids. If they don't go there initially, what we call bounce-backs, you know, kids close to home that went away and were good football players and for whatever reason decided to come back closer to home and play.
Number two, is that when you coach at that level, and you didn't have to worry much about motivation the week you played bigger schools, because all of those kids felt like they should have the opportunity to play the Big Ten or a Power Five school, and now they get their chance to show everybody that they can do that, and so the games are always fun. You know, when we were there and playing against bigger schools, and so they'll play hard. Again, you know, that's a big step for them, if they're able to win, and so, you know, we'll have to bring energy, and we'll have to play well fundamentally in order to win."
Looking at the rouster it appears that most all of the players are from BigTen territory.
"Q. What is if about the last three or four years, FBS teams seem to be -- it's not stunning when they beat an FBS team. It happened more the last two years than it used to.
COACH CLAEYS: Right. I think that they get some awfully good kids. If they don't go there initially, what we call bounce-backs, you know, kids close to home that went away and were good football players and for whatever reason decided to come back closer to home and play.
Number two, is that when you coach at that level, and you didn't have to worry much about motivation the week you played bigger schools, because all of those kids felt like they should have the opportunity to play the Big Ten or a Power Five school, and now they get their chance to show everybody that they can do that, and so the games are always fun. You know, when we were there and playing against bigger schools, and so they'll play hard. Again, you know, that's a big step for them, if they're able to win, and so, you know, we'll have to bring energy, and we'll have to play well fundamentally in order to win."
Looking at the rouster it appears that most all of the players are from BigTen territory.
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Whoa - who wonders about the objectives of any FBS team when the schedule an FCS team? I think that is fairly transparent.
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