Back when I attended IU for grad school, football season tickets were $30. If you wanted to buy any basketball tickets, you also had to buy the football season ticket package just to get them. I didn't buy either because the baseball tickets were free and we had Kyle Schwarber.
But this year, the football team has been doing really well. Like, really good. And their rise from worst football program in college history to unexpected dominance just happens to coincide with reports of teachers being removed from IU classrooms for teaching about historical racism, with IU faculty being beaten and dragged off Dunn Meadow for protecting students and their right to free speech against armed national guards, with the moving and minimizing of the Archives of Traditional Music, and the elimination, merger, or suspension of approximately 250 undergraduate degrees in 2025-26 (including my own Folklore & Ethnomusicology program).
It's tough to cheer for the horrific takeover of a once great educational institution, but IU does throw the ball really well and Mendoza seems like a good guy. I'll root for their football te
am in the Championship game tonight, but I'm much more interested in rooting for the incredible faculty and staff still at IU and still fighting for education and integrity every day. I appreciate all of you!
Now it's time to turn off my country music Ode to the Hoosiers LP (recorded at the Starday Sound Studio in Nashville just after the basketball team won the national championship in 1981) and turn on the game. Hoo Hoo Hoo... Hoosiers?!
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