Latest / The Central Indiana Sports Report / INDIANA 56, OREGON 22: Peach Bowl Reaction with Grant Shouse (2.138.3)
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- 0:02[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back IU fans to a special special edition of the IU report.
- 0:09[SPEAKER_00]: With one half of our IU guys, Grant Shouse joins me in celebration tonight.
- 0:16[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to ask him to try to keep his composure because it's not going to be easy for him.
- 0:21[SPEAKER_00]: On one of the most special nights in the history of sports in Indiana.
- 0:25[SPEAKER_00]: The Indiana Hoosiers are gonna be playing for national championship.
- 0:28[SPEAKER_00]: It's been so dominated by the Hoosiers that we don't even have a final score yet.
- 0:32[SPEAKER_00]: We've just kind of hadn't started.
- 0:34[SPEAKER_00]: My cuts all will join us on Tuesday for the IU report to tell us about his experience from down in Atlanta and grant 56 to 13.
- 0:44[SPEAKER_00]: 56 to 15 as we speak.
- 0:48[SPEAKER_00]: Unbelievable.
- 0:49[SPEAKER_00]: Unbelu.
- 0:51[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 0:52[SPEAKER_01]: didn't see this one coming to be honest with you the way it has, but if you would have told me that this would have happened, I wouldn't have been shocked if that makes any sense.
- 1:03[SPEAKER_01]: Just punch them in the mouth 11 seconds into the game, you get the pick six and then they come down on their scripted drive.
- 1:11[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, I don't think that happens if there's a little bit of a break.
- 1:16[SPEAKER_01]: between the pick six and when they trot the offense back out on the field for work and because now you're Sorry, I just got a text from one of my coaches that I do a coach show with you is how about these
- 1:37[SPEAKER_01]: Looking back at the first touchdown Oregon score to tie the game up at seven, you have the emotional play, the pick six right on the first play of the game, and then you're trying to really your guys back in to go back out there, essentially right away and play more defense.
- 1:52[SPEAKER_01]: I think maybe some time in between, because there wasn't a TV time out, because of course it wasn't expected.
- 1:58[SPEAKER_01]: No TV time out, kind of had indiana.
- 2:02[SPEAKER_01]: A little on their toes, a little bit defensively, which is why Oregon came down other than that, nothing really has happened for Oregon.
- 2:09[SPEAKER_01]: It's been all domination from Indiana, which has just just been incredible.
- 2:14[SPEAKER_01]: And it's obviously to the point here where.
- 2:17[SPEAKER_01]: about midway through the third quarter.
- 2:19[SPEAKER_01]: You're now starting to think about Miami.
- 2:21[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this one's great, but now that you're going and you know you're going to be there, this one's great, you can enjoy it for a couple days, but then really you're starting to think about trying to win a national championship.
- 2:35[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
- 2:36[SPEAKER_00]: Are you football losers?
- 2:39[SPEAKER_00]: We're playing for a national championship.
- 2:42[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I can't put in the words what I'm feeling here.
- 2:47[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about it all year long on how just the so many times the crap games you went to and and the the bull crap that that you had to endure these long seasons just painful seasons of of two and ten three and nine four and eight occasionally a six and six somewhere.
- 3:13[SPEAKER_01]: And to now be where you're gonna go play for a national championship, be favored, probably the better team going into the game.
- 3:25[SPEAKER_01]: Just remarkable.
- 3:26[SPEAKER_01]: It is the greatest story in the history of sports, I think.
- 3:34[SPEAKER_01]: And again, hopefully that one.
- 3:36[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're staying at with Crayon and Cremson colored glasses here.
- 3:43[SPEAKER_00]: that we're just not even going to talk about until after next week, but it's just amazing that that topic is even being talked about and after the last two weeks, last three weeks, you start with Ohio State, what you do to Alabama, then you Oregon three of the top 10 programs in the country and to be Alabama and Oregon by a combined 123, something
- 4:14[SPEAKER_00]: So it, I've used the word absurd a lot, talking about this team, but it's just an absurdity, how this was the, one of the 10 most irrelevant football programs in the country 18 months ago, Grant.
- 4:31[SPEAKER_01]: And it just takes you back to that.
- 4:34[SPEAKER_01]: Like,
- 4:35[SPEAKER_01]: I've remembered where I was when I've heard certain announcements like when Indiana's hired a new basketball coach.
- 4:42[SPEAKER_01]: I remember where I was.
- 4:43[SPEAKER_01]: I remember where I was for Darren de Vries and I kind of remember where I actually I know where I was for Archie Miller when they announced his hiring.
- 4:51[SPEAKER_01]: I remember where I was when they announced Mike Woodson, but on there forget driving down state
- 5:02[SPEAKER_01]: Thursday night to go pick up my buddy at Ball State so we could go down to a Butler basketball game.
- 5:08[SPEAKER_01]: And I see that Indiana is naming Kurt Signetti to be its next head coach.
- 5:14[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm thinking, What?
- 5:17[SPEAKER_01]: Who the hell is this guy never heard of this guy before?
- 5:21[SPEAKER_01]: And just imagine if there was a little ounce of consciousness that told you hey, this guy is actually going to make the biggest turnaround in the history of maybe sports don't no question college football and maybe college athletics, but sports is a whole group and he's going to have your team playing for a national championship.
- 5:47[SPEAKER_01]: Just it's incredible.
- 5:51[SPEAKER_00]: And to come out like this, offensively defensively, and make this statement, it's just so much about this coaching staff, in particular, they've taken three star guys and they're beating four and five star guys.
- 6:12[SPEAKER_00]: They're doing what the great coaches do, and honestly,
- 6:17[SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to broach the subject that we talked about earlier, but we can start to talk about is this degree.
- 6:22[SPEAKER_00]: It's coaching job in the history of college football right now, especially when you talk about the two-year job that he's done, but just this year in particular, it's just been incredible.
- 6:35[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to put into words.
- 6:37[SPEAKER_00]: I keep saying the same word over and over, absurd.
- 6:46[SPEAKER_01]: During the college football report with Eric and Ryan, if you were to ask them that question, what you just asked me, what do you think they would say?
- 6:55[SPEAKER_01]: Because you know what I'm going to say.
- 6:57[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say yes.
- 6:58[SPEAKER_01]: But from here, yeah, for sure.
- 7:02[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 7:03[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 7:04[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 7:05[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 7:06[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I think anyone in looking at it objectively again as, uh, sorry, everybody, hustle is in Atlanta at the game right now enjoying this game with this son, we're happy for him that he's able to do that.
- 7:18[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, you're stuck with the Purdue fan.
- 7:20[SPEAKER_00]: This is the Hoco host, but I go back to Joe Taylor and how exciting that was for Purdue fans to have a relevant team for a decade.
- 7:29[SPEAKER_00]: And this was just that just I didn't even touch this.
- 7:33[SPEAKER_00]: Not even in the same atmosphere as the five-in-close.
- 7:38[SPEAKER_01]: Now, and this really has to be what it had to feel like to be an IU basketball fan in 1976.
- 7:46[SPEAKER_01]: When they went undefeated in one of the national championships, which by the way was 50 years ago.
- 7:51[SPEAKER_01]: how sweet and symbolic and poetic would it be for 50 years later after the 1976 undefeated basketball team for the football team 50 freaking years later to the undefeated and when the national championship and go down as arguably the greatest team of all time.
- 8:15[SPEAKER_00]: I'll leave it at that.
- 8:17[SPEAKER_00]: I told you not to say that out loud, man.
- 8:20[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to every time in college football, somebody says, this is the greatest team of all time heading into the national championship.
- 8:28[SPEAKER_00]: That team loses.
- 8:31[SPEAKER_00]: Biden said that.
- 8:32[SPEAKER_00]: I think of USC with Reggie Bush losing to Vince Young, I think of the Nebraska team in 1983 that lost to Miami.
- 8:44[SPEAKER_00]: People call him the greatest of all time.
- 8:46[SPEAKER_00]: Every time that's talked starts before the championship game that team loses.
- 8:52[SPEAKER_01]: I don't necessarily think that right now, though.
- 8:58[SPEAKER_01]: I said they could be and then say they are I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
- 9:22[SPEAKER_01]: like we set it off to the Big Ten Championship that this is these are games that he got to the to the cemetery with to your dad's grave or to grandpa's grave and crack open a beer and sit there and say man I wish you could be here for this and so I'm thankful for all the people in my life personally that have introduced me to all this that are getting
- 9:53[SPEAKER_01]: I think of the life-longers, like there are so many people, especially older people who went to or have gone to every single football game since the 60s for over 50 years, almost 60 years.
- 10:11[SPEAKER_01]: And they've always had season tickets no matter how good or bad the steam's been they've been there to witness all this and they get to witness it.
- 10:19[SPEAKER_01]: I can't tell how many people I've met that have been like, oh, yeah, I've had season football tickets for for 40 years.
- 10:26[SPEAKER_01]: 40 years and we've gone to every I've missed the games.
- 10:29[SPEAKER_01]: I went to a women's game at a assembly hall one time they played Purdue.
- 10:33[SPEAKER_01]: Women's basketball game and I was sitting next to a guy and we were talking and this was before.
- 10:38[SPEAKER_01]: Sigmaity was even thought of.
- 10:40[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody knew this was like in 20.
- 10:42[SPEAKER_01]: This is like the February 2023.
- 10:45[SPEAKER_01]: And the guy says to me, because you know, he goes, I really enjoy going to games because I've at least a football game in 55 years.
- 10:53[SPEAKER_01]: 55 years, I don't know who that guy was, I didn't get his name, I don't remember his name if he told me.
- 10:59[SPEAKER_01]: And now he gets to witness this.
- 11:01[SPEAKER_01]: And those are the kind of people you think about here.
- 11:04[SPEAKER_01]: It's the people that this is brought together has been incredible.
- 11:11[SPEAKER_00]: Grant 34 seconds to go.
- 11:14[SPEAKER_00]: It's 56 to 15.
- 11:15[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon is at the one yard line.
- 11:17[SPEAKER_00]: They might score a meaningless touchdown here.
- 11:20[SPEAKER_00]: How sweet for Don Fisher?
- 11:23[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
- 11:24[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking about him.
- 11:26[SPEAKER_01]: He was there in 76 when the basketball team went undefeated in one of the national championships.
- 11:31[SPEAKER_01]: He's been through all these big moments with basketball.
- 11:34[SPEAKER_01]: In my opinion, he's a better play by playman at basketball.
- 11:37[SPEAKER_01]: But he's been here through all the crap, the thick and thin with this program.
- 11:42[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm really, I'm happy for him.
- 11:45[SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy that for me is a play by play guy.
- 11:48[SPEAKER_01]: I've tried to model my play by play after.
- 11:51[SPEAKER_01]: And he's a class act man.
- 11:54[SPEAKER_01]: And he deserves this probably about as anyone in this athletic department that's been here for a long time.
- 12:01[SPEAKER_00]: Again, with the new way ESPN has things set up, I'm pretty sure you're going to be able to stream him on ESPN in the National Championship game and that'll be pretty cool too.
- 12:12[SPEAKER_00]: I think that would be cool.
- 12:13[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how that will necessarily work.
- 12:15[SPEAKER_01]: I think they did that in the quarter final games because
- 12:19[SPEAKER_01]: They have a tie with the SCC ESPN does.
- 12:23[SPEAKER_01]: They have the rights to it.
- 12:24[SPEAKER_01]: I think it goes through their radios.
- 12:26[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why they were able to plug it down to the national championship in the last few years no matter who they have.
- 12:33[SPEAKER_01]: They have.
- 12:33[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 12:34[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's the thing you got to keep in mind with me, Greg, is that.
- 12:38[SPEAKER_01]: over the last few years, the national championship of college football's just been another game you sit down and watch.
- 12:45[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
- 12:46[SPEAKER_01]: And then when it's over, you're like, okay, now it's over.
- 12:52[SPEAKER_01]: All right, March Madness is that next, baby, we're just turning the corner.
- 12:55[SPEAKER_00]: That's right, big 10.
- 12:56[SPEAKER_00]: We're getting right in the thick of the big 10.
- 12:59[SPEAKER_00]: How often have you thought about IU basketball in the last week?
- 13:03[SPEAKER_01]: Not much and they've played three and one two games went on.
- 13:09[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I literally went to the game in the whole time.
- 13:11[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking about football To be honest, yeah, I'm thinking about a head coach is or a literally unlocked my car for me outside the football stadium Sunday night.
- 13:21[SPEAKER_01]: That's right Just in credit unlimited or The guy the guy and and I've said this before talking about the magnetic F12s you guys was before
- 13:32[SPEAKER_01]: is he similar to how night was in a way in the way he commands things when night walked in a room.
- 13:41[SPEAKER_01]: Back when he was that coached in being his aura.
- 13:46[SPEAKER_01]: just filled the room and whether and whether you love him or hating this is out was the guy commanded a room as soon as he walked in, signetti is the exact same way.
- 13:57[SPEAKER_01]: And not only do I think that captures fans that encounter him like at his radio show or I don't know where else the guy goes out public.
- 14:08[SPEAKER_01]: He certainly ain't going to the Walmart in Bloomington.
- 14:11[SPEAKER_01]: Again, the guy commands the room when he walks in the room.
- 14:14[SPEAKER_01]: And again, not only do I think that
- 14:17[SPEAKER_01]: has an impact on just regular average Joe people, but it has that effect on the players too.
- 14:27[SPEAKER_01]: And you can see that.
- 14:29[SPEAKER_00]: So Oregon did score, there's 22 seconds left.
- 14:32[SPEAKER_00]: People are celebrating, Kurt Signetti is smiling.
- 14:35[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 14:36[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just as easy as it will.
- 14:38[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, it's kind of a rice mile.
- 14:40[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's kind of a mile.
- 14:42[SPEAKER_00]: Fifty six, the 22 is going to be the final score.
- 14:45[SPEAKER_00]: Fifty six, the, I predicted 21 to 20.
- 14:47[SPEAKER_00]: And I predicted Oregon was going to win this whole thing coming into the tournament.
- 14:53[SPEAKER_00]: Greg, I forgot last week.
- 14:54[SPEAKER_00]: I did switch by you because I'm not an idiot,
- 14:57[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, now now we're going to just need and for the first time ever, Indiana Hoosies are going to be playing for a national championship game in Miami a week from Monday.
- 15:09[SPEAKER_00]: Grant.
- 15:12[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm.
- 15:13[SPEAKER_00]: Comteere, it's a very South.
- 15:16[SPEAKER_01]: Just a little welling up, um, we special nightmare special, special night.
- 15:24[SPEAKER_01]: We, we deserve special night.
- 15:26[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll never forget this as long as I live, well, I Fernando Mendoza and his receivers best game of the year.
- 15:35[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, by far, oh, my gosh, it was incredible.
- 15:39[SPEAKER_01]: Just the, I got the feeling that the game was on ice when he threw the log Bob down to Charlie Baker for attached down.
- 15:48[SPEAKER_01]: That's when I felt like, okay, this is over.
- 15:51[SPEAKER_01]: Um, what a touch.
- 15:53[SPEAKER_01]: What a catch.
- 15:54[SPEAKER_00]: what a throw.
- 15:56[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't, I don't think Mendoza through it.
- 15:58[SPEAKER_00]: Territory and completion.
- 16:01[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think Mendoza through a wrong pass all night, man.
- 16:04[SPEAKER_00]: Everything was where it's supposed to be.
- 16:07[SPEAKER_01]: The only hiccup was the ball that kind of got bobbled there.
- 16:12[SPEAKER_01]: nearly turned it over.
- 16:13[SPEAKER_01]: That was the only one.
- 16:15[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, right.
- 16:16[SPEAKER_00]: They went to Oregon with Cougar was hustling down the field.
- 16:21[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I you was fast to the ball all night.
- 16:23[SPEAKER_00]: All night.
- 16:25[SPEAKER_00]: Now, boys on the ground were three Oregon players closer than the IU players.
- 16:30[SPEAKER_00]: And those IU players close so fast on that ball.
- 16:33[SPEAKER_00]: It was like they'd done drills over and over with it.
- 16:36[SPEAKER_01]: They're just so quick.
- 16:38[SPEAKER_01]: And that goes back to the fast physical relent with
- 16:41[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it goes back to.
- 16:42[SPEAKER_01]: So they went out to Eugene in October and played that game and it was a great game.
- 16:49[SPEAKER_01]: I really wanted the better regular season games of the year.
- 16:52[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think anybody expected Indiana to come out and win 56 to 22 tonight.
- 17:00[SPEAKER_01]: And just be the ever loving crap out of this organ team.
- 17:04[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you would have told me that's what they were going to do.
- 17:08[SPEAKER_01]: I would not have been shocked whatsoever.
- 17:11[SPEAKER_00]: Look, like Coach Ignetti had tears in his eyes when he was doing the interview there.
- 17:17[SPEAKER_00]: And Scott, I guess I'm working, I just got to go win one more game, Greg.
- 17:21[SPEAKER_00]: One more game.
- 17:22[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'm about to look.
- 17:23[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think the line is?
- 17:28[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana, well, put up as a five and a half point favorite.
- 17:32[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I think they're going to open as an 11 and a half point favorite is my guess.
- 17:38[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see.
- 17:42[SPEAKER_01]: The answer is I use a seven and a half point favorite is the open that that's about right I think I think Oregon's better than I am you crap.
- 17:54[SPEAKER_01]: I need to Miami's defense.
- 17:57[SPEAKER_01]: I got a Bama might better to get a question and then board we'll get more into that on the I year board.
- 18:04[SPEAKER_01]: I really have it thought about Miami to be honest with you.
- 18:07[SPEAKER_00]: Miami has elite receivers and an elite quarterback who throws a great ball to but then it was in a defense like this.
- 18:16[SPEAKER_00]: Now they haven't.
- 18:17[SPEAKER_00]: They haven't seen schemes like this, which are incredible.
- 18:22[SPEAKER_00]: They will take them completely away.
- 18:26[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, again, we'll get way into that.
- 18:28[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I'm going to anyone's going to be surprised that I'm picking out you big.
- 18:34[SPEAKER_00]: And the story I think is gonna be the offense, but man, the defense was so good tonight.
- 18:42[SPEAKER_01]: And they just did what they did all year.
- 18:44[SPEAKER_01]: Again, that was one of the rare times that team really went and drove the length of the field and scored on them.
- 18:53[SPEAKER_01]: On that first drive, the other two were, I guess the last one kind of, no, but it didn't really count, but,
- 19:02[SPEAKER_01]: But the second one was their long run, set them up.
- 19:06[SPEAKER_01]: And the 70 yard run, set them up.
- 19:09[SPEAKER_01]: And they just were, in the end, I wasn't able to get off the field there.
- 19:16[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the defense just does what they do.
- 19:18[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the defense is probably what could carry them to win a national championship.
- 19:27[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Grant.
- 19:29[SPEAKER_00]: Darren Morevel is reporting that the cheapest seat available for the National Championship 3,865 dollars.
- 19:42[SPEAKER_01]: And look for theirs to still be more Indiana fans than Miami fans in that stadium.
- 19:47[SPEAKER_00]: I was wondering the same thing, is that possible in their own stadium?
- 19:52[SPEAKER_00]: Is that possible?
- 19:53[SPEAKER_01]: I think it could, I think it won't be as lot cited crowd-wise as it has been these last two.
- 20:01[SPEAKER_01]: I think it'll be barely, it's not any green in that crowd.
- 20:04[SPEAKER_01]: No, and just from, I've known multiple people who've gone to the game, like I've talked to Mike, I've talked to, got family down there at the game, family friends at the game as well.
- 20:15[SPEAKER_01]: The one tweet I read said for for every two Oregon fans, they are 98 Indiana fans.
- 20:25[SPEAKER_01]: That just goes to show the the ratio of Indiana don't work in fans.
- 20:31[SPEAKER_00]: It was a home game for Indiana in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 20:36[SPEAKER_00]: Incredible.
- 20:39[SPEAKER_00]: Incredible.
- 20:46[SPEAKER_00]: one more to go on more man get it done looking to hear a looking for this here and about my experience graduates thanks so much we will uh... talk to you again very soon we will also have a recap of the indiana who's basketball game tomorrow sometime bit afternoon please tune in for that one
- 21:13[SPEAKER_00]: You can hear about how you, like, all the freaking time on the Central Indian Esports Report with Grant Shows and Mike Hutsl grant.
- 21:21[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much.
- 21:22[SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations and look forward to talking about a national championship all week.
- 21:28[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for having me as always.
- 21:29[SPEAKER_01]: I always enjoy doing it, you know.
- 21:32[SPEAKER_01]: I always look forward to talking after the games and before the games and honestly during the game, I'm always thinking about what I'm probably going to say on the
- 21:41[SPEAKER_01]: reaction plots.
- 21:42[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate you giving me an opportunity.
- 21:47[SPEAKER_00]: Love having you.
- 21:50[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, please join us on Tuesday as we talk about the beach bowl and look ahead to the national championship game Indiana versus Miami.
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