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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 08-21-2015, 03:00 PM:

Indiana and Louisville have signed a 3 game football and basketball.

Indiana University and the University of Louisville have signed an agreement to play a three-game series in both football and men’s basketball. The football and basketball series were announced jointly on Friday by the schools from neighboring states with campuses separated by only 100 miles.

A neutral site game at Bankers Life Arena in Indianapolis on Dec. 31, 2016 will open the men’s basketball series in an equally divided arena. The Cardinals and Hoosiers will later play at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville as a home game for UofL on Dec. 9, 2017, and the teams will match up again in Assembly Hall in Bloomington on Dec. 8, 2018.

Indiana and Louisville will kick off the football series at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sept. 16, 2023 with seating split equally between the two schools. The second football game will be played in Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium in Louisville on Sept. 7, 2024 and the three-game series will be completed at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington on Sept. 6, 2025.

The Louisville series will be a great challenge for us.” said Indiana Men’s Basketball Coach Tom Crean. “The preparation and execution needed to compete against Rick Pitino and his team is extraordinary. We are excited about the opportunity to face them on a consistent basis and the chance for both schools’ fan bases to watch this series take off again is exciting. That first game on New Year’s Eve next year should be special.”

“We have tremendous respect for Indiana and all of their sports programs,” said Louisville Men’s Basketball Coach Rick Pitino. “We’re very excited to have Indiana on our schedule. It’s a natural rivalry and it’s great for both universities. Tom (Crean) and I spoke about possible future games while we were together at a function last fall and I’m glad to see that it has become a reality.”

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Posted by boomdaddy (Member # 2644) on 08-21-2015, 03:58 PM:

When was the last time that Indiana was relevant? It is like when Tubby was coach during his last few years. Kentucky mattered to Kentucky fans but not to the national scene. That is how Indiana is viewed. They used to matter. Now, they do not.

Could care less about the Hoosiers. UK plays enough high profile teams. I would rather they play the local in state teams and give them an economic boost.

Posted by handycat (Member # 2323) on 08-21-2015, 04:21 PM:

A few years back, about the time Crean took the coaching job, someone else made the comment about Indiana no longer being relevant. In all my wisdom I replied that given time Crean would make them "very relevant".

Once again I was wrong. I never cared for Crean but I thought he would have turned that program around.

IMO, UK basketball has nothing to gain by scheduling a medircore team.

Football would be a different story. Two less than average programs "might" generate mild enthusiasm.

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 08-21-2015, 06:32 PM:

Hadn't really even thought about them. The two of them deserve each other.

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 08-21-2015, 10:44 PM:

Problem is we lose revenue when we schedule home/home with teams like IU. We're better off with neutral floor games!

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 08-22-2015, 09:14 AM:

I want to play them bad as we have had that rivalry dating back to 1924 and have played them 56 times. We beat them 32 times of those 56 games. Rivalries like that don't happen like that very often and was one of if not the best rivalries in all of college basketball.

Posted by WHO?UK (Member # 2286) on 08-22-2015, 12:47 PM:

WHO?

Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 08-22-2015, 01:56 PM:

Nope. They just haven't been relevant the last 27 years. I would much rather play Kansas/UNC/Duke/Michigan State every year as compared to IU.

It use to be a rivalry but not much of one the last 25 years.

Posted by Old Norm (Member # 1482) on 08-22-2015, 02:40 PM:

The way their fans acted after they beat us in 2012? Not just no, but HELL NO!

Posted by WHO?UK (Member # 2286) on 08-23-2015, 04:53 PM:

As much as I hate Duke... They would never rush the court on us. No respect for their program and fans. No Traditional powerhouse should ever rush the court ever. I don't care how bad of a run they are having. The second they did that I lost all respect for them. I don't care if we ever play them again. IU is dead to me.

Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 08-25-2015, 10:12 AM:

Living here amid the delirious IU fan base, I hope we never play them again (except when they happen to get lucky enough to make the tournament, maybe we will get them in an early-round game for a blow-out).

Seriously... the way that IU fans regard and treat UK fans borders on the absurd and criminal. And Crean is running a program that attracts low-character players, as revealed by the seven players charged with possession over the past year, including the incident where one drunk IU basketball player ran over another student in his car.

IU is not only increasingly irrelevant, they are increasingly distasteful. Screw 'em.

Posted by Wildcat Bill (Member # 615) on 08-25-2015, 10:30 PM:

I agree with most all of the posters here. The stumbling block is that we are not going to subject our team and fans to going to Bloomington again after the way their classless fans behaved, not to mention the nonexistent security. If they had not insisted on a game in Bloomington, the series would have continued. Now, as has been pointed out, the only time we will be playing them is in the NCAA tournament, which will not be played in Bloomington, Indiana.

Of course, we have absolutely nothing to gain by playing them anyway and we have successfully replaced them with very high profile non-conference opponents. We have not suffered at all from removing them from our schedule. However, it does seem, apart from the ACC-Big 10 required game, IU has trouble attracting another high profile non-conference team to play in Bloomington. I'm not surprised. So maybe while we're not hurt by the lack of playing them, the same can't be said for them. In short, they needed us but we no longer needed them. They should have continued the series on neutral sites. They didn't and they lost the entire series, however differently Dick Vitale and others care to spin it.

IU and UL are a good fit. I read where Tom Jurich said that they had a "friendly" rivalry already. IU fans have proven beyond any doubt that their hatred of UK is anything but "friendly". In fact, they border on pathologically toxic in their behavior with regard to UK. It's better to let that go.