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Tom Allen offers brutally honest assessment of Indiana’s performance after loss to Rutgers
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Indiana’s season dropped to a new low Saturday with a 38-3 loss to Rutgers.
The Scarlet Knights moved within one win of bowl eligibility and dropped the Hoosiers to 2-8 on the season. They have yet to win a Big Ten game after going 6-1 against Big Ten opponents last year. The 3 points Indiana mustered were the fewest in a game against a Rutgers defense since Morgan State was shut out on Sept. 16, 2017, and the fewest by a Big Ten team against Rutgers since the Scarlet Knights joined the conference in 2014.
Indiana averaged just 3.5 yards per play in the contest and turned it over 6 times, the fourth game this season in which IU has had at least 3 turnovers.
After the game, head coach Tom Allen didn’t hide his frustration.
Tom Allen not breathing fire but not mincing words either:
"Really nothing positive to say. Very disappointed, frustrating, bad performance by our team. I’m very upset about it." #iufb
— Zach Osterman (@ZachOsterman) November 13, 2021
Allen admits there was lack of fight today. "Dropped balls. Missed tackles. I understand this is hard, but you also have to have a strong hard look at yourself and how you want to be known and identified for you play the game. … We have to own that as coaches."
— Dustin Dopirak (@DustinDopirak) November 13, 2021
The Hoosiers have games left against Minnesota on Nov. 20 and Purdue on Nov. 27.
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