Look, I know that it would be great for Lynch to take Lewis’s success on the trail and use it to show how players can succeed at IU. Truth is though, wins will do that much more than one player’s development. And his best chance for winning was having his best weapon on the field. Now that won’t happen at all. Bad day for Hoosier football.

Is it to early to predict their 11th place finish?

btw, here are the two Lewis editorials discussing his dismissal…

Indiana Daily Student
IndyStar.com

Normally I would agree with you (change the culture, win some games, etc), but it’s situations like these that illustrate why Indiana struggles to even be mediocre. I am by no means promoting lying/cheating/falsifying records, but couldn’t Indiana get him a babysitter or something? Where was the coddling?

I look at Jay Cutler at Vandy, arguably one of the top 5 worst BCS football schools for years. He showed some skill, some success on a college and then professional level, leading them to a 5-6 record, which of course would be unexceptional except it was the most games they had won since 1984…and their program follows suit, even winning a bowl game this year…Lewis could have been that guy to push Indy into “consistently mediocre” territory