At this point, it might be time to admit defeat. The Crossroads Classic was clearly a bad idea. A device by the other Indiana teams to knock Purdue down a peg early on in the season when Coach Painter’s team are struggling to find their identity.
It’s borderline cruel to set up this big event, knowing full well, it will be the stamp on a concerning early season slide, that will ultimately not matter but will give talking heads and fans with a certain complex plenty to shriek about.
(Plus, there’s that one time we came back and won again Notre Dame a few years ago and that was pretty fun.