It’s certainly the offseason when a comment on a podcast turns into a public spat between a coach and a fanbase.
This week, former Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson gave Indiana’s defense a backhanded compliment. Indiana’s defensive coordinator responded to that perceived slight on social media, which then angered Alabama fans and prompted another (snarkier) response from the IU assistant.
Indiana beat Alabama 38-3 in the Rose Bowl last season. Simpson completed just 12 of his 16 passes for 67 yards before exiting with an injury. Yet, on the Downs 2 Business podcast this week, Simpson said Indiana’s defensive gameplan was as basic as can be.
“I was like, they don’t do much. I was like, they do the same thing every down,” Simpson said. “When I got the ball, I knew exactly what was going to hapen. They just didn’t mess up, bro. They were in the exact same spot they were supposed to be. They were so well-coached. It was so much different than the SEC. The SEC will play man, they’ll do these unorthodox coverages because that’s kind of how it is.
“That game was crazy to me, of course I got hurt so that was a bummer. I just knew what they were going to do. We couldn’t really run the ball. We didn’t really throw. It was so crazy to me how it happened.”
Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines saw the clip floating around social media and took exception with the characterization of IU’s defense.
“Adorable,” he said Friday night. “We also, saw everything they were doing, on every single snap… It’s just that we exploited those cues. And didn’t get frozen and crushed by them.”
After waves of Alabama fans jumped into Haines’s mentions to say Simpson was simply complimenting the Hoosiers, Haines doubled-down on Saturday evening.
“That’s all it took to break your entire fanbase? Wow.. maybe I should’ve just said ‘Boo.’ No apologies, no compliments,” Haines tweeted. “Grow up folks. He had a bad take and I said the painful truth. Bounce back better.”
Can we get a nonconference game on the docket between these two programs? Soon? That might get in the way of IU playing powerhouses UMass, Indiana State, and Kennesaw State, though.
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