Drumming his thumbs in a fidgety fashion on the Hoosier press room microphone stand for the first time this season, Indiana head football coach Tom Allen offered up this assessment of his team's performance following a 23-3 season opening defeat at the hands of Ohio State:
"Not good enough."
And the result of that effort in a game the Hoosiers were projected to lose by 30 points?
"A lot of disappointment in that locker room."
It was a surprising deviation in tone from the normally glass-half-full demeanor Allen has carried through the roller coaster of reconstruction the Hoosier football program finds itself in.