It doesn’t get much sweeter than beating your rival 66-0 on Senior Night.
And in November, former IU football center Mike Katic paraded around the field at Memorial Stadium with the Old Oaken Bucket in his hands and an ear-to-ear grin on his face.
The win over a rival, the margin, Senior Night — that would all be enough to explain Katic’s joy.
But after six years in Bloomington, Katic became fully immersed in the rivalry with Purdue.
And this week he unleashed a tirade aimed at the Boilermakers that illustrates just how much he grew to dislike them.
Katic has taken on a role with Barstool Sports, and this week on the Wake Up Mintzy show he was asked about his feelings about Purdue.
Basically, he’s one of you now.
“Hate them. Everything about them,” Katic said. “There’s nothing good about it. West Lafayette is a terrible city. The campus, every time we played there it was gloomy, it was dark, it was nasty, disgusting. The field is grass, it’s disgusting. Everyone in the stands is disgusting. Everyone is just uh. I hate them with every passion.”
Indiana has won the Governor’s Cup five years in a row, a competition between the schools that tallies head-to-head winners across all sports.
And the Hoosiers are well on their way to making it six years in a row — basically Katic’s entire time in Bloomington.
Katic has noticed Indiana’s across-the-board domination of Purdue.
“Purdue just sucks man,” he said. “Our (men’s) basketball team just beat the shit out of them. We (football) beat the shit out of them 66-0. Our women’s basketball team beats them every single time we play them.”
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Katic’s Purdue repulsion brings to mind comments in 1993 by then Indiana safety Chris Dyer ahead of the Old Oaken Bucket game.
Dyer unloaded on Purdue and his remarks made into campus newspaper The Indiana Daily Student:
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