Freshman Family Weekend

bthomp1
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:52:30 +0000

Freshmen will have been at IU at least three week by then, and they probably feel like that is a time by which homesickness will have really set in. Also, the timing has a lot to do with the IU football team’s schedule. They want family weekend to be during a home football game, and against a cupcake team, so that everyone has a good time watching IU win. IU plays Western Michigan on September 12, and doesn’t play at home again until October 3, which would be too long for freshmen not to have seen their parents. And the October 3 game is against Ohio State, which will be a near certain loss for IU.

Last year family weekend was the weekend of the Ball State game, which IU was expecting to win. However, Ball State had their best team in decades, and IU was beaten soundly in front of the parents and everybody.