Coy Cronk, Reakwon Jones and Nick Westbrook to Represent Indiana at Big Ten Media Days

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Coy Cronk, Reakwon Jones and Nick Westbrook to Represent Indiana at Big Ten Media Days

Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

Conference media days are the unofficial start of the college football pre-season. The Big Ten conference will hold their annual media days in Chicago on July 18th and 19th. As hundreds of Big Ten reporters pour into the Windy City 42 athletes will be representing the 14 teams in the conference.

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Tom Allen Wants to Maximize Indiana's Roster with New Redshirt Rule

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Tom Allen Wants to Maximize Indiana's Roster with New Redshirt Rule

Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

One of the most discussed topics at this year's Big Ten Media Days has been the new redshirt rule that will allow a player to participate in up to four games, any four games, before they use a year of eligibility. Indiana is a team that could be impacted the most from this rule as they have struggled with depth and injury issues in 2017. Indiana head coach Tom Allen addressed the new rule at the podium Tuesday morning.

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Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany Has No Plans to Change Divisions

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Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany Has No Plans to Change Divisions

Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

One of the most discussed topics amongst Big Ten football fans, especially IU fans, are the severely lopsided divisions in football in the Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten has been in divisional play since 2011, when Nebraska joined the conference. Those divisions were based on competitive balance, but the Legends and Leaders names did not go over well. In 2014, when Maryland and Rutgers joined the conference, the Big Ten moved to geographical divisions that put Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and Penn State in the East. Since divisional play started the teams in the East division has had 14 top-10 finishes while the West has only had five. Commissioner Delaney was asked if the conference should be concerned and his answer kind of threw the fans under the bus.

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2018 Big Ten Media Days Primer: What You Need to Know

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2018 Big Ten Media Days Primer: What You Need to Know

Written By Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

The 2018 college football season is unofficially here as Big Ten Media Days kicks off the festivities from Chicago on July 23rd and 24th. Hoosier Huddle will be at Media Day for the fifth-straight season and IUFB fans can follow Sammy Jacobs and Rylie Kyhn at @Hoosier_Huddle as they bring you everything IUFB from Chicago. The Hoosiers head coach Tom Allen will be joined by players Jonathan Crawford, Luke Timian and West Martin. Below is all the information fans need to follow the Hoosiers or whoever your favorite Big Ten team.

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Leading the Way: All-American LB Looks to Lead IU Defense to Prominence

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Leading the Way: All-American LB Looks to Lead IU Defense to Prominence

Written by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)

For the first two years of his Indiana career, Tegray Scales was often viewed as a potentially standout player with all the physical tools that was lost in the shuffle on a bad defense. In both 2014 and 2015, the Hoosiers finished at or near the bottom of the Big Ten in nearly every meaningful defensive category. Scales was a well-regarded recruit out of Ohio that was expected to help turn IU’s defense around under new defensive coordinator Brian Knorr but things just weren’t clicking.

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