Countdown to 2018 IUFB Kickoff: 100 Days

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Countdown to 2018 IUFB Kickoff: 100 Days

Written By Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

It’s that time of year again, Memorial Day Weekend is right around the corner and just down the road is the 2018 college football season. We are now just 100 days from the start of the Indiana Hoosiers 2018 campaign. IU opens up in Miami against the Florida International Golden Panthers. This is the second time in three seasons that the Hoosiers will open the season at FIU, a 34-13 win in 2016. We are once again doing our 100-day countdown to kickoff. Over the next 100 days we will take our readers through the entire IUFB roster and introduce you to the players who will be trying to get Tom Allen and the Hoosiers back to a bowl game. To get your feet wet we will take a look at the top 10 things we are going to watch for in the 2018 season.

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What Hunter Johnson Could Potentially Bring to the IU QB Room

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What Hunter Johnson Could Potentially Bring to the IU QB Room

Written By Richard Lagow

By now everyone has heard that Hunter Johnson, the former 5-star and top five recruit in the nation, who found his way to Clemson University where he played limited snaps in 2017 as a true freshman has announced he will leave the university, with Indiana being one of his options. As a true freshman in 2017 Johnson appeared in seven games for Clemson. The highly touted freshman threw for 234 yards while going 21-27. Although a limited sample, still an impressive stat line for a true freshman.

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According to Peegs.com IU Has a Shot at Landing Former Clemson QB Hunter Johnson

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According to Peegs.com IU Has a Shot at Landing Former Clemson QB Hunter Johnson

Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

The big news surrounding college football this week is the announcement that Clemson backup quarterback Hunter Johnson will be playing out the rest of his career elsewhere. According to Matt Weaver of Peegs.com the Hoosiers have a shot at landing the former Brownsburg H.S.(Indiana) signal caller.

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Tom Allen and Staff Has Done a Magnificent Job Plugging Holes with Grad Transfers

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Tom Allen and Staff Has Done a Magnificent Job Plugging Holes with Grad Transfers

Written By Alex Compton (@Alexncompton)

In his first full recruiting cycle as head coach of the Hoosiers, Tom Allen put together one of the best classes in recent years. He landed the nation’s 48th best recruiting class, which was the best since the 2013 class that was ranked 42nd and featured the heralded trio of Indianapolis four-stars in Darius Latham, Antonio Allen, and David Kenney. Since that 2013 group, former head coach Kevin Wilson really struggled to lock down some of the top talent in the state and build pipelines elsewhere. Tom Allen fixed that in year one by landing three of the best players in the state, including Mr. Football Reese Taylor, and by setting up pipelines in Illinois, Tennessee, and Florida, which gave IU a total of 16 players out of a 26 man class. Allen has a clear plan in place now for future classes, and by placing most of his emphasis on Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, and Florida, he was able to land 19 players that helped give IU one of its better classes in the past two decades. Despite landing a very, very solid recruiting class full of impact players this year, Tom Allen was not done. 

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Indiana Football Officially Announce the Addition of DL Kayton Samuels

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Image: Courtesy of Indiana Athletics

Image: Courtesy of Indiana Athletics

IU Athletics Release

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Indiana football program announced today that defensive tackle Kayton Samuels will join the Hoosiers as a transfer from Syracuse University. Samuels will be eligible immediately with one year remaining. The 6-0, 305-pounder out of Ellenwood, Ga., will earn his degree in psychology on May 12, and intends to study computer science at IU.

"Kayton is a big body in the middle who immediately shores up our defense," head coach Tom Allen said. "He brings a lot of experience with his 24 starts in the ACC. We are pleased to welcome him into our program."
 
In 34 career games (2015-17), Samuels recorded 44 tackles, 4.5 for loss, with one fumble recovery. He owns 15 multi-tackle games.
 
"Indiana's atmosphere absolutely amazed me," Samuels said. "Coach Allen is a proven winner and the opportunity to play in the Big Ten fires me up. I am honored to earn a degree from Syracuse University and looking forward to earning my master's degree from Indiana University."
 
Samuels played in all 12 contests in 2017 with seven starts. He posted 12 stops, nine solo, one sack and two quarterback hurries.
 
In 2016, Samuels appeared in 10 games (5 starts) with 17 tackles, one for loss, and 12 solo stops. After a redshirt season in 2014, he started all 12 games in 2015 and made 15 tackles, eight solo.
 
Samuels earned a spot on the 2015 All-ACC Academic Team and was a member of the SU Athletic Director's Honor Roll for the second straight semester.
 
He graduated from Arabia Mountain High School, where he played in the 2013 Florida-Georgia All-Star Game.

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Hoosiers Add Syracuse Grad Transfer DT Kayton Samuels

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Hoosiers Add Syracuse Grad Transfer DT Kayton Samuels

Written By Sammy Jacobs (@hoosier_huddle) 

The Indiana Hoosiers have added graduate transfer Kayton Samuels, a six-foot 319-pound defensive tackle, who played 34 career games at Syracuse. Samuels announced his decision to play his final year of college ball in Bloomington via social media Sunday afternoon. 

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