Buck Suhr Returns to IU Football Radio Booth for Third Stint

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – A familiar voice will echo through the airwaves again during the 2024 Indiana football season as Buck Suhr will join Voice of the Hoosiers Don Fischer on the Indiana Sports Radio Network for another season as an analyst for Hoosier football broadcasts. 

Suhr returns to the booth after former IU letterwinner, NFL Network personality, and two-year color analyst Rhett Lewis will move into a broadcasting role with the Big Ten Network for the 2024 season.

Suhr partnered with Fischer on two previous occasions, 1997-2001 and 2010-2022, and will call his 19th season of Indiana football on the radio after 12 seasons on the IU coaching staff and six years in an administrative role in the department.

Running backs coach for 12 seasons (1984-95) under IU's all-time winningest coach, Bill Mallory, Suhr tutored All-America selections Anthony Thompson and Vaughn Dunbar. He then served as administrative assistant to the head coach and athletic director from 1996-2001.

As running backs coach, Suhr helped direct one of the nation's most productive rushing attacks. The Hoosiers had three different rushers produce 1,000-yard rushing seasons on six separate occasions.

In 1988, the IU offense rushed for a then-school record 2,963 yards. Suhr coached Thompson, the 1989 Heisman Trophy runner-up, along with Dunbar and Alex Smith, the 1994 UPI National Freshman of the Year. That trio owns a combined 61 100-yard rushing games, with Thompson’s program record 28 leading the way, and account for three of the top seven all-time leading rushers in program history.

Suhr and his wife, Jane, are the parents of one son, Errek, and the deceased Jenny Suhr. They have four grandchildren: Addy, Hayden, Taylor, and Mack. Errek was a four-year letterman for the IU men's basketball program (2004-07) and currently serves as the color analyst for the Indiana men’s basketball broadcasts alongside Fischer.