Written By: Nick Holmes (@HoosierHolmes)

Happy Thursday Hoosier Nation and welcome back to our Countdown to Kickoff, another day closer to not only the weekend, but now just 23 days away until the start of what looks to be a very promising year for Coach Wilson and his team. With the relatively recent news that cornerback Laray Smith would be living the squad, we were without, as of a now, a player who will be donning the number for Indiana this season. However, this gives us an opportunity to highlight the career of a very talented  Hoosier from history, another Smith in fact, running back Alex Smith. In all of sports there is no number more iconic than 23, and while Smith may not have been the professional success or global icon that Michael Jordan was, for three years in the mid 1990's there was no player on the gridiron in Bloomington quite as talented as he.