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By David Sugarman (@David_Sugarman2)
Now just 12 days until Indiana begins the seasons and their quest to breakthrough truly begins. Today we take a closer look at a defensive back in Jayme Thompson.
Read MoreThere are now 12 days remaining until the Indiana Hoosiers kick-off the 2016 season in Miami against the Florida International Golden Panthers. Join us each day for each part of our 100-day countdown to the opener! We are posting two players for day 12, husky Jayme Thompson and quarterback Zander Diamont.
Read MoreIt does not seem like that long ago, just 60 days in fact, since the Hoosiers were in action on the gridiron. Well you have successfully navigated another January and February without Indiana Football, but the wait is coming to an end. Spring practice opened today for the Hoosiers, but your first chance to see the team will be at 1:30pm tomorrow afternoon inside Memorial Stadium, prior to the hoops matchup between Indiana and Maryland. This is a golden opportunity to see many of the newcomers who look to make an impact this coming fall.
Read MoreEntering the 2015 season, all the prognosticators, including us at Hoosier Huddle predicted that Indiana would struggle mightily defending the pass. Unfortunately, that did not begin to describe the Hoosiers complete inability to slow down any of their opponents’ aerial attacks. Out of 127 Football Bowl Subdivision teams, Indiana was second to last, giving up a putrid 313 passing yards per game.
Honestly, this was not a particularly difficult predication to make, as the team entered the season with four new starters in the secondary. To make matters worse, the only player with starting experience in the defensive backfield, Chase Dutra, was sidelined for the first three weeks of the season.
The Hoosiers enter the spring session with plenty of question marks, but a plethora of semi-experienced options, a much better place to be than they were a year ago.
Over the next six weeks the coaching staff will need to assess which of the returning players best fit into new defensive coordinator Tom Allen’s schemes.
In addition to the new hybrid secondary player (Husky), it remains to be seen how the Hoosiers 4-2-5 defensive alignment will affect the play of the corners and safeties. Is there a greater or less of an emphasis on the field verse boundary cornerbacks? Rashad Fant, the team’s unquestioned number one cover man, thrives as the team’s field cornerback. Will the team look for a bigger body to place opposite of Fant on the boundary side of
the field?
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Exit Brian Knorr, enter Tom Allen. After another season of historically subpar defense, new defensive coordinator Tom Allen has his work cut out for him. Without much time to recruit at Indiana, he will have to turn the defense around using mostly returning players. There are a few new players that figure to help the defense improve, and one of them is Jayme Thompson. A former four-star recruit and Ohio State Buckeye, Thompson transferred and spent last season at Iowa Western Community College after redshirting in his only year at OSU. He chose Indiana over offers from 10 other schools including Iowa State, Miami (FL), and Western Kentucky.
Read MoreIndiana announced that a pair of talented JUCO standouts, quarterback Richard Lagow and defensive back Jayme Thompson, have signed their National Letters of Intent and have joined the Hoosiers football program.
Read MoreWritten By: Nick Holmes (@HoosierHolmes)
Saturday's win over the Boilermakers was a breakthrough victory for Kevin Wilson and his program, clinching the team's first bowl birth since the 2007 season. Gaining bowl eligibility has a profound effect on the program well beyond the next few weeks though, as this can be used as additional proof to potential recruits that the Hoosiers are indeed headed in right direction with Kevin Wilson at the helm.
We were able to catch up with a few of the Hoosiers current commits to get their take on the Hoosiers big win and the direction of the program.
Read MoreWritten By: Nick Holmes (@HoosierHolmes)
After adding seven commitments over a 15 day period in June the Hoosiers recruiting was humming. However, things had slowed down during July, that was until junior college defensive back Jayme Thompson committed to Indiana on Wednesday. The talented athlete announced on his Twitter account that he was "Proud and honored to say I have committed to Indiana University."
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