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Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
The Indiana Hoosiers have some big shoes to fill on special teams as IU has to find a replacement for All-Big Ten punter Haydon Whitehead who is preparing for the NFL Draft. After having great success with Whitehead and ProKick Australia, Allen and his staff reached back down under for punter James Evans.
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Charlton Warren, IU’s new defensive coordinator wants to maintain the success of the defense this year, which means not making huge changes. However, Warren is adding more attention to one position in the Hoosiers’ scheme, the bull position.
Read MoreWritten by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
Hindsight Is always 20/20 when it comes to learning life lessons. The Indiana Hoosiers have the advantage of learning from others’ mistakes as they prepare to take the field for the first time in 2020 against Penn State on October 24th. If you have watched any college football at all in 2020, you probably have seen shaky tackling, porous defense and crazier special teams gaffs than the last five seasons combined. It is such a concern for the Hoosiers that head coach Tom Allen is getting texts whenever these issues arise in games around the country.
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Daily College Football Links (April 22, 2020)
Until further notice, everything sporting event is cancelled, including spring football. While we’re all doing our part to stop the spread of Coronavirus by staying home, we have gathered popular news stories from around the state, region and country to keep you updated on it all. If you have any links or stories you’d like to share please email them to TheHoosierHuddle@gmail.com. We have also included some favorite football reads for your off-season enjoyment.
Indiana Hoosiers
Indiana Athletics announces 2020 IU football season ticket renewal changes via Hoosier Huddle
Hoosier Huddle: Kasey Teegardin knows the importance of special teams in getting IU to the next level
Indiana comes in at No. 23 in ESPN’s 2020 FPI Preseason Poll
Big Ten Football
NFL.com’s top 20 Big Ten prospects via 247 Sports
College Football
The ten toughest cross-division schedules in college football in 2020 via FBSchedules
Targeting ejections, replay time limit among NCAA-approved rule changes for 2020 college football season, according to CBS Sports
Jack Swarbrick and the 5 big questions facing the restart of college football via The Athletic
Boise State announces athletic coaches will be furloughed as university sees nearly eight-figure losses, according to Saturday Tradition
CBS Sports: Korey Foreman, the nation’s No.1 overall player in the Class of 2021, decommits from Clemson
ESPN ranks every FBS team’s strength of schedule (Subscription)
Top-300 Draft Board: 1. Chase Young to 300. Bryce Huff via The Athletic (Subscription)
Off-Season Reading Suggestions
The Search for Indiana Football Glory
The 50 Best* College Football Teams of All Time
Study Hall: College Football, Its Stats and Its Stories
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
The lasting images from Indiana’s 23-22 loss in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl were of an ill-covered onside kick, a missed extra point and a missed 52-yard field goal by Logan Justus. Special teams has played and will continue to play a major role in how far this Indiana football program will go. 2019 special teams coordinator William Inge left IU to take the defensive coordinator job at Fresno State, so Tom Allen promoted safeties coach Kasey Teegardin to take over the special teams heading into the 2020 regular season.
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The Indiana Hoosiers will open up their spring football practice session on March 7th, 2020 and conclude it with their annual Cream and Crimson Game on Friday April 17th, 2020 at 7pm in Memorial Stadium. Spring practice is a time of growth and development for the players who have been around the program as last year’s seniors have moved on and next year’s freshmen (outside of the nine early enrollees) haven’t arrived yet. While it may not drum up a ton of excitement, there are things that Indiana football has to do over the next two months to help ensure the 2020 season is a successful one, here they are:
Read MoreWritten by Amanda Pavelka (@amandapavelka3)
With the promotion of former safeties coach Kasey Teegardin to special teams coordinator, Tom Allen did not have to search long to find a viable replacement that would help breed success in his fourth year at the helm of Hoosier football.
The first time Jason Jones and Tom Allen met was in the Dallas area. They crossed paths quite a bit on the recruiting trail in 2012, and in 2013 the two ended up working together— Allen as linebackers and special teams coach and Jones at the head of defense alongside Kane Wommack’s father, Dave, at Ole Miss. It did not take long for Jones to figure out what Allen was about.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana head football coach Tom Allen announced on Sunday the additions of Jason Jones as safeties coach and Kevin Wright as tight ends coach. Kasey Teegardin, who coached safeties in 2018 and 2019, has been elevated to special teams coordinator and will oversee the husky position.
Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
Staff changes for the Indiana football program continue to roll in a source has confirmed that former Florida Atlantic University defensive backs coach will be named the safeties coach. In a corresponding move Kasey Teegardin, the safeties coach for the Hoosiers the last two seasons, will be named special teams coordinator.
Read MoreWritten by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)
You can never have too much talent at defensive back. As more and more teams embrace three, four and five receiver sets, having a deep secondary is essential. The Indiana Hoosiers coaching staff is very cognizant of that fact and they have emphasized the secondary in the past couple of recruiting classes. Despite a couple of unexpected defections, there is a young and talented crop of defensive backs in Bloomington and the Hoosiers are reaping the benefits on the field.
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