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Written By Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
Tom Allen is correct when he says his team doesn’t have to feel the pressure of playing a perfect game. IU does need to be good or great in all three phases and execute the five keys listed below to become the talk of college football on Thursday night.
Read MoreWritten by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)
Two days! Two-ahhhhh! Just a pair of days left until the Hoosiers welcome ESPN’s College Game Day to Bloomington for the first time ever. Just two days left until they debut new uniforms and helmets. Two days left until they open the 2017 season against the second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes in a game that Tom Allen has accurately labeled, “the biggest home opener in Indiana football history”. Today’s penultimate countdown piece takes a look at one of the players tasked with carrying the rock against one of the nation’s toughest defensive fronts: running back Devonte Williams.
Written by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)
Morning temperatures are dropping and you can feel a bit of chill in the air. Summer’s hottest days are in the past and schools are back in session. Most importantly, the long wait is coming to an end…college football season is almost here! As part of our extensive 2017 preview content, Hoosier Huddle is breaking down each position for the Indiana Hoosiers as they grind away on the practice field and get ready for the campaign. Today’s preview focuses on a unit with a whole lot of potential but perhaps just as many questions: running backs. Indiana returns only one rusher with more than 48 carries in a season (Tyler Natee had 61 carries last season) and each of the players have an intriguing skill-set that could be somewhat offset by a flaw. It’s a big group, which could be seen as a positive or a negative. IU’s new running back coach, Mike Hart, had this to say about how the lack of a feature back and the depth of this unit would be balanced: “When you have a big group of guys, keeping them fresh isn’t an issue during training camp. We do have a lot of guys and they have to get carries to see who’s going to go out there and be the guy. When you get to the season and get to playing time you always have to manage reps. The day of the 50 carries a game back is over with, I don’t see that happening much. To me it’s just managing during the game once the season comes, when you find out who you have. Until we find out who we have and who is going to be in those positions, you just roll.”
Read MoreWritten By Alex Compton
Indiana’s backfield will be as talented as anyone’s in the league entering 2017. So what exactly are they searching for in spring ball so far? One word. Consistency.
Devine Redding became the third straight IU back to reach 1,000 yards (Coleman, Howard), but decided to forgo his final year of eligibility and declare for the NFL Draft. With Redding gone, the torch will be passed to a group this year, instead of one guy. Camion Patrick is the likely starter if he’s healthy, but we still have no tape at RB to evaluate him on. Behind Patrick, Devonte Williams, Ricky Brookins, Mike Majette, Cole Gest, and Alex Rodriguez all return with experience. Each guy in this group brings something different to the table, and that is why spring ball has been so intriguing to this point.
Read MoreWritten By Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
A renewed emphasis will be put on the importance of special teams in 2017, when the Hoosiers start spring Practice on March 4th. The special teams unit was one of the Hoosiers’ bugaboos in 2016 that kept them from taking the next step up from a second consecutive 6-7 season. The Hoosiers struggled in all facets of the forgotten phase of the game. Griffin Oakes was sub-par the on both field goals and kick-offs, Joseph Gedeon wasn’t the difference maker at punter that he may have looked like against FIU, and the return game (both punt and kick) was non-existent. This spring may serve as a wake-up call for any player that thinks their jobs on a special teams unit is safe.
Read MoreWritten by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)
Hoosier Huddle is getting ready for the first spring practice of the Tom Allen era by previewing each position. Today’s focus is on a position headlined by an exciting senior desperate to prove himself, a deep and flexible group of returning players and a pair of newcomers that will arrive this summer hungry to make an impact. IU’s recent success at this position makes it all the more intriguing. That’s right, today, we focus on running backs.
Read MoreWritten By Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
Tom Allen will enter his first spring practice as the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers on March 4th. The Hoosiers are coming off of a 6-7 (4-5) season with an appearance in the Foster Farms Bowl in 2016. However, changes have been abundant in Bloomington since Allen took over for Kevin Wilson at the beginning of December. Here are 10 questions that the Hoosiers face when they kick off spring practice in Bloomington.
Read MoreWritten By Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
Rivalry Week is the best week in college football. Fans can throw out the records and just get into their team’s game with their rival school. The Hoosiers have one of the better rivalries in the Big Ten with Purdue in the Old Oaken Bucket Game, a tradition that dates back to 1925. This year the Hoosiers are looking to continue their run of dominance over the Boilermakers with a fourth straight Bucket win, a win that would send IU back to a bowl game for the second consecutive season. Here is what the Hoosiers will have to do to beat the Boilermakers.
Read MoreWritten By Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
When the Indiana Hoosiers take the field at noon on Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium, the only number that will matter to them is five. Kevin Wilson’s team wants to leave New Jersey with win number five and that is all that matters, but here are some numbers that will play a role in whether or not IU can grab that fifth W.
Read MoreA game can be won or lost on special teams. It is a unit that only gets attention if there is a complete meltdown or a return unit brings one back to the end zone. This season the Hoosiers have a couple sure things and a handful of question marks in the third phase of the game. Consistency in all parts of the kicking and return game will go a long way to stabilizing the Hoosiers performance and could ultimately lead to a couple more wins in 2016.
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