Author: Dustin Dopirak

By Dustin Dopirak Joe Novak remembers being stopped in the team hotel in Tucson, Ariz., by a woman who told him she was a member of the Indiana University Board of Trustees. Novak, the Hoosiers defensive coordinator at the time, had just coached his unit to a shutout and a 24-0 win over Baylor in the 1991 Copper Bowl, and she was in front of him in line to check out. “She turned around and said,’ You’re one of the coaches, aren’t you?’” Novak said. “I said, ‘Yes I am.’ She said, ‘I’m on the board of trustees. I want…

Tiawan Mullen and Brandon Shelby both figured there had to have been somebody. Indiana’s football history isn’t exactly awash in triumph and from both an individual and collective standpoint, the Hoosiers’ trophy case is a sparse one. But surely, they figured, a program that had been playing Big Ten football since 1887 had to have lucked into a first-team All-American cornerback somewhere in its history. “I actually asked (Indiana football sports information director Jeff) Keag, who’s the other guy that’s done it?” said Shelby, who is in his 10th season as Indiana’s cornerbacks coach. The answer, though, was no one…

BLOOMINGTON — On Indiana’s final possession of the game, Penn State blew up everything the Hoosiers tried to execute. They tried to run senior guard Al Durham off two separate screens and couldn’t find him open on either one. They tried to get sophomore big man Trayce Jackson-Davis a look in the post and couldn’t get any space. They had rising star sophomore guard Armaan Franklin sitting in the corner alone, but never had an angle to get him the basketball. “Nothing went wrong on the last possession,” IU coach Archie Miller said. “They did a really good job on…