It takes a special player to play in the Big Ten as a freshman. To produce at a high level at running back at such a young age, it takes more than talent. It takes a physical specimen to withstand the bruising hits. There was a time when it looked like Morgan Ellison would not withstand high school football. After his junior year at Pickerington Central High School, Ellison was only considered a 2-star recruit, rated No. 120 nationally among running backs and No. 1,675 overall in the 2017 class. The Ohio native broke each of his legs during his…
Author: Mike Schumann
We’ve made new updates today to the Indiana University basketball recruiting class of 2019 big board as the Hoosiers continue to await their first commitment from the group. We have the unique perspective of comprehensively monitoring all of the various recruiting services and analysts. Tracking recruiting news and notes from around the country every day with our Daily Hoosier Report, we have our finger on the pulse of all the latest thinking on IU’s top targets. We don’t claim to be right here — no one can. We all saw what happened with D.J. Carton. With recruits as guarded as…
The Indiana University football team held their second scrimmage on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Afterwards, IU released video of Tom Allen and Mike DeBord discussing their take on what transpired. Here are the key notes from the IU coaches: The defense made plays and had big stops when they had to after initially letting the offense have their way a bit. Allen thought the defense and special teams tackled well. On the quarterbacks, Allen indicated that it is “becoming more clear each day.” Look for a decision to be made this week. Overall, Allen was very pleased with the effort…
Dual-sport college athletes are on the endangered species list. With traveling teams before middle school, and specialization as strong as ever, most have been weeded out by high school. Of course they are still out there, and some are quite gifted at multiple sports. Take Indiana football target (and basketball target?) David Bell. A senior wide receiver out of Indianapolis Warren Central, Bell is the 81st ranked high school football player in the country in the class of 2019 according to the 247Sports Composite. Of course this is Indiana, so most know him just as well, if not better for…
If you’ve been following class of 2019 four-star guard Jahmius Ramey’s recruitment at all, you know that he can be a bit of a tough read that does things his own way. He followed suit on Friday when he announced his “remaining ten” via Twitter: https://twitter.com/newanimprovedJR/status/1030429127600467969 While the more commonly used terms are “final” or “top”, we’ll read “remaining ten” to mean that these are Ramsey’s final ten schools under consideration. While further list reductions may happen into the Fall, don’t expect any finality here in the short-term. The 6-foot-5 combo guard has indicated on multiple occasions that a commitment…
Did you know that Indiana University football wide receiver Luke Timian had 68 catches for the Hoosiers in 2017? No? Don’t worry, Timian has been fighting to be noticed on the football field for years. Despite being an all-state caliber player at one of the best known high school football programs in the country (Southlake Carroll, Texas), high major colleges weren’t noticing. Oh to be sure, Columbia offered. Minnesota took a look. But at 6-foot-0 and 180 pounds, Luke Timian had the look, at least to college coaches, as a guy that hit his ceiling in high school. His former…
[Go here to see all of our individual class of 2019 profile pages. Go here to see our class of 2019 big board with the recruiting targets listed in our order of likelihood of a commitment.] ESSENTIALS Hometown – Rochester, Minnesota (John Marshall) Position – Forward Height – 6-foot-9 Weight – 200 247 Sports Composite Rating – 5-star Primary Competition – Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Minnesota, Memphis Timeline — Hurt plans to cut his list down to 8 or 9 schools in August and then start taking visits in September. He is eyeing a November commitment, but the process could go into the spring. …
Creating a non-conference college basketball schedule is more art than science. For a second year coach like Indiana’s Archie Miller, you have to add in a healthy dose of “the hand you were dealt.” It has become clear in recent years that the NCAA tournament committee places a hefty emphasis on strength of schedule. In recent seasons, Indiana has seemingly had a do-or-die non-conference schedule, with a few a high caliber opponents sprinkled in over a slate full of cupcakes. You either win those tough contests, or your resume ends up running the risk of having no quality out-of-conference wins.…
Indiana’s Brandon Dawkins, Peyton Ramsey, Michael Penix and coach Nick Sheridan met with the media today as the competition for the starting quarterback job continues in Bloomington. Head coach Tom Allen indicated that they would like to have the starter’s job locked up prior to the last week before the season. The season begins on September 1 at Florida International. See what each of them had to say today below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3n0g1KYPKU&t=10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-sugwE35hg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUzqEIJrW-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs2w6aRZ6Pw You can follow us on Twitter: @daily_hoosier Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier Supporting FREE coverage of IU Athletics operated by an Indiana based small business has never been…
[Go here to see all of our individual class of 2019 profile pages. Go here to see our class of 2019 big board with the recruiting targets listed in our order of likelihood of a commitment.] ESSENTIALS Hometown – Rochester, New York (La Lumiere Prep, Indiana) Position – Center/Power Forward Height – 6-foot-9 Weight – 245 247 Sports Composite Rating – 5-star (Top 10) Primary Competition – Duke, Michigan State, Syracuse, Villanova, Washington (Final 6). Timeline — Stewart will take official visits to five of his final six in the late summer/fall, with a commitment likely by November. IU Connections — Stewart is from the same…