The Big Ten Network Bus Tour made its first stop of 2018 in Bloomington as it visits all 14 Big Ten football programs over the coming weeks. The network’s crew of Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith set up shop in Memorial Stadium with the new south end zone in the background. Below are their on set interviews with IU players Marcelino Ball, Jonathan Crawford, and Nick Westbrook. Also included further below is the BTN crew’s assessment of the best thing they saw during their day at IU. MARCELINO BALL and JONATHAN CRAWFORD The veteran Hoosier defensive backs discuss…
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The Big Ten Network Bus Tour made its first stop of 2018 in Bloomington as it visits all 14 Big Ten football programs over the coming weeks. The network’s crew of Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith set up shop in Memorial Stadium with the new south end zone in the background. Below are their on set interviews with IU coaches Tom Allen, Mike DeBord and Mark Hagen. TOM ALLEN – HEAD COACH What he learned from year one Scrimmage plans New redshirt rule Which units need to have a good camp The quarterback competition Facilities upgrades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFQFm6kujV4 MIKE…
Tom Allen was not able to accomplish the Indiana football breakthrough in 2017. The defensive mastermind undeniably led the IU defense to a breakthrough in 2016, but by just about any measure, there was no significant breakthrough in his first year as head coach in 2017. While the second year head coach may have set the standard, it may have been unrealistic to expect it to happen in year one of Allen’s tenure. Whether it is year one, year two or year five — there have been significant turnarounds in college football history. Today, we take a look at some…
Things are progressing with one of Indiana’s top targets in the recruiting class of 2019. Greenwood, Indiana native Trayce Jackson-Davis announced his top six schools via Twitter on Sunday and to no one’s surprise included Indiana: https://twitter.com/TrayceJackson/status/1026165978063925248 Wake Forest and Iowa are the surprises that continue to be on the list at this point. There had been speculation of interest in Memphis and Ohio State, but clearly those schools were not included. As reported by multiple outlets, Jackson-Davis also released his visit schedule. College basketball recruits are only allowed five official visits. All visits below are reportedly official except for…
It is important to preface what I am about to say with a bit of context. You aren’t likely to find a more traditional Indiana high school basketball fan than me. Class basketball? Hate it. The growing trend of kids transferring to prep schools? Not a fan. I wish Indiana high school basketball was still like it was in the late 80’s and early 90’s when I was growing up, but it isn’t — and it never will be again. And you know what — that’s okay. Sometimes, you have to be smart enough to realize the shortcomings of your…
The 2018 Indiana University football season kicks off in four weeks. Fall camp began for the Hoosiers on Friday. Tom Allen provided an update on Saturday, two days into the fall campaign. Also below, take a look at the three quarterbacks in action competing for the starting role. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qhc5QC3-X4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUdYeSIdqUc 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 easier. Just do your shopping via this link to the Amazon home page or via the Amazon ad below. Anything you purchase via these links (not just what…
We are four weeks away from the start of the 2018 Indiana Hoosiers football season. As it should be — you can always find optimism inside the bubble of IU football and its fans going into just about any upcoming fall campaign. Spend a few minutes around Tom Allen, and you might just predict a Hoosier breakthrough yourself — that is after you finish running through a brick wall for him. But it is always instructive to take a step back and see what the independent prognosticators are saying about your favorite team. A number of various national outlets have…
It was one of the more anticipated Indiana University football games in years. Perhaps the most anticipated opening game in decades. Indiana. Ohio State. Memorial Stadium. ESPN College Gameday. The stage doesn’t get much bigger for IU football. It took exactly one play for controversy to ensue. It took one play for long-suffering Indiana fans to be overcome with that understandable sense of “here we go again.” Technically, it wasn’t even a play — not from scrimmage anyway, and for some, that was the problem. On the opening kickoff on August 31 last year, with Memorial Stadium buzzing, star wide…
The three Indiana quarterbacks competing for the starting job on opening day sat side-by-side and met with the media on Thursday. Senior graduate transfer Brandon Dawkins, Sophomore Peyton Ramsey and Freshman Michael Penix will officially commence one of the more interesting quarterback competitions in recent Indiana history tomorrow when IU’s fall camp opens. According to head coach Tom Allen, the competition is wide open at this point, and each player will have ample opportunity to earn the starting job on September 1 at Florida International. You can hear what each of them had to say here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sq2fA9l924 You can follow…
Indianapolis Cathedral High School senior Armaan Franklin has narrowed his list of possible college basketball programs to three. He made the announcement via Twitter on Thursday, and one thing is clear — Franklin is going to stay close to home. https://twitter.com/unkle44artty/status/1025063951875366912 Franklin included in-state programs Indiana and Purdue in his final three along with Cincinnati-based Xavier, which was the first high-major school to offer him. 247Sports is reporting that Franklin will take official visits to all three schools in late August to mid-September and then make a decision after that. Franklin was quoted as saying the following about Indiana in…