Author: Mike Schumann

Memorial Stadium had humble beginnings when it opened in 1960.  It wasn’t much more than a set of east and west grandstands facing one another, with not much else to speak of in the area. To be sure, the limestone structure is still not among the biggest venues in college football.  But the University has invested significant time and resources into making 64-year-old stadium much more visually appealing. That now includes noteworthy items of interest at all four main entry points. At the south end zone, which was enclosed as part of a $48 million project completed in 2018, there…

New Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines once played a role in sending IU football into an all-too-familiar death spiral. Coming out of the 2007 season, many Indiana fans found themselves in the dangerous position of believing the program might be about to embark on a turnaround. Following 12 straight losing seasons from 1995 to 2006, Bill Lynch and the 2007 Hoosiers delivered on his predecessor’s vision, beloved late former Indiana coach Terry Hoeppner’s mission to play 13 games. Indiana went 7-5 during the 2007 regular season before falling to Oklahoma State in the Insight Bowl. And the Hoosiers started the…

ESPN has updated their Gamecast pages to include Football Power Index winning percentages for each of Indiana’s 12 games in 2024. First, a refresher as you get back into college football season mode.  Yes, it is just two weeks away. Here is how ESPN describes FPI: “The Football Power Index (FPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team’s performance going forward for the rest of the season. FPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Projected results are based on 20,000 simulations of the rest of…

D’Angelo Ponds’ side of the field is going to need a nickname if he lives up to the preseason hype. The Frozen Pond? That could work, because at fall camp, not much is happening for the offense when he’s around. All defenses are better if they have cornerbacks they can trust in one-on-one matchups, and Ponds is just fine with being left alone in space. Defensive coordinator Bryant Haines’ scheme is based on an aggressive style.  They take risks.  And that leaves Ponds in a lot of sink-or-swim scenarios. “I feel like the way the scheme is set up, the…

7-foot class of 2025 center Eric Reibe will take an official visit to Indiana Oct. 4-6 according to multiple reports. In total Reibe has scheduled six official visits in the coming weeks. Here’s his full schedule: Kansas: August 29-31 UConn: September 6-8 Kentucky: September 13-15 UNC: September 20-22 Indiana: October 4-6 Oregon: October 11-13 The Bullis School (Potomac, Md.) product announced his top 11 schools in July.  That list included Creighton, Harvard, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oregon, Stanford, UConn, and West Virginia.  He has already visited Creighton and Harvard.  Creighton is thought to be a strong contender…

Indiana edge rusher Mikail Kamara produced eye-popping numbers in 2023. And even after tallying 18.5 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks and four forced fumbles last season at James Madison, head coach Curt Cignetti has seen progress. A couple weeks into fall camp, anticipated startling tackle Carter Smith has seen Kamara in his nightmares. “I hate Mikail man.  I hate Mikail.  He’s so fast.  He’s so good with hands,” Smith said last week after dealing with Kamara for multiple practices. Watching the 6-foot-1 and 265-pound Kamara at fall camp this month, it’s clear he is able to combine high-end foot speed…

There’s a strong chance Malachi Moreno’s Sept. 20 visit to Indiana won’t happen. The 7-foot Georgetown, Ky. based center will announce his college destination this Friday at 11 a.m. ET at his high school. As we reported earlier this week, multiple national voices have suggested recently Moreno is likely to pick Kentucky.  He grew up 30 minutes from Lexington and told The Daily Hoosier in a 2023 Kentucky was a dream school. Moreno is scheduled to visit Indiana Sept. 20 along with AAU teammates Braylon Mullins and Trent Sisley.  Last month Moreno told TDH that group visit was his idea,…

ESPN’s data driven SP+ model continues to project Indiana as the worst team in the Big Ten in the final update before the 2024 season.  But that projection comes with a caveat. Produced by that outlet’s Bill Connelly, SP+ says Indiana is the No. 81 team in the country, and last in the 18-team Big Ten.  The model says IU will have the No. 91 offense, and No. 61 defense, and the No. 63 special teams. Here is how the SP+ model forecasts the Big Ten going into the 2024 season, with 2024 IU opponents in bold. Note that there…

Offensive line is the big question mark surrounding IU’s revamped attack in 2024. And that unit has suffered a major loss before new head coach Curt Cignetti’s first season in Bloomington gets started. ESPN’s Pete Thamel is reporting anticipated starting right guard Nick Kidwell will miss the entire 2024 season with a knee injury.  The Daily Hoosier can confirm the report. Kidwell also suffered an injury four games into the 2023 season and received a medical hardship waiver that cleared him to play this season, his seventh year on a college campus. On the opening day of fall camp, Cignetti…

Trey Galloway calls consensus first team All-American Trayce Jackson-Davis one of his best friends. But when asked which former teammate he’d most like to run it back with for one more season, Galloway went a different direction. “I would say Kel’el (Ware),” Galloway told Miller Kopp on the Player’s Perspective podcast. Although both Galloway and Kopp playfully acknowledged Jackson-Davis would be disappointed in that choice, the fifth-year IU guard had sound logic. Pressed into duty as the team’s primary ball handler for much of the 2023-24 campaign, Galloway developed into a high-level facilitator. The 6-foot-5 Culver, Ind. product became the…