The battle for the starting quarterback role for the 2018 Indiana Hoosiers just got more interesting. Former Arizona quarterback and graduate transfer Brandon Dawkins has announced that he will play his final season at Indiana. https://twitter.com/BDawks/status/983890226580869120 As a graduate transfer Dawkins will be eligible to play for the Hoosiers immediately. That will set up an interesting competition for the starting role. Freshman Michael Penix and sophomore Peyton Ramsey were thought to be battling for the top spot prior to Dawkins’ arrival. Dawkins had this to say about his decision to join the Hoosiers: “I didn’t see a better fit for…
Author: Mike Schumann
For a season that wasn’t up to Indiana University basketball standards, there were a few shining moments that Archie Miller’s first year at IU will be remembered for. One will most certainly be the quit-the-game, to walk-on, to starter progression of Zach McRoberts. Get that guy a scholarship. Another will be the in-season transformation into a team that learned how to play some defense. The Hoosiers went from complete embarrassment against Indiana State and Fort Wayne, to some really impressive games where they were able to lock teams down. No one embodied that change more than senior Robert Johnson. But perhaps…
Based on a report on flohoops.com by Adam Zagoria, Romeo Langford is not going to make any additional recruiting visits. He has also clarified where he will likely make the announcement of his decision. Langford is in Brooklyn for the Jordan Brand Classic on Sunday. After practice at the Nets’ facility Langford clarified the timing of when an announcement is likely to be made. “It’s going good, I’m at the home stretch now,” Langford said Saturday in Brooklyn following Jordan Brand practice at the Nets’ facility. “The decision’s coming close. I just gotta get through these next couple weeks, these all-star games…
The Indiana University football program is deep into spring practice. There were a number of news items this week that we wanted to share. Next week we’ll have an overall spring practice report with the top themes, news and things to watch for going into the spring game. THE ANNUAL SPRING GAME IS NEXT SATURDAY The 2018 Cream & Crimson Spring Game is a week from today — Saturday April 14. The game will start at noon and admission is free. It will be the first chance to see the renovations to Memorial Stadium that include a now fully enclosed…
A little over a week ago we updated you with a list of names that Indiana has been pursuing and watching in connection with the class of 2018. As the grad transfer market continues to evolve, so does the last of potential candidates to wear the cream and crimson in November. With new names continuing to emerge, the implication would seem to be that IU isn’t comfortable with Romeo Langford’s decision that is coming in a few weeks. With two open scholarships however, it would still be possible to sign Langford and one additional class of 2018 target. Of course…
With Spring practice ongoing, it is still too early for firm predictions on the 2018 college football season. Nevertheless, ESPN has come out with their first Football Power Index rankings and win total predictions for the season. ESPN describes the FPI as follows: “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 10,000 simulations of the rest of the season using…
As we have previously written, while Indiana’s 2018 recruiting class is solid and possibly great, it is the 2019 class that will really determine the trajectory of the program under Archie Miller. High level college basketball recruiting is a never ending process of reloading top talent. Miss on a class or two, and the results will be felt for years to come. Archie Miller and his staff need to come up the formula that makes IU a destination program that produces top 20 recruiting classes year in and year out. If that doesn’t happen, all of the coaching talent in…
It is the conventional wisdom. When a program loses not one but two of its all-time great players to graduation, it is time to think about rebuilding rather than reloading. Just how important were Tyra Buss and Amanda Cahill to the Indiana University women’s basketball program? Take a look at these career profiles published on Twitter by the team: That is legendary, IU Hall of Fame stuff. But as great as the duo was for the program, it would be a shame if their legend started and stopped with their actual playing careers. Both players came to IU when it…
When Archie Miller was hired at Indiana in the spring of 2017 he made it clear that focusing on and signing the state of Indiana’s elite high school talent was a top priority. You would have to call year one a success, with two of the six finalists for Indiana’s Mr. Basketball committed to play for Miller’s Hoosiers next year, and one more still a distinct possibility. In the not too distant past it was a fairly common occurrence for the Indiana Mr. Basketball winner to go on to play for IU. In fact, 13 of the winners from 1983…
The Indiana University football program hosted a Pro Day for NFL scouts and coaches yesterday. Below is video from IU head coach Tom Allen discussing the day, and video from Indiana University highlighting the day’s events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzME_U3nXG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xjn9XJEtg The following players participated in the pro day: WR Simmie Cobbs LB Chris Covington S Chase Dutra CB Rashard Fant S Tony Fields DL Greg Gooch QB Richard Lagow DL Robert McCray K Griffin Oakes LB Tegray Scales TE Ian Thomas Cobbs, Covington, Scales and Thomas participated in the combine last month. Fant was invited to the combine but suffered an injury…