Author: Mike Schumann

14* former IU football players are currently with NFL teams as training camps are underway throughout the league. After entering training camp with 90 players, every team must trim their roster to 53 players by the NFL’s roster cutdown deadline. For the 2024 season, the NFL’s 53-man roster cutdown deadline is Aug. 27 by 4 p.m. ET. Here are the former IU players currently under contract with teams around the NFL: (*as of Aug. 15) Ryder Anderson – DE, New York Giants Anderson signed with the Giants as a free agent in 2022.  While most of his time has been…

IU basketball’s roster of Academic All-Big Ten players is likely to grow in 2024-25. New big man Dallas James posted on his Instagram account he’ll pursue a Masters Degree in Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana. In case you’re like me and don’t know what that means, here’s what IU says about the program: “Engineering is all about problem solving. Intelligent systems engineering (ISE) offers the next generation of solutions, powered by computing and artificial intelligence. In ISE, you’ll create systems that sense and react to their environments. You’ll build computers into devices large and small. And you’ll learn to gather,…

The introduction of four West Coast teams to the Big Ten Conference will mean more travel for everyone in the now 18-team league. Just how much of a factor that is remains to be seen.  With players able to study, sleep, or do film review on the plane, just how much difference is there between a four-hour and one-hour flight?  We’re way past the era of traveling to games via train.  So in the end, probably not much. IU coach Curt Cignetti shrugged off the idea that Indiana’s week three trip to UCLA would present any special challenges for his…

Kentucky-based guard Tay Kinney has already visited Indiana multiple times. He came for Hoosier Hysteria last year, visited for a game during the 2023-24 season, and IU brought his high school team to Bloomington for their team camp in June. There’s clear mutual interest between the Kinney and Indiana, who offered the 6-foot-2 point guard when he visited for the Penn State game.  Although that may have been the low-point of the season for IU, the game still stands out to the national top-40 4-star guard in the class of 2026. “It was still a great crowd and everything,” he…

James Carpenter knows about humble beginnings in college football. From a 400 student high school (Roanoke Catholic) in Virginia, he was thought to be too short to play in the trenches — and had no college offers. Curt Cignetti discovered the 6-foot-2 Carpenter at a summer camp when he was still head coach at Elon.  Soon after Cignetti was hired by James Madison, his staff contacted Carpenter with the only thing he needed — an opportunity. Carpenter began his career at JMU in 2019 while the program was still a Football Championship Subdivision squad, and he was a walk-on for…

IU swimmer Anna Peplowski is the third Hoosier to earn an Olympic medal in Paris, and the first female athlete. The rising Indiana senior helped the United States women’s 4×200-meter freestyle team to a silver medal on Thursday afternoon. Peplowski did not swim in the final but she’ll get a silver medal, as is customary for all swimmers on a relay team who participate in the preliminaries or finals. The Illinois native clocked the second-fastest time earlier Thursday in the prelims to help position the U.S. in the finals. Named IU’s female athlete of the year for 2023-24, the freestyle…

In just over three months, Indiana will open the 2024-25 regular season with a home game against SIU Edwardsville. The game will tip on Wednesday, Nov. 6.  The time and television details have not yet been announced. The Cougars are led by a former IU basketball staff member. SIUE head coach Brian Barone was the Hoosiers’ director of basketball operations/video coordinator when he worked under former IU head coach Tom Crean.  Barone followed Crean from Marquette and spent two seasons (2008-09 and 2009-10) in Bloomington. The 2023-24 season will mark Brian Barone’s sixth season as SIUE’s men’s basketball head coach.…

The list of schools expected to get an official visit from in-state 2025 5-star guard Jalen Haralson has grown this week. According to a report by national 247Sports analyst DuShawn London, Haralson has added the following three visits to his previously announced stops: Missouri: September 21st Purdue: September 28th Kansas: October 19th These visits will be in addition to previously announced trips to Indiana (Aug. 31), Notre Dame (Sept. 7) and Michigan State (Sept. 14). The only three of his current top nine not slated to get a late summer or fall visit right now are Duke, Gonzaga and Auburn. …

There have been good runs. Bill Mallory in the late 80s and early 90s, John Pont in 1967-68, Lee Corso in 1979-80, and Tom Allen in 2019-20 all come to mind. But not since Bo McMillin in the 1940s has any coach of the IU football team amassed an overall winning record during his time in Bloomington. In the latest illustration of how Indiana’s 2024 season is the college football version of the immovable object vs. the unstoppable force, enter Curt Cignetti. You know, the “I win, Google me” guy. You’ve no doubt read some of the stats that back…

Blake Pieroni’s decision to forego retirement and swim in Paris paid off with his fourth all-time Olympic medal. The 28-year-old IU alumnus earned silver as part of Team USA’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay Tuesday.  Pieroni swam in the preliminary rounds. Pieroni previously won two medals at the Tokyo 2020 Games, gold in both the 4 x 100m freestyle relay and the 4 x 100m medley relay.  He also won gold in the 2016 Olympics at Rio de Janeiro in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay. In his collegiate career at IU, the Valparaiso, Ind. product earned 19 All-American honors,…