Georgia defensive backs coach Charlton Warren has been hired to replace Kane Wommack as Indiana’s defensive coordinator, a source confirmed to the Daily Hoosier on Sunday. ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg first reported the hire. Warren has previous experience as a defensive coordinator at Air Force from 2008-13. Since then, he has served as a defensive backs coach at Nebraska (2014) North Carolina (2015-16), Tennessee (2017), Florida (2018) and Georgia (2019-20.) The 43-year-old played defensive back at Air Force from 1996-99 and spent 10 years in active service with the Air Force before he began his coaching career as a graduate assistant…
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By Dustin Dopirak Before he addressed anything volleyball related in his media day Zoom press conference Friday, Indiana coach Steve Aird began by wishing happy birthday to his wife Brandy and thanking her for all the work she has done home schooling their kids with the COVID-19 pandemic making in-person instruction difficult. He followed that by thanking the frontline workers dealing with the virus directly and said he and other members of the team took coffee and donuts to the people who conduct their COVID-19 tests every day at Assembly Hall. “For all the frontline workers, healthcare workers out there,…
Tom Allen said earlier this week that he will spend much of the offseason reconsidering Indiana’s running game after the Hoosiers finished 12th in the Big Ten in rushing yards per game. However, that project will happen without Indiana’s running backs coach and its starting running back for the last three seasons. Days after Michigan announced that Indiana running backs coach Mike Hart was returning to his alma mater to coach on Jim Harbaugh’s staff, junior Stevie Scott announced on his Twitter account on Friday that he will not return to IU for the 2021 season and instead enter the…
By Dustin Dopirak Purdue bounced off the Assembly Hall floor like it owned the joint, which made sense because at this point the Boilermakers pretty much do. Trevion Williams skipped toward mid court redshirt freshman forward Mason Gillis grabbed the game-ending rebound to polish off the Boilermakers’ 81-69 win over Indiana on Thursday night, then untucked his jersey from his trunks and slapped five around half court with redshirt freshman Brandon Newman. Purdue coach Matt Painter asked them to settle down the celebration just a bit, and the Boilers did, but they bounded to their locker room hollering with glee.…
Indiana’s game at Michigan State that was scheduled for Sunday at noon is in the process of being postponed due to COVID-19 concerns in the Michigan State program, an IU athletic department source said. Michigan State was scheduled to play Iowa on Thursday night and that game was postponed for the same reason. Jeff Goodman of Stadium initially reported the cancellation. A make-up date has not yet been announced. Indiana is still scheduled to play Purdue at 7 p.m. tonight. Update: Indiana confirmed the report in the following release. Indiana’s Men’s Basketball Game at Michigan State Postponed Indiana’s men’s basketball…
By Dustin Dopirak Teri Moren was there for Purdue’s rise. As a freshman point guard under then coach Lin Dunn, she played for the first Purdue team to ever win more than 20 games in 1988-89. The next season, she was on the first Boilermaker squad to reach the NCAA Tournament and played in the tournament each of the next three seasons, reaching the Sweet 16 as a junior and winning a Big Ten title as a senior. The Boilermakers would go on to reach the tournament in 19 of the next 20 seasons, winning a national title in 1999,…
The eerie atmosphere of an empty Assembly Hall on game day is a phenomenon Indiana has simply had no choice but to get used to. In the time of COVID-19, the privilege of playing sports at all comes with playing without a crowd with regular season conference contests taking on the same feel of secret preseason scrimmages that only become known to the public through leaked box scores. Indiana has had 13 games to accept this new reality, and the Hoosiers mostly have. But it will be noticeable on Thursday at 7 p.m. when in-state rival Purdue comes to Bloomington…
Indiana running backs coach Mike Hart is leaving the Hoosiers to go back to his alma mater. Michigan announced Wednesday that Hart will be joining Jim Harbaugh’s staff as running backs coach after four years on the Indiana staff. Hart starred at Michigan from 2004-07, rushing for 1,300 yards or better in three of his four seasons. A two-time Doak Walker Award finalist and four-year starter, he set school records in carries (1,015) and rushing yards (5,040) and ranks third in school history with 41 touchdowns. “Michigan has always held a special place in my heart,” Hart said in a…
Indiana sophomore guard Armaan Franklin’s status will be a game-time decision for Thursday’s 7 p.m. home game against Purdue, IU coach Archie Miller said in a Zoom press conference with reporters Wednesday afternoon. Franklin has missed the past two games since spraining his left ankle in the first half of the Hoosiers’ win over Maryland on Jan. 4. “Armaan is not 100 percent, clearly,” Miller said. “He’s missed basically three games if you take him out of the Maryland game. He’s continuing to do as much as he possibly can. He’s about nine days out from a sprain. It’s a…
By Dustin Dopirak Tom Allen had a chance to reflect Tuesday with the 2020 season over and the awards still rolling in. The announcement that he had been named AFCA Coach of the Year gave him the opportunity to consider his personal journey, the journey of the program that promoted him to head coach in 2016 and the journey of the team that hung in there through a season that was canceled for a period and complicated by COVID-19 protocols. But he also recognized that 2020 was not an end point but a next step and that there will not…