The things Maurice Freeman likes to do on a football field don’t generally translate to one position. The Indiana freshman from Oscar Smith High School in Chesapeake, Va., likes to cover opponents in man-to-man coverage but also likes to set the edge against the run. He’s comfortable chasing receivers on deep balls, but also likes to blitz and attack the quarterback. At 6-foot, 200 pounds, he’s naturally built to be a safety and he could do all of those things at that position, just not as much as he’d like to. Lucky for him, Indiana’s defense has a position that…
Author: Dustin Dopirak
Carter Smith, a 6-foot-6, 275-pound offensive tackle from Olentangy Liberty High School in Powell, Ohio, announced Wednesday that he has committed to Indiana. Smith is a three-star recruit, and the No. 728 player and No. 63 offensive tackle in the class of 2022 according to the 247Sports.com composite rankings. He’s also the No. 20 rated player in the state of Ohio. According to 247Sports, Smith had recently taken visits to and had offers from Tennessee, Northwestern and Virginia. He had 22 other scholarship offers beyond those, including offers from Auburn, Boston College, Cincinnati, Coastal Carolina, Duke, Georgia Tech, Iowa State,…
Ernest Udeh Jr. is just now starting to believe in what his body is capable of. The 6-foot-10, 235-pound center from Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Fla., has only taken basketball seriously as a path to a college scholarship since he was a freshman in high school and he’s only grown into a body that makes him a legit Division I level center over the last year. He’s put in years of work on the fundamentals of post work, but it hasn’t really dawned on him until the last few months that his combination of moves, size and athleticism…
As far as Josh Hoover knows, he didn’t have any connection to Indiana when the Hoosiers started recruiting him and they didn’t have any connection to him or anyone around him. “The way they found me, I think, is (offensive coordinator Nick) Sheridan was on Twitter and just happened to see something and looked at it,” Hoover told The Daily Hoosier. “We have no connection. None of my coaches know those guys at all. It just happened to be that we found each other.” In Hoover, Sheridan found a Texas quarterback with a precise understanding of how to make plays…
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Alston v. NCAA that was released Monday ultimately doesn’t change much about the way the NCAA and college sports operate, because not that much was at stake. The U.S. district court that first heard the case, brought by a list of former student athletes including former West Virginia running back Shawn Alston, decided not to “disturb” NCAA rules regarding caps on scholarship and student athlete compensation but found that certain NCAA rules limiting education-related benefits to student athletes were unlawful and therefore enjoined those rules. The NCAA was still not pleased with…
Indiana’s non-conference opponents for 2021-22 are slowly trickling out. A fifth was revealed last week in a column by Chuck Landon of the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette Mail, who reports that Marshall has Indiana on its schedule as one of its only “money” games this season so far. Indiana also has Merrimack, Louisiana-Lafayette and Northern Kentucky on its schedule, the first two according to Jon Rothstein and Northern Kentucky according to D1Docket.com. The Hoosiers also have their Crossroads Classic opponent set — Notre Dame — and they will participate in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and likely the Gavitt Games with the…
In 2018, London High School football coach Kyle Cutler found himself in need of someone to step up and play cornerback. His defensive coaches had somebody in mind, but they also knew Cutler isn’t a huge fan of putting ninth graders on a varsity defense. But they told him anyway, because the answer seemed obvious. “I went to them and said, ‘Who’s our corner?'” Cutler said. “They said, ‘You’re not gonna want to hear this, but Isaiah Jones.’ I said, ‘Alright, well he’s going to have to prove it.'” And Jones did. In an early season game he took an…
Indiana diving coach Drew Johansen will coach the U.S. Olympic Diving Team for the third straight Olympics according to a release from IU Swimming and Diving. The release follows. INDIANAPOLIS – For the third-consecutive Olympic Games, Indiana head diving coach Drew Johansen has been selected at the head coach of the U.S. Olympic Diving Team for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, USA Diving announced on Monday. “I am so proud to represent not only USA Diving, but the great tradition of diving at Indiana University,” Johansen said. “So many great divers contributed to keeping the Olympic tradition alive in Blooming. Past, present…
Dennis Scott III, a 6-foot-8 forward from Riverwood High School in Sandy Springs, Ga., and the son of former Georgia Tech All-American and 10-year NBA player Dennis Scott, posted on his Twitter account Monday that he has received a scholarship offer from Indiana. He said on his account that it is his first scholarship offer, and it is also Indiana’s first known offer in the class of 2024. “Blessed to receive my first offer from The University of Indiana!” Scott said on his account, making the rookie mistake of misnaming the school. “Look forward to talking to Coach Woodson and…
Isaiah Jones, a three-star linebacker from London, Ohio in the Class of 2022, announced on his Twitter account Sunday that he has committed to Indiana. “I want to thank all my teammates for making me the best version of myself,” Jones said on the post. “I want to thank the London Athletic Department and Staff for helping me pursue my dream on and off the field. With that being said, I will be continuing my academic and athletic career at Indiana University!” The 6-foot-2 and 215 pound Jones took an official visit to IU over the weekend. Jones is the…