Author: Mike Schumann

All signs point to a career-best season loading for Indiana quarterback Josh Hoover. Why’s that? As we outlined earlier this week, that is exactly what has happened for each of IU football coach Curt Cignetti’s last six (at least) signal callers at James Madison and Indiana.  The improvement for those six quarterbacks was dramatic, and the results postseason award worthy. Dramatic improvement is an exciting proposition for Hoover, who arrived in Bloomington as college football’s active career leader passing yards with 9,629. He’s second in active passing touchdowns with 71 — the exact same career total of Heisman Trophy winner…

Indiana has offered one of the top center prospects in the class of 2028. 7-foot-3 Dylan Betts announced he was offered by the IU staff this week. From Colorado, Betts is the younger brother of UCLA sisters Lauren and Sienna Betts.  Their father is 7-foot-1 Andy Betts, who played for Long Beach State, was a second-round draft pick by the Hornets in 1998, and had a lengthy career in international leagues. Betts attended IMG Academy in 2025-26 after playing his high school freshman season in Colorado. In the average of the national rankings, the rising junior is a 4-star, the…

After a wave of near consensus public outcry, former IU football quarterback Brendan Sorsby has decided to end his college career and enter the supplemental NFL Draft. That’s according to multiple national reports on Monday evening, and statements by Texas Tech officials. Sorsby was declared ineligible for the 2026 season by the NCAA after he admitted to placing 40 wagers on his 2022 Indiana team, and more than 9,000 total disallowed bets, amounting to at least $90,000, over three years while he was enrolled at Indiana, Cincinnati and Texas Tech. Last week, Sorsby was granted a temporary injunction against the…

Is IU football coach Curt Cignetti a quarterback whisperer? The son of a college coach, a quarterback at West Virginia from 1979 to 1982, and a more than 40-year coach himself, Cignetti seems to have the position down to a science. You know about Fernando Mendoza and Kurtis Rourke, but the last two IU quarterbacks have followed a well established pattern of quarterbacks joining Cignetti and offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan — and improving dramatically. Consider these numbers.  On average, Cignetti’s last six starters at quarterback going back to his time at James Madison have seen a 275% improvement in touchdown…

IU basketball has offered consensus national top-15 class of 2028 big man Xavier Young. The Indiana staff watched Young this past week at the NBPA top-100 camp, where he was one of the top performers. The 6-foot-11 Young hails from Dallas, Texas where he attends Faith Family Academy, a school that plays a national schedule in in the EYBL Scholastic League.  As a sophomore playing against national competition, he averaged 6.9 points and 4.8 rebounds in 21 minutes per game.  He shot 61% from the field.  Young attended Lewisville H.S. as a freshman. For travel basketball, Young plays for Texas…

For the second time in his NBA career, OG Anunoby is a champion. He joins IU basketball legend Isiah Thomas as the second former Hoosier to win multiple NBA titles. “It’s very special.  It’s what we’ve been working for the whole season.  This was our dream, this was our goal, and we did it,” Anunoby said during the trophy presentation after the New York Knicks beat San Antonio 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to clinch the series 4-1. The second title has to be much sweeter for Anunoby, who did not play in the postseason with Toronto…

Multiple national recruiting analysts have logged predictions for IU football to land class of 2027 4-star linebacker Jalaythan Mayfield. Both Chad Simmons and Steve Wiltfong of Rivals are predicting Mayfield will be a Hoosier.  He took an official visit to IU in April. The 6-foot-1 and 235-pound Mayfield attends Lincolnton, H.S. in Lincolnton, N.C.  As a junior, the highly productive Mayfield was named the conference defensive player of the year after recording 152 tackles (includes 26 tackles for a loss), six sacks, six forced fumbles, a blocked punt and a blocked field goal. He also contributed 13 rushing touchdowns and…

Eight IU players were named to well known college football analyst Phil Steele’s annual preseason All-American teams. This is double the amount IU had ahead of the 2025 national championship campaign. Indiana was tied with Oregon for the Big Ten team with the most players on Steele’s four teams, while Ohio State had six. The IU All-Americans include seven returning players from the 2025 team, and one transfer. Here are the eight Hoosiers receiving preseason All-American recognition from Steele: FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Carter Smith, OT SECOND TEAM OFFENSE Nick Marsh, WR THIRD TEAM OFFENSE Charlie Becker, WR FIRST TEAM DEFENSE…

There was a stretch in 2014-15 when IU basketball players couldn’t stay out of the news. Seven players were involved in six different off-court incidents from early 2014 through the summer of 2015.  There was a wave of suspensions, and ultimately several players were kicked off the team by head coach Tom Crean. A young OG Anunoby had to wonder just exactly what kind of situation he was stepping into when he arrived on campus in the early summer of 2015. Even though he was never reported to be involved with any of it, one of Anunoby’s early assignments while…

When he drops back to pass this fall, new Indiana quarterback Josh Hoover will have several enticing options. Headlining Hoover’s field of vision will be Charlie Becker and Nick Marsh, who ESPN ranked No. 4 and No. 5 respectively, in their preseason 2026 wide receiver national top-10. This wasn’t just a staff writer’s opinion piece.  ESPN’s Eli Lederman and Max Olson surveyed more than 20 front office staffers across college football — including general managers, player personnel directors and scouting directors — to find out whom they consider the top returning players in the sport. The standout IU pair were ranked…