He’s been too heavy and too light. There have been injury rehabilitations and an off the field issue. Some have said he wasn’t a good enough blocker, and there have at times been drops. Reading that you might suspect we are talking about a hyped recruit who never reached his potential. But no, Peyton Hendershot ranks second on Indiana’s tight ends career list with 10 touchdowns, and he sits third with 90 receptions and 936 yards. Despite his accomplishments to date, there is a renewed level of confidence emanating from Hendershot and his position coach Kevin Wright. And that is…
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Indiana forward Miller Kopp published a behind the scenes look at the team’s August foreign tour of The Bahamas. Watch as the team travels to and enjoys the amenities of the Atlantis Resort during the time away from the basketball court. You can subscribe to Kopp’s YouTube channel RIGHT HERE. https://youtu.be/ggcxstfffOs
The Daily Hoosier spent the week down in The Bahamas in connection with IU basketball’s foreign tour and had several opportunities to see the team in action. Since nothing was televised and not everything was public, we are going to go player-by-player in jersey number order to share our thoughts on what we saw and what to expect from Indiana’s 2021-22 roster. With a lot of new players on the 2021-22 roster, one of many things IU basketball fans were curious about when it came to the foreign tour was the starting lineup. Before the trip head coach Mike Woodson…
It wasn’t long ago, 102 days to be precise, Indiana suffered a national championship overtime loss to Marshall at the College Cup. Wherever head coach Todd Yeagley and his players are in processing that defeat, it is time to press on. “This season came at a nice clip quicker than usual,” Yeagley said as his team opened practice a couple weeks ago. While the span of the offseason has been abbreviated, IU has seen its share of departures over the last few months along with plenty of new faces on the roster. That reality has helped make it feel like…
Thomas Allen got a preview of life after football — and discovered he wasn’t quite ready for that. But it was a decision that didn’t come easy. During a season filled with historic high points, one memorable 2020 low stands out above the rest at the Allen household. With his son on lying on the field clearly in agonizing pain at Michigan State, IU head coach Tom Allen looked on helplessly. The trainers had the diagnosis right away, and after father and son embraced just before Thomas was taken away for medical attention in the locker room at Spartan Stadium,…
Nothing has been formally announced, but former 5-star recruit and USC running back Stephen Carr appears likely to be Indiana’s starting running back when it opens the season at Iowa on Sept. 4. Watch below as he talks about fall camp, the running back competition, his transition from California, and much more. On Thursday his running backs coach Deland McCullough described Carr. “His strengths are he is very explosive, his change of direction is high-end, his ability to make people miss, he runs with power, he runs with decisiveness,” McCullough said. “His pass protection is where I want it to…
The Daily Hoosier spent the week down in The Bahamas in connection with IU basketball’s foreign tour and had several opportunities to see the team in action. Since nothing was televised and not everything was public, we are going to go player-by-player in jersey number order to share our thoughts on what we saw and what to expect from Indiana’s 2021-22 roster. Many forget that Trey Galloway entered his freshman season with a fair amount of buzz surrounding his name as an unheralded recruit who might step in and play a meaningful role early in his career. He did just…
There are early signs in Bloomington that quarterback will continue to be a position of strength for many years to come. True freshman quarterback Donaven McCulley was one of six first-year players who head coach Tom Allen recognized this week as fall camp standouts. The fifth year leader of the IU program named three players on each side of the ball. “There were six freshmen that stuck out to me, and I had these guys stand up yesterday in our team meeting: Maurice Freeman, Jordan Grier, and Matt Hohlt on defense and Donaven McCulley, David Holloman, and Malachi Holt-Bennett on…
FOX College Football Analyst RJ Young interviewed IU football head coach Tom Allen this week as the Hoosiers get set to open the 2021 season. Young and Allen discuss the Hoosiers being ranked 17th in the AP preseason poll, who his football mentors were, and why “chase” is the term for his 2021 team. Indiana’s first game is at Iowa on Sept. 4. The game kicks off at 3:30 p.m. Eastern and will air on BTN. For a complete library of podcasts and interviews with current and former players and coaches, GO HERE. https://youtu.be/UvTRDiCIJjc Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier You can…
The Daily Hoosier spent the week down in The Bahamas in connection with IU basketball’s foreign tour and had several opportunities to see the team in action. Since nothing was televised and not everything was public, we are going to go player-by-player in jersey number order to share our thoughts on what we saw and what to expect from Indiana’s 2021-22 roster. Race Thompson didn’t garner the headlines in The Bahamas, he just competed hard and made winning plays. In other words, he was Race Thompson. With a roster full of new faces, of course Indiana fans were most interested…