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(10/17/08 5:19am)
A missed block, a missed assignment or pouncing for the ball at the wrong time. That’s how the option can kill you.IU
was on the losing end of that formula when the Hoosiers (2-4, 0-3)
played Illinois (3-3, 1-2) a year ago at the Bloomington version of
Memorial Stadium. Rashard Mendenhall, quarterback Juice Williams and
wide receiver Arrelious Benn thoroughly exposed the IU defense, running
for 288 yards.This time around, expect more of the same.
(10/15/08 3:03am)
It was barely into the third quarter during Saturday’s game against Iowa when the “boos” started coming down.
Eventually losing 45-9, the IU football team felt its fans show their
displeasure simply by leaving, making the student section as empty as
the North End Zone Project. For IU student junior Rich Lesser, the 2008
football season has shown the Hoosiers are once again comfortable at
the bottom of the Big Ten.
“It’s what I expected,” Lesser said. “I didn’t think we’d be as good as
last year, but I thought we may have a chance to be as good as last
year. As of now, it doesn’t look too good.”
With a lack of support in the student section throughout their current
four game losing streak, IU coach Bill Lynch urged the fan base during
his weekly press conference Tuesday to continue to give the Hoosiers
support regardless of the team’s 2-4 record.
(10/15/08 2:08am)
The Hoosiers have not gotten much production from their defensive pass rush, but one of the guys who has stepped up this year is junior defensive lineman Jammie Kirlew. Leading the team in tackles (35) and sacks (6), Kirlew is having a breakout year.
(10/13/08 4:40pm)
Just got some information to pass along to all of you. The IU/Northwestern game will kickoff at noon and will air on the Big Ten Network. The game is on Oct. 25 and is IU's homecoming game.
(10/13/08 4:49am)
Bill Lynch sat at the podium as he began to search for a way to grasp the loss his team just suffered. He didn’t find anything.
Last year, playing a team like Iowa was business as usual. But as
evidenced by the half-empty Memorial Stadium in the third quarter, the
deflated IU sideline and the 45-9 loss on Saturday, the promise the
program displayed in 2007 continues to quickly fade away.
“We have to play better,” Lynch said. “That’s what we’ll go back to working on.”
“You have to do something to turn it. You have to do something in the
kicking game, go get a turnover, do something offensively. ... They
beat us just about every way.”
The boos started to come out as early as the first quarter, and halfway
through the third, the fans had had enough. As the game got out of
hand, the student section dissipated as quickly as Iowa running backs
Shonn Greene and Jewel Hampton hit the gaping holes in the IU defensive
line.
Greene and Hampton provided the force – the duo ran for 229 yards and
four touchdowns – while quarterback Ricky Stanzi picked apart the IU
secondary. Stanzi threw for 184 yards and two touchdowns while the
Hoosiers displayed a penchant for giving up the big play.
(10/11/08 3:33pm)
Hawkeyes 45, IU 9 FINAL
(10/10/08 3:51am)
Bill Lynch stood in front of his team after practice Wednesday ready to
address them in one of his final pep talks before Saturday. But the man
in the faded gray sweatshirt did something he rarely ever does.
He began to emphatically scream.
Attempting to convey to his players the importance of their game
against Iowa this weekend, Lynch broke out of his reserved demeanor
because the disappointment about the past three weeks needs to end.
(09/30/08 3:10pm)
IU sophomore safety Jerimy Finch was seen walking around the IU campus today with a protective boot on his leg. Finch left IU's 42-29 loss to Michigan State on Saturday with a leg injury. We will update his status at IU coach Bill Lynch's press conference at 1:00 p.m.
(09/29/08 3:59am)
Before the IU football team was handed a 42-29 loss to Michigan State
on Saturday, IU fans were able to enjoy a little extra popularity in
Bloomington when the Big Ten Network came to visit.
The station broadcast its show, “Friday Night Tailgate,” live from the
Sample Gates between 8:30 and 10 p.m. Rather than dissect the Hoosiers’
chances against the Spartans, the premise of the show is to have a
little bit more fun with the school it visits.
(09/29/08 3:56am)
Rather than seeing nothing but green turf Saturday, the Hoosiers saw yellow-colored flags all afternoon.
In what has become a common theme for IU the last two weeks, penalties
have tortured the Hoosiers, coming at inopportune times. Upset at the
loss but still proud of his players, IU coach Bill Lynch did not have
much to say when it came to fixing those mistakes.
“We’ll work on them,” Lynch said.
Against Michigan State on Saturday and Ball State the week prior, the
Hoosiers combined for 16 penalties at a cost of 166 yards, none bigger
than sophomore offensive lineman Cody Faulkner’s hold in the third
quarter against the Spartans.
Down five points and just shy of two minutes remaining in the third
quarter, sophomore quarterback Ben Chappell launched a pass to
sophomore wide receiver Terrance Turner over the middle of the field
that resulted in a 97-yard touchdown.
(09/26/08 4:08am)
E.J. Chung was in a fist-pumping moment of ecstasy.
The senior had just won four IU basketball tickets and was entered into
a drawing for a pass to the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis after
winning the Solo Cup Stacking Challenge on Thursday night at Kilroy’s
Sports Bar.
(09/26/08 4:07am)
A year ago, the Hoosiers’ weakness was their inability to stop the run. One year has passed, but not a whole lot has changed.
And Michigan State knows it.
(09/24/08 4:24am)
The hits just keep on coming.While the Hoosiers continue to pick themselves up from a 42-20 blowout at home against Ball State last Saturday, IU football coach Bill Lynch continues to receive bad news.In his weekly press conference Tuesday, Lynch said senior captain and
cornerback Chris Phillips will miss the rest of the season.
(09/22/08 5:36pm)
Here is an update from Ball State Athletics on wide receiver Dante Love's injury. Love was injured on Saturday when he collided with IU freshman cornerback Chris Adkins.
(09/22/08 5:07pm)
Well, ESPN's Big Ten Blogger, Adam Rittenberg, has come out with his new power rankings of the conference. And guess where he ranked the Hoosiers after a 42-20 debacle on Saturday.
(09/22/08 4:13am)
Shocked? I’m not.
Concerned? I am.
What you saw against Western Kentucky and Murray State compared to Saturday’s game with Ball State was not a different IU team.
(09/22/08 4:11am)
IU might have landed the first punch, but the Hoosiers were the ones
trying to pick themselves up off the canvas Saturday night after a
42-20 beating at the hands of visiting Ball State.
For the first time ever, the Cardinals beat the Hoosiers, and they did so in astounding fashion.
IU, a team that has aspirations of a second straight bowl game, was throttled by a hungry Ball State team.
(09/22/08 4:09am)
Kellen Lewis misses James Hardy, and on Saturday night, it showed.The
world Lewis lives in – one where Hardy is no longer available as his
favorite target – came crashing down as Ball State’s 86th-ranked
defense easily held the Hoosiers to one offensive touchdown.Losing
42-20 in a dramatic setback for the Hoosiers, it was Lewis who looked
lost on a continuous defense. The defense had its fair share of gaffes,
but Lewis, who is ranked as one of the best quarterbacks in the Big
Ten, erred all night.“I was rushing myself a little too much,”
Lewis said. “This was the first game that we’ve been down and
obviously, we never really had the lead. It’s something we have to
learn from.”Lewis overthrew errant passes, as other throws were rocketed into his receivers’ hands, only to bounce out.
(09/22/08 3:56am)
She left the room the same way she entered it – to thunderous applause.Barack
Obama supporters turned out in droves to listen to former Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright speak in the Indiana Memorial Union Alumni
Hall on Friday.
(09/21/08 2:26am)
The Hoosiers looked confused and outclassed in their 42-20
loss at home to Ball
State on Saturday. Ball State
controlled the game all evening, and the play on the field felt more lopsided
than the score reflected.
