IDS football reporters predict Hoosiers' 2020 season during roundtable
After a tumultuous offseason that saw the Big Ten postpone its season before voting to play, IU football is scheduled to start its nine-game slate Oct. 24.
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After a tumultuous offseason that saw the Big Ten postpone its season before voting to play, IU football is scheduled to start its nine-game slate Oct. 24.
IU head coach Tom Allen confirmed Monday during a Zoom call that senior safety Raheem Layne will miss a portion of the Hoosiers’ 2020 football season due to injury. There is no timetable for his return to the field, and Allen did not disclose the nature of his injury.
Junior linebackers Cam Jones and Micah McFadden both came to Bloomington as part of IU football’s 2018 recruiting class. This season, there are no seniors ahead of them, and they’re expected to lead an IU defense that will be missing senior defensive back Marcelino Ball.
Sophomore quarterback Michael Penix Jr. was once committed to the University of Tennessee but flipped his commitment in December 2017 to join IU football . It was the same year Nick Sheridan, once a member of the Volunteers’ coaching staff, joined the Hoosiers as their quarterbacks coach.
Much like death and taxes, injuries in the game of football are inevitable. Many athletes who play football have had their lives changed forever due to the lingering injuries they suffer on the gridiron. And everyone who plays today understands the risk of playing America’s most popular sport.
During Tuesday’s presidential debate, President Donald Trump said he brought back Big Ten football.
The IU football depth chart is going to be put to the test early and often in the 2020 season.
IU football defensive back Marcelino Ball will likely be out for the season after tearing his ACL with a typical recovery time of four to six months.
The Big Ten is back, which means it's time for IU to resume its transformation into a certified football school. Last fall’s eight-win campaign under head coach Tom Allen was a watershed season, but replicating that success will be tough on a schedule that throws test after test at the Hoosiers more rapidly than the university’s medical staff.
When the Big Ten announced its return to the football field Sept.16, it also came with the news the conference would be playing without fans. Other conferences, however, including the Athletic Coast Conference, Big 12 and South Eastern Conference, have said they will allow fans this season in a limited capacity.
Last month, the Big Ten announced it would be postponing football season, leaving Bloomington without IU football for the first time since 1890.
The Big Ten released the schedule for the 2020 football season, beginning with IU playing Penn State at home on Oct. 24.
Since Aug. 11, the IU football program practiced without a guarantee it would return to the field due to the coronavirus pandemic. But IU head coach Tom Allen said Wednesday the players had a different bounce in their step.
The Big Ten announced Wednesday that the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors voted unanimously to restart the football season on the weekend of Oct. 23-24.
A pair of candy-striped overalls sits tucked away in the corner of my closet. For some reason, they were one of my first purchases when I arrived in Bloomington four years ago as a freshman. I looked at them longingly for a second before I walked out of my bedroom into an empty living room.
IU athletic director Scott Dolson doesn’t know how much money the program will lose without sports.
Only seven teams in NFL history have won back to back Super Bowls. No one has repeated as Super Bowl champions since the 2003-04 New England Patriots that began its two-decade reign over the AFC.
While this year’s IU football team is unable to play this fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many former Hoosiers are preparing to play on Sundays in the NFL.
College football is here, and despite opposition from players, coaches and parents, the Big Ten has yet to restart the 2020 fall sports season.
IU football began its first week of structured training Monday since the Big Ten announced the postponement of all 2020 fall sports. The team will meet four times a week to lift, condition and work on speed development under strength and conditioning coach Aaron Wellman.