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Indiana’s Search Takes the JUCO Route
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 17, 2012
The search is on for Big Ten-caliber talent, and no one understands the value and importance of this endeavor more than Indiana’s Kevin Wilson, he of the one-win debut campaign. There was a time, if you recall, when Indiana was the talk of the recruiting trail: Gunner Kiel, before committing to L.S.U. and before committing to Notre Dame – the latter is now official – was once a verbal lock for Bloomington, where he’d marry his sizable skills with Wilson’s history of turning his quarterbacks into Heisman-worthy stars. Kiel has long been off of Indiana’s radar, even if still on the Hoosiers’ minds, which has Wilson looking elsewhere for his quarterback of the future.
Tags: Big Ten, Carson Coffman, Dusty Kiel, Edward Wright-Baker, Gunner Kiel, Indiana, Kevin Wilson, Tre Roberson
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Freshmen Rule Wilson’s Building Project
By Paul Myerberg // Nov 3, 2011
You wouldn’t think things could get any worse, but hey, there you go. Last fall, in Bill Lynch’s final season, Indiana won five games, lost seven, won a single game in Big Ten play and lost four games by 17 or more points. This fall, in Kevin Wilson’s first season — nine games old — the Hoosiers have won just a single game, lost eight, failed to beat one F.B.S. foe and lost four straight games to end October by 21 or more points. No, you wouldn’t think things could get any worse, but you should have known worse days were coming: Wilson is destroying this foundation, such as it is, and doing his best to rebuild Indiana football brick by brick, following in the footsteps of a long line of coaches who have tried, and often failed, to do the same in Bloomington.
Tags: Bill Lynch, Damario Belcher, Gunner Kiel, Indiana, Kevin Wilson
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Ten Themes for Saturday: Week 7
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 15, 2011
Ten teams, themes, games and players to watch on Saturday. Pretty straightforward. Here we go:
No James, no problem There’s a great scene in the movie “Moneyball,” which I think most of us have seen, where Brad Pitt, playing A’s general manager Billy Beane, explains how no, his team can’t replace Jason Giambi. But the A’s can replace his numbers, Pitt-as-Beane explains — not with one player, but with an amalgam of three of four different players. Oregon’s taking the same approach with LaMichael James, the nation’s leading rusher, who will likely not play in tonight’s possible preview of the Pac-12 title game against Arizona State. It won’t be Kenjon Barner taking the reins with 30 carries; it won’t be De’Anthony Thomas; it won’t be Tra Carson. It’ll be all three, with Barner perhaps getting more touches than his true freshmen teammates but Thomas and Hopkins certainly in line for significant carries. Thomas has been everything he was hyped up to be, both as a runner and a receiver. Look for Oregon to again try to get him in space against the Sun Devils.
Tags: Big East, Boise State, Conference USA, De'Anthony Thomas, Florida Atlantic, Houston, Indiana, Kejon Barner, LaMichael James, Michigan, Michigan State, Middle Tennessee State, Missouri, Mountain West, New Mexico, Oregon, S.M.U., U.A.B., Willie Simmons, Wisconsin
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Welcome to College Football, Rookies
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 6, 2011
Texas signed 22 recruits in February. Eighteen played on Saturday against Rice, a program-high since Mack Brown took over in 1998. That’s a jaw-dropping total for the Longhorns, who stockpile tremendously talented recruits on an annual basis but can often afford to redshirt a good number of incoming freshmen thanks to the program’s depth across the board. For example, Texas has 25 redshirt freshmen on the roster: a portion are of the walk-on variety, but Mack Brown will typically redshirt roughly a third of a recruiting class as freshmen. It’s a new year in Austin. And it’s a new year across the country, where fresh-faced rookies saw immediate playing time for programs big – like Texas – and small.
Tags: Auburn, Braxton Miller, Chuckie Keeton, Indiana, Jaxon Shipley, Kevin Wilson, Memphis, Ohio State, T.C.U., Taylor Reed, Texas, Utah State
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No. 103: Indiana
By Paul Myerberg // May 18, 2011
Now’s the time for Indiana football: Indiana basketball is suffering, thanks to several factors, so the time is ripe for the football team to leap ahead and steal some thunder away from the university’s flagship athletic program. And this window won’t be open forever, so make your move now. Hence the program’s decision to make a coaching move; hence the program’s decision to hire one of the nation’s most acclaimed assistants, even if that move likely didn’t involve too much contemplation. When an Indiana can land a Kevin Wilson, it doesn’t think twice. It pulls the trigger, hands over a contract before the ink dries and sits back, happy and content, knowing its coaching search couldn’t possibly have gone any better. Only one question: What does an Oklahoma assistant know about winning against the odds?
Tags: Adam Replogle, Big Ten, Damarlo Belcher, Darius Willis, Indiana, Jeff Thomas, Kevin Wilson, Leon Beckum
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A Grab Bag of Quarterback Depth
By Paul Myerberg // Apr 25, 2011
It was never a fair comparison: Iowa and Wisconsin both lost a senior quarterback, but the Hawkeyes have had a succession plan in place since 2009, while Wisconsin — prior to losing Curt Phillips — wanted Jon Budmayr to win the job, not have it handed to him. When Wisconsin revealed late last week that Phillips had suffered a setback in his recovery from a knee injury, it became clear that Budmayr’s time is officially now, even if this is how the quarterback competition might have eventually played out. As noted last week, however, this hurts the Badgers’ depth at the position.
Tags: Big Ten, Dan Persa, Denard Robinson, Devin Gardner, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, James Vandenberg, Jon Budmayr, MarQueis Gray, Matt McGloin, Michigan, Minnesota, Nathan Scheelhaase, Northwestern, Paul Petrino, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin
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Grading Indiana’s Coaching Move
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 19, 2011
What does Indiana want to be? The question was easy to address a decade ago, when the school’s basketball program stood in its usual perch in the upper echelon of the sport. Now — or until Tom Crean turns things around on the hardwood — the football program needs to be more than just a three-month distraction until tipoff; the football team, now piloted by Kevin Wilson, may need to carry the fire for an athletic department struggling to make ends meet in the major male sports in the Big Ten. Bill Lynch was nice for a season, but it quickly became apparent that he was merely the next in a long line of Indiana coaching failures. Wilson looks to reverse the curse.
Tags: Bill Lynch, Indiana, Kevin Wilson
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Ryan’s Lines: Saturday, Nov. 20
By Ryan Myerberg // Nov 19, 2010
So here were are, in the penultimate week of the regular season, and I’m down widgets. I can’t explain what’s happened. Maybe it was the pressure of feeling the need to produce every week. Maybe it was a busy work and travel schedule that kept me from doing as much research as I usually do week-in and week-out. Maybe it’s because I just don’t have the head for this anymore. I don’t know. But things have been looking up the past two weeks, and although this week’s slate didn’t have a ton of games that jumped out to me as widget winners, I feel confident that I’m getting close to breaking back into positive territory. Without further ado, here are this week’s five widget winners:
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Tags: Ball State, Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas State, Michigan, Northern Illinois, Penn State, San Jose State, Wisconsin
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