IUFB Offseason Updates

[323SGrant]

Approve of this hire along with pretty much anything TA is currently doing with this program. Awesome get

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Good to have him on the staff.


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[johnsoniu]

Michigan poaches our RB coach, CTA goes to one of the NFLs best teams for a replacement.

This ain't your fathers IU football program anymore.

[Naturalhoosier]

15 hours ago, JaybobHoosier said:

Welcome back Coach McCullough. Love this hire and can’t wait to see how this blossoms! Go IU!


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Boob hasn’t been this excited since his groomsmen dance!!!!

 

 Fantastic hire. I never saw that coming. IUFB is blasting off and is awesome to watch. WTG Coach Allen!!!  And welcome back Coach McCullough!!!!!

[Stuhoo]

20 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

I thought the name Deland McCullough rang a bell -- and for more than having spent time at IU. He has a great story. He was adopted, and a few years back, started searching for his biological parents. After locating his mother, she told him his father was someone he had known his whole life -- a man who had coached him and served as somewhat of a mentor. His name is Sherman Smith -- and he had no idea Deland was his son. The woman who he had a dalliance with in high school never told him she got pregnant. Sherman actually recruited Deland to play at Miami-Ohio -- never knowing that actually was his son. A very cool story ... 

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/24505521/the-jaw-dropping-story-nfl-coach-search-family

 

This is a very rough YouTube version of the ESPN E-60 story they did on him. 

 

 

This is a must watch.

If ever there is a primary example of how the current IU football culture attracts extraordinary individuals, individuals that can be in so many excellent places, but are choosing IU?

Here's the latest excellent example.

 

[LamarCheeks]

"I'm the one that contacted Tom ... I said to him in a text, 'I want to come back to IU.' ... What Tom is doing and the commitment the university has made to continue to advance the program -- the whole world sees it."

It's official: We're a football school!!! 


 

 

[Stuhoo]

19 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

"I'm the one that contacted Tom ... I said to him in a text, 'I want to come back to IU.' ... What Tom is doing and the commitment the university has made to continue to advance the program -- the whole world sees it."

It's official: We're a football school!!! 


 

 

 

• When I told Andy Reid about my IUFB move he started gushing about Tom Allen. Then I realized that Andy didn't know and had never met Tom Allen, but knew all about him and what a great program CTA has built.
• Here’s my Super Bowl ring and my Emmy.
• Got Andy Reid, Ronald Jones, Le’Veon Bell, Tevion Coleman, Lashon McCoy, and Clyde Edwards Helaire on speed dial. 

Which recruits want to hang out with me now! 

[NashvilleHoosier]

5 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

 

This is a must watch.

If ever there is a primary example of how the current IU football culture attracts extraordinary individuals, individuals that can be in so many excellent places, but are choosing IU?

Here's the latest excellent example.

 

Wow, this is incredible. 

And for anyone who subscribes, you can find this video on ESPN+ by searching "Identity". Audio quality is much better. 

[Mike Schumann]

Deland McCullough was busy preparing for a divisional round NFL playoff game against Cleveland just four days away when he saw the news that Mike Hart was leaving IU.  He stopped what he was doing and picked up his phone.

“That was a text that I wasn’t expecting, to be honest with you,” Tom Allen said. “I was surprised. When I read it, I was like, ‘Seriously?’”

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/deland-mccullough-didnt-hide-his-enthusiasm-for-returning-to-iu-i-hit-tom-up-as-soon-as-i-saw-it/

[LamarCheeks]

A chat w/ Mike. Says he's perhaps a little ahead of schedule. 

Will be interesting to see what happens when camp opens this summer -- will the job be his, or will Tuttle push him for QB1?
 

 

[Alford Bailey]

I would assume Penix is the starter but you better have a starter quality backup for when he goes down.

[ap2345]

On 2/22/2021 at 8:22 PM, Alford Bailey said:

I would assume Penix is the starter but you better have a starter quality backup for when he goes down.

The QB depth behind Penix will be just fine with Jack Tuttle, Dexter Williams, and Donovan McCulley. 

[Stuhoo]

5 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

The QB depth behind Penix will be just fine with Jack Tuttle, Dexter Williams, and Donovan McCulley. 

 

Another way of saying it:

The QB position at IUFB is likely the deepest in the entire nation. We will have a top ten nationally ranked QB with college experience as our backup, and a four star as our third stringer.

And a pre-season All-American at WR, and a top ten nationally three year starter TE, and on and on and on.

We are gonna score a ton.

 

[Hoosierfan2017]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

 

Another way of saying it:

The QB position at IUFB is likely the deepest in the entire nation. We will have a top ten nationally ranked QB with college experience as our backup, and a four star as our third stringer.

And a pre-season All-American at WR, and a top ten nationally three year starter TE, and on and on and on.

We are gonna score a ton.

 

I'm not sold on Tuttle as the backup. He was highly regarded coming out of high school but he's pretty unknown at the college level. He's started two games for us, and he had a separated shoulder (I think that was the injury) in one of them. In the other one, the offense played pretty conservatively. I'm not saying he isn't good, just that we don't really know at this point. 

[KzooHoosier82]

5 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I'm not sold on Tuttle as the backup. He was highly regarded coming out of high school but he's pretty unknown at the college level. He's started two games for us, and he had a separated shoulder (I think that was the injury) in one of them. In the other one, the offense played pretty conservatively. I'm not saying he isn't good, just that we don't really know at this point. 

We know more about Tuttle than most about their QB2 and unless McCulley is a bust, this is the deepest and most talented QB room in the history of our program. We’ve come a long way from thr days of having to start Zander Diamont and pulling a freshman from the defense. 

[Hoosierfan2017]

1 hour ago, KzooHoosier82 said:

We know more about Tuttle than most about their QB2 and unless McCulley is a bust, this is the deepest and most talented QB room in the history of our program. We’ve come a long way from thr days of having to start Zander Diamont and pulling a freshman from the defense. 

We’ve certainly come a long way from the days of Zander Diamont, but I didn’t say that we haven’t. I still disagree about Tuttle. He’s been in college for three years and has started two games. He played fine against Wisconsin, but the jury’s still out on whether his abilities live up to his ranking coming out of high school, or even if he’s better than Ramsey. I hope we don’t have to find out next year. 

[LamarCheeks]

OK. Time to get away from the Fire Archie and who's gonna replace him threads for a while and get to some real news. We are, after all, a football school. Looks as if we're losing an OL. Never started in four years and is leaving as a grad transfer. Probably figured with the Michigan kid (Zach Carpenter) transferring in, PT was gonna be even more limited. 

 

 

[LamarCheeks]

A chat w/ D.J. Matthews, a receiver who transferred from Florida State. 

Hopefully, he'll be a nice complement to Fryfogle. 
 

 

[LamarCheeks]

If interested, a couple other transfers had media chats today ... 

Ole Miss DL Ryder Anderson: https://youtu.be/Icd2TOB6CBs

Michigan OL Zach Carpenter: https://youtu.be/rj088fGQXIQ

 

[theriverpilot]

29 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

If interested, a couple other transfers had media chats today ... 

Ole Miss DL Ryder Anderson: https://youtu.be/Icd2TOB6CBs

Michigan OL Zach Carpenter: https://youtu.be/rj088fGQXIQ

 

Cripes, if that Carpenter kids plays anything close to his demeanor then he's going to be a monster.  Lol

[Stuhoo]

1 hour ago, theriverpilot said:

Cripes, if that Carpenter kids plays anything close to his demeanor then he's going to be a monster.  Lol

Not telling anyone anything they won't expect, but the Zach Carpenter video is a great watch because of his comments on the culture at IU. 

He describes standing on the Michigan sideline during our game with them last year, looking at our sideline and basically thinking "Damn I wish I was with them not Michigan."

We're gonna kick the crap out of Michigan as long as CTA and Harbaugh are at the respective schools.