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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — All Tom Allen wanted to do was jump on top of the pile, follow the entirety of the IU sideline emptying out onto the field and sprinting toward the end zone, arms raised in the air, helmets tossed across the field and surrounding quarterback Peyton Ramsey,…
When he arrived in January, offensive coordinator Kalen DeBoer saw the same message posted on signs around IU’s football facility. Quarterback Peyton Ramsey didn’t grow up in Indiana, but after four years in the program, seeing the same message on the wall every day, he knows how much this week…
Stevie Scott and Matt Bedford lay on the field next to each other in front of the Michigan sideline. The snow driving into their backs and into the face of head coach Tom Allen who had rushed across the field to his two rising young stars. Scott walked back across…
Tom Allen ran out of the northeast corner tunnel of Assembly Hall with one hand balled into a fist raised into the air and a yell, the exact same way he leads his team onto the field before every game. The largest cheer of IU men’s basketball’s win over Princeton…
On the field, fifth-year offensive lineman Simon Stepaniak wants to be a bully, imposing his will and doing it with an edge. At 6-foot-4, 321 pounds his frame is intimidating. A year ago on the field in Ann Arbor Stepaniak was at the center of controversial hit on Chase Winovich, hitting…
STATE COLLEGE, Penn. — Even for all the bounce backs, the touchdowns scored in the face of a roaring, pom-pom waving student section, the momentum-shifting turnovers and miraculous Peyton Ramsey moments, No. 24 Indiana was close, but not close enough. Again. Even for a season already standing alone as IU’s…
Belief is at the center of the program head coach Tom Allen has been building in Bloomington. Allen believed his team was a top 25 group during fall camp. He believes that his team will end the droughts that have loomed over the Hoosiers for decades. And if anyone doesn’t…
Tiawan Mullen was in his dorm room when he found out. He saw IU cracked the Coaches Poll, and then sat to wait for the AP. When he saw the AP Top 25 poll, Mullen wasn’t surprised. But he got up and screamed “Yes sir!” in his room, celebrating what…
He’s already one of the biggest what ifs in IU history. Then true-freshman quarterback Michael Penix got his chance against Penn State. He lit a spark, and made gave IU a chance against Trace McSorley’s team. What if he hadn’t torn his ACL? He was named the starter for the…
Coy Cronk doesn’t like his scooter anymore. That’s good, because he doesn’t need it. Cronk got up from his black chair in the team room underneath Memorial Stadium and walked to the podium at the front and center of the room. Walked. No crutches, no scooter. On September 21, Cronk…