Input your search keywords and press Enter.
Reakwon Jones is satisfied with what NFL scouts have seen of him. He has to be. There’s nothing more he’ll be able to show. Jones wasn’t invited to the NFL Combine. The only chance he would have to prove himself was his pro day. But when the coronavirus shut down…
Tom Allen was researching sharks. He was working under Dave Wommack at Ole Miss and was finding qualities of predators. The “land shark” had become an identity of the Ole Miss defense and Allen found that sharks don’t blink. They don’t have eyelids. They can’t blink. “So therefore when we…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — At his postgame press conference at TIAA Bank Field, IU head coach Tom Allen’s face was somber, his voice quiet. He had just come off the field, taking a splash from the postgame Gatorade bath meant for Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt. He walked by himself off…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Inside the tunnel underneath TIAA Bank Field IU athletic director Fred Glass put his arm around head coach Tom Allen. Allen put his arm back around Glass. They had both just walked out of the press conference room. Allen was sullen, his head looking down at the…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Just before he was born, Peyton Ramsey’s parents were watching a Tennessee football game, a Volunteers team quarterbacked by Peyton Manning. Ramsey’s dad, a high school football coach liked the quarterback and Ramsey’s mom liked the name. Ramsey and his brothers are all named after quarterbacks. His…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fifth-year linebacker Reakwon Jones reiterated a message he and his team have preached all season long. He sat on the end of a table alongside his fellow team captains and head coach Tom Allen in the team room of TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, the site of…
Haydon Whitehead isn’t supposed to be noticed, at least for no more than the long black hair flowing out from under the back of his helmet. When he’s made his appearances at media sessions his round table is rarely full, right next to crowds surrounding the skill position players and…
Coy Cronk watched IU’s game against Michigan State from his home in Lafayette, Indiana, sitting on his couch. He sat there thinking how the game could have been different had he been there, had a true freshman not been stepping in for his first start against a then-top 25 team.…
On the flight back from Nebraska, senior left tackle Coy Cronk assumed the deal had already been finished. The Hoosiers, and Chucky, had just beaten the Cornhuskers for the first time in 60 years and clinched bowl eligibility in October. IU was off to its best start in decades and…
Fifth-year linebacker Reakwon Jones kept refreshing his Twitter page. He had seen all the predictions in the hours leading up to the announcement. He had dressed up in his full uniform and bowled in the Indiana Memorial Union Bowling alley for a promotional video. And finally as the New Years…