KW didn’t try to shorten games per se, but he relied on a ground first attack that sought to win TOP, and our offensive results showed how well that can work.
Jackson has to be the starter, right?
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Tore his ACL before the Penn St game last year. Had FCS interest until they found out he was injured.
When he played against PU, he looked better than the other QBs looked for the 2nd half of the season.
Agreed and he was fairly mobile. Again, Allen's choice of QB is puzzling, to say the least.
If it's sorsby why wouldn't they announce that? Doesn't Allen do this every year? He keeps everything secret for the first game.
In terms of his knowledge of the playbook, that’s true. Otherwise, that was not the case.
OSU hasn't named a starter either which is why this ongoing nonsense about IU not naming someone is even more hilarious.
I get that. We cannot go three and out or even two quick series and drag the defense back out.
The OL will be the key all season.
Not funny but funny. I thought it killed him.
I think past history has to give you some doubts about identifying talent. Dexter and Jaylin didn't see the field for a long time last year. Plus one OL who I can't remember his name. And also when to pull a guy when it's time like our QB last year.
I’m still not convinced DW isn’t a one-trick pony
That's what I mean - they can't have much confidence in their ability to identify QB talent after the last couple years.
I answered that to someone else.....because I think they're waiting as long as they can for Jackson to take the job.
NO! He starts IF he earns it. Worst case scenario, garbage time starts in the third quarter.
I don’t disagree. But I think the transfer portal changes the calculus on all of this. You never know what they tell these guys to get them here. Just MHO.
I am not sold on coach Bell yet but giving him this year with a QB to see how good a OC.
Having a head coach essentially turn over one side of the ball to a coordinator and the position coaches is a precarious practice under the best of circumstances, so we shouldn’t be surprised that the results haven’t been very good.
So CTA has made his decision on the starting QB, but of course he isn’t saying anything. At least they are giving the winner a lot of time to prep for OSU.
That would make sense.
I'm sure whoever is getting the most reps will leak out soon.
I’m less concerned about who the starting QB is than about how often that player will be running for his life behind IU’s offensive line, especially in Game 1.
I’m not one of those people who assumes or expects that, just because CTA hired Bostad, IU,s problems with its OL play are now totally—or even mostly—fixed. At Wisky Bostad was working with more talented, higher-rated players and coaching them in a more traditional, mostly “non-Spread” blocking system.
IMO It remains to be seen how well Bell and Bostad can mesh, particularly when IU has to open its season one more time against tOSU instead of someone like, say, Indiana State or Akron.
I’m not one of those people who assumes or expects that, just because CTA hired Bostad, IU,s problems with its OL play are now totally—or even mostly—fixed. At Wisky Bostad was working with more talented, higher-rated players and coaching them in a more traditional, mostly “non-Spread” blocking system.
IMO It remains to be seen how well Bell and Bostad can mesh, particularly when IU has to open its season one more time against tOSU instead of someone like, say, Indiana State or Akron.
Yes that’s what CTA said was going to happen last week. Clearly he understood getting two weeks of prep time was better than waffling on the choice,
Didn’t he miss his senior year of football due to injury? So his first live football in two years as a true freshman against that Penn State team? Some people just don’t have a brain.
I think what makes him suspect is his performance in his first game and and Dexter's performance in his first game.
Dexter just looked more in control, and was effective. Sorsby was like a deer in the headlights.
I hope whoever gets the job, they'll be more prepared. If it's Sorsby, so be it. At this point, no one except the team and staff knows who looks better in practice.
I agree with what you have said here DANC. Practice often doesn't show the best player so I hope Bell doesn't stick with the wrong choice too long like last year
I predict both will play. IU’s QBs either get dinged up or just plain beat to hell.
