No thanks on Martinez. Was never impressed with anything he did.
That Penix kid sounds good, I wouldn't mind us landing him, Idk if he can overcome our train wreck at O-line with his injury history though.
Really, I'm glad we're moving on from Penix. Just too injury prone. Probably he contributed to Sheridan's downfall by hurrying him to play before he was completely ready[healthly]
Don’t know much about any of these guys, outside Penix obviously. Which are markedly better than Tuttle?
Lol no that was a joke, because Penix obviously transferred out of Indiana. I agree though he was too injury prone for us to but all of our eggs in the Mike Penix basket for a third straight year, I hope he stays healthy and finishes his career strong, but it was time to move on.
As a QB AM is a mess.
Interesting how many names are still there with spring ball underway. They are not that good? Teams need spring ball to see if they need a QB?
I assume doodle is negative.
Reports out of practice say that Tuttle and Conner are well ahead of the other QBs so thinking they aren't elite may not be true. Tuttle was in the elite QB top 11 camp so those coaches saw him as elite. I agree we haven't seen that from him here at IU but I am hoping he shows it this year or that Connor shows his freshman player of the year in the SEC for the Hoosiers. If Williams or McCulley can beat out either one then we should have an elite QB.
Peyton may have had a ** arm talent, but he had an elite football IQ.
I thought Gremel looked pretty solid when he played. I mean, for a walk-on with no previous D1 experience, he had his moments. He also struggled at times, but that will happen when you're running for your life with no open WRs.
Heard rumors before Spring pracice that McCulley was moving to WR. Obviously, that wasn't true, but with that may QBs on the roster, it could be that he considers a position change. He's got the athleticism.
I always think that when a walk-on plays a significant amount of minutes that he should be considered for a scholarship. Sometimes that happens, but not always.
He's got the athleticism to be a wide receiver, but I'm not writing him off as a QB just yet, his high school tape shows that he has a phenomenal arm, under a solid QB coach, he could develop into something special. Plus in this era, forcing guys to change positions just won't work out, I'm not talking safety to husky, or cornerback to safety, players may even agree with those marginal changes, but QB to WR is a huge change. McCulley was recruited as a QB and with the transfer portal, he would probably just leave and go play QB at a GO5 school if IU moved him to wide receiver.
I agree it's awesome to see walk-ons have success and be rewarded for the hard work they put in, if Spegal gets considerable reps this year even on special teams I think he's earned a scholarship. But IMO, none of our walk ons who got considerable PT last season really earned their minutes in a conventional sense. Gremel beat out a true freshman who didn't even know the whole playbook, and Ervin-Poindexter/Childers also beat out a true freshman, the rest of the guys ahead of them were injured at the end of the year. It's not like Mitchell Paige or AOC who actually earned starting reps over all the guys with a scholarship.
I'm not saying he should or is going to change. I just said I'd been told the rumor by someone who is usually plugged in and that McCulley is athletic.
And Jason Spriggs was a successful tight end at Concord, but made the move to lineman at IU and with the NFL.
Not a fair comparison, Wilbur played in the 1980s, transferring was practically unheard of then, it was a completely different game then. In this era of CFB, successful position changes like that are few and far between, they do happen, but it's much more difficult for them to happen now. All it takes for kids to transfer now is a coach to look at them the wrong way, forcing a kid to switch positions(and not similar positions at that) a year into their career will almost certainly warrant a kid to enter the portal.
WTH DO YOU THINK IT HAS TO DO WITH THIS DISCUSSION, it was a lot easier for coaches to get kids to change positions WHEN THERE WAS NO TRANSFER PORTAL. Jordyn Williams literally transferred because they wanted him to change his position and he had no interest in playing DB. In the 1980s, you just had to listen to your coach if he told you they he thought switching you from QB to WR or WR to DB was best. Today players have so much more leverage, you can tell the staff your playing fill in the blank position whether it's at your current school or not. If the staff knows he's a flight risk to transfer when they propose a position change, they know they're going to need to be absolutely sure about him not working out at QB because there's probably a 50/50 chance in today's CFB that McCulley just says **** playing WR and enters the portal if they propose it.
It is a new situation due to transfer rules. Players have an option now that many thought was too big a cost to do in the past. Getting plyers that have grown up playing a position and dreaming about succeeding at that position. Talk of McCulley changing positions isn't realistic based on last year. People ignore the total SNAFU that was IU's offense last season due to poor coaching of the OC/QB coach. How far back it set the QBs we will see but I hope McCulley can overcome it by this season.
Actually, I think McCulley has a much better shot at the pros as a WR..., especially with our new WR coach tutoring him..., but he'll have to make that decision completely on his own, along with the blessing of his parents, because any other approach will end up with him most likely heading elsewhere in this era of the Portal...
I have no idea why some of our fans act like Bazelak isn't good enough to play here. He did damn well playing in the SEC. If your minimum expectation is "elite" well i don't know what to tell you. If he can throw for 400 against LSU as a freshman, he can sure as hell play at iu. He's likely your starter for the next couple of years.
Yeah, I'm wondering that myself. Unless Tuttle really improves a lot in his decision making, I would think Bazelak would be the starter.
I do think overall he has a better shot at making the NFL if he moves to WR. But I still don't think we've seen nearly enough of him at QB to bail, he is certainly athletic enough to move to WR but the kid was a higher rated recruit out of HS than Lamar, and Lamar was a better athlete, recruiting sites certainly aren't perfect but clearly they believe he's a talented thrower of the football.
I like 400 yd games.
If AT can't win a Heisman at IU, ain't nobody winning a Heisman at IU.
