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- Thread starter Baller23Boogie
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Recruiting Indiana is and will be much tougher in the near future, unfortunately.
When was the last impactful player IU had from the state? It hasn’t done much for IU. Even years we did well in-state recruiting, 90% of them didn’t pan out. Winning the state in recruiting means squat for IU. Would rather roll the dice outside of Indiana.
absolutely. our recruiters need to park themselves down south and stay there.
Probably Reese Taylor and Peyton Hendershot, and I’m not sure we get either of those kids today.
Don't count McCulley out just yet.
To keep this in context, TA has focused on FL among other southern states. Indiana's crop is typically thin with competition from Ahia, Mich, MSU, ND and even purdue. A good season this year and our harvest of Indiana talent should improve.
I agree with your position, people that want Indiana players can't name many that pan out for any school ie look at the QBs going to Clemson, Michigan, etc.
He and his pu buddy tried to turn it into a knock on IU but it was a backfield fumble fail.
I get that Indiana has never been a great high school football state, but it would’ve been nice to get some O and D linemen like Deontae Craig, Joey Tanona, Blake Fisher, Justin Britt, Gus Hartwig, Joe Strickland and Caden Curry. All of those kids either are or will be major contributors for their programs, and they all play at positions where we’ve not been very good.
You can move onto yet another user name... We all know who you are...
Would be happy to talk Indiana football with you but if that’s not something you want to do, please don’t respond to my posts anymore or just put me on ignore. Not going to keep responding to the attacks, especially if you aren’t able to give any factual feedback. Thanks.
Please post how much they have played and what schools they are playing at to see they are major players. A few in the past have been but not many so don't just make claims.
Tanona and Fisher are at Notre Dame (Fisher will start this year), Curry is a new recruit to Ohio State, Hartwig will be a second year OL starter at PU, Strickland a new recruit at PU, Craig and Britt both start or playa great deal at Iowa. Again, these are guys who are already contributing big minutes or will be. Are all from the Indy area and well known former high schoolers there. We tried to recruit all of them.
IU gets first L of the season
Their top recruit, Daeh McCullogh, decommits. Tough loss as it will be no shock if his sibling leave IU too. Gotta be a big blow after already not having a televised spring game so no one could see the “exciting” Walt Bell offense
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Speaking of "talking IU FB" this kern County fellow does it a lot
The mass exodus from the RevCoach Leo’s program continues. He won’t be the last. The 15,000 season ticket holders and their 500 tailgating friends probably aren’t even aware. Hopefully Indinia extends The Rev well into the future. Our DL coach is loving this.
~Kern County/Birnk403/and...
Britt never had a offer from CTA's staff. His offer was from Wilson's staff and Greg Frey.
True but IU got some guys during the same time period from the state:
DJ Moore, Omar Cooper, McCollough, Josh Sales, Cooper Jones, McCulley.
IU just doesn’t develop them, for whatever reason.
That may be the stupidest thing you've posted to date (which is Really saying something!) given that the first three you listed have yet to go thru a single Spring or Fall practice and of the next three, Jones Redshirted last fall so it's impossible to get any read at this point on his "development", Sales Redshirted last fall but looked good in his only snaps against Idaho, and McCulley was thrown in the fire with zero real prep as a true Freshman with absolutely no real chance to "develop" by an OC/QB coach who was fired for his incompetence...
Get back to us three years from now and we'll have a legitimate discussion as to who has "developed" and who hasn't...
Along with Jackskip23 and potfhbtfuIU gets first L of the season
Their top recruit, Daeh McCullogh, decommits. Tough loss as it will be no shock if his sibling leave IU too. Gotta be a big blow after already not having a televised spring game so no one could see the “exciting” Walt Bell offense
Speaking of "talking IU FB" this kern County fellow does it a lot
The mass exodus from the RevCoach Leo’s program continues. He won’t be the last. The 15,000 season ticket holders and their 500 tailgating friends probably aren’t even aware. Hopefully Indinia extends The Rev well into the future. Our DL coach is loving this.
~Kern County/Birnk403/and...
One Strange Cat...
The guy posts under multiple names on both boards...
At least as Kern County & pothhfbtfu over on the p u board he was being honest as to his allegiances...
What kind of nut would bother...?
Only a purdue fan...
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All new guys for the most part, with no opportunity to show whether they can play or not. The guys I named, and it was only a very partial list, have mostly shown they can play. On the bigger issue, which few seem to care about, is just to get players good enough to make us competitive in the conference. We have a ways to go, it appears.
Go Hoosiers.
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This is really disturbing to say the least, as is another post someone has called to my attention. Sorry for your troubles..
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There have been plenty, but not QB. Indiana QBs don't really pan out. Give me a QB from TX any day over an IN QB. No matter the stars.
However, I would have liked to get David Bell (2019 class). Surprisingly, PU's 3 draftees were all Indiana HS players: Karlaftis, Bell, Horvath.
Would have loved to see a healthy Penix and Bell playing together. I questioned Bell's decision of pu over IU at the time, but as Penix's situation unfolded, he actually made the better decision.
The Avon kid who first went to UM and then Illinois was okay, but was Rex Grossman the last really good Indiana quarterback the state has produced? Karlaftis was always going to PU, and we weren’t ever really in it for Bell, who was infatuated with Brohm. And didn’t we offer Horvath a preferred walk on spot as a linebacker but Purdue said he could play running back? Hard to blame either side for that. It’s not always an exact science (ask Stevie Scott).
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Ding. Just to keep this fact based; IU was definitely in the running for Bell and finished second. It was curious choice at the time given the comparative QB situations but given the way Penix played out it was probably best although PR was still better than anybody PU had at the time.
Well this is nothing new at all. IU has always lost in-state recruits, during bowl years and non-bowl years. Mallory lost kids left and right. Michigan and Illinois cleaned house during his time here.
Yeah….I wasn’t talking about those guys. I was talking about those from in-state prior to that batch that haven’t panned out. The OP brought up a series of names indicating that IU could have used them. It’s not like we didn’t land Indiana kids.
Probably Jay Cutler at Vandy is the last successful Indiana produced QB that I can think of.
Four 3* FL kids. TA has done well down there, the HS coaches know and trust him.
Mal never ceded the state, though he was often superior at developing those kids he did get. Like I said, it’s understandable that we’ll lose kids to ND and Ohio State. Its even reasonable to understand that we don’t have and wouldn’t invest recruiting resources at places like Zionsvile, where both Tanona and Hartwig are from. But we’ve lost kids too contributing many kids to the Iowas and Purdues of the world, and that shouldn’t happen, especially when we haven’t even been in the mix for any of those players. As long as we compete and have a chance to win, this is all moot.
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You specifically listed them... 🙄🙈
Like interacting with a 2 year old... but, but, but "I wasn't talking about Those guys"...
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If you're not actually a p u fan you should just take the leap and head there... You're already 90% of the way there...
He isn't a pu fan but ironically is perfectly in lock step on every post with the one who is.
Good catch, and he was rejected by all three BT schools with whom there was, at one time, mutual interest. Gotta love that one of them rejected two guys who ended up being NFL starters, including a first ballot HOFer.
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