Notes:
Tom Allen
Tom Allen
- Opening Statement
- Ryan Miller has retired from football because of medicals
- On a waiver to stay on scholarship with the school, and he’ll continue with the program as a student assistant
- “First class individual”
- On a waiver to stay on scholarship with the school, and he’ll continue with the program as a student assistant
- Captains: Noah Pierre, Aaron Casey, Mike Katic, Camp Camper, Andre Carter
- Solid group of guys who have come here and done some really good things
- Camper is sign of toughness
- “Really awesome group of young men”
- On Pierre and Casey being captains
- Took Pierre four years to start a game at IU (at MSU last season). He persevered and was frustrated at times
- Casey took a gradual progression and didn’t have a good ’21 season, but elevated in ’22 after Cam Jones injury
- One of the best honors you can have is being voted a captain by your teammates
- Ryan Miller has retired from football because of medicals
- On second scrimmage
- Objective was to find the travel roster
- Had the objective to do a lot of situational football and end of game details
- Included an overtime period
- Worked on two-minute drill
- On Starting QB
- Have made a decision, will not announce the starter
- Both have worked hard and are impressive in leadership role
- Looking for a guy to command the offense
- Doesn’t want to get into how long the leash for the starting QB
- Bottom line: Need multiple QBs that can help them do what they need to do
- On telling the QBs
- Open, honest conversations with them
- They know where things stand
- Complimented them for the way they handled it
- Strong respect for each other
- Great teammates for one another
- Open, honest conversations with them
- On what led to the QB decision
- When in game-like situations, the starter separated himself
- Overall, two talented QBs who are both young and excited about the opportunity
- Who gives Indiana the best chance to win?
- That’s the deciding factor
- Injury update
- Dexter Williams continues to progress, not much different than last time
- Will not be available for the first few games and won’t dress
- Once he is able to dress, IU will see what he can do from a mobility perspective
- Will not be available for the first few games and won’t dress
- Cam Camper is “ready to go” and should be a Game 1 starter
- There might be a pitch count with Camper, but when he is out there he’ll be a full go.
- Camper has been tackled, and IU “feels good” about that
- Nico Radicic is back kicking after injury
- Dexter Williams continues to progress, not much different than last time
- Position battles
- Will rotate at DL, WR and DB quite a bit
- Look for rotational DBs to be heavily involved in special teams
- Goal is to play a number of guys to keep players fresh
- Still looking to solidify the rotation at various positions
- Been a “healthy” fall camp “overall”
- Having a B1G opponent Week 1 created an urgency is determining position battles because they don’t have the ability to experiment against a lower level opponent
- Sharp is one of the top 2-3 CBs on the team right now and “could” be a starter
- Continuing to develop the technique that is needed and will be tested quite a bit in Week 1
- Will rotate at DL, WR and DB quite a bit
- On kick returns
- Lucas is the primary guy as a KR and PR
- David Holloman is also returning kicks
- Punt Return: difficult task to fulfill
- Duquese Carter, Cam Jordan, Noah Pierre has had an opportunity as well
- Lucas is the primary guy as a KR and PR
- Ohio State preparation
- Began on Wednesday, Aug. 23
- On OSU potentially playing two QBs
- It creates challenges because they are two different QBs
- Have to have plans for each individual
- The skillsets for McCord, Brown are different skillsets
- Have to have plans for each individual
- Bottom line: when you don’t know who is going to be playing, it creates challenges for yourself
- It creates challenges because they are two different QBs
