Jared Dawson, 6-2, 305lbs. DT from Louisville. A productive DT who had his best season this past year. Has one year of eligibility left.
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IU Adds To Portal Class: Mitch McCarthy, UCF Punter, Commits to Hoosiers — Hoosier Huddle
Written by: TJ Inman The Indiana Hoosiers kicked off the portal season with the commitment of running back Lee Beebe from UAB and they continued it with a different kind of kicking as former UCF punter Mitch McCarthy joined the IU program as the second commit in the portal class. McCarthy has one y
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Welcome Mitch McCarthy!
Sounds like our kind of player:
Looks like we lost Javon Tracy to Minnesota. I was really hoping to get him.
I did some research on the stats to compare him to James Evan’s and it appears they are almost identical in stats. As I was looking at James Evan’s stats over his 4 years I noticed this year he has punted over half as much as he did in any of the prior 3 years. Also, prior to this year the stats show he never had a punt downed inside the 20. This year he has 10 which is 1/3 of his punts. Just a great indicator imo to show how much better this team is.
Last year he would've needed a minimum 60 yard punt to have it downed inside the 20.
I think that stat has to be wrong though. Surely he had some every year.
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I went by the career stats on ESPN. I saw it mentioned that ESPNs stats were off from other stat sources. So, it could be. I actually thought the same thing tbh.
Those stats have to be incorrect... I'm certain I've seen his punts downed inside the twenty on multiple occasions over the past couple of years...
Now this isn't an issue I care enough to carry on any major argument over but I'm just pointing out that your stat source is flawed...
It's understandable... Our own official stats (in Game Notes) show no Onside Kicks having been attempted this year while we all know that we did attempt one against Ohio $tate...
lol. Why would we need to argue about it? I said where the stats came from. You can see them for yourself at the link below. I have no idea if the stats are accurate. You would think espn would be a reliable source though. I did see someone complaining that the stats espn used for Ashton jeanty weren’t what was captured by pff. So, I’m not disagreeing at all. It is a strange stat and I thought I saw some inside the 20 in years past too, but idk.
James Evans - Indiana Hoosiers Punter - ESPN
View the profile of Indiana Hoosiers Punter James Evans on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
lol. Why would we need to argue about it? I said where the stats came from. You can see them for yourself at the link below. I have no idea if the stats are accurate. You would think espn would be a reliable source though. I did see someone complaining that the stats espn used for Ashton jeanty weren’t what was captured by pff. So, I’m not disagreeing at all. It is a strange stat and I thought I saw some inside the 20 in years past too, but idk.
James Evans - Indiana Hoosiers Punter - ESPN
View the profile of Indiana Hoosiers Punter James Evans on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.www.espn.com
Here's a much more accurate source... (Never take anything that big media tells you at face value, or..., as RR 🇺🇸 used to say: "Trust but Verify" 😉).
James Evans - Football - Indiana University Athletics
James Evans (94) P - Career Notes & Records Played his first downs of American football at Iowa (9/4/21) in the 2021 season opener ... pinned 20 career punts...
He's had multiple punts downed inside the 20 for multiple years (and even that source might be off 1 or 2)...
Good thing you caught that ESPN error, if an NFL GM's office underling is using those numbers to cull the Punters asked to Camp then Evans might just get screwed... He needs to contact the ESPN stat department pronto...
Notice the size of our transfer ST kickers, punter Mitch McCarthy is 230 & K/O specialist, Brendan Franke is 255! They might play other positions too, lol.
Good replacement for James Carpenter. Hosea Wheeler from Western Kentucky commits.
It says he signed in the tweet. So we are free to celebrate! No "commit" when they could sign nonsense.
I wonder if there is anything more on the tweet regarding Dawson. If they are both on board then I would assume we are done with interior line, and I would be ecstatic with the pick ups.
The guy from On3 that reported on Beebe also noted he signed. Specifically a separate tweet after the recent news noting that he signed, not just committed. So IDKWTH is going on there.
Wheeler really, really fits an important need for the defense. Besides his 74 tackles, he had 5TFL 2 sacks & 2 blocked FG's. His recruitment allows Indiana to play with the big boys again. GO HOO-HOO-HOOSIERS!
Jared Dawson, Santana Hopper, & Alex Wollschlaeger, & Fernando Mendoza come on down. Let's roll'em
Big pick up! Plus I love that we plucked him out of UK and Louisville’s backyard. Now if Dawson can follow suit then that will be even sweeter.
Now hoping we see some rumblings on the BG OT. I won’t even begin to approach his last name without a 3rd cup of coffee in me.
Hmm... yea I see that. If he did sign, I see speculation IU could release him or he could go into the spring portal. Idk I give up.
Who is running this show: Transfer portal active while games still being played, 6-7th year players, you can commit and sign but then decommit, top teams in playoff not given first round byes, visiting teams not getting more ticket allotments, 3 week layoff before playoff starts, NIL gone wild.
Yeah, I am wrong. Which makes sense...you'd have to have one after spring ball. Maybe there was another window that was eliminated.
EDIT: There was a recommendation to eliminate the spring portal, which was not adopted.
It looks like Alex Wollschlaeger committed to UK.
Washington State qb to the portal. He’s was responsible for 40+ Tds I think? Wow.
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This year he threw for 3,129 yds with 29 TD’s and 7 INT’s pretty impressive stats
ESPZYN said the Washington State QB is going to Oklahoma. And Wollschlaeger signed with Kentucky.
Crappy teams are landing good players. IU better start throwing some money around.
Crappy teams are landing good players. IU better start throwing some money around.
Indiana better not take their Portal offers for granted. Let's close on our wants!
It's tough to recruit when you are trying to focus on the biggest game in IU football history. I wish there was a better way to do this with the portal timing.
I'd agree but, in the end, we are just one of 12 teams in this same boat. It's easier to get frustrated and blame the system but let's let that piece sort itself out while we focus on what we can do. We are also only one of 12 teams that can use it to our advantage as a live recruiting tool.
