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Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 idsnews.com
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IU rushing attack in need of improvement By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu @TaylorRLehman
IU ran the ball 40 times in its loss to No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday, and that wasn’t even as many times as it wanted to hand the ball off. The Hoosiers wanted to run the ball 50 times, IU running backs coach Deland McCullough said. That was IU’s game plan against a team that surrendered the fewest rushing yards in the conference and hadn’t allowed a rushing touchdown in five games. IU fell short of the 100yard mark for the first time this season. The Hoosiers recorded 99 yards and averaged less than 2.5 yards per carry. Junior quarterback Richard Lagow threw for only 182 yards, his fewest so far in 2016. “We knew we’d run the ball to establish a mentality and keep the chains moving and not become 100 percent pass-oriented,” McCullough said. “The thing is, when we had the opportunity to keep drives going, it just didn’t happen.” IU Coach Kevin Wilson addressed the play-calling throughout his press conference Monday. The coach said the game plan was to run in the red zone, but “when it doesn’t work, you should always do something else.” The Hoosiers didn’t do something else. They continued to run at the Buckeye defense. After a long 50-yard com-
pletion from Lagow to sophomore receiver Nick Westbrook in the second quarter, IU handed off twice to junior running back Devine Redding at the tackles for a loss of five yards to set up a long third-and-15 in Ohio State territory. IU failed to convert and punted. Down two scores late in the fourth quarter and facing a third-and-1, the Hoosiers ran a rollout pass that fell incomplete. Wilson called a timeout and, after the break, decided on a Redding rush up the middle that failed to move the chains. “For one reason or another, it wasn’t 11 guys playing together, and we didn’t get it done,” McCullough said. In 2014, former Hoosier Tevin Coleman rushed for 228 yards and two touchdowns against Ohio State. In 2015, former IU back Jordan Howard, Redding and then-sophomore quarterback Zander Diamont combined for 177 rushing yards and three touchdowns against the Buckeyes, although 79 came on just one touchdown run by Diamont. Redding amassed 78 yards on 22 carries, a 3.5 yards-per-carry average, Saturday. Freshman Tyler Natee averaged 2.5 yards per carry, sophomore Mike Majette averaged 0.7 yards per carry, and freshman Devonte Williams had one carry for no gain. That was against the ninth-best rushing defense in the nation. Now IU welcomes No. 10 Nebraska, which has
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Devonte Williams sprints the ball down the field against No. 2 Ohio State. Ohio State defeated IU 38-17.
the 55th-best rushing defense in the country, but McCullough said that won’t change anything for the rushing attack. “As far as I’m concerned, we haven’t met the upper end of our standard as running backs, so we’re not in any position to look down on anyone or look at anyone’s ranking,” McCullough said.
“We’re sitting there saying, ‘Man, we got less than 100 yards last week. We’ve scored one rushing touchdown as a group.’” The common factor missing from the previous years is All-America senior guard Dan Feeney and senior tackle Dimitric Camiel on the right side of the offensive line. Feeney has missed the
Hoosier goalkeeper L’Hommedieu named Big Ten Freshman of the Week IU women’s soccer freshman goalkeeper Sarah L’Hommedieu was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Tuesday afternoon. L’Hommedieu received the award as the result of her performances in IU’s last two matches against No. 13 Penn State and No. 24 Rutgers. She made a total of 15 saves in two home matchups against the Nittany Lions and Scarlet Knights. L’Hommedieu is 37th in
the country in total saves with 72, and she has the third-most saves among freshman goalkeepers. In the Big Ten L’Hommedieu is first in total saves and third in saves per game. She averages 5.10 saves per match. This is the second time this season L’Hommedieu has been recognized by the conference. On Aug. 30, L’Hommedieu was named both Freshman of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week for the Big Ten. L’Hommedieu has appeared in 14 of IU’s 15
tion in the rushing attack is just an excuse, and that the running backs need to perform better. “There’s an abundance of reasons for why that happened,” McCullough said about the struggles against Ohio State. “But for whatever reason, when it came to us saying, ‘It’s in our hands,’ we didn’t get it done.”
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past three weeks with a concussion, and Camiel missed the last two with a bulging disc. IU has averaged just 123 yards on the ground in Feeney’s absence, which ranks among the worst in the Big Ten in that span. McCullough and offensive coordinator Kevin Johns both said claiming injuries as a reason for a lack of produc-
matches and logged more than 1,300 minutes in net this season. With four regular season matches remaining, L’Hommedieu’s 72 saves put her 12th in IU history in single-season saves. It is the first time an IU player has received two Freshman of the Week honors in the same season since 2012, when goalkeeper Sarah Stone was recognized twice by the Big Ten as a redshirt freshman. Cameron Drummond
IU teammates recognized with preseason honors From IDS reports
Junior James Blackmon Jr. and sophomore Thomas Bryant were among 10 players named to the Preseason AllBig Ten team, the conference announced Tuesday. Blackmon is coming off knee surgery, which sidelined him for the remainder of last James season after Blackmon Jr.
13 games. Before his injury, he was averaging 15.8 points per Thomas game and shooting 46.3 Bryant percent from the 3-point line. Through two seasons at IU, he’s averaged 15.7 points and 5.0 rebounds per game, and he’s shot 40.9 percent from three. Bryant was named Third Team All-Big Ten and re-
ceived Big Ten All-Freshman honors last season. He shot an IU-record 68.3 percent from the field last year, and averaged 11.9 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes earned the Preseason Player of the Year Award. Bryant and Blackmon will both be present at Big Ten Media Day on Thursday in Washington D.C.
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“We’re all equal,” he said. “Diversity’s great, we need it. At the end of the day, everybody’s equal. We’re one, we have to be one. We’re a unit. We’re a team.” IU Coach Kevin Wilson was behind him, too, and said he’s one of the team’s more mature and intellectual guys. “I think the way he goes about it, and the way he did it, that’s his choice, and I respect he did it in a class way and came out and played a football game,” Wilson said Monday. Back to Kaepernick. Between Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s calling his actions “dumb and disrespectful” and numerous military veterans supporting him, I kind of wavered with how I felt about Kaepernick’s action. But when I heard about Fant’s actions, I had no reservations in supporting him. The First Amendment, despite what some people may think, applies to everyone — white, black, student, real-world adult, Christian, Muslim. So for someone to try to dictate what one person is able to say over another in a situation where nobody is getting hurt is just absurd. As you all learned in your high school government SEE PROTEST, PAGE 12
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Fant has every right to engage in silent protest Once Colin Kaepernick took a knee for the national anthem, I knew it’d make its way to college athletics. After Kaepernick’s protest, the idea spread throughout the NFL and made its way to NCAA football, but not at IU. Memorial Stadium plays the national anthem before the Hoosiers take the field, leaving no chance for public protest. Before the Ohio State game, however, IU was able to stand for the anthem. Junior cornerback Rashard Fant stood with his fist up. Just last week at a Bloomington Faculty Council meeting, Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, a professor in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, asked IU Athletics Director Fred Glass if the department had addressed the Black Lives Matter movement and related protests. “There will be no punishment for someone doing those things,” Glass said. “We won’t deny people the right to do those things.” He said IU is committed to free expression of ideas and “standing for the national anthem is not a rule.” These protests do have to remain within legal boundaries, though. Fant said he did it because it’s something he believed in and wanted to stand up for. “Not big or anything, but something we wanted to bring more awareness and keep the conversation going,” he said. His specific explanation referenced equality.
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