Return to the Glory Days: An Indiana Hoosiers Dynasty

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WEEK 13 NEWS

Around the NCAA

• #18 Boston College knocks North Carolina from Top 25 in 36-20 win.
• LSU ends 5 game losing streak with win over #16 Mississippi 21-17.
• #13 Illinois heads to Ohio to face #8 Cincinnati.
• #7 Georgia wins 45-42 in overtime against Kentucky.

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HEISMAN WATCH
BIG 10 STANDINGS

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Indiana Recruiting Update

[goDawgs1433]

Step up your recruiting game, son.

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That dude went for the soft for Purdue even though you beat them? That still doesn't make any sense to me. Good win Pack.

i guess he wants to be an engineer or something

Step up your recruiting game, son.

lol, im pretty bad at recruiting. at least i got some nice 4 and 3 star recruits earlier

[Proof21]

Yea dude recruiting cane be tough..how do you call recruits? I almost call each recruit instead of doing the quick call, seems to give me better recults. Keep up the good work man!

[packersfan4eva]

Yea dude recruiting cane be tough..how do you call recruits? I almost call each recruit instead of doing the quick call, seems to give me better recults. Keep up the good work man!

i call people and hard sell until their interest is all the way up (or until they start to get mad)

i'll have an update soon

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Indiana Heads into Bye Week Happy

Bloomington, IN - Finally, after 12 straight weeks of football, the Indiana Hoosiers get a break in the form of their first bye week.

"This is like the happiest day of my life," said Demetrius McCray. "After 12 F***in weeks of football, I finally get a break. Even if it's only for 2 weeks. I mean, two weeks is better than no weeks."

The Hoosiers bye week marks the end of their regular season, as they have no more regular season games. Their next game? A Bowl Game, for the 2nd time in 3 years. But that's not the point of this story. The main point is that with no football game this Saturday, coach Anthony Thompson can finally focus on one thing only; recruiting. And boy, has he done a good job of that. 13 weeks into the season, the Hoosiers have the 2nd most recruits in the nation and the 15th overall recruiting class so far (they'll drop lower once the off-season starts, but that doesn't matter).

"I haven't had a lot of time to focus on my recruits this season, but these next two bye weeks will give me a huge amount of time to contact the people who are going to go to IU," Thompson told reporters early this morning. "I have been having to rush calls to players in between practices and games, and I think they might be getting angry at me for that. So now, I have got all the time in the world."

Indiana has this week and next week off, then an undetermined amount of time until a bowl game. In other words, only 1 game left for the Hoosiers, and no one knows when it will be.

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WEEK 14 NEWS

Around the NCAA

• Texas A&M upsets #11 Texas 17-14 in overtime.
• #1 Oklahoma keeps undefeated season alive in 27-20 win versus #20 Oklahoma State
• #14 Georgia Tech falls at home to #4 Georgia 21-24.
• #9 West Virginia heads to New Jersey to face #19 Rutgers

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HEISMAN WATCH
BIG 10 STANDINGS

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im gonna have an interview with coach thompson about the upcoming bowl game, their season, recruiting, etc. if u guys could pm me a lot of questions tonight, that would be great

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your team played well in my chise Indiana got all the way to like a 5th ranking then fell to like 9 at end of season.

seriously? in most people's chises, the hoosiers go like 3-9 or 2-10. except in 09. in ncaa 09, every time u did a dynasty, indiana started the season 7-0.

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Indiana Recruiting Update

Commitments

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THE ANTHONY THOMPSON RADIO SHOW

Anthony Thompson: Hello, and welcome to "The Anthony Thompson Radio Show." It's me, Anthony Thompson, head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers. And beside me is John Stark, my assistant. Tonight, I will be taking questions from a few lucky fans. So John, who is our first lucky guest?

John Stark: Our first question today is from Timmy, asking, "Coach, Indiana has made only 1 Rose Bowl in its history, and that was in 1967. Do you think that your team next year has the potential to make a Rose Bowl run?

Anthony Thompson: Well Timmy, that is a great question. I think in the future, we can be contenders for a Rose Bowl. After a few years in which I have recruited my own players, I think that I can set up a playbook that will dominate opponents, and we will be Big 10 Champions. Next year, probably not. Maybe 2nd or 3rd in the Big 10. 3 or 4 years from now? I think we probably will win the Big 10 by then.

John Stark: Our next question is also from Timmy, asking,"Coach Thompson, are there any steps you are taking to make sure that Indiana remembers deceased former Head Coach Terry Hoeppner?"

Anthony Thompson: I am desperately trying to put him in the Indiana Hall of Fame, even though he didn't coach for very long. He turned the Hoosiers around with his great play-calling and recruiting skills. Some of the stars of the Indiana Hoosiers football team were recruited by Hoeppner. Without his brief tenure at Indiana, we would be struggling to win 3 or 4 games. Thanks to him, we made it to a Bowl Game this year. Also, I am trying to make a "Hoeppner Day," in which fans are allowed on the field and we remember his coaching days. I am currently making a slide show about him so if my wish is granted, I can show it on Hoeppner Day.

John Stark: Our next question is from Packersfan4eva, asking, "You are expected to play Miami in a bowl game. How do you plan to stop them?

Anthony Thompson: To be honest, I haven't scouted the Hurricanes yet. I have no idea what game we will go to, so I am going to wait and see who we play before I start evaluating a team. Say we don't play Miami. I have just spent 2 weeks scouting them for nothing. I don't want to take any chances of that happening.

John Stark: So you have no idea what to do against the Hurricanes?

Anthony Thompson: Correct.

John Stark: Interesting. We will have two more questions, both from Packersfan4eva. It seems that other listeners need to step it up, as we only had 2 people asking questions. Packersfan4eva asks us, "What's the hardest part about recruiting high school kids?"

Anthony Thompson: That's a tough question. To me, I think the hardest part is keeping the recruits happy. Some recruits you can call once every 5 weeks and they stay happy. Others, if you don't call every week, they get angry and will probably turn you down. And sometimes, it takes a while to figure out which guy gets angry and which guy doesn't. If you don't figure it out quickly, you are in trouble.

John Stark: Our final questions, also from Packersfan4eva, asks, "What's your favorite part of being a college football head coach?"

Anthony Thompson: I don't have a favorite part. I love every single minute of coaching, no matter what it is. So I guess my answer would be everything.

John Stark: Well, that's all of our time today. I'm John Stark along side Anthony Thompson, head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers, and you are listening to the Anthony Thompson Radio Show on FM 105.1.

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Nice job getting 3 4*'s with Indiana

thanks for followin soldier. im gonna skip week 15, since nothing happens -- AT ALL -- so i'll have the week 16 update (1st week of bowl games) later today

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WEEK 16 NEWS

Conference Championship Scores

• BIG 12 - #2 Oklahoma beat Kansas 43-29.
• ACC - #8 Georgia Tech beats #15 Maryland 37-20
  
• SEC - #1 Florida beats #9 Alabama 52-24
• C-USA - Houston beats Marshall 34-10
• MAC - Central Michigan beats Buffalo 44-16

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Final Big 10 Standings

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