Indiana football fans always seem to be waiting to have the rug pulled out from under them when success comes, but these Hoosiers are solid, grounded and set up for success.
PASADENA, Calif. – Although I’ve only covered Indiana football for two seasons in my current duties covering the Hoosiers, I’ve been around the state of Indiana for a long time. I moved to Indiana in 1986.Indiana fans are always hopeful. They pine for that day that will come that will finally establish themselves as a successful football school. When the Hoosiers show the tiniest sign of success? The fans are ready to believe this is going to be the time it lasts.
Perhaps the worst cartoon anvil Indiana fans endured was in 2021. Indiana showed great promise under Tom Allen in the 2019 season and then followed it up with a very memorable 2020 campaign, one in which the Hoosiers contended for the Big Ten title. It’s only natural that a fair share of Indiana fans were going to reserve judgment until Indiana’s game at UCLA. While this isn’t a vintage Bruins team, at least Indiana could measure itself against a peer school.
It was the very definition of a solid win. Indiana moved the sticks, prevented UCLA from doing the same, and never looked rattled. Defensively, Indiana has to calibrate the toughness versus penalty factor, but the biggest contributors here – linebacker Aiden Fisher, linebacker Jailin Walker, defensive end Mikail Kamara, defensive tackle James Carpenter, cornerback D’Angelo Ponds – are all forged in winning ways they learned at James Madison.
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