Indiana Physicality

[Bristol Vol]

Indianas linemen looked like lumberjacks! We are a long ways off on overall team strength. Good news if true looking at a change in S&C coaching.

 

[farmdogvol]

Them and Miami both very physical in the trenches. Oregon was more physical on defense today also.

 

[#1fulmerite]

Indianas linemen looked like lumberjacks! We are a long ways off on overall team strength. Good news if true looking at a change in S&C coaching.

May be coming. Seems everyone else has either been pushed or is jumping off the ship, OP.

 

[Special Ed]

Indiana's linemen looked like lumberjacks!

Do they sing like lumberjacks, too?

 

[Rocky Top T]

Against a decent team, our OL is soft and they suck. Keep Jesse Perry and Sanders and go get about 4 stud lineman

 

[hayley]

Did anyone else notice that in the bowl games, you don't see other teams with people down on the field after every play!
We are Soft!!!!!!!!
Hopefully this will change with a New Strength and Conditioning Staff.

 

[posivol]

bunch of white boys playing smart

 

[WaywardVol]

Indianas linemen looked like lumberjacks! We are a long ways off on overall team strength. Good news if true looking at a change in S&C coaching.

Watched them closely and other than all being white, UT had every bit the size. Perry has an NFL level body. Period. Assuming Moe is back and Sanders moves to LT, Perry at RT, Umarov at guard and Sattewhite at center. Elerbee is the problem on the line plain and simple. Got to go there to see real improvement.

 

[vegasvolfan]

Indianas linemen looked like lumberjacks! We are a long ways off on overall team strength. Good news if true looking at a change in S&C coaching.

We need this guy:

Scott Cochran - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Cignetti looks like a psychopath. I bet everybody is scared of that dude.

 

[Volbrando]

it's clear watching the teams in the CFP (well most anyways) that we are soft.

Miami was impressive with how hard they played and hit.

 

[RockyTop140]

I understand Cignetti is a fantastic coach. I don’t understand how it turned this quickly. They on steroids or something?

 

[MDsweetT]

I understand Cignetti is a fantastic coach. I don’t understand how it turned this quickly. They on steroids or something?

He’s won everywhere he’s gone. And he brought a lot of those same players with him. And now they have an Elite QB. Defense is 3 in the country. They’re tough, disciplined, together. They don’t beat themselves.

 

[cyclevol]

I understand Cignetti is a fantastic coach. I don’t understand how it turned this quickly. They on steroids or something?

I would guess that a lot of it is who Indiana is not rather than who they have become. We'll see if they can keep it up in the coming years. Miami, Indiana, and Ole Miss look like the only teams that really showed up for these playoffs. Ohio State played like dogs. I'm sure Bama has more talent and I know UGA does, but however heart matters and the teams that haven't ever been anybody, other than Miami are winning the old fashioned way. They have big chips and play with heart while the other teams thought they could just show up and out-talent them. I don't expect Oregon to survive either. They kicked field goals.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I understand Cignetti is a fantastic coach. I don’t understand how it turned this quickly. They on steroids or something?

It’s simple. He wins. Google him.

 

[Jimmyandjoes]

I understand Cignetti is a fantastic coach. I don’t understand how it turned this quickly. They on steroids or something?

Mark Cuban. He basically told Indiana,I'll cover whatever you need. You coach, I'll pay. Cuban has dozens of businesses that he can filter NIL through.
We basically have Haslem. The Nico situation did not help our money givers want to give more

 

[adam.vol]

Indianas linemen looked like lumberjacks! We are a long ways off on overall team strength. Good news if true looking at a change in S&C coaching.

Probably figured out that cheating wins titles (Michigan) so they went back to the Nebraska model from the 90’s (steroids).

 

[Jimmyandjoes]

We need this guy:

Scott Cochran - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He has a past, good and bad. Won every where he has been.
Not sure how the bad part of his past will play with the TN administration.
Id love for him to be here. S&C have a huge impact on the team and it's structure. They spend lots of time with the players

 

[Rocky Top T]

Cignetti looks like a psychopath. I bet everybody is scared of that dude.

Wish we had him. Nobody scared of our coach

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Wish we had him. Nobody scared of our coach

Lots of winning coaches seem to have that kind of intensity. Saban, Dan Campbell, Vrabel, spurrier, Urban, Kirby, and so on.

 

[Alto1]

Lots of winning coaches seem to have that kind of intensity. Saban, Dan Campbell, Vrabel, spurrier, Urban, Kirby, and so on.

Hard coaching produces results. They demand discipline.
Disciplined teams win, period.

 

[CAVPUT]

Indianas linemen looked like lumberjacks! We are a long ways off on overall team strength. Good news if true looking at a change in S&C coaching.

Again, team reflects the coach and staff.

 

[IndianaVol]

When you look at team stats for IU this year, two things pop off the page:



1) 41 passing TDs with 7 interceptions. That's great ball ball control and play calling discipline.



2) 50 penalties for 380 yards...27 yds per game. That is both sides of the ball combined and speaks to a very highly discplined team.


I haven't looked, but I bet Tennessee hit 380 penalty yards in the first 5 games.

 

[CAVPUT]

When you look at team stats for IU this year, two things pop off the page:



1) 41 passing TDs with 7 interceptions. That's great ball ball control and play calling discipline.



2) 50 penalties for 380 yards...27 yds per game. That is both sides of the ball combined and speaks to a very highly discplined team.


I haven't looked, but I bet Tennessee hit 380 penalty yards in the first 5 games.

Heupel teams have always been highly penalized. He either can't correct it or condones it. Team reflects the coach.

 

[vegasvolfan]

He has a past, good and bad. Won every where he has been.
Not sure how the bad part of his past will play with the TN administration.
Id love for him to be here. S&C have a huge impact on the team and its structure. They spend lots of time with the players

The most consistent thing about his past is his success, not his failures—and he has remedied that situation.