Player Notes

‘BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football is getting its own dedicated weight room in Memorial Stadium’s North End Zone facility.The project is in the planning phases with the university hoping to have it completed by early 2024, according to a release put out by the athletic department.Memorial Stadium currently houses the football team's training facilities, staff and administrative offices, position meeting ...

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football coach Tom Allen’s on-field assistant coaches will make just shy of $4.7 million dollars in 2023.The university provided the contracts of Allen’s three offseason hires to The Herald-Times in response to a public records request.Co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Matt Guerrieri will make $575,000 ($400,000 base salary and $175,000 in outside, marketing and promotional ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Illinois football fans, you need to learn some new TV channels.In: CBS, NBC and Peacock.Status quo: BTN, Fox and FS1.Forget about them: ABC and ESPN.The Big Ten’s monster TV deal starts during the 2023 season and kicks into full gear in 2024. For anyone older than 50 (my hand shoots into the air), it provides an unreal amount of coverage. Hate to write this, but when I was a kid, a game ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Johnny Newton and Keith Randolph Jr. shared a quick moment not long after they got to field level at Lucas Oil Stadium on Wednesday morning to coordinate Big Ten media day schedules.Not that the Illinois defensive tackles would be separated all that often.The occasional individual interviews happened. Newton and Randolph had their own platforms — more dais than podium — for 30 minutes ...

MOSCOW – After an impressive debut season as Idaho’s head coach, Jason Eck heads into Year 2 with confidence in several position groups and question marks at a few other spots.The Vandals enjoy a star-studded corps of skill players. They have some proven members of the offensive line, but some uncertainty up front.On defense, Idaho is led by a handful of talented returners in its secondary. The Vandals’ ...

StaffHOUSTON – University of Houston sophomore wide receiver Matthew Golden has been named to the watch list for 87th Maxwell Award, bestowed annually to the college football player of the year, the Maxwell Football Club announced Monday.The accolade is the latest for Golden following the Houston native's breakout freshman campaign. The Klein Cain product was named to the Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big ...

HOUSTON – University of Houston senior Gavin Gately has been named to the Patrick Mannelly Award watch list, honoring the nation's top long snapper, announced Monday.Gately is among 25 Division I student-athletes on the watch list and one of two long snappers competing for a Texas program (TCU's Brent Matiscik). A full list of Houston Football preseason honors can be found here.The award, created in ...

This is the eighth in a nine-part position-by-position series analyzing the Georgia Tech roster continuing with a look at linebackers for the Yellow Jackets. Players report for preseason practice Monday, and the first practice is Tuesday.Tech certainly has some important questions to answer when it comes to linebacker spots. First-year assistant Kevin Sherrer, who has coached the position with the ...

This is the final installment in a nine-part position-by-position series analyzing the Georgia Tech roster continuing with a look at the secondary for the Yellow Jackets. Players report for preseason practice today and the first practice is tomorrow.If there was a strength of the Tech defense in 2022 it was the secondary.The Jackets ranked 47th nationally in team passing efficiency defense and 46th ...

He doesn’t need help running or organizing his team’s first workout. He won’t need to be reminded where to go or what to do or how to look.t’s all aboutrst I’ve been through these last nine, 10 months,” Key said. “I’m very, ‘OK, let me observe, let me feel it out, let me make sure.’ So I know I’ll be that same way as practice goes early on. ‘Ya’ll gotta cover it up for me. You got to make up with the ...