Get Ready for Some Football!

You know the season is so close when Coach Lynch holds his pre-game press conference. Generally these are done on Tuesday's of game weeks but because we will have opening kickoff on a Thursday it got moved up a few days.

The other day the hoosiers were practicing there pre-game festivities at the stadium. These things include how they will run out into the stadium, where they come out from etc... A writer from Rivals.com talked about how there were going to be tons of changes to the game-day atmosphere at Memorial Stadium next year. I have talked to the VP or Marketing (Patrick Kraft) a few times and we talked about how it would be a great idea to blow off tons of fireworks as the team enters the field accompanied by some great pump up music. Even though when the team was walking through the pre-game festivities and did not come out to fireworks yet, the writer from rivals said that the noise level was so loud he could hear it perfectly from inside his kitchen in Elletsville, Indiana (roughly 7.7 miles away). I can't wait to feel the electricity and excitement when the hoosiers run onto the field with fireworks blasting, music blaring and tons of other amenities. The atmosphere is going to be 100% different next year and if you go to a home game I guarantee you will be hooked on coming back to Memorial Stadium every Saturday.

On a different note, the coaching staff had to announce the 2-deep for each position. Even though they can still make a few chances before the first game they needed to get something down on paper. A few interesting notes:

The first string running back was Demetrius Mccray followed by Darius Willis as the back-up.

Deonte Mack was not listed as a starter at DT but instead will move around the line and play both DT and DE at times.

Adam Follet was listed as the #2 QB but Ed Wright-Baker has really made a push through the depth chart and could move up to Chappell's backup. This just brings into question whether or not you waste a redshirt year for a kid who probably won't play a whole lot.

Coach Lynch said that this year's freshman class has a few people who can see the field. He said that without question Adam Replogle will see the field extremely early at DT. This kid was highly rated out of high school having offers from Boston College, Illinois, Iowa, NC State, Northwestern, Pitt, and West Virginia. The future is very bright at DT with him and our three redshirt freshman (Black, Mentzer, Sliger)

I hope you guys can all come out and support the hoosiers this year. The stadium looks incredible and the game day atmosphere is going to be 10x better. It will truely be a great experience. The administration has made a ton of changes for the game day experience but I'm wondering what you guys think would really help boost attendance up?