Start of fall camp

Hello everybody, I am back from vacation and getting excited for the season to start. Yesterday was the first day of fall practice for the hoosiers. If you haven't seen pictures they are sporting some new practice uniforms that are looking pretty good. It was also the first time that the players and coaches are using all of the new tools in the north end-zone. All of the weights are almost done being put into the weight room and the players had their first meeting in the new meeting rooms. Here are a few notes from the first day of practice:

-Secondary coach Joe Palcic was thrilled to have both Austin Thomas and Nick Polk back at 100%. Nick said that he knee feels perfectly fine.

-Everybody was pretty much back onto the field except Fred Jones (foot injury) and Alex Perry (knee injury). Both of them have pretty minor injuries and should be fine.

-At this point everybody kind of wonders what freshman might be able to make in instant impact and one of the names that is surfacing is Duwyce Wilson. He had a pretty good first day of practice.

-Chappel was clearly the best players on the offensive side of the ball. This is a pretty encouraging sign because he needs to have a good year if we want to make some noise.

-There are new videos up on iuhoosiers.com of Fred Glass and Bill Lynch visiting Joe's Bar on Weeds Street downtown Chicago a week or so ago. Jeremy Gray will also be interviewing many players throughout the next couple of days as practice gets underway.

Here are some pictures from day 1 thanks to the heraldtimes online.