Changes on the Horizon?

Every off-season there are always a few changes. Whether or not it is a coaching change of some sort, a position move, or a change in philosophy. I by no means have any inside information whatsoever but if I had to guess here are a couple of changes that might be made this off season.

1. Tyler Replogle move to MLB- Tyler will be the only returning starting linebacker for the hoosiers next year. Coach Lynch always praises him for having the highest motor on the team and a fantastic work ethic. I think this move would make sense from a leadership perspective. Your MLB needs to be one of the leaders of the defense and since we will have to rely on some young players to fill the other line backing spots, it would make sense for a veteran to take control of the line backing corps.

2. Mitch Evans move to Safety- Mitch has done it all for the hoosiers during his time here. He has played Safety, Quarterback, and Wide Receiver. He played very well this year at both WR and QB when we had the wildcat formation. I really like Ed Wright-Baker as a potential player to run the wildcat next year and eventually be in competition for the starting QB spot so I think it might be advantageous to start getting him onto the field via the wildcat. Our wide receiving corps is a very talented and deep one. We graduate both our starting safeties and next year will have Chris Adkins, Jerimy Finch, Shane Covington, Nick Zachery and a bunch of young players to fill in those spots. I see a similar situation in what happened to Ray Fisher a year ago. He was a great WR but because we needed help at the CB position he made the position switch. We might need some depth and leadership and the safety position next year so it might make sense to move Mitch onto the defensive side of the ball. We return all of our wide receivers from last year and we have a lot of young players who have a ton of potential. Duwyce Wilson was our highest recruited player out of last years class and we have a lot of other younger players like Tyler Adetona, Jamonne Chester, Dre Muhammad, Matt Ernest etc...

3. Shake-up the coordinators- I'm not here to grill our coaching staff. We have had two losing seasons in a row and generally changes are usually made. Coach Lynch and staff have done a great job of upgrading the overall talent of our football team through the recruiting ranks. We still need more depth on this team but I don't think you can say that our team has lacked talent has been the reason why we haven't won more games. We had some very talented players on this years squad and I just feel like they may not have reached their full potential. It may be time to switch it up on the defensive side of the ball just to see if we can make some improvement. We graduate a lot of players on that side this year and next year will have a lot of young faces competing for spots. We will need many players to be coached-up this off season and it might be time for some minor tweaks and changes in the coaching staff to see if we can get many of our players to play to their full potential.

Like I said before I have no inside information here, I am simply just speculating on what could potentially happen. What do you guys think? Agree? Disagree? Any other changes that you think could/should be made?