Josh Hoover

But I think overall they're probably still pretty good.

And Josh Hoover is, you know, picking up playing very well to start with.

And he's throwing a bunch of touchdowns.

Charlie Becker looks very good.

It's going to be a well-coached team.

Josh Hoover can get it done on the ground and in the air.

So it's going to be a tough matchup.

The thing about when you're a team that's supposed to go out and dominate teams and you go out and do it, that boosts the confidence of every player on that roster.

That's why I'm shocked that Oregon's own staff did not catch this.

But it's the thing I hear Indiana football coach Kurt Cignetti talk about more than anything else when I've heard him discuss the development of quarterbacks like Curtis Rourke and Fernando Mendoza, who won the Heisman, and now Josh Hoover.

Talk about footwork all the time.

And speaking of Indiana, Oregon hasn't been the same since Indiana crushed them in the Peach Bowl in the college football playoff last December.

It'll get to the schedule.

We'll get a little more challenge, but they're all Josh Hoover at Indiana.

Cupcake, cupcake.

Now get a little bit tougher for them.

He didn't.

Jeff Braum wasn't really happy at times because of that, but then he got it together, and he rallied that team, and he did a really good job.

He's had another uneven performance first half and second half for keen holes then the cupcake but at the end of the day yeah he's a kid i think needs another year and you know just play and he has get together at louisville go back to louisville for another year and and try to become that consistent accurate quarterback then go along with the ability as a dual threat quarterback which keen holes is and we talked about another quarterback you mentioned mensa josh hoover Turned the ball over a lot at TC, right? But cupcake after cupcake so far at Indiana.

He's got the big-time receivers.

So what I want to see with Ohio State and that schedule, you look at it, Kent State, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, and at Indiana, that's at Indiana October 17th.

Josh Hoover, the schedule's going to get a little tougher.

We'll see if Hoover can continue to be red hot.

And that team is loaded with talent.

Well, you just alluded to a couple of things on the offensive side of the football, and that's where I want to go next for Indiana.

What have we seen from Josh Hoover? How did the running game improve in week two? And I have planted my flag that Charlie Becker needs to be in the Heisman conversation.

We talk more about that right after this on this Locked On College Crossover of Hoosiers and the Portals.

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Thank you so much for being here as we're talking Big Tim, Indiana, and everything in between.

And you mentioned Josh Hoover there.

You mentioned the offensive line and the running game.

Coulda gave me a fourth.

Josh Hoover was big, big throw hunting.

That's fine.

I get it.

I think the biggest thing, and I don't know if it's necessarily a surprise, but I think it's just an open question every year that you're in this position.

is just how settled into the offense Josh Hoover already looks.

And I think Kurt Cignetti has made it clear there's still some areas where he needs to improve.

There's still some reads he's missing and things like that.

Of course, Indiana fans will remember, you know, Curtis Rourke did not necessarily have the most auspicious debut.

Neither did Fernando Mendoza.

Um, I don't think Indiana thinks its offense is like a complete article now or that its quarterback is a complete article within that offense, but I think Indiana feels really good, or at least should feel really good, about relative to his predecessors and relative to where he is in the schedule, just how comfortable Josh Hoover already looks with his offense, with his receivers.

He's going to have to continue to improve.