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Curt Cignetti expects QB Josh Hoover to play and perform better for No. 4 Indiana despite injury · Best of: Features

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  Curt Cignetti expects quarterback Josh Hoover to play and perform better for
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  number four Indiana despite injury. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. Indiana coach
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  Kurt Chignetti said Monday he expects quarterback Josh Hoover to start and
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  deliver a better performance when the fourth ranked Hoosiers host Minnesota on
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  Saturday. Hoover played through a right arm injury last weekend at Michigan,
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  and he didn't look the same. The former TCU star was just
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  eight of eighteen for eighty one yards with no touchdowns, and through
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  his first interception of the season. Hoover scored the winning touchdown on
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  a four yard run in overtime to give Indiana its first victory
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  at Michigan, thirteen six since nineteen sixty seven. It's also the first
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  time the Hoosiers have won two straight in the series since nineteen
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  fifty eight to fifty nine. Clearly, though, Hoover was not himself. I
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  expect him to be fine and better this week, Signetti said Monday.
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  Quite frankly, in practice last week, the past game, we weren't very
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  good, and I expect it to be better this week. Hoover was
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  injured during the second half of the Hoosiers previous games a nineteen
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  fifteen loss to then number four Ohio State. He left briefly, returned
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  and nearly rallied the Hoosiers seven and one, four and one Big
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  Ten, from a twelve point deficit in the fourth quarter. The loss
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  ended a twenty two game winning streak and a nineteen game home
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  winning streak, the two longest active streaks in the football bowl subdivision.
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  Last weekend's win allowed Indiana to avoid losing back to back games
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  for then first time in Signetti's three seasons in Bloomington. Following the
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  game, Hoover downplayed the impact the injury had against the Wolverines. Skignetti
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  acknowledged the game plan called for a more run heavy offense against
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  the Wolverines, and coaches considered pulling Hoover and going with seventh year
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  quarterback Grant Wilson, but they decided against it, and Hoover delivered with
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  a twenty one yard pass to Charlie Becker on the first play
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  of overtime to set up this winning score. The defense then stopped
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  Michigan to preserve the victory. It was a tough week, Hoover said
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  Saturday. This is a tough league and that's something everybody goes through.
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  I think people sometimes don't understand what it looks like to come
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  out here and play every single week. There's going to be weeks
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  you don't feel good, but at the end of the day, I
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  love this team. I love these guys. I had to battle through
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  some things this week to get out here. Saturday, and I knew
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  I was going to find a way to get out here, And
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  find a way to win this game for this team, regardless of
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  how I feel. Signetti expects nothing less from his quarterback against the
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  Golden Gophers, five and two, three and one, who have won four
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  of five but suffered their only loss during that stretch, a forty
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  one thirteen drubbing at Purdue on their first trip to the state
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  of Indiana his season. He also expects his receivers to give Hoover
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  more help. We didn't separate at receiver in this game Signetti said
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  Monday, and we obviously didn't throw the ball very well or often,
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  and a lot of that was because of the type of game
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  it became. Hoover threw two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter to
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  rally the Hoosiers from a two-score deficit at Nebraska in week six,
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  and suffered a cut nose in the season opener when a defensive
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  player yanked his face mask in his first start at Indiana. Hoover
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  is the successor to last year's Heisman Trophy winner, Fernando Madoza, and
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