Latest / The Central Indiana Sports Report / IU-Penn State Preview with Grant Shouse, Mike Hutsell & Michelle Garmon (2.79.1)
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- 0:06[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back.
- 0:06[SPEAKER_02]: I use fans to a special edition of the IE report tonight.
- 0:11[SPEAKER_02]: My name is Grant Charles.
- 0:12[SPEAKER_02]: My cutthills here.
- 0:13[SPEAKER_02]: Michelle Garmin, who is going to be playing substitute with us here this weekend is on with us for our preview as we.
- 0:23[SPEAKER_02]: get ready for Indiana and Penn State on Saturday and guys every game, the stakes are mounting more and more each game and this one has a lot at stake of course trying to go 10 and 0 and back to back seasons for the first time I would think ever and Indiana has never won at Penn State Saturdays their first opportunity to do some like.
- 0:50[SPEAKER_01]: That's the most important thing to me.
- 0:52[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just get on the board there.
- 0:53[SPEAKER_01]: You could technically say they'd beat them.
- 0:59[SPEAKER_01]: And again, that Joe Paul had taken away, but then they managed to get those backs.
- 1:03[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's get on the board.
- 1:06[SPEAKER_01]: Let's keep this thing going.
- 1:07[SPEAKER_01]: And let's roll into the...
- 1:13[SPEAKER_01]: the most winnable final two games of the season maybe ever for Indiana.
- 1:18[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, let's let's put one on the board.
- 1:21[SPEAKER_01]: Let's continue to make history.
- 1:23[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get that first win in Central Pennsylvania.
- 1:27[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
- 1:28[SPEAKER_02]: I've been watching a lot of those videos on YouTube where like they set up a sting operation for like child predators and stuff because I hate Penn State.
- 1:42[SPEAKER_02]: and it's Penn State eight weeks.
- 1:43[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought I'd watch a lot of those to really get my mind set and focus for this game on Saturday.
- 1:51[SPEAKER_02]: The thing is with Penn State, is that they still have the same athletes, the same players minus their quarterback, that they had at the beginning of the year when they were pre-season top five team, which is still very not concerning, but still a little like, hey,
- 2:10[SPEAKER_02]: can't sleepwalk through this game.
- 2:13[SPEAKER_02]: So Indiana is going to have to be ready to play and having played in a egg and an environment like Kenak Stadium, especially Austin Stadium where it's really hard to go out there and win in Indiana's done twice all time against Oregon and to go out there and win those games and now have to come back and play
- 2:38[SPEAKER_02]: those those games help prepare you for this game and I mean I like Indiana's chances but it again it's one of those games you can't sleepwalk through this week Michelle.
- 2:50[SPEAKER_00]: No you can't it's funny because when I looked at the schedule early on in the season and once I used started and they were rolling and we saw how good the defense was and how much improved the line was and how good men does has been
- 3:06[SPEAKER_00]: just looking at it.
- 3:07[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, okay, we go to, I will go to Oregon.
- 3:11[SPEAKER_00]: We go to Penn State.
- 3:12[SPEAKER_00]: I use needs to win.
- 3:14[SPEAKER_00]: We need to win two of the three to be playing for the big ten championship or have a shot at it.
- 3:21[SPEAKER_00]: And it's still funny because of the three places, I think
- 3:29[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I, I'm still a little bit concerned, um, just because a little bit of history and everything, but I'm really, really like this.
- 3:40[SPEAKER_00]: I, you team, and I think part of my concern is too.
- 3:42[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not really sure how healthy Serat is, um, and how if how healthy E.J.
- 3:48[SPEAKER_00]: Williams,
- 3:49[SPEAKER_00]: is, and if you take away two of them, two of those three dynamic receivers, I think it hurts the offense a little bit.
- 3:58[SPEAKER_00]: The depth that linebacker is Fisher going to be able to go, and he's going to be able to play 90% of the game.
- 4:05[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what Turner's that is.
- 4:08[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what makes this trip, I think, concerning, because I do think the next two games are going to, are going to
- 4:17[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be senior day for Wisconsin and then you've got the bucket game with Purdue and make no mistake.
- 4:24[SPEAKER_00]: Kurt Signetti may not be from Indiana, but I do have a feeling he has made himself very familiar with rivalries and he knows how to motivate kids to play in rivalries.
- 4:43[SPEAKER_00]: for that because Penn State does have some really good players, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
- 4:50[SPEAKER_00]: But I think this is a very, I mean, I think it's amazing to me, Mike and maybe to you, probably really to me because I've been following the Hoosier since I was young in the 1970s and so to actually sit there and think, hey, Indiana's got a chance to go
- 5:13[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, what?
- 5:14[SPEAKER_01]: 11, 12 and over the regular season, play for the big tin championship is amazing to me and also play for the national championship, but most later we're in the year two of this with Signetti, we went to the playoff last year and yet it still just baffles me to go into Penn State Week, a multi touchdown favorite and seeing memes of Penn State fans saying,
- 5:42[SPEAKER_01]: video of someone pouring vodka into like a really, really, really large cup because they know that they're going to have to drink this weekend because their Penn State is worried about playing in the Anna and it cracks me.
- 5:56[SPEAKER_01]: Now the one going back to this game itself in some ways this game reminds me a little bit of Michigan last year where people were very, very confident
- 6:12[SPEAKER_01]: Michigan had pros on both lines.
- 6:15[SPEAKER_01]: They had pros on the O-line pros on the D-line.
- 6:18[SPEAKER_01]: And Indiana really, really struggled with that physicality in that game, especially from the defensive line.
- 6:25[SPEAKER_01]: This offense of line this year has been phenomenal.
- 6:27[SPEAKER_01]: It's played great football, but Penn State's got pros on the D-line.
- 6:33[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think they're gonna be able to overwhelm them defensively the way they did like a Maryland.
- 6:40[SPEAKER_01]: or a UCLA where they just kind of buried them turned them into dust did whatever they wanted to do Michigan State was never going to stop Indiana in that game and they didn't uh... UCLA same thing and then last week once they got stabilized it seemed like that a little shaky start but man they just ran right over bail and and with the receivers being hurt
- 7:04[SPEAKER_01]: Pid State may be able to key in a little bit more on the run game, and if Indiana doesn't, ends up able to convert passes.
- 7:12[SPEAKER_01]: That's a little, that's a little concerning.
- 7:15[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't take this game lightly by any stretch, just because I know the athletes and I know the talent that Penn State puts on the football field.
- 7:24[SPEAKER_02]: And I know with, with injuries here, is that I haven't heard quite yet if Kurt's magnetic gave an update in his radio show tonight.
- 7:35[SPEAKER_02]: But the good sign was coming into the week is that he did say they didn't leave anything.
- 7:39[SPEAKER_02]: They didn't leave Maryland.
- 7:40[SPEAKER_02]: with anything that they would consider significant, which I guess is a good sign.
- 7:46[SPEAKER_02]: I think more Fisher being out last league may have been for a precautionary, or you don't want to tweak that knee anymore.
- 7:53[SPEAKER_02]: So Rat has been dealing with a hamstring injury here as of late, like the last few weeks, it's been bothering him, and I think finally, just kind of went down, and I was like, okay, I'm not sure I want to go back in the rest of this game.
- 8:08[SPEAKER_02]: injuries in Indiana almost like especially last week with injuries.
- 8:14[SPEAKER_02]: You almost kind of walked away from that Maryland game being like man like get kind of wish they had the by week this week or this coming week like after the Penn State game instead of after the Wisconsin game you want to be able to be healthy coming down the stretch when everybody's going to need to be available
- 8:36[SPEAKER_02]: Just like you guys are saying, I'm going to go Indiana and championship, Indiana football and championship in the same sentence is just absurd.
- 8:45[SPEAKER_02]: We've been saying it all year and if Kurt's magnetic and stabilized this and keep this a regular thing every year for us as fans, when does it just become the expectation every
- 9:06[SPEAKER_02]: And if he can get this to where it's consistent every year, at what point does it become, just kind of, we kind of expect to go play Iowa and beat them or play Penn State, at Penn State and beat them like a drum.
- 9:22[SPEAKER_02]: And it's just, it's crazy to think about.
- 9:26[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like
- 9:30[SPEAKER_02]: This was more unbelievable than what was unbelievable last week.
- 9:33[SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully, we're saying that again in a positive way on Saturday.
- 9:39[SPEAKER_01]: If you ever lived through the camcamer in days and especially the Jerry didn't
- 10:00[SPEAKER_01]: If you had to sit through the, the, the three and nine Tom Allen debacle of singing in the locker room after triple overtime win over a mac team, I hope to God that we're bored by an eight and four season.
- 10:16[SPEAKER_01]: I agree, Michael.
- 10:20[SPEAKER_01]: The day to Nardo was announced, I just remember just going off into a tirade.
- 10:26[SPEAKER_01]: I wish I could find the newspaper call and I wrote that day because
- 10:30[SPEAKER_01]: I was younger and I wasn't afraid to speak my mind and I let it be known and I have never been more right about anything in my life.
- 10:37[SPEAKER_00]: We that wasn't a particularly good hire and in Cam Cam and I think would have been flying all these years as a maybe as an offensive coordinator he was not a head coach.
- 10:51[SPEAKER_01]: No and it was evident and I've told Grant this before and you can agree with me.
- 10:57[SPEAKER_01]: There was no experience in college football, like watching Randall Hill play Antoine Randall Hill play college football.
- 11:03[SPEAKER_01]: It was he was Lamar Jackson before Lamar Jackson.
- 11:07[SPEAKER_01]: He was just not quite, he wasn't quite big enough to play quarterback in the NFL.
- 11:13[SPEAKER_01]: But that guy did things on the field that was video game like, and he played four years in Bloomington three, I think you may have had an academic year.
- 11:27[SPEAKER_01]: and rail.
- 11:28[SPEAKER_01]: Best player, maybe in the history of the program, never saw a bold game.
- 11:33[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 11:35[SPEAKER_01]: And that's happened a lot at IU.
- 11:36[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Tevin, the running back few years ago, could have been a high school list in my, yeah, Tevin Coleman.
- 11:42[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to make some up with the pop singer again.
- 11:44[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just going to let you tell me which one he is.
- 11:50[SPEAKER_01]: He could have been a
- 11:57[SPEAKER_01]: So, signal you can do this for as long as he wants.
- 12:02[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I will not complain about an eight and four season ever in my life.
- 12:06[SPEAKER_01]: May either.
- 12:08[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I want to come up piggyback off that there.
- 12:11[SPEAKER_02]: I've been thinking about this and like watching his guy, watching a guy as recent as Brendan's source beat.
- 12:18[SPEAKER_02]: I think if he was in Kurt Signetti's system under his development, I think he'd have the chance to be a really, really good quarterback.
- 12:27[SPEAKER_01]: I don't disagree with you, and the unfortunate thing there is he was negotiating in IL deals before he was even out of town from everything you read and everything you hear.
- 12:37[SPEAKER_01]: If he had stuck around.
- 12:41[SPEAKER_01]: He could have done what Rort did last year.
- 12:43[SPEAKER_01]: He could have a season like Mendoza's.
- 12:45[SPEAKER_01]: And he's not having a bad year whatsoever, Cincinnati.
- 12:48[SPEAKER_01]: They've been one of the surprise teams of college football, but could you have just made that in the Anna?
- 12:54[SPEAKER_01]: No, he wasn't.
- 12:55[SPEAKER_01]: His mix of running the ball and passing, he could be just lethal in this offense.
- 13:04[SPEAKER_01]: And the same thing with Donovan McCulley, who went to
- 13:08[SPEAKER_01]: Michigan's top receiver, transferred out of Indiana because he was forstering.
- 13:13[SPEAKER_01]: Think about that.
- 13:14[SPEAKER_01]: I'm believable.
- 13:21[SPEAKER_02]: Guys, you got a final score prediction for Saturday.
- 13:25[SPEAKER_02]: Let's start with Mike.
- 13:27[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go Indiana 31 Penn State 21.
- 13:36[SPEAKER_01]: Ethan Grunkmeier, the quarterback for Penn State, he's a freshman.
- 13:43[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen what Brent Haynes can do to freshman quarterbacks just like of what he did to the kid from Maryland last week.
- 13:50[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think scoring's going to be as easy as it has been for Indiana with the defense they're going to be facing.
- 13:55[SPEAKER_01]: I'm confident that the Indiana defense can limit Penn State and create some turnovers and they're going to go in there and get the historic win for the program for the first time in Pennsylvania.
- 14:10[SPEAKER_00]: What's Indiana's they're favored by what?
- 14:14[SPEAKER_01]: Last I saw I think it
- 14:21[SPEAKER_00]: I think they can cover.
- 14:22[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're 10 to 14 point winners.
- 14:25[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I say that if Serrat is really healthy and then they go in healthy, it could be bigger than that, but I do think that I don't see it being much bigger than two touchdowns at the most.
- 14:39[SPEAKER_01]: Fourteen and a half, right?
- 14:40[SPEAKER_01]: Now, according to my book and
- 14:44[SPEAKER_01]: Again, that's a 30-point flip from the preseason because this was, if you could have bet this earlier this year, Penn State minus 15, now it's Indiana minus 14 and a half.
- 14:55[SPEAKER_02]: Mate, I will take Indiana to win this game on Saturday.
- 14:58[SPEAKER_02]: 31-17, give me the Hoosiers.
- 15:05[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'll just say 31-19 then since Mike said 31-21.
- 15:10[SPEAKER_01]: Grant says 31 17.
- 15:11[SPEAKER_01]: I have to say 31 19.
- 15:13[SPEAKER_01]: I kept on the middle Greg's telling the way to he's the guy Bid's $1 over you on the price is right and you want to punch and you want to punch in the face Thanks guys
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