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Indiana-Michigan Preview with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (The IU Report, 3.99) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to a special edition of the IU report with Grant Shouts and my consult their preview of the Hoosiers Game Against Michigan on Saturday, and it's only on the Simpel Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just ahead depth there might be some adult language in this podcast, and I also have to say that the views of the host do not reflect those of all of us at the Simpel Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to the IU report from Grant Charleston, my cut sold at night is Indiana travels to Ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday to take on the Michigan Wolverine, looking about back after the loss to Ohio State last week, Mike, and with the way Indiana kind of the question marks, maybe, or if there are some question marks entering this week, what do you think some of those are, I mean,
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: right off the bat here as a Thursday night it looks like a pretty clean injury report Kobe Martin looks like he'll be available and hopefully Indiana can just kind of get the bad taste out of their mouth from last week.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well first things first year you're absolutely right.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean you just can't let him out of state beat you twice.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: You have to put everything that happened behind you.
• 1:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: The heartbreaker they came out of it.
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Relatively unscathed unless Kurt
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: one bill bell check on the injury report because there wasn't a single name on it.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I saw this week.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: Michigan at 15 on their side of the ledger.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: So just no hangover from last week.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: You got to come out.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: You got to be focused.
• 1:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a bit of a rejuvenated Michigan team.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're feeling pretty good about, you know, a change they made at quarterback last week.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they're looking for a big win this year.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've been pretty disappointing.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: lost a Iowa lost a Western Michigan.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's be real and they need they they are looking for a big win for coach winning game and and they're feeling pretty pretty proud of themselves after that whenever pinstate last week.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: One of the things that look at here and I guess what kind of jumps out to you and what you've heard is that Michigan's defense has really, really good, you know, despite pretty much losing the Western Michigan, they did their defense.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again, Michigan's defense is really good, but one of the keys here, I think for Indiana early on on Saturday is they have to get off to a good start.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if they can get up double digits early on this Michigan team, get up 14, 17 points even, be up 14,
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're in good shape because I don't think Michigan has the offense that can compete with how great Indiana's defenses because Indiana's defense there was some question marks at the beginning of the season and you've been going in the last week against Ohio State.
• 3:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think against Ohio State hopefully put some of that to bed.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Their defense was outstanding.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: They pretty much took away Jeremiah Smith other than the one Hail Mary Touchdown
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I like Indiana's chances on Saturday, but they've got to get off to get the start.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and Michigan's not a team that's equipped to come from behind.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're just not there.
• 3:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're very much a run run oriented team.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Their defense is what they're they're proud of on if you can get an early lead on that team and put pressure on the true freshman quarterback or Tommy Carr younger brother of CJ
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: even though you won't have a national title less than Kurt Signetti, but, you know, neither here nor there.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, Michigan's often just is not equipped to be a come from behind roster.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just not what they're hanging ahead on.
• 4:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: They want to get you into the mud.
• 4:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: They want to maybe get a lead on you early so that they can start pounding you with their run game.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's Michigan's demo.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: One of the quarterbacks that I was concerned with for his prowess and the running game this year for Indiana was Bryce Underwood, but he was so bad, so so bad, and every other game they played this year, they had to make the change that they did, and Carr came in last week and look pretty good.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and Michigan is honoring Tom Allen's legacy this week by kind of maybe throwing two quarterbacks out there.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, Bryce Linderwood may play, may not, but right now it's looking like Tommy Carr will probably be the starter.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Defensively, Michigan is holding teams to about 265 yards a game.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana's averaging 270 yards a game.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a good sign.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again, games not played on paper, but when you look at that, you know, like Indiana's chances after they put up an average of 450 yards a game.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Indiana's holding teams are 270 yards a game as well.
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Penalty-wise, Indiana's still one of the least penalized teams in America, 24 penalties this year, and time of possession just about the same Indiana's.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just under 29 minutes of time of possession, about 28 minutes 53 seconds, Michigan 28 minutes 16 seconds and Indiana is better on third down 46% conversion rate.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: It seems like the stat that every team is beating Indiana and it's forked down.
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: especially Michigan's going 71% conversion rate on, on fourth down this year.
• 5:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Defensively, you could maybe make the argument that Michigan's defense is better.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I think kind of the stats tell a different story in a way.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana more tackles, more tackles for loss 55 tackles for loss this year.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Michigan's only at 39 tackles for loss.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Both teams, six interceptions.
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana is getting more pressure on the quarterback this year than Michigan has.
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... cubi heris unsure back when back when you were covering games mic and as long as you've watched college football they weren't keep in track of cubi heris like they are now but indiana's thirty one cubi heris on the season and michigan's eighteen yeah and but the the scary thing is about michigan defensively you know we've talked so much about indina's got to get a runging going indina's got to get a runging going
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know that Michigan's necessarily the defense to do that against.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: That is a huge concern to me, getting Kobe Martin back, hopefully that's a bit of a joke for the run game, but I've watched Michigan on and off their game against whatever bad thought you had of the Penn State Michigan game going in and how the game should probably be played on.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Comedy Central or something.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: It lived up to every bit of that until they made the QV change.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a bad bad offense, but their defense can change the outcome of a game.
• 7:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: They could make a quarterback look bad.
• 7:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Hoover is kind of just got a, he's got to let it rip.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I will beat this team throwing the football, which is stunning to say, but I would have did.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: So having Hoover
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: because I really really have concerns again about Indiana being able to establish a run game against this Michigan front.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Michigan defensively is only average in or is only allowing 2.7 yards per carry.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're Indiana's averaging about 5.7.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: That number is kind of gone down the last.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've gone down.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Especially since the Nebraska game, it's really gone down.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: as it as a whole for Michigan defensively, they're holding teams to about 90 yards rushing a game.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana's holding teams is about 75 yards a game, but Indiana's averaging 200 yards per game, but again, kind of take that with a grain of salt because, you know, three or three weeks ago, they were average in almost 300 rushing yards a game or over 300 rushing yards a game.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they have got to get the run game established, but like you said, Iowa of all teams beat this team
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if Indiana can do that, I like their chances.
• 8:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just, it's one of those here.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: You, you're not really thinking about it, but it's one of those where, like we said, you just have got to put your foot on the gas early.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to look good early.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: They need it to start like they had against Rutgers.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a surgical drive to start the game.
• 8:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Clean crisp passes.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nice runs.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Big holes open up, big gaps.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully they can get off to a good start because if they can build that lead and build that cushion, I think they're in good shape, but this is also a scary game for so many reasons because of how devastating last week was and how last week ended for you, you just do not want to have a hangover for that like you said earlier and you don't want that to kind of derail things here and hopefully this team's not thinking that way.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and also a few things that I've noted this week, one, I think the line opened at nine.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's down to seven.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think the quarterback changes impacted that for Michigan.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And let's be realistic here, Grant.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, isn't one in the stadium since I believe the Lyndon Johnson administration.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been a minute.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: You weren't even alive then.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Kurt Stignetti was just a young boy.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Stignetti's the only member of the coaching staff who was alive for that.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he was not even been alive.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was alive, but he was a young, he was a youngster.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was not, he had not started his coaching career.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's just put it that way.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he was still in the sideline with Bobby Bowden's first staff at West Virginia as just a kid.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's concerning.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, until you've seen it's like Penn State last year, Kurt Signetti said before the game, this team's never been here and took in, guess what, it's still almost didn't come out of there with a win.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some of these big 10 places, they just, their hollow grounds, let's not pretend that there may not be some help from a certain group of individuals wearing stripes during the game that had benefited
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, there's a hundred and some odd thousand people that are, but I have heard it's the quietest big stadium you'll ever attend.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would love to go there someday.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's overrated.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Have you been?
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I went once, yeah.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's years ago.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I was married, so it's years ago, but I don't know exactly when it was.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I thought about making the trip up there this weekend and I'm not going to be able to, but I guess what I'm thinking here is that you got a score prediction at all.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: What do you think I think in the end wins and I don't expect it to be a blow out, but I think Indiana could maybe establish the lead and keep the lead.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to go something along the lines of 2017.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I will take Indiana to win it.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: 28 to 14 and just even score there.
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they went by two touchdowns.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, I want to change that.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say 28, 10.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: They win that football game.
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you have any final thoughts for regal?
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's not too many teams in the conference that I like beating more than Michigan.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we have a streak against this team, so let's keep it up.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is the most corrupt program.
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: In my opinion, it's the most corrupt big-gen program we've ever seen Ohio State gets the reputation, but let's think about some of the things we've seen out of Michigan through the years.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: And most recently, their national title where point blank just blatantly cheating,
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just open book cheating and nobody seemed to care.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: They let you got out of it.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's got free.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Harval got to go be a bad coach in the NFL.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we all just kind of pretended didn't happen.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: But you take out like the two or three year window where it was noted that Connor Stallions was or easily playing loose with the rule book and looking at Harval's record then versus every other your Harval was there.
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's a start difference, and it's hard to say that it didn't make a difference.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, outside of that team in West Lafayette, Michigan, the team in the big team that I love to be the most.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, one of my favorite lines in the Newbie Hoogers was when they're sitting a lot of the firm before the state championship game.
• 13:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it was a mural who, uh, his real-life name was Kent Poole, probably had one of the most underrated lines in that entire movie.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: and it was let's win this one for all the small schools who never had a chance to get here.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's win this one on Saturday for Sharon Moore's Life, man.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, you went there.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I went there, I went there.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Couldn't leave the Moore's out of it.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: It, I mean, you're right, it does kind of seem like it's one of the most corrupt athletic departments and all sports, not just football, but just everything, everything, the blatant cheating, the fact that you went a national title in basketball and your coach still jumped shit for the NBA.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: When coaching and college has been more of his thing and maybe he's just going to,
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: get his feet wet so they can come back be the next eye you coach.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have an idea at Dusty May, but I think, I think Michigan obviously one of those programs everybody loves to be.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've always rooted for them to be Ohio State, but when that game comes around this year, I think it would be the first time in my life that I will be rooting for Ohio State.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't stand Michigan, especially after the Western Michigan game.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Grant Mike.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening.
• 14:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Grant Mike will be back sometime this weekend with their recap of the IU Michigan game.
• 15:01
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• 15:08
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• 15:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks as always.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you report and the Central Union has worked for the product's writing to the media and I love Susie.