Coach Matt Rhule Monday Press Conference Notes | Indiana-Expected Tommi Hill to play last week, but ruptured the plantar fasciitis during the tunnel walk - which is actually a good thing. He'll have a chance to play this week-Otherwise, we are pretty healthy-Coach Cignetti has done an amazing job, Indiana is a great team-Starting to feel the impact of the 2 minute time out-In college football now, if you lose a coach to another job, it can decimate the program--Thought we handled the transfer portal well this year-Our recruiting will get better and better - “we just have to win”-After Illinois we learned a lot of valuable lessons, thought we had the right attitude vs Rutgers and Purdue-Love being the underdog-Defense has played a lot better since Illinois, we made crucial mistakes at crucial times-Indiana Offense is balanced well between run vs. pass game-“A good year in college football moving forward is going to be 8-4, 9-3” cites unpredictability nowadays, especially with the enhanced amount of travel-We got better last week during the bye-Excellent practice today, thought the bye week came at a good time-Coach Rhule says a lot of players due things for their personal brand (such as excessive trash talk)-don’t want our team to do that-Coach Rhule struggled watching college football this weekend because of that^-Need to find ways to get long runs, but also appreciate the consistency of the run game-Catastrophic plays on special teams are killing us, but we also make good special teams plays-We study clock management every week, sometimes the announcers don’t and are completely wrong-The other week Dylan Raiola took an intentional sack instead of throwing the ball away, forcing them to use a timeout - these are things that may not be noticed-Dylan Raiola is there first thing in the morning, he’s on a whole other level-Coach Rhule came in a 4:30 AM and fell asleep in his office, Dylan Raiola came in and woke him up -Need every DB we have vs Indiana-The Indiana QB is playing just as good as any other B1G QB-Ceyair Wright earned a Blackshirt-Defense asked Brian Buschini to have a Blackshirt, so he got one as well-Going to need to steal a possession vs Indiana
