When Indiana schedules a team meeting for 6 o’clock, Devon Matthews makes sure to arrive by 5:45. When the safeties are huddled inside their meeting room in the bowels of IU’s North End Zone complex, Matthews is sitting at attention, furiously scribbling the takeaways from that day’s lesson.
“Go look at his notebook,” IU safeties coach Jason Jones said. “He’s got notes on the front page and the back page.”
Matthews does a lot of things the way his coaches want them done. He works hard, plays hard, goes to class and completes his tasks in a model manner.