‘Unprecedented Times’ Require Unprecedented IU Recruiting

IUHoosiers.com

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Football recruiting in a pandemic means daring to be bold.

Indiana head coach Tom Allen embraces that, in part because that's nature, mostly because he has no choice.

"It's unprecedented," he says. "We're dealing with new challenges."

Coaches' need to sign elite talent clashes with a reality in which they can't see recruits perform, get them on campus, have them attend camps or visit them at their schools.

Because the world hasn't stopped even if so much of the normal way of business has, because winning the right way remains a top priority, the option is clear: get recruiting creative, within the rules, of course.

"We usually do a tremendous job of getting guys…