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By Pete DiPrimio
IUHoosiers.com
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana isn’t messing around with this attack-defense stuff. Not after last season. Not when putting offenses in harm’s way is so difference-making good.
And fun.
JH Tevis couldn’t ask for more, and Paul Randolph couldn’t be more pumped.
“As a defensive scheme,” says Tevis, Indiana’s new defensive lineman via transfer from California, “we’re really aggressive.”
Adds Randolph, IU’s new defensive line coach: “I have always been a, ‘I’ll show you coach,’ and now I’m a, ‘I’ll try to show you’ kind of guy.”
A smile.
“I am not as young as I used to be.”
Young or old, it’s all about dominating defense, and it starts up front. Tevis and Randolph are veteran additions designed to help produce it.
Given this is a Tom Allen-run unit, there’s no bend-don’t-break in sight. It’s all about getting after offenses until they break.
“I like that style,” Tevis says. “I like going after big plays.”
You’d expect that from a guy who once totaled 22.5 sacks as a California high school junior, and two against Stanford in a 2020 game.
Plenty of Hoosiers share his big-play affection.
“Our DBs are super aggressive,” Tevis says. “Our linebackers are good at communicating and are leading the defense. I enjoy working with this group and the way the defense is schemed up.”
Tevis is a 6-4, 281-pounder seeking to make his Hoosier mark on the field (he totaled 60 tackles, 3 sacks and 3 pass breakups in 20 games at Cal, and earned honorable-mention All-Pac-12 last season) and in the classroom (he’s an All-Academic Pac-12 student-athlete who became a Hoosier in part because of his drive to earn a master’s degree).
His impact, Randolph says, is already making a difference.
“His work ethic is off the chart. He loves playing football. That’s evident when…
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