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Indiana's Coach Hits the Recruiting Trail

Posted on October 17, 2010 at 06:24 PM.

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"Indiana is a good place to win, and he wants to win now."

BLOOMINGTON - Bill Mallory sat in the audience, but he might as well been the featured speaker.

Robb Reed talked high powered offense, tough defense and recruiting when he was introduced as Indiana's new football coach Sunday.

He also expressed his love for Indiana, said he wasn't sure about the makeup of his coaching staff and that coaching was more important than money.

Then he asked to be excused from the athletic building. He had real work to do.

Reed hit the recruiting trail Sunday afternoon with a stop in Mishawaka, and beyond. What he was likely selling was what he told a statewide audience during his press conference: Indiana is a good place to win, and he wants to win now.

He said in the press conference he loves to recruit. That's a good thing because eight players who had committed to former coach Bill Lynch have de-committed.

That still leaves Indiana with 25 commitments. Reed will try to make his case to high school prospects in the days to come. He said he had an edge because he knows high school coaches in the state from his days as Indiana's defensive coordinator from 1998-02.

"This is going to be an open door to every high school coach in the country, but certainly here in the state of Indiana," Reed said.

Reed started the recruiting game with a short deck. He was on the road, but without a full-time staff - or any staff, apparently. He elicited the help of former runningbacks coach Anthony Thompson, who was working as a fundraiser for athletics; and Dick Dullaghan and Bud Wright, former high school coaches who were part of Lynch's support staff.

"I want to bring a new attitude to this program, one that will cause heads to turn and take notice that this is a legitimate Top Tier program." With a focus on the pistol offense, and a new direction towards a 3-4 defense similar to the one being utilized by Alabama's Nick Saban, one would have to say that if Reed is successful it will be the biggest turnaround in college football history.

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