DANNY HOPE - the Hoosiers of Indiana 

Q.  Hello, Coach.  Overall just want to get your impressions on the Hoosiers and what do you see from Indiana when you look at them. 
 COACH HOPE:  They're a good football team.  They don't have the most attractive record, but watching them on film, they've really come together the second half of the season and really play hard, play very, very hard on both sides of the ball. 
 Offensively they manufacture a lot of yardage.  They're pretty good at passing the ball.  They average about 250 yards a game passing the ball, average about 150 yards a game rushing the ball, about 400 yards a game.  They do very well offensively. 
 Defensively they make a lot of stops.  There's a lot of plays  when you watch the film where they're stopping the offense.  They've given up some big plays throughout the course of the season, likewe have as well.  I see a tough, hard-nosed football team that seems to be playing together and getting much, much better as the season progressed. 

 Q.  From your team's perspective, just how much does it help to have faced quarterbacks like Miller and Scheelhaase and Robinson when you're preparing for someone like Tre Roberson? 
 COACH HOPE:  We've played a lot of different quarterbacks throughout the course of the season, a lot of different styles of quarterbacks throughout the course of the season.  Certainly, there's some carryover.  So it's been helpful some. 

 Q.  Danny, with the -- I know it's getting to the end of the season, but with the running of Bolden, how has he looked?  Has he improved this year?  What's the keys for him? 
 COACH HOPE:  More carries, more touches, I think, are key for Ralph.  I think Ralph is really a good football player.  He's played very well.  He's only made a couple of mistakes throughout the course of this season. 
 I think he runs fast and runs hard, blocks really well.  I think he's certainly one of our best football players and a really good running back.  We have done some things well offensively.  We have spread the wealth around some.  Probably good that Ralph didn't have to come back and touch the football every down.  I think that's helped him come back from the knee surgery, and I think it's helped with an easier adjustment for Ralph. 
 I think he's a heck of a player, and I think he's 100 percent and doing very well.  We'd like to get him the ball more. 

 Q.  Just with Antavian, obviously, he had a nice game the other day.  What do you need from him? 
 COACH HOPE:  Just to continue playing like he's been playing.  He shows up on game day.  He shows up at practice.  I think he's done a good job stepping up the second half of the season from a leadership standpoint.  I think he's matured quite a bit.  He certainly is a play maker.  I think he's become more physical on the perimeter as a blocker. 
 So just to continue playing well like he's done.  He's been a very unselfish player.  When we've called his number, he's performed.