BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti didn’t agree with the Monday morning quaterbacking on social media of Josh Hoover‘s performance.
Hoover threw for 275 yards and two touchdowns in a 38-0 win over Western Kentucky for the No. 4 Hoosiers (3-0), but faced criticism online over a handful of his missed throws.
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Cignetti came to Hoover’s defense and made it clear he thinks his quarterback is facing “unfair scrutiny” through the first three weeks of the season.
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Here is Cignetti’s full answer about Hoover from Monday’s press conference:
“I think there’s too much scrutiny on Josh Hoover right now, unfair scrutiny. After watching the game tape, he missed one throw. The one he missed to (Charlie) Becker, we did a bad job picking up the blitz at running back, and he had a guy in his face.And he overthrew her. He missed Marsh. The one to the right, it was his third progression.
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We didn’t run a good route to the field. Should have been open, but wasn’t, because of the route. Came back to number three. We didn’t run a great route either, and the ball got overthrown.
And the only other one would have been the one to Marsh, maybe, down the sideline. But really, that read there should have taken him to the field dig, which was open.So, and we had to kind of hash that one out as a staff to make sure that we were all on the same page, what was going on.
I’m glad he’s our quarterback.”
Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek.
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