Hunter, for some reason, played four seasons at IU, where he was an academic All-Big Ten selection.

He then went to Oklahoma State as a graduate transfer, where he enjoyed his first winning season as a collegiate football player and his first trip to a bowl game.

Kiel was considered the best quarterback recruit in the nation by the Rivals.com and Scout.com recruiting networks. As a HS senior in 2011, he won the Indiana Mr. Football Award. Needless to say, his commitment was a major coup for the Hoosiers. It lasted about five minutes.

Kiel decommitted, then committed to Louisiana State University in January 2012. He then decommitted and enrolled at the University of Notre Dame that same month. After a season with the Irish, he transferred to Cincinnati where he led the conference in passing yards.

As a HS QB, Mister was twice named to the All-Illinois team and amassed more than 3,100 yards from scrimmage as a senior. He was rated the No. 44 athlete nationally by Rivals.com in 2013.

At IU, he suffered a season-ending leg injury during preseason camp. That was it for Tommy in Bloomington. He transferred to Northern Illinois and then to St. Xavier

As an IU freshman in 2003, Green-Ellis had a breakout year with 938 yards and seven touchdowns on 225 carries. As a sophomore in 2004, Green-Ellis was a part of a two running back rotation with Chris Taylor. Still, he led the team with 794 yards rushing on 231 carries and scored five touchdowns. He left when then-coach Gerry DiNardo was fired.

At Ole Miss, Green-Ellis was only the second running back in the school's history to record back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. He was named as an All-SEC first-team selection and played six seasons in the NFL.

John Kerr grew up in Strongsville Ohio, where he was twice All-State and the 2001 Ohio Defensive Player of the Year. Nonetheless, he did not receive a scholarship offer from Ohio State.

Instead, Kerr went to IU, where he led the Hoosiers in tackles as a true freshman. He also led all Big Ten freshmen in tackles and posted 10 tackles in the game vs Ohio State (IU lost that game 45-17). At season's end, IU finished last in the Big Ten while Ohio State won the National Championship.

That was enough for Kerr. He transferred to Ohio State, where he walked on to the football team. As a senior, he cracked the Buckeyes' starting lineup and eventually spent some time in the Minnesota Vikings training camp.

Jeremi Johnson played his first three seasons at Indiana, where he was named to the All-Big Ten Conference freshman team in 1999. During his time at Indiana, the Hoosiers finished ninth, eleventh, and seventh in the conference.

Johnson suffered a hamstring injury in spring practice in 2002. He transferred to Western Kentucky University for his senior season, where he was a key player on the Hilltoppers' NCAA Division I-AA championship team. He was selected in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL draft and played six seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals.

Rex Grossman was a Bloomington native whose grandfather, also named Rex, played for Indiana in the 1940s. To the chagrin of the Hoosier faithful, young Rex spurned offers from the Cream and Crimson and went to Florida instead. At Florida, he was a first-team All-American and was picked in the first round of the NFL draft by the Chicago Bears.

The third football-playing son of then-IU coach Bill Mallory, Curt passed up the opportunity to stay home, leaving town to join his brothers in Ann Arbor. After a stellar career at Michigan, he followed his father into the coaching profession and is currently the head coach at Indiana State.

Sam Wyche coached the Hoosiers for just one season, 1983. IU posted a 3-8 record. Wyche got out as quickly as he could.

Larry Highbaugh was one of 10 Black players who were dismissed from the IU football team by then-coach John Pont in 1969 for unexcused absences from practice. The players were boycotting practice to protest unjust treatment including position stacking, unequal access to medical treatment and nutrition, and racial slurs from coaches.

He was also a track athlete and went on to a Hall of Fame career in the CFL. Interestingly, he is the grandfather of Tre Roberson, who also appears in this list.

In 2015, Highbaugh and his nine teammates were officially reinstated to the team and received Indiana lettermen's blankets, along with their 1968 Rose Bowl rings, which IU had been withholding from them for nearly 50 years.