Jaquez Smith takes his homework seriously.
Every day, the incoming freshman receiver sets aside two hours to flip through the offensive playbook he was given upon his arrival in Bloomington last month. He takes notes on alignments, quizzes himself on routes and makes an effort to learn not only his own potential responsibilities within Indiana’s offense, but those belonging to his teammates, too.
“If you don’t know the playbook,” Smith told reporters Thursday, “you can’t play.”
Playing, of course, is Smith’s immediate objective. The Georgia native, a former four-star recruit ranked by 247 Sports as the No.