IUHoosiers.com
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Twitter found James Evans. Of course it did. You do something rarely seen in college football, good or bad, and social media zeroes in.
So there was Evans, newly arrived in America by way of New Zealand and then Australia as Indiana's punter of the future, in one of his first spring football practices, about to unintentionally separate himself from the norm.
He'd never played football before. In fact, he'd never been to the United States before. The pandemic had wiped out his recruiting visit. He signed -- or was signed, depending on your perspective -- based on film and Zoom and phone conversations.