Indiana names Michael Penix Jr as starting QB
He had been battling Ramsey all camp for the starting job. Most Indiana fans assumed Ramsey would remain the starter so this is slightly surprising.
Penix is a RS Freshman who is mobile and has a big arm. He redshirted last year after tearing his ACL in a game against PSU where he was splitting time with Ramsey.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:21 AM ^
That poor guy’s childhood with that last name...
August 26th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
Came here to post that same sentiment.
Probably toughened him up quite a bit though.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:38 AM ^
Was probably hard
August 26th, 2019 at 12:04 PM ^
And long.
August 26th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
I'll bet it made him incredibly thick.....skinned.
August 26th, 2019 at 3:34 PM ^
Kids can really be dicks
August 26th, 2019 at 7:31 PM ^
Why the hate, he was just happy to see you?
August 26th, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
One day, everything came to a head.
August 26th, 2019 at 8:42 PM ^
That’s what she said
August 26th, 2019 at 1:15 PM ^
Penix at Subway, with everyone ever: "Hey Penix, do you want the........footlong???"
August 26th, 2019 at 2:54 PM ^
Might as well throw “Jr” at the end for the cherry on top.
August 26th, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
Is his nickname Dick?
That was my Dad's.
August 26th, 2019 at 1:09 PM ^
So if you tackle Penix in the game, is that considered sexual harassment?
What if Penix gets mad and he smacks you in the face? Is that sexual harassment?
August 26th, 2019 at 9:42 PM ^
Swaffle
August 26th, 2019 at 1:17 PM ^
The Pen Ix Mightier
August 26th, 2019 at 1:17 PM ^
As a top athlete I doubt he had trouble after 6th grade.
August 26th, 2019 at 2:31 PM ^
His father considered naming him Sue.... but stopped short.
I'm here all week.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:24 AM ^
Funny, I was a member of the Pen IX club in middle school.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:24 AM ^
His name sounds a lot like Penis.
August 26th, 2019 at 12:23 PM ^
There is a vas deferens between the two spellings.
August 27th, 2019 at 12:58 AM ^
Ye gods. I generally hate puns, but that has to be the best pun I have ever read!
August 26th, 2019 at 1:41 PM ^
He's got nothing on a software engineer I once met named Hyper Wang.
August 26th, 2019 at 2:08 PM ^
I once worked with En E. Ma at the Michigan Ion Beam lab. He's at Johns Hopkins now, I believe. Great guy!
August 26th, 2019 at 2:57 PM ^
I know a guy by the name of Richard Harden, and of course he went by Dick.
August 27th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
Played Independent baseball with a guy named Robert Dork,worked with a guy that was about 5'4 with a slicked back mullet named Slain Youngblood (coolest name ever and he looked the part) ... but the two names that will always stand out to me are Dick Butkus and Dick Trickle
August 26th, 2019 at 1:44 PM ^
Did he play for the nads in HS?
August 26th, 2019 at 3:10 PM ^
Let's hope he doesn't break his penix when Michigan sacks the crap out of him.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:27 AM ^
Will the O line be able to keep him erect this year?
August 26th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
This must be hard on Ramsey?
August 26th, 2019 at 1:52 PM ^
He probably feels like he got the shaft.
Edit: Similar comment already below. I am shame.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:31 AM ^
A ballsy choice
August 26th, 2019 at 11:32 AM ^
The coaches are hopeful they've only seen the tip of his potential
August 26th, 2019 at 11:33 AM ^
Ramsey must feel like he's been shafted
August 26th, 2019 at 11:34 AM ^
It was hard for the coaches to pull-out of their existing strategy, but they decided to go with the up- and-comer
August 26th, 2019 at 12:37 PM ^
These posts may be the best that I've read in all my years with the blog. All 5*. I couldn't stop laughing. Good job, guys.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:36 AM ^
That guy must've had a traumatic childhood with that last name.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:42 AM ^
Being a star athlete and likely large for his age makes it a lot easier to deal with a name like that as a kid.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:44 AM ^
Probably not as bad as that Florida State receiver from several years back, De'Cody Fagg.
August 26th, 2019 at 1:20 PM ^
I laughed out loud when reading your post....for in the Engineering school, we had a mentor from Whirlpool, with that last name...and when me and a partner had to do a presentation and refer thanks to him, it was VERY hard not to crack up....
August 26th, 2019 at 11:37 AM ^
First year off an injury can be tough. Always difficult to come back from a broken Penix.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:45 AM ^
Don't be surprised if Penix explodes onto the scene this season.
August 26th, 2019 at 11:46 AM ^
I wonder how many typos will make it into game stories, with the X key just underneath the S key.
Of course spell check won't catch it.
August 26th, 2019 at 10:55 PM ^
Reminder set DVR with closed captions on....
August 26th, 2019 at 12:03 PM ^
Stopped by merely for the penis jokes, and have definitely not been disappointed. Bravo
August 26th, 2019 at 12:03 PM ^
He was already providing stiff competition last season.
August 26th, 2019 at 12:05 PM ^
Is it too late for Ramsey to enter the transfer portal, and make sure Harbaugh signs off?
August 26th, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
Anybody coming to these comments expecting anything other than these jokes are unaware that they themselves are living in a phallicy world.