Indiana University Athletics
Jones Added to Biletnikoff Award Watch List
9/30/2015 4:46:00 PM | Football
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation, Inc., (TQC Foundation), the Florida-based creator and sponsor of the Biletnikoff Award, presented to the college football season's outstanding receiver (regardless of position), added 15 receivers to its watch list, including Indiana redshirt junior wide receiver Ricky Jones.
Anyone who catches a pass, regardless of position (wide receiver, tight end, slot back or inside receiver, or running back) is eligible to win the Biletnikoff Award. Founded in 1994, the Biletnikoff Award is a season, not career, award. The Foundation will add players to the watch list at appropriate times this season up to the transmission of the final watch list to the Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee on November 8, 2015. Foundation trustees cannot serve as voters and have never voted.
Jones tops the Big Ten with 411 yards (15th nationally) and 102.8 per game (20th), tied for eighth with 18 receptions and 10th with 105.5 all-purpose yards per game.
The Sarasota, Fla., native led all power five conference receivers with 186 yards on six receptions, with his first score from 57 yards out in the Southern Illinois win. Jones added a 71-yarder that set up Indiana's game-winning score with: 58 remaining. His 186 yards rank ninth on IU's single-game list and are the most for a Hoosier since Cody Latimer had 189 vs. Illinois on Nov. 9, 2013.
In the Western Kentucky win, he posted his second 100-yard game. Jones made five grabs for 126 yards, including a 69-yarder, with an 18-yard touchdown.
The Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee, comprised of 311 distinguished voters (http://biletnikoffaward.com/voters), may add players to the watch list after receiving the final watch list from the Foundation. Among the players on the 2014 final watch list, when submitted to the voters, were the then top 24 receiving leaders in NCAA receiving statistics rankings. The National Selection Committee did not add any candidate to the Foundation's final watch list in 2014. With the watch list additions today, the present top 24 leaders in NCAA receiving statistics for the 2015 season are now among the members of the Biletnikoff Award Watch List.
In other exciting news, the Biletnikoff Award will open, on October 1, its online FanVote for voting for Biletnikoff Award candidates on the Biletnikoff Award website. Every fan may vote once daily on the Biletnikoff Award FanVote page. The aggregate fan tally will be counted as one official vote to determine semi-finalists (ten receivers), finalists (three), and the winner. In 2013, in the closest contest in years, the FanVote tally provided the one-vote margin of victory for 2013 Biletnikoff Award winner Brandin Cooks of Oregon State.
To access the Biletnikoff Award FanVote on October 1, go to http://biletnikoffaward.com/fan-vote
Candidate eligibility and voting criteria, transparently explicit and detailed, are available for review at the Biletnikoff Award website:
http://biletnikoffaward.com/criteria
The 2015 Biletnikoff Award winner will be announced live by 1991 Heisman Trophy winner and former receiver Desmond Howard on December 10, 2015, on ESPN's The Home Depot College Awards show, at 7 pm (EST), at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.
The 2015 Biletnikoff Award recipient will be honored and will receive his trophy at the Biletnikoff Award banquet, an annual black tie event attended by 600 patrons and broadcast by ESPN3, at the University Center Club, Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee, Florida, on Saturday, January 30, 2016. The Biletnikoff Award banquet was hailed by 2013 keynote speaker Larry Csonka and 2014 keynoter Dick Vermeil as "the best banquet in college sports."
Consistent with a long line of outstanding keynote speakers (including Bart Starr, Don Shula, Larry Csonka, Mike Ditka, Archie Manning, Steve Largent, and Dick Vermeil), College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Bob Griese will address the Biletnikoff Award banquet audience and, with all-time great college and pro hall of fame receiver Fred Biletnikoff, present the beautiful Biletnikoff Award trophy to the 2015 award winner. The pair will also recognize the Foundation's 2016 scholarship recipients, who annually receive $900,000 in college and vocational school scholarships and benefits.
The TQC Foundation's charitable mission is the provision of college and vocational scholarships to North Florida high school seniors who have overcome significant barriers to achieve at the highest academic and extra-curricular levels.
Anyone who catches a pass, regardless of position (wide receiver, tight end, slot back or inside receiver, or running back) is eligible to win the Biletnikoff Award. Founded in 1994, the Biletnikoff Award is a season, not career, award. The Foundation will add players to the watch list at appropriate times this season up to the transmission of the final watch list to the Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee on November 8, 2015. Foundation trustees cannot serve as voters and have never voted.
Jones tops the Big Ten with 411 yards (15th nationally) and 102.8 per game (20th), tied for eighth with 18 receptions and 10th with 105.5 all-purpose yards per game.
The Sarasota, Fla., native led all power five conference receivers with 186 yards on six receptions, with his first score from 57 yards out in the Southern Illinois win. Jones added a 71-yarder that set up Indiana's game-winning score with: 58 remaining. His 186 yards rank ninth on IU's single-game list and are the most for a Hoosier since Cody Latimer had 189 vs. Illinois on Nov. 9, 2013.
In the Western Kentucky win, he posted his second 100-yard game. Jones made five grabs for 126 yards, including a 69-yarder, with an 18-yard touchdown.
The Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee, comprised of 311 distinguished voters (http://biletnikoffaward.com/voters), may add players to the watch list after receiving the final watch list from the Foundation. Among the players on the 2014 final watch list, when submitted to the voters, were the then top 24 receiving leaders in NCAA receiving statistics rankings. The National Selection Committee did not add any candidate to the Foundation's final watch list in 2014. With the watch list additions today, the present top 24 leaders in NCAA receiving statistics for the 2015 season are now among the members of the Biletnikoff Award Watch List.
In other exciting news, the Biletnikoff Award will open, on October 1, its online FanVote for voting for Biletnikoff Award candidates on the Biletnikoff Award website. Every fan may vote once daily on the Biletnikoff Award FanVote page. The aggregate fan tally will be counted as one official vote to determine semi-finalists (ten receivers), finalists (three), and the winner. In 2013, in the closest contest in years, the FanVote tally provided the one-vote margin of victory for 2013 Biletnikoff Award winner Brandin Cooks of Oregon State.
To access the Biletnikoff Award FanVote on October 1, go to http://biletnikoffaward.com/fan-vote
Candidate eligibility and voting criteria, transparently explicit and detailed, are available for review at the Biletnikoff Award website:
http://biletnikoffaward.com/criteria
The 2015 Biletnikoff Award winner will be announced live by 1991 Heisman Trophy winner and former receiver Desmond Howard on December 10, 2015, on ESPN's The Home Depot College Awards show, at 7 pm (EST), at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.
The 2015 Biletnikoff Award recipient will be honored and will receive his trophy at the Biletnikoff Award banquet, an annual black tie event attended by 600 patrons and broadcast by ESPN3, at the University Center Club, Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee, Florida, on Saturday, January 30, 2016. The Biletnikoff Award banquet was hailed by 2013 keynote speaker Larry Csonka and 2014 keynoter Dick Vermeil as "the best banquet in college sports."
Consistent with a long line of outstanding keynote speakers (including Bart Starr, Don Shula, Larry Csonka, Mike Ditka, Archie Manning, Steve Largent, and Dick Vermeil), College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Bob Griese will address the Biletnikoff Award banquet audience and, with all-time great college and pro hall of fame receiver Fred Biletnikoff, present the beautiful Biletnikoff Award trophy to the 2015 award winner. The pair will also recognize the Foundation's 2016 scholarship recipients, who annually receive $900,000 in college and vocational school scholarships and benefits.
The TQC Foundation's charitable mission is the provision of college and vocational scholarships to North Florida high school seniors who have overcome significant barriers to achieve at the highest academic and extra-curricular levels.
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