Goalkeeper must improve intensity to lead team

While senior T.J. Hannig can count his career losses on one hand, numbers can't measure the intensity and confidence coach Jerry Yeagley said Hannig must have to lead the men's soccer team to success.\nHannig needs 11 wins and two shutouts to surpass the all-time marks for both categories at IU. But the most recent statistics aren't pretty. The Hoosiers lost their first two games of the season at home last weekend.\n"To be honest, I'm really not concerned with those (career record) marks," said Hannig, who hasn't lost more than two games in a season. "The shutouts will come. The defense will come. I'm just concerned with getting the team back to where we need to be."\nHistory could be made in an unpleasant way this weekend if Hannig doesn't show the leadership that helped him earn his stellar career marks. The Hoosiers face No. 13 Maryland, Friday and No. 4 Virginia, Sunday in College Park, Md. \nHannig didn't show enough authority in losses to Portland and UCLA last weekend, Yeagley said. The goalkeeper should want opponents to challenge him, Yeagley said. He should scream at his teammates when they make mistakes. He should charge from his goalie line to stop any attacks at goal.\nHannig never permitted as many goals in a game at IU as he did against Portland in the season opener last Friday. A little more than three minutes into the game, Hannig froze on the goal line as an opponent perfected a free kick. Hannig turned his head to watch the soccer ball hit the back of the net.\nAlmost 15 minutes later, the ball wasn't cleared from IU's backfield, which resulted in another Portland shot that Hannig didn't handle. In the second half, Hannig moved off his line but was outsmarted by Portland forward Conor Casey, who kicked the ball into an unguarded goal. \n"Maybe he was concentrating more on the young players in front of him, rather than just his role," Yeagley said. "But he really needs to be a rock for us back there. And the top goalkeeping we saw this weekend was from our two opponents ' not from us."\nThe team didn't come out ready to play in the first 15 minutes against Portland and mental errors helped cause the defensive lapses in the losses, Hannig said.\nNevermind a tally for another shutout and a chance at history. There were other things to worry about. Hannig has to command a team with six newcomers and one experienced defensive back.\nThe following night, UCLA senior forward McKinley Tennyson Jr. fired a shot that Hannig didn\'t touch in the 25th minute. A UCLA defender later scored off a corner kick.\nIU lost 2-1, but Hannig exhibited more aggressiveness than the night before, as he rescued the ball from the penalty box and challenged opponents.\nHannig entered the season with a career record of 56-5, and his career goals-against-average is 0.49. Three All-Americans are gone from last year's NCAA championship team, including sweeper Nick Garcia. \nGarcia was aggressive and owned the backfield, as the Hoosiers had 15 shutouts. He is now a starter for the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer. Sophomore John Swann is the most experienced back on the team. He played in five games last season.\n"Everybody's saying how inexperienced our defense is," Swann said. "We're all hearing how much better we need to get, but we're disappointed in letting in five goals. We're just getting more confidence as we play."\nThe men's soccer team won two NCAA championships in Hannig's three years as a starter. The Hoosiers have never lost three games to start a season and haven't lost three consecutive games since 1985. \nHannig knows he must be a vocal leader for the young squad. He knows his career record has been stabilized by All-Americans, some who scored 20 goals a season, and by outstanding defenders like Garcia.\n"I'm not giving up on T.J.," Yeagley said. "He's tops"