They Fired Tom Allen!

[Brass Cannon 24,814]

I’m terms of bad contracts that is one. Ouch

[AKHoosier 6,931]

Hopefully the next announcement is a massive investment in our football program in terms of facility upgrades. 

[OliviaPope40 6,520]

36 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

He even could have saved his job….three very winnable games at the end of the year.  Blew leads in all of them.

Had those Bowl games we should have won and could have won.

[Hoosierfan2017 21,467]

Let’s gooooooo. Christmas came early. Now let’s not hire a goofball this time. 

[HinnyHoosier 4,987]

2 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Let’s gooooooo. Christmas came early. Now let’s not hire a goofball this time. 

Is there a non goofball out there who wants this job?

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,674]

38 minutes ago, Demo said:

Wish him the best. Will be interested to see what he decides to do next. He’s a rich guy. He certainly doesn’t need it. If he takes a year off he’ll be 55 before he’d coach again. Would he be interested in an FCS job? Does he want to be a P5 DC? 

He's not even a good enough DC to go anywhere big. An FCS gig would be perfect for him.

[Brass Cannon 24,814]

1 minute ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Is there a non goofball out there who wants this job?

A undiscovered gem that will leave us after a stunning 3 years is our best hope at this point 

[Tasmanian Devil 1,571]

I've known Tommy since the early 80s (his family went to Grace Baptist Church in New Castle, where the brother of my best friends in high school was the Pastor). Always refer to him as Tommy because his dad was Tom Allen, once coach at New Castle.

As much as I hate it for the Allen family, this is the best for everyone involved. With the transfer portal and NIL, Allen was going to be behind the 8 ball in trying to recruit. 

IU now has to decide if they really want to have a winning football program or not. They don't have to be at the level of Alabama, Ohio State or Michigan. But there's no reason they can't be at the level of Wisconsin. 

They can be a consistent winner and occasionally contend for a conference championship. But the University has to be willing to invest in the program and provide the resources to be successful.

[Hoosierfan2017 21,467]

4 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Is there a non goofball out there who wants this job?

To take a job in a top 2 conference making $5+ million a year? I’d sure hope so. 

[HinnyHoosier 4,987]

7 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

To take a job in a top 2 conference making $5+ million a year? I’d sure hope so. 

That's not chasing a paycheck? Because it's at a school in those top 2 conferences that, by general optics, doesn't take it's football program seriously. 

[craigyv88 384]

10 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

To take a job in a top 2 conference making $5+ million a year? I’d sure hope so. 

If they can do a good job selling those two things I don't see why we can't make a solid hire.  Being one of the only B1G/SEC openings represents an advantage to the degree we've probably never had previously and certainly didn't have the last time we went outside our own building to make a hire.  It's still early in the carousel but currently the only B1G and SEC openings are IU, Miss St, and Texas A&M, and Miss St seems to have their guy and A&M is shopping in an entirely different district.

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Just now, craigyv88 said:

If they can do a good job selling those two things I don't see why we can't make a solid hire.  Being one of the only B1G/SEC openings represents an advantage to the degree we've probably never had previously and certainly didn't have the last time we went outside our own building to make a hire.  It's still early in the carousel but currently the only B1G and SEC openings are IU, Miss St, and Texas A&M, and Miss St seems to have their guy and A&M is shopping in an entirely different district.

We sure Michigan and Ohio State both won't be looking for new coaches?

[Lebowski 2,744]

Thanks for the blood sweat and tears CTA. Appreciate those awesome two seasons. 

[Rico 3,057]

7 minutes ago, kreigh8 said:

We sure Michigan and Ohio State both won't be looking for new coaches?

Damn good question.

[OliviaPope40 6,520]

13 minutes ago, kreigh8 said:

We sure Michigan and Ohio State both won't be looking for new coaches?

Interesting question. 

[iuthruandthru 110]

There seems to be smoke of Day running to Texas A&M which would be hilarious as I am sure OSU is getting heat to dump him.

[DChoosier 8,460]

1 hour ago, AKHoosier said:

Hopefully the next announcement is a massive investment in our football program in terms of facility upgrades. 

I’d like facility upgrades, which would probably be mostly funded by donors, but would take getting NIL cash over anything else. If we want talent I’m guessing most of them care more about NIL than the shared weight room.

[Hoosierfan2017 21,467]

51 minutes ago, craigyv88 said:

If they can do a good job selling those two things I don't see why we can't make a solid hire.  Being one of the only B1G/SEC openings represents an advantage to the degree we've probably never had previously and certainly didn't have the last time we went outside our own building to make a hire.  It's still early in the carousel but currently the only B1G and SEC openings are IU, Miss St, and Texas A&M, and Miss St seems to have their guy and A&M is shopping in an entirely different district.

I just really hate the ‘woe is us, who would want to come here’ attitude. Yeah, we’re not a good football program. We’re not going to go poach a rockstar. But we’re not a charity case either. We have solid things to offer. With NIL, the transfer portal, and conference realignment, it’s a new world in college football. We raised $20 million to fire Tom, which I didn’t think we could do. No reason we can’t go make a solid hire.

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy 758]

God bless us everyone. 

[Stuhoo 80,901]

42 minutes ago, iuthruandthru said:

There seems to be smoke of Day running to Texas A&M which would be hilarious as I am sure OSU is getting heat to dump him.

Oh great!

Now we are in direct competition with Ohio State for our head coach.
;)