They Fired Tom Allen!

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Statement from Tom Allen:

 

It has been my greatest professional honor to serve as Indiana’s head football coach for the past seven years.  Representing this University and this State has meant more to me than you can imagine.  Our entire journey here has been based on a simple concept – Love.  Each.  Other.  It’s what we’ve done, it’s what we’ll always do.  I continue to believe it’s a recipe to change the world.  There have been so many incredible memories made and relationships formed.  I’ll always be grateful for the players, coaches and staff who believed in our vision and gave their heart and soul for this program. 

 

College football has changed dramatically over the past several years.  Some of those changes have been a shock to the conscience of those who support IU football.  The time has come to fully embrace those changes and I pray that IU does just that. 

 

To each and every player who put on the Crimson and Cream over the past 7 seasons, I love you, thank you and God bless. 

 

#LEO

 

 

 

https://x.com/andy_staples/status/1728868160709730605?s=46

 

 

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I personally agree with him about LEO. He’s a wise man. The world needs more LEO mentality.

 

Also paragraph 2 is spot on. Except, same as basketball, the “cheating” schools have had it figured out for a long time and gained competitive advantages. Now those advantages can be minimized legally. Here’s to hoping IU wants to give their coaches the opportunity to compete on nearly level playing fields.

 

 

 

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[go iu bb]

24 minutes ago, iubb said:

Statement from Tom Allen:

It has been my greatest professional honor to serve as Indiana’s head football coach for the past seven years.  Representing this University and this State has meant more to me than you can imagine.  Our entire journey here has been based on a simple concept – Love.  Each.  Other.  It’s what we’ve done, it’s what we’ll always do.  I continue to believe it’s a recipe to change the world.  There have been so many incredible memories made and relationships formed.  I’ll always be grateful for the players, coaches and staff who believed in our vision and gave their heart and soul for this program. 
 
College football has changed dramatically over the past several years.  Some of those changes have been a shock to the conscience of those who support IU football.  The time has come to fully embrace those changes and I pray that IU does just that. 
 
To each and every player who put on the Crimson and Cream over the past 7 seasons, I love you, thank you and God bless. 
 
#LEO



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More excuses and shifting of blame. Typical Allen. Buh-bye, I won't miss him.

[AZ Hoosier]

CBS Sports is reporting that Allen and IU settled on $15.5M buyout, with an escalated payout schedule.

"A long-term contract signed in 2020 made firing Allen difficult, however. Allen was due more than $20 million, trailing Jimbo Fisher and Gus Malzahn as the third-largest buyout in college football history. In a university statement announcing the firing, it was revealed the two sides had agreed to reduce the buyout to $15.5 million will Allen being paid in $7.75 million installments."

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/indiana-fires-tom-allen-hoosiers-part-with-coach-as-sides-reach-settlement-on-reduced-buyout-figure/

[Tom White]

6 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

I was at IU during the height of the Mallory Era. Man, that was a lot of fun. 

Dominating OSU for a two-year run. Beating them and Michgan in the same season. The shootout between Hartleib and Schnell in B-town. Destroying South Carolina in the Liberty Bowl. Watching AT run all over Memorial Stadium. 

Good times. 

And yet IU became a victim of short-term memory and let him go. Sometimes it isn't the coach, it is the school.

[Alford Bailey]

3 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

CBS Sports is reporting that Allen and IU settled on $15.5M buyout, with an escalated payout schedule.

"A long-term contract signed in 2020 made firing Allen difficult, however. Allen was due more than $20 million, trailing Jimbo Fisher and Gus Malzahn as the third-largest buyout in college football history. In a university statement announcing the firing, it was revealed the two sides had agreed to reduce the buyout to $15.5 million will Allen being paid in $7.75 million installments."

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/indiana-fires-tom-allen-hoosiers-part-with-coach-as-sides-reach-settlement-on-reduced-buyout-figure/

Fisher beat Malzahn in the 2014 national championship game. The other guy(Allen)  did not belong in this conversation.

[reconmkd]

For the life of me, I just don't get it. Allen, good man, needed to go and it was all over social media that he needed to go with tons of comments agreeing with such. IU ponies up and my X feed is full of poor Allen or no I don't want certain players to transfer. Holy crap, I am glad this fan base has nothing to do with the hiring and firing of coaches or anything of that matter. Now if we could not shoot ourselves in the foot in this hiring, keep the buyout option a little more manageable, at least compete with the rest of the B1G, and maybe start to pack Memorial Stadium for games again, I swear there are people who want IU to get better and want to be fans of foosball. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

23 minutes ago, reconmkd said:

For the life of me, I just don't get it. Allen, good man, needed to go and it was all over social media that he needed to go with tons of comments agreeing with such. IU ponies up and my X feed is full of poor Allen or no I don't want certain players to transfer. Holy crap, I am glad this fan base has nothing to do with the hiring and firing of coaches or anything of that matter. Now if we could not shoot ourselves in the foot in this hiring, keep the buyout option a little more manageable, at least compete with the rest of the B1G, and maybe start to pack Memorial Stadium for games again, I swear there are people who want IU to get better and want to be fans of foosball. 

X is literally just full of dudes who try to suck up to IU and try to shove rainbows and sunshine down everyone's throats about IU sports. I think they believe the university will include them in stuff like they have the Hoosier Hysterics, but like HH, are just incredibly annoying. SUPER FRAGILE. Pretty much all of them. I've been blocked by some. But they see everything IU does as amazing. Every player is amazing. Every coach is amazing and just needs time. It's bad.

[J34]

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

Tom Allen is legit a candidate for defensive coordinator at USC.

If it means bringing down the Trojans, I say "do it"!

[Naturalhoosier]

On 11/30/2023 at 12:36 PM, IUFootballEndlessMisery said:

Tom Allen is legit a candidate for defensive coordinator at USC.

If it means bringing down the Trojans, I say "do it"!

He’s a helluva defensive mind. I wouldn’t mind having him as a DC. 

[Josh]

6 minutes ago, Naturalhoosier said:

He’s a helluva defensive mind. I wouldn’t mind having him as a DC. 

Is his buyout similar to Crean and Archie in that any future earnings offset buyout payments?  Because if so and we hired him as DC, would he have to work for free?  

[go iu bb]

4 minutes ago, Josh said:

Is his buyout similar to Crean and Archie in that any future earnings offset buyout payments?  Because if so and we hired him as DC, would he have to work for free?  

They negotiated it to a lesser payout over 2 payments so I highly doubt that it depends on future employment now. 

[LamarCheeks]

5 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

They negotiated it to a lesser payout over 2 payments so I highly doubt that it depends on future employment now. 

Indeed this is the case. Or at least it is from what I've read. His lessened buyout is guaranteed and not mitigated by future earnings. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

6 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Indeed this is the case. Or at least it is from what I've read. His lessened buyout is guaranteed and not mitigated by future earnings. 

About the only incentive to get him to take a lesser amount.

[Josh]

Well hell, I only wanted him back if he was free.  Enjoy USC Tommy

[monskisprodigy]

18 minutes ago, Josh said:

Well hell, I only wanted him back if he was free.  Enjoy USC Tommy

I thought I saw that USC poached UCLA’s DC. 

[TTT]

Lynn to USC from UCLA as defensive coordinator for a cool $2,000,000 per year 

[Artie86]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIG Banter

 

@BIGBanterSports

 

 

Penn State is hiring former Indiana head coach Tom Allen as their next defensive coordinator to replace Manny Diaz

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[J34]

11 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIG Banter

 

@BIGBanterSports

 

 

Penn State is hiring former Indiana head coach Tom Allen as their next defensive coordinator to replace Manny Diaz

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Good for him!

[8bucks]

49 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIG Banter

 

@BIGBanterSports

 

 

Penn State is hiring former Indiana head coach Tom Allen as their next defensive coordinator to replace Manny Diaz

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I think this could work very well for both of them.  As a DC only, he can focus just on that and this is an area I think he can flourish again.  I know his defenses got weaker when he became the DC again here but I wonder if he was stretched too thin as HC.