They Fired Tom Allen!

[poppedcolla]

4 hours ago, Chris007 said:

I think it will happen by this time next Monday. I also think after we hire a new coach will see a multimillion-dollar rollout for a facilities upgrade. 

Heartening if this happens. Can't help but think that even with the buyout, time is of the essence with the new Big Ten additions - it'd be nice to show that we are ready to support our football program.

[8bucks]

12 hours ago, Chris007 said:

Mellencamp needs a lot of work, football only weight room and some things like that. We easily have the worst facilities. Purdue just did something like 100 million upgrade, NW did like 200 million. Have to keep up. The next head coach will get 7-9 million

Could that $7-$9 million be for the entire staff? Or could it be the level if we get the top couple candidates but will be lower if not?

[IUrocker]

I’ve seen articles saying USC defense being a mess and hoping Tom Allen becomes a major candidate for their DC spot to look into. Also heard Jim Leonard as being someone IU could look into as coach if he ends up not wanting to be interested in going to USC as DC….so not sure how serious those talks blossom, just a name that was mentioned.

[LIHoosier]

O Canada was fired by the Steelers today. Please don't consider him, Scott. Thank you.

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[OGIUAndy]

37 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

O Canada was fired by the Steelers today. Please don't consider him, Scott. Thank you.

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He will consider him as much as he considers anyone who wants the job. Keep that in mind. It's really WHO would want the job and then you go from there. Canada wouldn't be an inspired hire but he probably could get a good staff. I would not like the hire myself. He seems to have issues everywhere he goes. And by issues, detractors of his offense. 

[LamarCheeks]

On 11/20/2023 at 10:24 AM, Stuhoo said:

And maybe the biggest reason is that the payoff can be amortized over many, many years.

Yep. I say we give him $20K a year over the next 1,000 years and call it even. 

[Artie86]

Interesting.....Coach Allen speaking about things he wants for next year.......

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-iu-hoosiers-football-tom-allen-plan-priorities-offseason-220969217/

 

[TTT]

38 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

Interesting.....Coach Allen speaking about things he wants for next year.......

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-iu-hoosiers-football-tom-allen-plan-priorities-offseason-220969217/

 

Is he asking for IU football to adapt to even more losing than in the past due to today’s challenges??

[OGIUAndy]

1 hour ago, Artie86 said:

Interesting.....Coach Allen speaking about things he wants for next year.......

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-iu-hoosiers-football-tom-allen-plan-priorities-offseason-220969217/

 

If they "let him go" they probably aren't going to tell him until after the game. So of course he's going to say this, it's the end of the season. 

[TheWatShot]

1 hour ago, Artie86 said:

Interesting.....Coach Allen speaking about things he wants for next year.......

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-iu-hoosiers-football-tom-allen-plan-priorities-offseason-220969217/

 

Coaches have a job to do until they don't. 

[IU_FanClub]

I really hope we announce some investment soon, the more schools you see doing it and the more the future of college athletics becomes clear, the more nervous I get our admin is going to **** it up

[AZ Hoosier]

5 minutes ago, IU_FanClub said:

I really hope we announce some investment soon, the more schools you see doing it and the more the future of college athletics becomes clear, the more nervous I get our admin is going to **** it up

Wow... the inference is that the admin HAS NOT ****ed it up yet. *mind blown*

[IU_FanClub]

Just now, AZ Hoosier said:

Wow... the inference is that the admin HAS NOT ****ed it up yet. *mind blown*

Just feels like we are in one of this situations where there is such an easy solution and yet we are on pins and needles to see if they figure it out. We don't even have to be good, we just need to show we care a little bit about football in order to not get left behind and yet it is a real question whether or not we will do that lol.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

5 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Wow... the inference is that the admin HAS NOT ****ed it up yet. *mind blown*

Patience young grasshopper.  Patience.

[TheWatShot]

4 minutes ago, IU_FanClub said:

Just feels like we are in one of this situations where there is such an easy solution and yet we are on pins and needles to see if they figure it out. We don't even have to be good, we just need to show we care a little bit about football in order to not get left behind and yet it is a real question whether or not we will do that lol.

We got left behind back in the 90's when other athletic departments figured out heavily investing in football would benefit their other athletic programs. We felt we were a "basketball school" and therefore it wasn't necessary. Indiana people also tend to have this weird inherent belief that we can be just as good as anyone else even without all the bells and whistles, which played a part in why our basketball renovations took so long to finally come to fruition. Sometimes, Indiana is its own worst enemy. 

[Josh]

44 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

We got left behind back in the 90's when other athletic departments figured out heavily investing in football would benefit their other athletic programs. We felt we were a "basketball school" and therefore it wasn't necessary. Indiana people also tend to have this weird inherent belief that we can be just as good as anyone else even without all the bells and whistles, which played a part in why our basketball renovations took so long to finally come to fruition. Sometimes, Indiana is its own worst enemy. 

What do you mean by this?

In the 90's we were a very mediocre program, but embarrasingly better than we are now.  IU decided it was time to become better so we fired coach Bill Mallory and tried to take the next step higher.  We all cheered the decision at the time.

Turns out we just hired poorly through present day.  I feel like we're trying, we just haven't gotten it right yet.

[Trish]

I’ll see y’all Sunday morning..

[IU_FanClub]

17 hours ago, Trish said:

I’ll see y’all Sunday morning..

You hear something good? Sunday is my birthday that would be an awesome gift!

[Trish]

1 hour ago, IU_FanClub said:

You hear something good? Sunday is my birthday that would be an awesome gift!

Im speaking it into existence for all of us! 

[Demo]