Tom Allen Now HC at IU
Announced at press conference after Kevin wilson's "resignation." No search. Allen was IU's DC who improved that unit so much after coming in from USF. He is an Indiana native.
AD is saying there were "philosophical differences," but they had brought in an outside investigator to look at program.
From Brian Bennett:
"Kevin WIlson had about $11 million left on his deal. Settled for $542,000 to go away. "
December 1st, 2016 at 6:26 PM ^
Defensive coordinator Tom Allen is Kevin Wilson's permanent replacement as head coach
— Mark Schlabach (@Mark_Schlabach) December 1, 2016
December 1st, 2016 at 6:32 PM ^
on the Wilson hooker situation or nah?
December 1st, 2016 at 6:43 PM ^
You are entirely too fixated on hookers, Mabel...
December 1st, 2016 at 7:25 PM ^
Yes, but who isn't?
December 1st, 2016 at 7:34 PM ^
The Mad Hatter!
December 1st, 2016 at 7:42 PM ^
You know who else was fixated on hookers? Craig James.
December 1st, 2016 at 11:55 PM ^
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December 1st, 2016 at 6:45 PM ^
December 1st, 2016 at 6:32 PM ^
But without Wilson to give him advice through a fence, how well can Tim Allen possible do as IU's head coach???
December 1st, 2016 at 6:42 PM ^
Perfect
December 1st, 2016 at 6:57 PM ^
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December 1st, 2016 at 6:32 PM ^
in such a short amount of time, I'm still having a hard time getting my mind around it. Wilson was so successful there, so I have to assume that the reason for this change is some pretty bad shit. Shocking.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:41 PM ^
But if they paid him anything then it couldn't be earth-shattering events that caused this. They could have just asked for his resignation, no?
December 1st, 2016 at 11:35 PM ^
I'm sure his contract does not allow him to be unilaterally fired without "cause". That means if they force him out then Wilson can sue and IU would have to prove in court that there was sufficient cause to fire him (as defined by the contract). Giving him a payment and getting him to voluntarily agree to resign avoids a lot of potentially messy litigation and saves the University the embarrassment of airing a bunch of dirty laundry in court.
What I am more surprised was that Wilson was able to be bought off for such a low figure. That suggests that there something clearly bad enough he felt that he was better off just taking whatever he could and getting out of dodge.
December 1st, 2016 at 6:33 PM ^
Too bad it couldn't be this guy.
December 1st, 2016 at 6:35 PM ^
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December 1st, 2016 at 6:36 PM ^
Tim "The Tool Man" Allen
December 1st, 2016 at 6:37 PM ^
We have 7 teams in the division, and now 4 of them are headed by former DCs -- MSU, Rutgers, Maryland and Indiana. Urbs and Franklin were offensive assistants, not to imply that they assisted offensively. JMFH was an assistant only once (IIRC), the QB coach for the Rrrrrraaaaaaiderrrrrrrs (spoken w/ growl). The balance of power is clearly tilted, right now, in favor of the three HC's that come from the offensive side.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:37 PM ^
For most of the 2000s, seems like everybody wanted to hire guys from the offensive of side of the ball for HC. Maybe now the pendulum has swung back a bit.
Besides Michigan, Ohio State and PSU are on a different level in terms of being able to attract coaches and talent from MSU, Rutgers, Maryland and Indiana. The latter may have realized- you may want a good offense to put butts in seats, but in this division, in this conference (and especially the last month of the season), you need to understand defense will be shredded by superior talent if you can't slow them down or force them into making mistakes occaisionally. Besides, if you're an AD, you pass the responsibility for making a good OC hire onto the the HC.
December 1st, 2016 at 6:38 PM ^
If Wilson was potentially endangering players, but it wasn't a situation corrupting the entire staff, I guess this makes sense. I would like to think that B1G teams can hire better coaches than they often do, but then again this is Indiana we are talking about.
Indiana is never going to be elite. But they were scary competitive in the best division in college football. They've been consistently competitive for years. So, if Allen is clean with regards to the alleged Wilson problems, this might be a realistic choice to continue the existing plan. No need to disrupt the program to hire some unknown coordinator or mid-level MAC coach when you can continue a program that has grown impressively on the field.
And the defense has certainly shown real improvement, so it seems that the guy knows how to coordinate. Why not move him up?
December 1st, 2016 at 6:48 PM ^
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December 1st, 2016 at 6:52 PM ^
Some combination of Beckman and Sarkisian, is the rumor.
The former is better sourced, the latter is truly just a rumor.
December 1st, 2016 at 6:49 PM ^
Props to Indiana for recogonize Tom Allen is an up and coming stud. Totally changed IU's defense without a talent upgrade. Although it's a shame to see Kevin Wilson go, who is obviously an excellent offensive coach, it''s understandable (though disappointing) if these abusive treatment of players is true. I am, however, reminded of that article posted on this board the other day about the frequency of cheating in college football. It basically said all college football coaches are put in a position where everyone cheats, and they can either cheat and hope not to get caught, or run a clean program without cheating and face the very real risk of losing your job due to how result based a coaches job is. Obviously you should never compromise a student athletes health, especially if they themselves were not willing to begin with.
December 1st, 2016 at 6:56 PM ^
Did a great job with the IU defense with lower level recruits.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:07 PM ^
Sad. I like Wilson, and thought he was building some momentum, which isn't easy at a place like Indiana.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:09 PM ^
"Kevin WIlson had about $11 million left on his deal. Settled for $542,000 to go away. "
Nobody does that unless they have to.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:14 PM ^
...if their liability insurer was in on the negotiations. Sign, or we're not defending you if a player sues.
December 1st, 2016 at 8:22 PM ^
December 1st, 2016 at 8:41 PM ^
No, I mean they might be part of the reason Wilson caved so easily. He gets fired for cause, he loses his coverage. He settles and that clause isn't triggered.
I just have a feeling that they'd strongly prefer nondisclosure, that their settlement leverage if any suits were filed would be damaged by any public airing of the grievances here.
Though I suppose its possible that what happened is so damning that nondisclosure is really worth eight figures to Wilson on its own.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:13 PM ^
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December 1st, 2016 at 8:05 PM ^
Especially with how shitty of a job the AD did with not revealing too much about what happened. Obviously some kind of confidentiality deal is in place. Would have been super easy for the AD to just say he was fired due to philosophical differences and leave it at that.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:35 PM ^
He fielded Indiana's first competent defense since the Roosevelt administration. Grab a good OC and see what happens
December 1st, 2016 at 10:12 PM ^
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December 1st, 2016 at 7:36 PM ^
Kevin Wilson was doing wonders for IU. I have no idea what the story is here but Tom Allen has big shoes to fill.
December 1st, 2016 at 8:46 PM ^
ESPN is saying that IU is citing "philosophical differences" which matches what SBNation was saying about Wilson clashing with administration people frequently.
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December 1st, 2016 at 8:58 PM ^
You don't bring in outside legal counsel to investigate your program because you're having "philosophical clashes" with the head coach. You do it because you're afraid you're going to get sued.
December 1st, 2016 at 10:34 PM ^
December 2nd, 2016 at 10:13 AM ^
Seems to me that if the HC and an assistant are having philosophical differences, it would be the assistant ends up leaving.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:42 PM ^
December 1st, 2016 at 8:12 PM ^
In situations like this it's better to be the latecomer; everyone that's been there longer could be perceived as having given tacit agreement to whatever was going on.
December 1st, 2016 at 7:55 PM ^
Sexual whatever. You don't drop $11 million dollars for $540k for anything else. Honestly.