New Indiana University football coach Tom Allen is still “Tommy” to Mark Surface, no matter how many rungs he’s climbed on the football ladder since his days as a ball boy at New Castle games.

Indiana coach Tom Allen has a unique familiarity with one of his 2017 recruits — his son, Thomas. News Sports Indy 500 Things To Do Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals. IU.

Indiana coach Tom Allen's postgame rant about the sanctity of Friday night high school football went viral this week, heading into the Hoosiers' Friday matchup against Indiana State. He's right ...

Allen worked his way up from the high school ranks as a defensive coordinator and assistant, eventually becoming the head coach at Indiana in 2017. Allen would be with the Hoosiers for seven full ...

There was never a doubt that Tom Allen would coach last Saturday’s IU game at Virginia. His dad, Tom, Sr., would never let his son miss a football game, even as the elder Allen, a long-time coach at ...

Tommy Allen found football about how you’d expect, given his father was a high school coach. Tom Allen worked at Benton Central until the late 1970s, when Surface, then the coach at New Castle ...

Unlike high school recruiting where Allen can talk to a player for over a year, decisions in the transfer portal can be made in a matter of weeks. ... TOM ALLEN 1-on-1 ...