Sources: Indiana fires Allen, owes coach $20

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN

  • Senior WriterNov 26, 2023, 09:44 AM ET Close College football press reporter.
  • Joined ESPN.com in 2008.
  • Graduate of Northwestern University.Indiana has actually fired football

coach Tom Allen, sources verified to ESPN on Sunday, a day after the Hoosiers completed their 3rd successive losing season.Allen, who had led Indiana considering that 2017 after spending a season as

the group’s defensive planner, finished 33-49 as Hoosiers coach. Indiana dropped its final three games, consisting of Saturday’s competition contest at Purdue, to end up 3-9. It had actually gone 9-26 general and 3-23 in Big 10 play considering that the 2020 season.Indiana reached national prominence in 2020, as the group went 6-2 throughout the COVID-shortened season and ended up No. 12 nationally, its best finish given that 1967(No. 4). In March 2021, Indiana rewarded Allen with a new seven-year agreement that increased his salary to$4.9 million annually and included a buyout of$20.8 million if the school chose to fire him before Dec. 1, 2023. The buyout would have dropped to about$ 8 million in 2024. Editor’s Picks

1 Associated Allen is owed his full staying payment, according to the contract, however Indiana still proceeded with the change, among the most expensive in college football history. Indiana’s staff is set to satisfy around 10 a.m. ET.The Indianapolis Star initially reported Allen’s dismissal Sunday.Allen, a native

of New Castle, Indiana, came up as a high school coach, consisting of at Ben Davis in Indianapolis, before going into the college ranks. He served as an assistant at Arkansas State, Ole Miss and South Florida before signing up with coach Kevin Wilson’s staff as Indiana defensive planner in 2016. Allen took over the program when Wilson resigned after the 2016 season.