Indiana Football: Tom Allen on hot seat? One reporter thinks so.

Tom Allen enters his third season as the head coach for the Indiana football program and one reporter believes he should be on the hot seat.

It has been an offseason full of expectations for Tom Allen and the Indiana football program and they are in the midst of having a breakthrough season; or are they?

According to one Yahoo! Sports reporter, Tom Allen is on his list of coaches on the hot seat heading into the 2019 season.

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Pete Thamel of Yahoo included Allen on his list of nearly a dozen coaches who should be worried about their job status come the end of the 2019 season and moving forward into 2020. Thamel didn’t go into much detail about his reasoning, and thus is a ridiculous statement.

Though Tom Allen has yet to have a winning season in his first two years on the sideline for the Hoosiers, he has fallen just one win short of a bowl game in both seasons. When he took over the program, there had been just one winning season since 1995, so it’s not like he wasn’t living up to a history of expectations.

What Allen has done though is create a real culture at Indiana and a program that is on the verge of breaking through. However, do I think the Hoosiers need to make it to a bowl game this year to show fans and recruits that they are moving forward as a program? Yes.

With the top two recruiting classes in program history in back-to-back years, Allen is building something special in Bloomington and with a bowl game appearance and win, he will cement his legacy early on in his head coaching career at Indiana as the man who turned the program around and made it relevant again.