Indiana Coach Kevin Wilson out After 6 Seasons

He said he would later be on the phone to recruits, too.

I have no problem with either Wilson’s removal or Allen’s promotion. “I don’t expect anything different from that”.

Can Wilson ever be a head coach again? They played hard and were close. I was real with them.

Kevin Wilson was aggressive.

Glass added that no NCAA compliance issues are involved in the matters giving rise to Wilson’s resignation.

In another tweet, Schlabach said, “Former IU player suffered concussion in practice b4 ’15 season”. But when issues resurfaced in November, Glass said, it was time for an outside review via the Indianapolis law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.

“I understand there’s been a lot of back-and-forth about former players and those sorts of things”, he said. “I told (the players), ‘It’s because of you. (There was a) realization that we weren’t on the same page and lack of confidence by me that we could get to and stay on the same page”.

Indiana University football coach Kevin Wilson resigned on Thursday. An announcement is scheduled for 6 p.m.

Allen has deep roots in the state of in, born in Rensselaer and raised in New Castle as the son of a high school football coach.

He is also a man Glass wanted very much to keep. Glass described Allen’s leadership style as “demanding but not demeaning”, and praised the positivity he brought to his role as defensive coordinator this season.

When junior linebacker Tegray Scales intercepted a pass in Miami against Florida International for a touchdown, Allen emphatically hugged his assistant coaches on the sidelines. If a player complained he was hurt, Wilson let them know about it. They signed a almost identical amount of in-state prospects over the last two years (Purdue has signed seven, while in has signed six.) They also battle in Florida, from which Purdue has landed seven prospects in the last two classes while in has hauled in nine. He will be paid his $542,000 base salary for 2017 as part of his resignation.

Wilson could not be reached for comment.

Glass subsequently named defensive coordinator Tom Allen as Wilson’s permanent replacement as head coach before sidestepping questions concerning the specific reasons behind the change. Wilson beat rival Purdue each of the last four seasons in the Old Oaken Bucket battle, the program’s first four-game winning streak vs. the Boilermakers since 1944-47. Allen followed Freeze to Ole Miss from Arkansas State where he helped guide a defense that led the Sun Belt Conference in total defense (331.46 ypg) and scoring defense (20.77 ppg) and ranked in the top 25 nationally in both categories. IN missed out on a couple of upset bids against top-10 Penn State and MI, in a snow game in Ann Arbor.

“My heart breaks for him”, Allen said. Selling the vision of this program that I so strongly believe in. “I believe of positive conviction-driven leadership”. “I challenged our defense to embrace those qualities, and I will challenge our team to do the same”. That’s the largest improvement in the nation. “This year, it was down to 27.3”. He significantly improved the defenses at each of his next two stops as a coordinator, helping move South Florida from 96th to 46th in defensive S&P+ and in from 105th to 30th this season.

After all, there had been plenty of shock and opinion from current and former IU players. And I can’t wait to get back on the field! “I quickly concluded that person was in our midst in Tom Allen”.

Wilson took over at IU before the 2011 season.

It was one of the strangest days at one of the strangest moments in program history. It’s one thing to take issue with the media; shoot, sometimes we deserve the treatment we get.