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DIPRIMIO COLUMN: No Question, Tom Allen is the Right Coach for IU

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For those who questioned the hiring of Tom Allen as Indiana's head football coach, your answer came in Nebraska.

It came at a sold-out stadium loud enough to shake even the most unshakeable.

The Hoosiers stayed focused, and if it wasn't always perfect, Saturday's 38-31 victory was good enough to clinch bowl eligibility for the first time since 2007. Success was rooted deeply in this unshaken belief:

The best is still ahead.

"I don't care what anyone else thinks," Allen says. "This is big.