Official Site of the Hoosiers · Jan 2, 2019
Happy Trails, Mike DeBord
IUHoosiers.com
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Mike DeBord was really ready to ride off into a well-earned sunset at the end of 2016.
But he instead chose to work on behalf of Indiana football, and old friend Tom Allen.
"I had informed coach Butch Jones at Tennessee that I was, in fact, going to retire," DeBord recalled Monday. "Soon after that, Tom called."
DeBord and wife Deb were driving to see grandkids in Michigan, after he had helped orchestrate Tennessee's 38-24 win over Nebraska in the 2016 Music City Bowl, when Allen's cell phone call came in.
And Mike and Deb DeBord changed their plans, altering a major life decision, as a result of that call.