The Crimson Quarry · Apr 22, 2021
Please just order Tom Allen a pizza
Photo by Mary Holt/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesA few days before Indiana traveled to Florida for the Jan. 2 Outback Bowl, intrepid IndyStar beat writer Zach Osterman tracked down folks inside IU’s football program to get some of their best Tom Allen stories from the recruiting trail.
You see, weeks earlier, Allen’s appetite gained legendary status after this anecdote from a former Allen recruiting target made the rounds on Twitter:
True Story: Coach Allen came to my house recruiting me for college. My mom made a lasagna for everyone. By the time this man left the house (3 hours) he had eaten 4 huge plates of it. He had won me over and I signed. It was incredible