Is this the best moment of Tom Allen's life?
Indiana beat Wisconsin on Saturday, 14-6 at Camp Randall.
The win moved the Hoosiers to 6-1 on the year and strengthened IU's claim as the second best team in the Big Ten. The club now owns wins over Michigan, Penn State, Michigan State and Wisconsin in the same season for the first time ever. A Top 10 ranking and a New Year's Six bowl are now within reach; the program hasn't done either of those things since 1967.
Immediately afterward, the team wasn't focused on that so much as how much they loved their head coach and how much their head coach loved them.
Tom Allen's postgame interview with ABC was disrupted to the point where the thing basically stopped because Allen's players wouldn't stop telling each other how much they loved him. In rapid succession, one by one, nearly all of them had something to say about how much fun Allen has made being an Indiana football player.
We ask the above question somewhat jokingly -- Allen is married with three children, after all -- but this moment has to be the pinnacle of his coaching career, doesn't it? He was a member of a handful of conference championship teams as an assistant at the divisional level, but it's hard to imagine those beating the professional and personal fulfillment of this moment right here?
