Written by Amanda Pavelka (@amandapavelka3)

With the promotion of former safeties coach Kasey Teegardin to special teams coordinator, Tom Allen did not have to search long to find a viable replacement that would help breed success in his fourth year at the helm of Hoosier football. 

The first time Jason Jones and Tom Allen met was in the Dallas area. They crossed paths quite a bit on the recruiting trail in 2012, and in 2013 the two ended up working together— Allen as linebackers and special teams coach and Jones at the head of defense alongside Kane Wommack’s father, Dave, at Ole Miss. It did not take long for Jones to figure out what Allen was about.