Allen is Bill Lynch with a lighter resume. Nice guy, knows some football, liked by Indiana high school coaches, and a good enough recruiter to get some decent skill. With a weak non-conference schedule, he can win three to five games a year, get paid at the lowest end of the Big Ten scale, never be a threat to leave, and keep attendance steady in the low 30,000 range. IU doesn’t care about winning to expect or demand anything better from their program, so he’ll be there for awhile. And the rest of the conference will be happy to play a team that plays hard and hangs around for two and half quarters and then gets blown out. For Purdue, it’s the perfect program to have as a “rival”.