Clemson football defensive coordinator Tom Allen.
“Two Pros and a Cup of Joe” morning show, which he co-hosts with former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn.
Allen was defensive coordinator at Penn State in 2024 and helped guide the school to its first College Football Playoff appearance in his lone season with the team. Before going to Happy Valley, Allen had been head coach at Indiana from 2017-23.
Arrington said:
“I look at it and I say, ‘You come there one year and leave?’ That’s like… Tom Allen, when I heard this, I thought, ‘No way that could be true. He seems like a good man, the type of guy that has integrity in what he does.”
Asked directly if he thought Allen lacked integrity, Arrington said:
“I’m not gonna say he’s not a good guy and lacks integrity. I just thought that he had more of it. I thought there might be more ‘good guy’ in him and more integrity than to leave the program.”
introductory press conference as Clemson’s new defensive coordinator on Wednesday.
Quinn said that he thought Allen’s family could have made a difference in his decision to leave Penn State for Clemson.
Arrington shot back:
“No, not to me … I saw Manny (Diaz) in Vegas. I have no problem with Manny leaving to go to take a head coaching job at a prestigious college. I don’t have a problem with that. But you’re leaving to be a defensive coordinator somewhere else? That doesn’t hit right with me.”
Arrington continued to take shots at Allen.
“Unless you have an ailing family member or something to that effect that would call for you to be within the vicinity of them to be able to get there back and forth, I understand that. If that’s what comes out, then he has my sincerest apologies. But if it’s just, ‘Oh, I got this opportunity and I can move back near my daughters? I don’t think so. I don’t like this whole business.”
Quinn called Allen’s decision the most surprising move of the offseason to date, adding that he didn’t see it as a lateral move but as a “step back.”
“I understand Clemson Tiger fans may take issue because you won the ACC to get into the College Football Playoff,” Quinn said. “It was a down year in the ACC. Bottom line. Not a very good showing, in particular in the playoffs, so I don’t view that as helping him get any closer to winning a national championship, if he cares about that.”
Dabo Swinney has two national championships at Clemson.
James Franklin has zero championships at Penn State.
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