IUHoosiers.com
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Tell Thomas Allen it hurt so good, and at an intellectual level, the level that puts goals and big picture above all else, he bought it.
This is, after all, a very driven Indiana Hoosier.
But at the physical level, the short-term zone that registers pain and discomfort, thus causing the body to demand to know what the bleep is going on, this keep-getting-back-up linebacker wanted it to stop, wanted to tell Jacob Laverman, director of football rehabilitation turned master of necessary pain, to go away.