It had nothing to do with Allen's football coaching. Wright couldn't shake the image of a coach who jumped on players when he wasn't jumping all over the sideline, who seemed forever blessed with a teenager's energy despite Father Time's best efforts to slow him down? Wright first saw it when he was coaching at Indianapolis Warren Central High School and Allen was at cross-town rival Ben Davis. "That was a big-time rivalry in the early 2000s," Wright says.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - You'd better believe Tom Allen made a big impression on Kevin Wright.