Loyalty is scarce in modern college football. Bobby Allen, a dutiful servant of the Arkansas football program for decades, was cut from a different cloth.
The versatile assistant coached every defensive position group under three different Razorback head coaches from 1998-2012. When Bret Bielema came to town, he knew he had to keep Allen around. The former Head Hog created the position of director of high school and NFL relations, which Allen held until his retirement in 2020.
In addition to his coaching and networking wisdom, Allen gifted Arkansas two starting quarterbacks who were at the helm for the entirety of Bielema’s tenure: his sons, Brandon and Austin.