Indiana Coach Tom Allen Comments on Michigan Football Sign-Stealing Scandal

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00:00 - Tom, this is a little more out of left field,

00:03 but obviously one of the bigger stories

00:04 in the sport right now is what's happening up at Michigan.

00:07 I know you played them somewhat recently,

00:09 with all the talk of sign stealing and everything like that.

00:12 Is that something that you were aware of,

00:14 something that you encountered,

00:15 and I guess, do you have any thoughts on that situation?

00:18 - Do I have any thoughts?

00:21 Wow, yeah, that's less loaded.

00:25 No, you know, I've been asked about it,

00:27 different things, so I don't know

00:29 about what's going on there.

00:31 But I know there's a gamesmanship to in-game signals.

00:36 I mean, that's why you see all the contraptions,

00:38 and we kind of laugh sometimes

00:39 about all the stuff that we go into,

00:41 and we got three different signalers

00:43 wearing goofy-looking shirts and hats

00:46 and all these different colors,

00:47 and so that's the gamesmanship of it.

00:49 So, and then there's whatever,

00:51 you know, there's different things that goes beyond that.

00:54 That's different to me, you know,

00:55 so, but I don't really, I don't know enough about it.

00:59 There's no question, a lot of conversations going on

01:01 by a lot of people that don't know a lot of things,

01:03 but there's also an integrity to the game.

01:06 And I'm, I just believe,

01:08 and I believe you do things the right way,

01:09 and you gotta be able to stand up

01:11 and give account for how you operate as a man,

01:13 and look yourself in the mirror

01:14 and know you do things the right way.

01:15 So I'm not saying that it didn't,

01:17 I don't know what's going on there,

01:18 but I just know, I just wanna say

01:20 that we need to protect the integrity of the game.

01:22 You know, so that's my stance on that,

01:25 I think that's important.