Sloan Allison had every logical reason to play college football anywhere but the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga this season.
Not two years ago the school fired his father Rodney as the Mocs’ head coach. Then Rodney’s successor, Russ Huesman, moved Sloan from quarterback to wide receiver. Now Huesman’s moved him again, shifting Sloan to tight end.
It’s almost been enough to make you wonder if his last name isn’t Dangerfield instead of Allison, so little respect has he seen.
“My father raised me to be a team player,” said Sloan on Wednesday morning at the close of another draining practice atop Scrappy Moore Field. “I wanted to finish what I started here.”
So how happy is young Allison that he’ll probably conclude his career a year from now as a fifth-year senior Moc?