Where Dennis Allen goes, success follows

Raiders new head coach may not have any head coaching on which to look back. But he is not free of experience and success. He certainly had something that impressed Reggie McKenzie and it is likely the same thing that had him rising in the coaching ranks as quickly as he has. Allen is just 39 years of age but football is in his blood and has always been part of his life. His father Grady was a football star, playing linebacker at Texas A&M and later in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons.Dennis also was also recruited and played four years at Texas A&M. He was a defensive back for the Aggies. While he was at Texas A&M, the team went to three straight Cotton Bowls. Allen had the game clinching interception in 1993 over Texas to the Cotton Bowl.Unlike his father, he never played a down in the NFL. He was in Bills camp in 1994 but never made the team. After his playing days were over, he went back to Texas A&M as a graduate assistant working with the Aggies' secondar...