It Begins

[mviale]

As a Parent, I think I would rather send my son to play for Crean.  As a guy, I would rather hang out with Pearl.

[Coobeys Oil Depot]

Friendships? No, money talks. B. S. walks.

Apparently, money does talk. Your boy Bruce was on radio today talking up the IU job. Now, he wouldn't be doing that to leverage more cash out of the Vols, would he? Crean was never so public with his dalliances yet he still receives the wrath of some MU people. I wonder if there are Vols fans who are dismayed at the public ploy?
Can you ask him about this when you knock balls around in June? 

As for Sean Miller, he still seems to be candidate A. Thad Matta denied publicly he would take the OSU job only to accept it a week later. I could see the same with Miller even though he announced he'd be back at Xavier on Saturday.

While i see your point here, Pearl pretty much said there is no way in hell he is taking the Indiana job even though it used to be a dream job for him... It didn't seem like he was trying to get anything out of Tennessee.

That's exactly the point. Pearl has no interest in Indiana. But by going on national radio and claiming it was once a dream job but now is soooooo happy at Tennessee that the dream job no longer intrigues him it spurs his AD into action to "juice" up the contract a bit.

Posturing, leveraging, call it what you want. Every coach does it these days, and I'm sure every fanbase groans over it, but I just find it funny that Crean continues to get hammered for it by a few fans and they explain it away when someone other then Crean does it.

[mosarsour]

As a Parent, I think I would rather send my son to play for Crean.  As a guy, I would rather hang out with Pearl.

Ditto. The guy knows how to have fun. Can you just imagine how boring spending the day with TC would be? He'd probably want to go and scout for more guards. I mean, he's a great coach and I love having him as our head coach, but Pearl will take you to Silk in Juneau, WI and give you a $1000 in ones just to start with!!!

[ecompt]

according to PRN, Tom Crean was also directly involved in causing the Great Depression, the explosion of the Hindenberg, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the JFK assassination, the Challenger disaster and 9/11.

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://www.thedirty.com/?p=18853

[Knight Commission]

A ranking of Crean's reporter girlfriends:

1. Jay Bilas
2. Seth Davis
3. Andy Katz

Mike Decoursy actually heads the list. Who can forget the fluff piece written by him bout Crean when he was a MSU assistant.

[ChicosBailBonds]

I wonder if Crean has dirty pictures of all four of them....I mean it could be the only reason they are doing this....or maybe he's paying them off.