Kolek planning to go pro
To keep on topic; I think that if Crean stayed at MU we'd have at least 3 new banners at the BC. How many banners has Buzz put up?!!?
Yes. Three more "Great Alaskan Shootout" banners.
PRN's "we'll never set another State of Wisconsin attendance record" line is still funny today.
Crean probably has to get to the Elite Eight by Cody Zeller's junior year at minimum. Might even have to be the Final Four. Otherwise, they might finally ask Brad Stevens to come a few miles south. No more excuses for Crean in my opinion. It actually seems so long ago that he was here.
In game coaching still an issue. Usually had a good game plan to start, but failed miserably at in game adjustments.
Can we just sticky this topic and merge all new Crean-based posts to it? I'd clean up the boards.To keep on topic; I think that if Crean stayed at MU we'd have at least 3 new banners at the BC. How many banners has Buzz put up?!!?
You continue to crack me up. You have no clue on this...absolutely NO CLUE. IU has never said you need to get to a certain level in the NCAA tournament or you're gone. You just have no CLUE how IU works. I'm sorry, but you don't.If Crean consistently goes to the NCAA tournament, graduates players, keeps their noses clean and has several solid runs per decade he will be hanging around. People forget that Knight had plenty of "off years" when he didn't make the Elite 8...hell, years he made the NIT only.
Ners, do you think our staff made good in game adjustments this year? It's been one of the biggest complaints all season long. I wonder how many Final Fours Dean Smith made without future NBA guys on his team? Or Coach K? Or John Wooden? This just in, great players usually mean success in the NCAA tournament. Aren't you glad the many you hate more than any landed that kid and also brought Buzz to MU? It must conflict you so....like getting getting divorced and despising your ex but knowing she gave you a child you love.
And lastly, I do not hate Tom Crean AT ALL - what I hate is how you defend the hell out of him, yet are pretty darn critical of our current coach. Think we've been over this 1,000 times. The reality is that, though you make the occasional..I like Buzz..I think he's a nice man, and has done a good job - type of post....they are signficiantly outnumbered by critical posts.
Isn't anyone watching the Masters?
And this is different from the current staff....how?
Crean won't be "SAFE" until he hangs number 6.
I know for a FACT that this is not true.
I do agree that talent and players are about 80-90% responsible for the results a team has, and coaching 10-20%. A good "coach" must be able to land/recruit good talent - that is the foundation for everything. But I'd also submit that Dom James, Jerel McNeal, Wes Matthews and Lazar Hayward were great players, yet they had very limited success in the NCAA tourney...And lastly, I do not hate Tom Crean AT ALL - what I hate is how you defend the hell out of him, yet are pretty darn critical of our current coach. Think we've been over this 1,000 times. The reality is that, though you make the occasional..I like Buzz..I think he's a nice man, and has done a good job - type of post....they are signficiantly outnumbered by critical posts.As for in game adjustments - I tend to think that playing in the top league in the country where a 9-9 team can go on to win the national championship...lends itself to "you can't win them all" and some night syou are just going to get beat by VERY good teams. Other nights you beat very good teams..
IU fans are TIRED of LOSING... Crean has cried about players with no talent and no heart for 3 years now. (players he recruited by the way) And now he is landing talent, you really think IU fan will be happy with "a few solid runs?" IU fan expects BANNERS, and if Crean has another losing season next year I really think he could be in trouble. Most likely he will get to 2012 but if they lay another egg like last year??????? Crean won't be "SAFE" until he hangs number 6.Oh and by the way the General only missed the NCAA tourney ONE time after the tourney expanded from 32. And the year he didn't make it was one of only 2 years at IU he had a losing record in conference. And they were NIT runner up that year. Knight set a very high bar at IU.... being average won't get it done. And last place in the Big Ten sure as hell won't.