Oso planning to go pro
You know whats funny about Crean? Literally none of the student body cares one iota about him. Hes has been a meaningless footnote for the past 6 years. Scoop is the only place where Crean is still mentioned in regards to MU.
You think so? He strikes me as a guy that would go to the studio to let things cool down and wait for another decent job to open up rather than jump at a mid-major or lower tier job.
Why does that strike you as funny? Students don't care about MU's basketball history, they care about their little slice of it. Today's students were between 2 and 6 when Crean arrived and between 11 and 15 when he left. As they get older some will develop an appreciation for MU's history. For now? Meh.
With Chicos being so vocal that Tom Crean is "doing it the right way" by having players that go to class and stay out of trouble and that this is what the IU faithful want first and foremost, it will be interesting to see if he is just as vocal calling Tommy out for having underage players get behind the wheel of a car after having drank alcohol or having players arrested for DUIs. We know if it were Bazz at Marquette he'd be making everyone aware of the fact that this is not acceptable...
Obviously we know about crean and how he got us into the Big East, a final 4 (with Wade) and left for indiana. There is no obsession though. He left 7 years ago, we are now on our second coach since then. When is it going to be time to finally let him go.
But but but.. look at I4's APR! lolCrean should hire ZFB to run his Twitter
If you really had I4's contract, you'd see ZFB already has that job
Since you know...can u please explain to the rest of us how Crean got us into the Big East
Because John Dodds always says so...
I saw 2 MU players out late at Potowatomi the night before a conference game (not a Crean coached team). Both scored 20 points the next day. I think people are going a little over the top on the fact of drinking some the night before an event. I think it happens everywhere.
What's worse, making some extra phone calls to recruits or losing control of your program and having a lot of off the court incidences in a very short amount of time? Chicos wouldn't have left Scoop if these things were happening at Marquette. Suddenly he is gone now that it's happening to Tom Crean.But hey, "This is how you win at Indiana!" Hah. What a nut.Edit: Haha, wow. I read a quote in an article earlier where Crean says that the rules say one thing but he's suspending them longer, for 4 games. Well, 2 of those 4 games are their exhibition games. Well done, Tom. You really are a Saint.Tom Crean: "It's Indiana, It's Indiana."Dan Dakich, former actual Indiana basketball player, ""Indiana basketball stands for nothing. Absolutely nothing."
Think this is a slippery slope. Marquette's program through the last few coaches have had plenty of off the court incidents (some in a short time under one particular coach), however, the majority never made it to the public thanks to tight lips, pink slips, and money clips.Indiana, and Crean, are simply the latest fad in faux media outrage. There are plenty of real renegade programs out there but we seem to find the most fault in the ones whose township police actually do their job rather than the ones who cover crap up.
Indiana, and Crean, are simply the latest fad in faux media outrage. There are plenty of real renegade programs out there but we seem to find the most fault in the ones whose township police departments actually do their job rather than the ones who cover crap up.
While some would find 6 serious incidents in a 9 month period over the top squirmy I would tend to agree with the gist of this. That said, it's pretty hard for the local gendarmes to cover up crap when one of the guys ends up in the ICU.
What has happened is that as these incidents have popped up, people have begun to recognize the "Indiana is back" theme that was pushed ad nauseum by Crean ("You ruined our program!") was nothing more than another bizarre sales pitch. Say what you want about the state of the program when he got there. Sampson had them ranked in the top 5. Would you rather have issues with players and be highly ranked or have issues with players and go 17-15? By the way, Sampson might have been a little smarmy, but he is exponentially a better coach than Crean.
1. Wait, you mean a coach was trumpeting his own success? Shocked. Shocked there is gambling in this establishment.2. Regarding state of program, no surprise that if you win then the "issues" you have with players doesn't matter. We saw that up close with our repeated "issues" with players the last six seasons.3. It's weird how we're quick to consider the "incidents" of others to be of an utmost disgusting nature when we had an "incident" of truly horrendous nature in our own backyard that directly involved our coach at the time putting the squeeze to a 19 year-old child.