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Nice article on our former coach. I'm sure 4ever would lap it up.
Here is the article http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=lc-carpenter_indiana_tom_crean_turnaround_03121219 F's among the players. What a mess. Give him his due. A number of people here had him fired several times but he turned them around and cleaned up what looks like an enormous drug and academic mess.
+1. Good luck to Crean (as long as he doesn't play the Warriors). Never thought he'd clean that mess up before getting tossed
+1, gotta give the guy his due.
I'll give the cat credit, he can write a press release and get it published like no one else. Phenomenal. Fantastic. Great.
He reads autobiographies but discards those that come off "arrogant and self-congratulatory". WTF? He never seemed capable of any genuine humor, but sometimes by accident....
I had no idea that the situation was THAT bad, ie. the grades and drugs. Congrats to Crean. UCLA could probably use him right about now.
I believe several insiders of IU here (one clearly is no longer a member) said it was THAT bad. Norman Dale was the other. Both, I'm sure, were treated righteously by other posters here for stating the truth.
LOL. You got that right, Hoopaloop -- back in Crean's early days at IU, if one posted supportive comments of our former coach on this board it was generally met with a barrage of abuse from a few posters. Some of whom have still not moved on from that point.As for where the IU program is now and my expectations back in Crean's first year in Bloomington, here is what I posted on this board on March 11, 2009: "... like [redacted name of he whose name should not be mentioned ], I expect big things. (In fact, I have offered to bet many of my Purdue-supporting friends and relatives on the games in 2012; so far, I have not had a single taker.)Keep in mind that this year's IU team was not without talent. They were just extremely young and inexperienced. They put forth the effort and hustle every night and progressed as the season went along. It is a building process, and I like what I have seen so far." When I made that post in 2009, I expected the Hoosiers to make the NIT in 2010-11, and the NCAA tournament this year. And as I said here recently, at no point in the time since Crean took the IU job was there any expectation or suggestion that he would be fired. Hoosier fans understood the mess he inherited.
He was toast and in jeopardy there before he decided to indirectly send money to the Indiana AAU team. Now he's got the talent he needs and I think he'll do some very good things there.
LOL. You got that right, Hoopaloop -- back in Crean's early days at IU, if one posted supportive comments of our former coach on this board it was generally met with a barrage of abuse from a few posters. Some of whom have still not moved on from that point.
This. He "cleaned up the old mess" and started his very own new one, but it's not hard to look at least relatively clean when you're standing in a police lineup next to Kelvin Sampson.