I know you have some looney takes, but you can't possibly think that the program was in a worse place when Crean left than it was when he arrived, can you? You're just trolling at this point, right?
Where did I say the program was in worse shape when Crean left than when he arrived? Here's the answer: Nowhere. I said the cuboard in Year 2 was empty. If you think a roster in Year 2 for Buzz that left behind Lazar, Mo Acker, and David Cubillian was a full cupboard, well, per usual we see things differently.
Most Big East teams weren't forced into starting two guards who clocked in under 5'10" and one of whom didn't weigh more than 165 lbs.
Lenny said it best. And what's funny is the posters here up in arms over this point insisted Wojo inherited an empty cupboard with 8 Top 100 recruits - none of whom were massively undersized at their positions.
S16, S16, Elite 8, trumps Crean's 1 Final Four, and of course Crean got knocked out in D-Wades sophomore year by a 14 seed in Round 1.
Lastly, I'm not a Crean hater at all. Very grateful for what he did at MU. There's no bias against Crean. I just think Buzz was a better coach. You can look at how each has perforrmed since leaving MU - Crean had 1 run while at IU but ended up getting fired, and then performed even worse at Georgia, getting fired again.
