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Stolen from the Wisconsin Scout board.
It should have a partially-cut-down net on it somewhere, too.
EDIT: Standby while I 'shop this.
Bam.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12138330/tom_crean_banner_2013.jpg)
Spell 'Indiana' correctly, por favor
Quote from: klyrish on March 29, 2013, 05:21:49 PM
Bam.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12138330/tom_crean_banner_2013.jpg)
Classic. And sadly very true
If you really want to get authentic, I think it would have to read "TOM CREAN and his Indiana Hoosiers." After all, this isn't any striped-pants-wearing squad - this is HIS striped-pants-wearing squad.
Tommy Crean, the zone bustin' coachin' machine.
Quote from: klyrish on March 29, 2013, 05:37:21 PM
Crap. Fixed!
I love how Ton Crean is huge while "and the Indiana Hoosiers" is nearly invisible.
Quote from: MUFanatic4Life on April 09, 2013, 06:41:55 PM
I love how Ton Crean is huge while "and the Indiana Hoosiers" is nearly invisible.
Uh, that's kinda the point
Quote from: MUFanatic4Life on April 09, 2013, 06:41:55 PM
I love how Ton Crean is huge while "and the Indiana Hoosiers" is nearly invisible.
You ain't from round here, is ya?
Love the fact that it's red!
Quote from: PuertoRicanNightmare on April 09, 2013, 08:59:30 PM
Love the fact that it's red!
Given the gutless way Crean left town it should be yellow
In all seriousness didn't Crean promise a banner for the team this year? Thought IU only hung championship banners?
I think PRN said this at the time, but in retrospect this may be true: the banner escapade with the B1G Championship ceremony at home with the tOSU loss sure backfired and seemed to deflate the team. They ended the year 5-4. They scrapped back and beat Michigan but they lost something down the stretch.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on April 10, 2013, 11:18:14 AM
I think PRN said this at the time, but in retrospect this may be true: the banner escapade with the B1G Championship ceremony at home with the tOSU loss sure backfired and seemed to deflate the team. They ended the year 5-4. They scrapped back and beat Michigan but they lost something down the stretch.
With the exception of 2003, TC's teams have not been great finishers. His teams tend to peak too early.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on April 10, 2013, 11:18:14 AM
I think PRN said this at the time, but in retrospect this may be true: the banner escapade with the B1G Championship ceremony at home with the tOSU loss sure backfired and seemed to deflate the team. They ended the year 5-4. They scrapped back and beat Michigan but they lost something down the stretch.
Compare that disaster to what Louisville did. They refused to cut down the nets after the BE tourney, didnt want the regional nets, either. They only wanted the Net after the final.
In my memory, I can't recall a team cutting down nets after a loss. It's just completely bizarre and the wrong message, IMO. Why would you want the net from a basket used in a game you lost? For all time, people will look at that net and ask why it was cut down. I completely understand wanting to recognize a Big Ten championship in some manner, but NEVER cut down a net after a loss! It makes no sense! This is the kind of stuff Crean started doing once he got comfortable at MU. Give a weirdo a little political capital and weird things will begin to happen. By the way, once he started this at MU, I believe the general public began to see the real Crean. Indiana will, too.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on April 10, 2013, 11:33:50 AM
With the exception of 2003, TC's teams have not been great finishers. His teams tend to peak too early.
Joanie has the same beef.
from the 30 for 30 episode Survive and Advance, the 1983 Wolfpack team practiced cutting down the net all season long, now that's just another approach
jeez, people post like cutting down nets before winning the championship is a jinx
Quote from: Lennys Tap on April 10, 2013, 11:33:50 AM
With the exception of 2003, TC's teams have not been great finishers. His teams tend to peak too early.
I guess I would want to understand how that is defined. Context is everything...who you play, where you play
In the 2002 season, we finished the season 15-4. Yes, the last 10 were 6-4, of course one loss was at #4 Cincinnati by 1 point. The other loss was #5 Cincinnati in the CUSA semi-finals of the tournament. The other a 2 point loss to Tulsa in the NCAA tournament.
In other years, like 2007-08, third round of the Big East Tournament....our losses down the stretch were to #10 Stanford in OT, #15 Pitt on a neutral court, #11 Georgetown, and at Syracuse.
Similar to some other years. In some cases, agree, we limped to the finish, but in other years it comes down to who you are playing, how we played, where we played.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on April 10, 2013, 12:22:22 PM
Joanie has the same beef.
Early front-runner for
Comment of the Off-Season award.
Quote from: PuertoRicanNightmare on April 10, 2013, 11:52:01 AM
Compare that disaster to what Louisville did. They refused to cut down the nets after the BE tourney, didnt want the regional nets, either. They only wanted the Net after the final.
In my memory, I can't recall a team cutting down nets after a loss. It's just completely bizarre and the wrong message, IMO. Why would you want the net from a basket used in a game you lost? For all time, people will look at that net and ask why it was cut down. I completely understand wanting to recognize a Big Ten championship in some manner, but NEVER cut down a net after a loss! It makes no sense! This is the kind of stuff Crean started doing once he got comfortable at MU. Give a weirdo a little political capital and weird things will begin to happen. By the way, once he started this at MU, I believe the general public began to see the real Crean. Indiana will, too.
Some of my friends who went to IU are beginning to doubt that he will make them forget about losing Bob Knight. They are convinced he is a recruiter though and is probably never getting fired any time soon.
The seed of doubt has finally been planted though. Crean has big school expectations with some political capital for coming there in bad times. He probably shouldn't do something like show up to midnight madness in a karate outfit. He should focus on winning or else his act will get old really fast.
An IU buddy of mine didn't want to believe it, but after I showed him the flowchart to the Tom Crean-era Hoosiers (http://royhobbson.tumblr.com/post/40682987705/the-crean-era-hoosiers-in-flow-chart-form), he finally realized after a few games how true it is and has made comments of the bizarre/douchey behavior on a number of occasions now.
Anyone know the definitive reason why RMK will not set foot in Bloomington?
Quote from: Lennys Tap on April 10, 2013, 11:33:50 AM
With the exception of 2003, TC's teams have not been great finishers. His teams tend to peak too early.
I wouldn't say we were a great finisher in 2003. We totally shat the bed in the Final Four.
Quote from: klyrish on April 10, 2013, 05:52:43 PM
I wouldn't say we were a great finisher in 2003. We totally shat the bed in the Final Four.
Yeah, but went through the second toughest gauntlet to get there in the last 10 years....did we shat the bed against Syracuse the other day? How about against UNC a few years ago? Florida? That's why I asked someone to define finishing. Or are we moving goal posts again here at scoop? Kansas was a better team than we were. Just as Syracuse was last week. Kentucky was a better team than we were but we blew them out. Arguably Pitt was a better team that year, but we beat them. Who you play, where you play, etc has a lot to do with this definition.
Quote from: klyrish on April 10, 2013, 04:00:48 PM
An IU buddy of mine didn't want to believe it, but after I showed him the flowchart to the Tom Crean-era Hoosiers (http://royhobbson.tumblr.com/post/40682987705/the-crean-era-hoosiers-in-flow-chart-form), he finally realized after a few games how true it is and has made comments of the bizarre/douchey behavior on a number of occasions now.
I told my hoosier fan wife that Syracuse was going to beat IU badly. I told her why (Crean could never beat Boeheim or attack a zone) and predicted IU's offense. I also predicted the lack of adjustments and frequent pictures of the coach clapping ineffectually. It pissed her off as badly as the loss, having me be right so much. I also told her I expected Syracuse to beat MU, that we had to play a near perfect game at home to beat the Orange and that I was hopeful but not optimistic that MU could duplicate the effort on a neutral floor. She forgave me somewhat for that and then developed an unholy hatred of Syracuse because they beat both IU and MU.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on April 10, 2013, 12:22:22 PM
Joanie has the same beef.
Is it beef? I thought Joanie got chicken...
Quote from: tower912 on April 10, 2013, 06:31:25 PMShe forgave me somewhat for that and then developed an unholy hatred of Syracuse because they beat both IU and MU.
I don't know her, but I like your wife. Despite the Hoosier leaning.