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Title: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: tower912 on October 17, 2017, 08:45:10 AM
https://twitter.com/espnpr/status/920024863716401154

This is going to be a fun thread.   
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: cheebs09 on October 17, 2017, 08:51:44 AM
I think the studio suits him better. He can come up with a game plan and stick to that. Doing a game, if it doesn't go according to the script, he may be a little lost out there.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Dawson Rental on October 17, 2017, 08:53:58 AM
This sheds new light on Wade recently being seen sporting ESPN shorts.

A quote from TC:

"You don't think that Dwayne wanted to go to ESPN?  Dwayne would have crawled on his hands and knees over hot coals to go to ESPN."
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Ellenson Guerrero on October 17, 2017, 08:56:25 AM
More reason to be glad that we're on Fox Sports.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: GoldenWarrior11 on October 17, 2017, 09:20:25 AM
It's a good spot for him.  Who knows, he may end up liking that more than coaching.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Dr. Blackheart on October 17, 2017, 09:21:15 AM
Quote from: Ellenson Guerrero on October 17, 2017, 08:56:25 AM
More reason to be glad that we're on Fox Sports.

ESPN doing Maui games, ai-na.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Lighthouse 84 on October 17, 2017, 09:24:41 AM
It's ESPN! It's ESPN!
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Mr. Sand-Knit on October 17, 2017, 09:32:00 AM
My guess is he is let go by week 8, after he says the exact same thing every day for the first 7 weeks
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Vander Blue Man Group on October 17, 2017, 09:37:31 AM
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Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Golden Avalanche on October 17, 2017, 10:07:07 AM
Quote from: Mr. Sand-Knit on October 17, 2017, 09:32:00 AM
My guess is he is let go by week 8, after he says the exact same thing every day for the first 7 weeks

I don't think you've seen him on television. What you describe is not his persona at all.

ESPN executives fell in love with his performance for The Vertical at the NBA Draft. They see someone who can relate the details of the game into an accessible manner for the people watching who often are of limited intelligence like some above.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Jay Bee on October 17, 2017, 10:08:55 AM
As expected... work for free, get experience & keep your name out there.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Juan Anderson's Mixtape on October 17, 2017, 10:46:39 AM
"Watching ESPN in 1979 is really what got me interested in broadcasting."
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: TallTitan34 on October 17, 2017, 11:28:46 AM
Quote from: Grime-y Headband on October 17, 2017, 10:46:39 AM
"Watching ESPN in 1979 is really what got me interested in broadcasting."

Nicely played.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: 4everwarriors on October 17, 2017, 11:34:35 AM
Officially now dunn wit da 4 letter network, hey?

Crean sucks
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Mr. Sand-Knit on October 17, 2017, 12:23:14 PM
Quote from: Golden Avalanche on October 17, 2017, 10:07:07 AM
I don't think you've seen him on television. What you describe is not his persona at all.

ESPN executives fell in love with his performance for The Vertical at the NBA Draft. They see someone who can relate the details of the game into an accessible manner for the people watching who often are of limited intelligence like some above.

Listened to his coaches show for about 3 years, where he said the same robotic coach speak every show every time.  Personality of a card board box. 
Truly enjoyed listening to oneil, deane buzz and others.  Looked foward to their shows and hearing about them and the team.  Completely, stopped listening to Crean's incredibky boring and unintelligent.  To each his own, he will probably fit in well at ESPN
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Lennys Tap on October 17, 2017, 12:47:10 PM
Quote from: Mr. Sand-Knit on October 17, 2017, 12:23:14 PM
Listened to his coaches show for about 3 years, where he said the same robotic coach speak every show every time.  Personality of a card board box. 
Truly enjoyed listening to oneil, deane buzz and others.  Looked foward to their shows and hearing about them and the team.  Completely, stopped listening to Crean's incredibky boring and unintelligent.  To each his own, he will probably fit in well at ESPN

+1000. Many of Marquette's coaching fraternity have been interesting guys with big personalities. Al, Rick, KO, Deane and Buzz qualify. Put TC's personality into a thimble and there's lots of room left over. I've never heard the guy speak any language other than "coach speak". Boring and predictable.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: MU82 on October 17, 2017, 12:51:32 PM
Quote from: Quentin's Tap on October 17, 2017, 12:47:10 PM
+1000. Many of Marquette's coaching fraternity have been interesting guys with big personalities. Al, Rick, KO, Deane and Buzz qualify. Put TC's personality into a thimble and there's lots of room left over. I've never heard the guy speak any language other than "coach speak". Boring and predictable.

Agreed.

I don't listen much to even the good announcers, as I regularly watch games at bars with friends or fast-forward on the DVR at home. So I sure a shootin' ain't gonna be listening much to this vanilla bore ... especially with MU on FS1.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Silkk the Shaka on October 17, 2017, 12:54:39 PM
Since he isn't a head coach at another institution this year, there shouldn't be any conflict of interest in making good on that $100k Valley Fields donation now right?
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Pakuni on October 17, 2017, 12:56:07 PM
Crean can actually be pretty fun and engaging in the right circumstances.
Check out the interview he did with Pardon My Take a few months back, for example.
I think he'll do well at ESPN.
And I think some people need to get over it.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: We R Final Four on October 17, 2017, 01:26:18 PM
Quote from: Pakuni on October 17, 2017, 12:56:07 PM
And I think some people need to get over it.
Hahahaha. That's a good one. Some people will NEVER get over TC.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: DienerTime34 on October 17, 2017, 01:29:29 PM
Quote from: We R Joey to MU on October 17, 2017, 01:26:18 PM
Hahahaha. That's a good one. Some people will NEVER get over TC.

It's ironic because listening to Wojo coachspeak his way through every single interview is worse than watching paint dry. I guess when he moves on from MU one day there will be a thread about that?
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: tower912 on October 17, 2017, 01:35:33 PM
I agree that Wojo's interviews are as dry as Crean's.    How Wojo is perceived when he leaves will depend on the nature of his departure. 
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Silkk the Shaka on October 17, 2017, 01:42:49 PM
Quote from: tower912 on October 17, 2017, 01:35:33 PM
I agree that Wojo's interviews are as dry as Crean's.    How Wojo is perceived when he leaves will depend on the nature of his departure.

As well as how the next 2 years go. The team looks primed for a deep run in 2019, can he capitalize on his patient, measured, roster construction?
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Lennys Tap on October 17, 2017, 03:19:37 PM
Quote from: DienerTime34 on October 17, 2017, 01:29:29 PM
It's ironic because listening to Wojo coachspeak his way through every single interview is worse than watching paint dry. I guess when he moves on from MU one day there will be a thread about that?

Like TC, Wojo is long on coach speak and short on personality. Unlike TC, he doesn't seem to be a pr!ck. Until Wojo starts berating the waitstaff at his club, doling out all the summer camp trophies to his kids, screaming at other team's assistants in public, bullying the young people in the athletic office, etc., etc., etc., I can live with his bland personality. And I won't care about how he exits - but I didn't care how TC left either - I was just grateful that he left, period.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: MU82 on October 17, 2017, 03:20:21 PM
Quote from: DienerTime34 on October 17, 2017, 01:29:29 PM
It's ironic because listening to Wojo coachspeak his way through every single interview is worse than watching paint dry. I guess when he moves on from MU one day there will be a thread about that?

True dat.

Al, Majerus and KO spoiled us. Buzz could be fun when one got past the phoniness.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: 4everwarriors on October 17, 2017, 03:49:44 PM
Quote from: Vander Blue Man Group on October 17, 2017, 09:37:31 AM
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Dude just crapped his Haggars, hey?
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: TAMU, Knower of Ball on October 17, 2017, 04:08:55 PM
Quote from: Quentin's Tap on October 17, 2017, 03:19:37 PM
Like TC, Wojo is long on coach speak and short on personality. Unlike TC, he doesn't seem to be a pr!ck. Until Wojo starts berating the waitstaff at his club, doling out all the summer camp trophies to his kids, screaming at other team's assistants in public, bullying the young people in the athletic office, etc., etc., etc., I can live with his bland personality. And I won't care about how he exits - but I didn't care how TC left either - I was just grateful that he left, period.

I was there for the last year of TC's tenure. Where did you hear this?
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Golden Avalanche on October 17, 2017, 04:20:09 PM
Quote from: Mr. Sand-Knit on October 17, 2017, 12:23:14 PM
Listened to his coaches show for about 3 years, where he said the same robotic coach speak every show every time.  Personality of a card board box. 
Truly enjoyed listening to oneil, deane buzz and others.  Looked foward to their shows and hearing about them and the team.  Completely, stopped listening to Crean's incredibky boring and unintelligent.  To each his own, he will probably fit in well at ESPN

As I suspected, you haven't listened to him on television as an analyst so your thoughts (and those of other bitter Marquette fans who haven't seen him in his new role) are irrelevant to the discussion.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Mr. Sand-Knit on October 17, 2017, 05:07:15 PM
Quote from: Pakuni on October 17, 2017, 12:56:07 PM
Crean can actually be pretty fun and engaging in the right circumstances.
Check out the interview he did with Pardon My Take a few months back, for example.
I think he'll do well at ESPN.
And I think some people need to get over it.

The guy is boring nothing to get over.  Do i think buzz or ko or anyother mu choaches that left are boring?... no.
Fail
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Mr. Sand-Knit on October 17, 2017, 05:10:15 PM
Quote from: Quentin's Tap on October 17, 2017, 03:19:37 PM
Like TC, Wojo is long on coach speak and short on personality. Unlike TC, he doesn't seem to be a pr!ck. Until Wojo starts berating the waitstaff at his club, doling out all the summer camp trophies to his kids, screaming at other team's assistants in public, bullying the young people in the athletic office, etc., etc., etc., I can live with his bland personality. And I won't care about how he exits - but I didn't care how TC left either - I was just grateful that he left, period.

+1000 after about 5 years of the NITs and ncaa first round embarrassments i was more than done. 
Tap u forgot the refusal to shake other coaches hands and the post game tantrums that led to blowing off press conferences n radio.  Pure ahole
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Lennys Tap on October 17, 2017, 06:23:50 PM
Quote from: Golden Avalanche on October 17, 2017, 04:20:09 PM
As I suspected, you haven't listened to him on television as an analyst so your thoughts (and those of other bitter Marquette fans who haven't seen him in his new role) are irrelevant to the discussion.

I've heard him 'Lanche - unimpressed. Maybe over time he'll get better.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: tower912 on October 17, 2017, 06:27:27 PM
He was charming and funny at the 100 year celebration.  Who knows?  Maybe with the lack of pressure he will become informative and entertaining.  It worked for Nick Faldo.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: Lennys Tap on October 17, 2017, 06:57:55 PM
Quote from: TAMU Grimes on October 17, 2017, 04:08:55 PM
I was there for the last year of TC's tenure. Where did you hear this?

Multiple sources - there also was a poster (here or Dodds, not sure which) who was one of the "abused". Even his staunchest defender (Chico) conceded he was a total pr!ck to work for.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: TAMU, Knower of Ball on October 17, 2017, 07:07:48 PM
Quote from: Quentin's Tap on October 17, 2017, 06:57:55 PM
Multiple sources - there also was a poster (here or Dodds, not sure which) who was one of the "abused". Even his staunchest defender (Chico) conceded he was a total pr!ck to work for.

I've heard that for the full time staff but by "young people" I assumed you meant the student staff. Never heard or experienced anything of the sort.
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: ZiggysFryBoy on October 17, 2017, 07:26:33 PM
Edit:  crean sucks
Title: Re: Coach Crean has a new gig
Post by: TSmith34, Inc. on October 17, 2017, 08:17:34 PM
Quote from: Mr. Sand-Knit on October 17, 2017, 05:10:15 PM
Pure ahole
Irony.
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