Old Tommy Crean Getting His Ass Handed To Him

[4everwarriors]

Seems like his luck of beating Kentucky left him when he bolted.

[TJ]

hopefully that was a Marquette thing and not a Crean thing.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Seems like his luck of beating Kentucky left him when he bolted.

I'll bet you they fire him after this year

[Tommy Brice for Coach]

I just turned on the game and Indiana looks just plain awful. They look so lost, and their center (Prichard?) can't seem to finish at all

[ecompt]

it's a shame, a damn shame.

[AZWarrior]

A damn, damn shame.

[Marquette65]

don't ask why, 'cuse I really don't have an answer--but am watching the Tan One and  IU seems to be running different sets than MU.  More activity by the center, in coming out for the ball and passing it.

[mviale]

Maybe he found a new play book left over from Bobby Knight.

[77ncaachamps]

Dumes looks a player. Nick...didn't do much. Unless 8 points and Chevy player of the game counts for something.

Loved the graphic of Michigan, Ohio State and Michigan State, and how they're really good right now.

Indiana's gonna get their clocks cleaned this season.

[79Warrior]

I'll bet you they fire him after this year

I am with you on this one. I think Crean will have IU back in great shape within three years. anyone making assuptions based on what he walked into this season is just plain stupid.

[RedWebster]

And I think that sometimes it takes a couple years, but people eventually begin to recognize a phony when they see him.

Crean is the Charlie Weis of college basketball.

[79Warrior]

And I think that sometimes it takes a couple years, but people eventually begin to recognize a phony when they see him.

Crean is the Charlie Weis of college basketball.

If he was such a phony why did he last 9 years at MU?

[mosarsour]

If he was such a phony why did he last 9 years at MU?

+1

[ZiggysFryBoy]

If he was such a phony why did he last 9 years at MU?

cuz the only people more incompetent that I4Tommy is the MU administration.

[mugoose]

the networks  need to stop showing IU games. they are worse than awful. no one should have to watch them play.

[Norm]

I still don't get the need for some on this board to constantly trash Tom Crean. Let it go folks.

[mviale]

I still don't get the need for some on this board to constantly trash Tom Crean. Let it go folks.

Need you ask?

[tower912]

I'm with Norm.   Thanks for the 9 years.  He should have recruited a big or two and he  should have handled the exit better. Karma has gotten even with him this year for his exit, good luck and God Bless.   We will all know in a few years whether MU was holding him back or holding him up.   The accident is well into the clean up phase.   Nothing to see here.  Move on, people.

[classof70]

The Crean haters will say this guy doesn't know what he's talking about either.  Mark Few on Crean.


"(Indiana) absolutely has the right guy for this job,'' Few said. "One of the best compliments I think you can pay a coach is to say his team plays hard. His team is playing extremely hard. They're young and they just don't quite have as many horses as I think they've had in the past. But he'll get it going. He's a relentless recruiter, he's a heck of a game coach and a very good tactician. He'll get it going.''

[Blackhat]

Crean is a damn good coach and will have indiana winning again.

He just is egocentric as all get up and you could see that in his leaving.   He's good and if he was an elite recruiter he may not have had to leave but he needed to find a way to get over his deficiency.   Anyway this crap keeps getting rehashed.  Trashing on him does us no good because he will succeed. 

[jce]

Tom Crean will win an Indiana no doubt.  I grow weary of bashing the guy on here because he no longer is MU-related.  Superbar please...

[RedWebster]

If he was such a phony why did he last 9 years at MU?

I never claimed his job should have been in jeopardy. But people at MU knew he was a phony...and they'll figure it out at IU.

I'm comparing him to Charlie Weis. Weis has several Super Bowl rings, which he rarely fails to mention. After two years at ND, they thought he was Knute Rockne. Now? Not so much. 

Crean = Weis. You watch.

As for the "let it go" contingent...he was our coach for 9 years. Are we not supposed to reference anything that happened in the past? Let's also stop talking about Wade, Diener, Novak, Tony Smith, Butch Lee, Bo Ellis, Al McGuire, Hank Raymonds, Mike Deane, Jim McIlvaine, the phrase "Cracked Sidewalks," and our unending list of former nicknames.

Are acceptable topics now limited to Buzz Williams, McNeal's NBA prospects and our short bench?

[Blackhat]

I don't think you know what you are talking about.   Weis recruits lights out, he just can't develop players worth a sh.t.   Crean couldn't recruit elite but still won 10 games in the ultra competitive Big East each year.   That's why he moved on to get a recruiting advantage and wasn't canned.   Your analogy sucks. 

[ChicosBailBonds]

I never claimed his job should have been in jeopardy. But people at MU knew he was a phony...and they'll figure it out at IU.

I'm comparing him to Charlie Weis. Weis has several Super Bowl rings, which he rarely fails to mention. After two years at ND, they thought he was Knute Rockne. Now? Not so much. 

Crean = Weis. You watch.

As for the "let it go" contingent...he was our coach for 9 years. Are we not supposed to reference anything that happened in the past? Let's also stop talking about Wade, Diener, Novak, Tony Smith, Butch Lee, Bo Ellis, Al McGuire, Hank Raymonds, Mike Deane, Jim McIlvaine, the phrase "Cracked Sidewalks," and our unending list of former nicknames.

Are acceptable topics now limited to Buzz Williams, McNeal's NBA prospects and our short bench?

I don't see the Weis correlation at all.  Weis won with Willingham's players and not with his own, yet.

Crean took over a losing team and won with the players he got and did it repeatedly.  Weis has yet to do that.  Weis has yet to even win a bowl game.

Crean's teams play very hard and that can even be said now with a very talent flawed IU team, they are still playing hard.

[RawdogDX]

I don't think you know what you are talking about.   Weis recruits lights out, he just can't develop players worth a sh.t.   Crean couldn't recruit elite but still won 10 games in the ultra competitive Big East each year.   That's why he moved on to get a recruiting advantage and wasn't canned.   Your analogy sucks. 

+1.  weis  has his 4th consectutive top ten class coming in and can't win.  Crean never had top ten classes and won a lot of games.