TWITTA TRACKKKAAAA Jeff Goodman throwing bombs

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@theIWB: A CBS story on Tom Crean with the headline "Marquette schmarquette"? Don't expect any love from Marquette Nation Goody! @GoodmanCBS #mubb

No sign of the article yet

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Front page.

[Pakuni]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/21912913/the-coach-coaches-love-to-hate-crean-now-toast-of-hoosier-nation

Really nothing to see here.

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Little thing IWB doesn't know is that Goodman had no part in that headline.

[The Lens]

Little thing IWB doesn't know is that Goodman had no part in that headline.

IWB is relatively tight with Buzz and Buzz is very tight with "Goody".  This is all in good fun.  No pun intended.

[Groin_pull]

So glad Tan Tommy is no longer MU's coach. I don't miss seeing that oily, pock-mocked face.

I'll take Buzz any day of the week.

By the way, we'll see how thrilled Hoosier fans are when Crean messes up and gets bounced before the Final Four.

[Silkk the Shaka]

"He's become a full-fledged God in Hoosier country, where these fans have been clamoring to return to the good old days, when IU was competing for Final Four berths and national titles."

They crap out early this year and those same exact fans will be pissed off til November.

[GGGG]

Little thing IWB doesn't know is that Goodman had no part in that headline.

He knows that...  Lens is right, he's just playing.

[Skatastrophy]

"He's become a full-fledged God in Hoosier country, where these fans have been clamoring to return to the good old days, when IU was competing for Final Four berths and national titles."

They crap out early this year and those same exact fans will be pissed off til November.

Yep, and I'm looking forward to it.  I wonder if he'll quit again when he stops getting recruits once the stories get out in-state of how he's a pretty terrible coach.

[JakeBarnes]

Little thing IWB doesn't know is that Goodman had no part in that headline.

Eh. Goodman has been pretty bullish on Davidson all week, so he deserves some crap from Marquette Nation.  Thursday needs to get here, I'm done with hearing how being 77% likely to win a game means we are going to lose.  

[ChicosBailBonds]

Yep, and I'm looking forward to it.  I wonder if he'll quit again when he stops getting recruits once the stories get out in-state of how he's a pretty terrible coach.

You really think he quit by taking one of the best jobs in America?  Better school, better program, more fertile recruiting ground?  That's not quitting, that's called being smart.  Quitting is leaving to go to a women's basketball school like Tennessee.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Yep, and I'm looking forward to it.  I wonder if he'll quit again when he stops getting recruits once the stories get out in-state of how he's a pretty terrible coach.

he didn't quit, he was fired.  March 31st.  book it dano.

[keefe]

he didn't quit, he was fired.  March 31st.  book it dano.

That's right. Crean was dismissed. For cause.

[JakeBarnes]

That's right. Crean was dismissed. For cause.

Overdrew his tanning minutes and diet coke fund.

[TallTitan34]

Didn't Indiana run off Mike Davis because he only made it to the second round.

How far does Crean have to get to make the IU faithful happy?

[keefe]

Didn't Indiana run off Mike Davis because he only made it to the second round.

How far does Crean have to get to make the IU faithful happy?

I am confident that the I4 Faithful will grow tired of the Bronzed Beast's antics long before he ever gets to a Final Four.

[Tugg Speedman]

The story says the turning point was November 2010 when Cody Zeller signed with IU.  Three years later they are #1.

I could not help but think of the parallel of Joe Wolf and Majerus circa 1985.  How would things have been different if Wolf came to MU instead of UNC?  Would that have made the rest 1980s and early 1990s vastly different?

Thoughts?

[ChicosBailBonds]

"He's become a full-fledged God in Hoosier country, where these fans have been clamoring to return to the good old days, when IU was competing for Final Four berths and national titles."

They crap out early this year and those same exact fans will be pissed off til November.

Correct.  Just as Duke, Louisville, Ohio State, etc fans will as well.  That's part of the deal.  MU is a 3 seed, we are "supposed" to go to the Sweet 16.  If we don't, there will be fans that will be pissed off til November here, too. 

[ChicosBailBonds]

I am confident that the I4 Faithful will grow tired of the Bronzed Beast's antics long before he ever gets to a Final Four.

As confident as you were that Gonzaga was part of the new Big East?

[JakeBarnes]

Didn't Indiana run off Mike Davis because he only made it to the second round.

How far does Crean have to get to make the IU faithful happy?

He also wasn't a "traditional."  Big difference, especially in the state of Indiana. (Edit: This is not meant to be in teal).

[We R Final Four]

Southern half of Indiana is more hick than West Virginia.

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As confident as you were that Gonzaga was part of the new Big East?

+1

[ChicosBailBonds]

He also wasn't a "traditional."  Big difference, especially in the state of Indiana. (Edit: This is not meant to be in teal).

Only problem with that logic is who did they hire after Mike Davis?



Kind of kills that argument right in the bud.

Most people don't know how that whole hiring went down.  RMK was fired when school started, late August early September.  Players were in an uproar and threatened to transfer or quit.  Myles Brand gave the job to CO HEAD COACHES (that was not a typo).  John Treloar refused to be the other co-head coach and Mike Davis was last man standing. 

Davis got run because he couldn't recruit and led IU to a 14-15 record followed by a 15-14 record.  He did well with RMK's players, didn't do well with his own.  Technically he resigned, but he was going to be ousted.

[79Warrior]

I am confident that the I4 Faithful will grow tired of the Bronzed Beast's antics long before he ever gets to a Final Four.

Well, he has a great shot to get to the FF right now, so we shall see.

[TallTitan34]

Only problem with that logic is who did they hire after Mike Davis?

This is why I have no sympathy for anything that has happened to Indiana.  They knowingly hired a known cheater.  They knew what they were getting into and deserved everything that happened to them.