Crazy situation at Indiana

[Pakuni]

Player freaks out in basketball offices, campus police called, etc.
Let the silly Tom Crean bashing commence ...

Indiana's Holman to transfer
By MICHAEL MAROT, AP Sports Writer

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Freshman center Eli Holman threw another potential wrench into Indiana's rebuilding project Thursday, telling coaches he intended to transfer before apparently throwing a tantrum in their office that required a call to the campus police.

The meeting, which coach Tom Crean described as cordial initially, certainly did not end that way.

"His behavior took me, along with the other people in the office, by surprise," Crean said in a statement released by the university. "We saw him as a danger to himself and wanted to take precautionary measures to help him. We felt bad for Eli and, hopefully, were able to help him."

Campus police declined to comment on the situation, and The Associated Press left a message seeking comment for Capt. Jerry Minger of the Indiana University police department.


Holman did not have a listed telephone number in Bloomington. The Associated Press sent an e-mail seeking comment to a school address listed in his name.

"No one said anything about feeling threatened or like the anger was directed at a specific person," Minger told The Bloomington Herald-Times.

Police did not arrest Holman, but took a statement from Crean and others who witnessed the outburst, The Herald-Times reported. Holman left the building without speaking to the police.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news;_ylt=AoLfYOiJOhk.xRXfab6yqSgOvbYF?slug=ap-indiana-holmantransfers&prov=ap&type=lgns

[MUinOH]

Ten bucks says the new tanning bed in the locker room was the last straw for this kid.   

[Pakuni]

They really hate potted plants and flowers around Indiana basketball.

Indiana basketball player Eli Holman has requested to be released from his scholarship, according to basketball coach Tom Crean.

When Holman met with Crean this afternoon to discuss his plan, he became angry during the conversation and eventually broke a flower pot in the basketball office. That prompted a call to police.

http://blogs.heraldtimesonline.com/iusp/

[VegasWarrior77]

"Fake Bake" can't even keep centers who are already signed!  I bet Holman wasn't yelling: "It's Indiana, It's Indiana"!

[4everwarriors]

Flipped out when T-Cubed said he had to do hyperbaric training following karate lessons.

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

He probably subjected him into a tape of MU's "big man development" over the last decade, and he went Bobby Knight on Crean and company.

[The Lens]

Amo...A.D.D. & Gambling Addiction
Brandon Bell...Alcoholic
Eli Holman...suicidal

TC never minds tossing the kids under the bus.  Never his fault.

[Thomas' Danish Delight]

aren't you glad you got sucha closely knit group of players with such great attitudes, crean?

man...listening to Wes, DJ, and 'rel's interview was such a breath of fresh air.

[Chicago_inferiority_complexes]

Anybody have a list of the IU recruits who have asked to be taken off their LOI and the players who've already transfered out / went to the NBA?

How many scholarship players does Crean actually have right now? 5 3/4?

[MUViking]

This post is very inappropriate.  Moderators, please delete.

[bma725]

Not surprised Holman was involved in a strange incident.  This is the same kid who was banned from high school basketball as a junior for shoving a referee, then he got shot going to a party at a hotel, tried to drop out of school when he wasn't reinstated to play right away as a senior, and literally disappeared when he was supposed to be showing up to IU to enroll in classes.  The fact that he made it this long is shocking.  Talented, but very strange dude.

[77ncaachamps]

This post is very inappropriate.  Moderators, please delete.

+ 1 gazillion

[muwarrior87]

This post is very inappropriate.  Moderators, please delete.

+100000000

[jficke13]

Perhaps innappropriate but nothing grown ups cant handle.

Support free speech and leave the post up.

[thatman32]

Amo...A.D.D. & Gambling Addiction
Brandon Bell...Alcoholic
Eli Holman...suicidal

TC never minds tossing the kids under the bus.  Never his fault.

I love this post.  Brandon Bell being an alcoholic doesn't suprise me since his is from Michigan and half the state is unemployed.

[mviale]

Crean loses another 6'9" player

[Wade for President]

Flipped out when T-Cubed said he had to do hyperbaric training following karate lessons.

Hilarious

[Wareagle]

Flipped out when T-Cubed said he had to do hyperbaric training following karate lessons.

I heard it was when Crean told him to sweep the leg.

[mwbauer7]

I love this post.  Brandon Bell being an alcoholic doesn't suprise me since his is from Michigan and half the state is unemployed.

I mean, while we're on the subject of inappropriate posts....

[The Lens]

Vike, if TC doesn't leak this stuff out to his "people", I and others don't know about it.  Don't blame me, blame the guy who got the information out into the TC PR defense system.

[Fullodds]

Was it this plant?

[🏀]

I heard it was when Crean told him to sweep the leg.

[The Lens]

Last night:

"His behavior took me, along with the other people in the office, by surprise," Crean said in a statement released by the university. "We saw him as a danger to himself and wanted to take precautionary measures to help him. We felt bad for Eli and, hopefully, were able to help him."

Today:

Meanwhile, Holman's outburst Thursday upon telling Crean that he was leaving is considered closed. According to an Indiana source, Holman became agitated once Crean told Holman of the process for transferring. The source said Holman was yelling and stormed out of Crean's office. He picked up a plant on a nearby desk and tossed it.

Because he was yelling and angered, campus police were called. Statements were taken but no charges were filed. The incident will be sent to the Dean of Students and could hamper Holman's attempts to transfer.

"Last night and this morning I had the opportunity to apologize to Coach Crean and today I would like to extend that to everyone involved in the program for allowing my frustrations to get the best of me," Holman said in a statement issued by the university Friday. "I appreciate everything Indiana University and coach Crean have done for me and I hope nothing but the best for the program in the future."

Shouldn't he still be in Bloomington County Pysch?  Is he no longer a danger to himself? Guy throws a plant and TC turns it into he was trying to kill himself.  The hits keep coming.

[wheresthecake?]

I'm not sure I necessarily buy that this whole situation was only the fault of Holman's own mental instability.  We all know how emotional TC is about, well, everything, and I find it hard to believe TC was able keep his cool after losing ANOTHER big man.  Maybe I'm wrong here, but I just find it hard to believe that TC did absolutely nothing to agitate the kid other than telling him the transfer rules.  I mean, why would he be so upset upon learning the process for transferring?  I have to think he had a good idea about the transferring process before he even set foot in TC's office.  Just throwing it out there.

[MUViking]

Vike, if TC doesn't leak this stuff out to his "people", I and others don't know about it.  Don't blame me, blame the guy who got the information out into the TC PR defense system.

Defaming kids on a message board is pretty low class, DKCL.  Don't blame Crean for "leaking" this info.  Blame yourself for carelessly posting this s*** on a message board.  Take some responsibility for your own actions.