First Tom Crean Interview Post-Indiana

[hoosierpap 14,300]

Some interesting stuff in here...not sure it was the bromance widely believed on this site and throughout the fanbase...

Originally posted by USPS

 

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2017/03/21/tom-crean-indiana-hoosiers-fired

[Old Friend 8,389]

Narcissistic, platitudes, generalities, denial, and fluff.   

Tom Crean

Declined to meet with Fred Glass.  A classless move.  

We didn't fail?  No?   In your last 4 seasons, 3 of them finished 7-11, 9-9, and 7-11 in the Big Ten.  At Indiana.  That's not failure?

He's complaining about a lack of graduate transfers?  WHAT!?

People aren't knocking down his door.  Maybe he'll go coach on the Bulls staff so he can coach Dwayne Wade again?

[Magnanimous 4,399]

The unique circumstances under which Crean took the IU job is the only reason why there's any more to this story beyond a coach not meeting the program's expectations. Time to move on.

[Alford Bailey 12,250]

That is one strange dude.

[TheWatShot 13,335]

We can now refer to him coaching here in the past tense...and it's a wonderful feeling.

[Stromboli 6,055]

Totally normal for him to be bitter.  It would be odd not to be bitter.  I think you have to stretch to read this article and see him as a bad dude.  He just got fired--very publicly--and now his family is going through the transition.  If you can't be a little sympathetic to that then I have to wonder if you've had much life experience.

Of course, on the flip side, he did fail.  He's been paid, what, around $25 million to coach the Hoosiers?  This season was a total train wreck.  To keep him after this year would have been an acceptance by Hoosier Nation that we are ok with lower expectations.  Good on Glass for making this move.  

[rebelhoosier848891 9,588]

I just hope neither IU nor Crean get into a back and forth---let some time go by .... I hope Crean will not be like Knight. I hope he will be classy as I would love to see Crean come back to the Hall down the road and get a warm welcome.! IU made Crean a household name and made Crean quite wealthy. Crean restored respectability back to the program after the Sampson mess and won some Big titles but could not win consistently. Let's hope this ends up like a divorce in which the couple can still remain friends or at least on talking terms.


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[WayneFleekHoosier 46,747]

Interview with Kravitz is up. Much like his Thamel interview but his remarks on recruiting were interesting to say the least.


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[WayneFleekHoosier 46,747]

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[Hoosierfan2017 19,887]

Those interviews did a good job of reminding me why I dislike Crean. 

[LIHoosier 24,997]

How many more of these interviews from home are we gonna get? Did he have a Diet Coke mixer?

[Hoosier Guy 7,472]

This guy is ridiculous. How in the holy hell can you expect a contract extension after one good year? You've got to show consistency and Glass learned his lesson from the first time. Crean did what was expected and that was to falter the year after a good season. I'm so glad this guy is not the coach anymore. Get someone in here that expects to win every single year

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

Maybe I read the wrong, but I don't see anything wrong with anything he's said. I've said FAR worse things about company's I've left lol


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[mdn82 25,456]

Maybe I read the wrong, but I don't see anything wrong with anything he's said. I've said FAR worse things about company's I've left lol


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I think the board just didn't want to hear from him lol. Most everyone else outside of IU did.


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[Alford Bailey 12,250]

Kinda weird he didnt go talk to Glass in person.

[mdn82 25,456]

Kinda weird he didnt go talk to Glass in person.

It is, but I am sure Glass being his boss knew Crean was going on vacation and leaving then. I would probably say FU too if I was headed on a family vacation after that type of season and my boss wanted to fire me.

 

 

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[cthomas 5,917]

I have no doubt that recruiting is very dirty business these days. Locking down the state seems unrealistic to me, even playing in the gray area. Still, from a business perspective, CTC's job performance over time was not good enough.

[KingPG21 6,512]

1 hour ago, IU Hoosier41 said:

Maybe I read the wrong, but I don't see anything wrong with anything he's said. I've said FAR worse things about company's I've left lol


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Kind of feeds into the hatred it seemed some  people had of Tom Crean the man, not Tom Crean the coach

[recker222000 1,010]

That is one strange dude.

Yeah he is and im so glad he is gone. I was wrong on glass. Clearly he was not creans buddy.

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[recker222000 1,010]

Interview with Kravitz is up. Much like his Thamel interview but his remarks on recruiting were interesting to say the least.


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Is kravitz in full blown crean kool aid mode?

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