Fred Glass Retiring

[Alford Bailey 12,237]

The "Cool Dad"!

[Bailey7878 2,506]

Fred is such a **** talker. As if saying he has confidence in the coaches he hired matters at all as far as wins and losses are concerned. Don’t fall for his PR spin. The guy is trying to cover his butt.
 

You got it.

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[Bailey7878 2,506]

Glass should have been shown the door with Wilson at the latest.  He let the football program flounder with Lynch before getting Wilson.  Let Crean flounder and waste a decade of IU basketball.  
Its beyond me that he skated with the Wilson debacle.  If he gave Wilson an extension knowing of the issues, that’s on him.  If he turned a blind eye to the issues for the extension and was forced to fire Wilson later, that’s on him too.

Archie may work out but fred should not have been let anywhere near making that decision

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[yogisballin 2,287]

On 1/30/2019 at 10:00 PM, southernindianahoosier2 said:

I've met him and Fred Glass actually! Jurich is 100X the AD that Fred Glass is.

I've never met Fred G myself. But based off of what I've seen. Be hard to disagree. Jurich I have met myself

[southernindianahoosier2 902]

This season was not a rebuild or a “serious rebuild” a month ago when we were in the top 25.. we lose 7 straight and our AD claims it’s a “serious rebuild”... how fluid are his expectations? Does he not set goals at the beginning of the year? Was his expectation to begin with to miss the tourney? Because everyone’s expectations were to make the tourney. He is in charge of both football and basketball TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. He is such a coward for passing the blame on Crean at such a public forum hoping that no one holds him accountable for the results.


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[JSHoosier 19,545]

3 minutes ago, southernindianahoosier2 said:

This season was not a rebuild or a “serious rebuild” a month ago when we were in the top 25.. we lose 7 straight and our AD claims it’s a “serious rebuild”... how fluid are his expectations? Does he not set goals at the beginning of the year? Was his expectation to begin with to miss the tourney? Because everyone’s expectations were to make the tourney. He is in charge of both football and basketball TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. He is such a coward for passing the blame on Crean at such a public forum hoping that no one holds him accountable for the results.


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The person he reports too isn't holding holding him accountable, so why should Glass do anything different?

Glass is a lousy AD but it's not like McRobbie gives a crap.

[Whoozhers 3,638]

Well, McRobbie, Glass and Miller have managed to make Log Rolling the premier sport at IU as we can boast that 3 of the Nation’s top rollers attend IU.

Control that log! Get that fall! Roll em’ Hoosiers Roll em’!


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[Bailey7878 2,506]

Well, McRobbie, Glass and Miller have managed to make Log Rolling the premier sport at IU as we can boast that 3 of the Nation’s top rollers attend IU.

Control that log! Get that fall! Roll em’ Hoosiers Roll em’!


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Lol

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[Alford Bailey 12,237]

I wonder what the win loss record is for all Glass hires?

[southernindianahoosier2 902]

Is this still a serious rebuild?? Glass you P****. the moment we start losing he acts like the expectation the beginning of the year was to miss the tourney, how bout now?


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[southernindianahoosier2 902]

I wonder what Glass was thinking when he had just signed Crean to the extension of a century and then we played a Brad Stevens coached Butler team that year while we were ranked #1 and got beat.

[Brass Cannon 24,064]

21 minutes ago, southernindianahoosier2 said:

I wonder what Glass was thinking when he had just signed Crean to the extension of a century and then we played a Brad Stevens coached Butler team that year while we were ranked #1 and got beat.

“Still not out of the rebuild I guess”

[TheWatShot 13,335]

Part of me wants to make the NIT and be a higher seed, just so Glass has to answer the question of will we host a first round game and why or why not. Exposing that "Spring Break" fallacy of two years ago might be another step closer to getting rid of him.

 

 

But we'd probably have to win at least 4 more games to be in that position, so it likely won't happen.

[Bailey7878 2,506]

Exactly. A team in a “serious rebuild” doesn’t go on the road and beat the #6 team in the country. Glass made that statement as an excuse to cover his @$$.

Glass is an excuse machine.

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[hoopsta007 362]

The question should have been asked, “Why are we in a serious rebuild mode under your watch?”

[Alford Bailey 12,237]

1 hour ago, hoopsta007 said:

The question should have been asked, “Why are we in a serious rebuild mode under your watch?”

Because Glass hung on to Crean too long

[KzooHoosier82 972]

1 hour ago, Alford Bailey said:

Because Glass hung on to Crean too long

When exactly should he have fired Crean?

[KzooHoosier82 972]

1 minute ago, Joe DeLow said:

After the 13-14 season.


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Lol, so Crean brings the program out of the literal ashes, gets IU to the S16 in 2011-12, wins the BigTen and back to the S16 in 2012-13, has a bad year and thus should be fired? Nevermind how far that would have set the program back, thus eliminating any chance for that BigTen championship in 2015-16. To say Crean should have been fired after 13-14 is entitled ignorance at its best. Bob Knights last six seasons were full of nothing but middle of the road BigTen finishes and first round tourney knockouts and there were riots after he got fired. Give me Crean's last six years over Knight's any day of the week.

[TheWatShot 13,335]

11 minutes ago, KzooHoosier82 said:

When exactly should he have fired Crean?

2015, at the absolute latest. We could have hired Archie then, and he would have inherited a much stronger roster. Instead, we kept him two more years, allowing him to bring in two dud recruiting classes that set us back further.

 

Was that second Big Ten title really worth all the hell we've been through since?

[KzooHoosier82 972]

3 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

2015, at the absolute latest. We could have hired Archie then, and he would have inherited a much stronger roster. Instead, we kept him two more years, allowing him to bring in two dud recruiting classes that set us back further.

 

Was that second Big Ten title really worth all the hell we've been through since?

Both of those classes were ranked in the top 25 and few if no one thought they were duds at the time. Hindsight is 20/20 and anyone who wants an AD who's going to fire a guy like you and others are suggesting doesn't know how this works. That would be a disaster and would turn our program into Penn State in no time. What player is going to commit to a program knowing his coach will get fired if he misses the tournament regardless of past success? 

Crean was fired at the right time. Although I don't think he's as bad of a couch as most of the fan base paints him out to be, I understand wanting to build and grow higher than Crean's capabilities. He also deserves to be appreciated for the tireless work he put in to rebuilding IU from a joke of a program to a contender. Archie hasn't proven anything yet....it remains to be seen if he ever will.