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Ask any college coach. His name will come up

You can't know the character of every kid. You realize how difficult that is? I'd say he's done an AMAZING job of bringing in good people. If you disagree with that... And you call me blinded?

I can't even begin to show you or anyone how wrong you are about how coaching at this level works. You can blame every little thing on him, no matter if it's his doing or not. But that is so incredibly dumb... It makes no sense to do that. You think everyone coming into college is a finished product? He doesn't take finished products. He takes guys that he is going to coach. It takes time to do that. Maybe it doesn't suit your fan needs but you'll just have to enjoy it. Go polish some teeth, or maybe read up on other programs/coaches. This stuff happens. Everywhere

Lol greatness? You mean when Thomas grew up watching the Mike Davis era? I can tell you 100% he isn't coming here if Crean is gone. It is all about how he is going to be used. Here he gets a chance to develop skills. Not all programs are doing that... Crean is the best player development guy in America. That can be argued, but he's in the conversation.

You have zero idea what has been done to take care of the problems in the program. There are maybe 3 coaches who are more known for running a ship tighter than Crean. Partially why he was hired and identified as such a great fit here.

Who would you put in?

I'm speaking in general, what is likely the case. Why else would he be interested in IU other than the coaching staff? There's no other reason.

Coaching a team isn't a linear process. You guys think it's all so simple.

Did you watch his teams at Marquette? Or our team the last few years? Any jackoff can see that this teams defensive problems have zero to do with who the coach is. He has nothing to do with guys that don't have the pride to stay in front of someone.

It takes a different amount of time for everyone to "get it." Just look at Duke's struggles on that end. Their defense was pretty damn good a couple years ago. He suddenly forgot how to coach defense? That makes sense to you guys? It will get better as the team gets older. It's all about communication and positioning. Young guys don't talk. And there sure as hell isn't any defensive positioning being taught to these guys at some of the schools they go to and definitely not in summer ball.

You can meet a lot of people since Indiana is the hub for college basketball.

Maybe because not every kid wants to come to Indiana. There are about 100 other places and they all know all of them. It's not anyone's dream to play here outside of a very small percentage of kids.

If you think he can't coach defense, try attending a practice sometime.

I'm talking about what is said privately. People in basketball know that the abuse he takes is ridiculous.

You already know the future. Crean is a mediocre coach, despite everyone in college basketball saying the exact opposite! It's so rich.