Hoosierfan2017

I've heard from multiple sources that Crean ripped off Fred's friendship bracelet when he got the news.

Meh. Crimson quarry is fake news! They're still healing their broken hearts after seeing Crean got fired.

I said it yesterday and I'll say it again now... Money talks. I'm sure he enjoys his job now, but if we come at him with a large offer we're going to have his ear. I didn't think we had any shot but then I saw that he's only makin around $3.7 million a year. It's not like he's already making $6 million like Donovan.

"For the last few years, they saw a coach who was running uphill, at a university that seemed to look for reasons to be disappointed by him." IU was as patient with Crean as you'll see at a P5 school, imo. Glass gave Crean everything he needed to be successful. He just couldn't do it. To try and put blame on IU is ridiculous. Coaches get fired all the time. I think both IU and the fan base hoped that Crean would be the guy for the job. Once it became obvious that he wasn't things went south a bit, but that's going to happen at any coaching job.

"IU fans your program sucks and you better not do anything to try and change that or we'll call you crazy!" - every media dweeb out there.

No worries man! Honestly I'm interested in hearing the stories, Im sure there are a lot of them out there. I'm just not going to put the things I've heard on here because I've got nothing against Crean now that he's not our coach. My feelings toward him have done a 180 since we got the news lol.

Dang we're gonna bury the guy before the coaching seat's cold. I know a few stories that I'm sure others here know too, but I got what I wanted out of this situation so I'm not gonna pile on him. He ran a clean program, graduated his players, and gave me the best memories I have of IU basketball. The man gave us his best, it just wasn't good enough. He's gone now so any ill-will I have toward him is too.

We could throw 5 years $40 million at him to get his attention. Crazier things have happened.

We could do a lot worse than Holtmann, that's for sure. I'm not sure he would win at a high enough level to meet our expectations, but I think he would bring a style of basketball that a lot of us would enjoy watching.

I thought it was as good of a press conference as we could've asked for. I feel good about things after watching it. I liked when someone asked about us maybe accepting the fact we aren't a top job anymore and Fred basically saying "I think you're wrong, here's why we're a great destination." I feel much better about the likelihood we land a top coach now than I did when we first found out Crean's gone.

7'4, 7'1, 6'10. Good luck getting anything going in the paint!

Florida State has some very large humans on their team. I picked FGCU to pull off the upset but I'm having doubts after seeing FSU's size.

Dakich has been mad online all day. For all we know he's just blowing smoke.

Agree with all three of you. Brad would be our Coach K. I hope Fred puts the fullcourt press on him.

Brad vs. Billy, who would you guys take? I'm overconfident right now and think Brad might be a non-zero chance.

I didn't know he was only at $3.7. If we doubled his salary that would definitely get his attention. More money at a much lower cost of living, not to mention his family being here? I think there might actually be a chance!

Little brother syndrome is in full effect. They like to talk about how we haven't been "relevant" in 15-20 years while ignoring the fact that our program has still been better than theirs in that time frame.

I went to a Purdue board to see what they were saying and this one poster was like "Irrelevant for us. We are the same....we are Purdue." Like yeah dude, that's your problem.

Oh man a kid on Vandy just fouled McIntosh because he thought they were down. That almost happened to me during high school lol.

National championship coming right up.

Another bright point.. I see Devonte Green staying now. There always seemed to be a disconnect between him and Crean. I think Green wanted to play at IU but didn't like the guy he was playing for.

Yesterday everyone was laughing at us and now today they're all scared. I can't wait to see their reaction if we land Donovan.

I liked hearing him say something along the lines of money not being an issue. I think he knows how big of a hire this is and isn't going to be afraid to throw around some serious cash to get the guy he wants.

That's true. After his press conference I feel pretty good about him landing a great hire though.

Idk, but that's sure not Diet Coke in his hand!