Hoosierfan2017

My only worry with Collins would be him bolting for Duke if the job was available. Other than that I would be pleased.

Crap I totally spaced that we still have a game at Purdue. I don't even want to watch that one... It's going to get ugly.

That's true. I guess I'm just worried about a scenario where he wins the next four games and manages to squeek into the tournament, the narrative shifts to "wow Crean carried an injury depleted team to the big dance!" and we're back next year for more of the same. There's a near 0 chance of all of that happening, of course, but I'll be unnecessarily anxious until he's officially gone.

I wonder how President McRobbie feels about Crean. The multiple off-the-court issues from the players a couple years ago made the university look pretty bad. I doubt McRobbie has forgotten about them. Add in donations drying up and I don't think he would hesitate to step in and make sure Crean leaves.

Hate to say it but this is one we have to lose, imo. The talking heads are finally starting to come around on getting rid of Crean. If we pull off a few wins in a row then I think that talk cools a bit and increases the chance he's back next year. We've made it through this much already this year, might as well finish it off and end this nightmare once and for all.

If McRobbie is involved then that's big, imo. I don't see him being a guy who really cares about basketball. If he's involved then I think that shows that the team's lack of success is really affecting the money supply.

It seems like he landed Zeller and Yogi and the 'great recuriter' label has stuck ever since, even though the facts don't support it. He's able to get some talent here, I'll give him that, but it almost never fits well together. His best two classes in 2012 and 2013 were disasters both on and off the court outside of 2-3 guys. To be an elite team in college basketball today you usually need a combination of 1-and-done talent and upperclassmen leadership.. We have neither.

The 'great recruiter' schtick really annoys me. Great recruiting isn't just getting highly ranked kids (which hasn't really happened recently). It's also being able to maintain a program and bring in guys to fill your needs. Crean throws out offers to any kid that shows 'potential' without thinking about how they fit with his team. I never feel good when we're in a kid's top 3, top 5, whatever, because I don't trust Crean being able to go head to head with top coaches and seal the deal.

The way we've played this season makes it seem like Crean has cut out practice altogether. I could see him thinking the way to right the ship is longer practices and going back to them.

Since they haven't played for almost a week I'm curious what their practice schedule has been like. If Crean has had them in his traditional grueling late season practices I see them coming out very flat.

For sure. That's why I hope he stays in Indy lol.

The rest of the teams in the East are playing for 2nd place until LeBron declines anyway.

Trading your only star for a bunch of role players would be a terrible decision and lead to a whole bunch of empty seats in Bankers Life. Indy isn't really a big free agency destination, so they should be doing everything they can to keep the star they have right now.

Ohh hahaha my bad man! With the talking heads spewing that crap it's hard to tell when someone's joking and when someone actually believes we're crazy for wanting him gone.

What makes you say we're all illogical to want Crean gone? He hasn't performed up to expectations, and next season looks like it will be no different. He has 3 years left on his contract and he hasn't done anything this year to warrant an extension. Recruiting has been declining the past few years. All signs seem to point to firing Crean being the smart choice. Heck, NC State fired their coach for doing about the same as Crean has done here. If we have lower standards than even NC State then that's a big problem, imo.

The Kings just traded a top 10 player for peanuts. Wow. Call me crazy, but I could see the Pelicans making some noise in the West now.

He said on Instagram live that he's going to the Syracuse/Georgia Tech game tonight.

If Crean stays past this season I'll still be an IU fan, but I'll care a whole lot less. Keeping him would show that Glass isn't serious about IU being a top-tier basketball program, imo, and I'll have to adjust my expectations accordingly.

He dresses better for games that's for sure.

That's awesome haha. I'm not surprised that Pritchard was the life of the party. Stan Robinson got me and a couple friends into a frat party one time so I always liked him even though he did some knucklehead things off the court. I was really naïve when I first started college and thought that the basketball team was full of like straight-edges who didn't party or anything and just focused on basketball so it was such a culture shock when I saw otherwise lmao.

Yeah it's pretty clutch haha. Makes me feel old eating in the food courts and seeing how young some of the kids look though lol I couldn't stand Greah after the first like 3 weeks of freshman year haha. I always liked their breakfast food though. Can't go wrong with a breakfast buddy.

Haha that's awesome, how do you like it? Back when Crean made the team live here I remember some girl trying to get me to help her find Hanner's room. Poor Crean thought having them stay on campus would keep them out of trouble but we all know that didn't work out too well.

They put a new food court in Forest my freshman year (2013) that I like better than Wright. It has more like restaurant quality food compared to the fast food the others have. Steak, shrimp, wings, pasta, stuff like that. I talked my parents into buying me a meal plan this year so I hit up Wright whenever I need my Charley Biggs chicken fix lol.

Props on surviving that man, I would've melted haha. The 90+ degree Bloomington summer days are no joke. I live in the Union Street apartments by Eigenmann now and they're always sending us emails about how we need to keep our windows closed. Idk what it is with RPS and open windows. No one's ever said anything to me about them though so no reason to close them lol.

Were you in Wright? My gf lived there last year and I could barely stand hanging out in her room lol. Then in the winter it doesn't get any better since they crank the heat to like 85 degrees smh.