Hoosierfan2017

Most teams didn't recruit Wade because of academic issues. He had to sit out his entire freshman year. His only three offers were from Marquette, Illinois State and DePaul. If those issues aren't there I don't think Crean gets him. Credit to Crean for taking a chance on a kid, but I'm not going to discredit Marshall because he hasn't landed a player of that caliber.

I wouldn't be surprised by that at all. Izzo always has his teams playing at their best come tournament time. That's one guy I'd want to avoid in the tournament if I was a coach.

I'm always worried when I pick Kansas to go deep in the tournament in my bracket. Maybe it just sticks out to me more when they get upset, but it seems like they underachieve a lot of the time.

Idk the answer to your question, but I just wanted to say I really hope the new coach improves our non-conference schedule. Marquee matchups and Indiana schools, please. I'm tired of seeing a half dozen Southeast Missouri States on the schedule.

Agreed. They said exactly what I expected them to say in their situations. They're not going to come out and say "oh yeah I'd love to coach the Hoosiers, Fred give me a call so we can get things set up" while they're under contract to coach other teams. Even if they both truly meant what they said, feelings change. Heck, Donovan had a press conference with the Magic after taking the job before turning around and going back to Florida. I fully expect Glass to go after both of them hard. I don't expect Stevens to be our next coach, but him coming out and saying the only thing he could say in the situation means nothing.

Meh. The Harbaughs have always struck me as whiny so I'm not too surprised. Crean knew the expectations when he came here. IU gave him 9 years (6-7 after the rebuild, depending on how you feel about year 3) to meet those expectations. He didn't, so IU sent him on his way. IU is better off because of Tom Crean, and the Crean family is better off because of IU. It was just time for the two to go their separate ways. Nothing personal, strictly business.

I wish us anonymous posters had that much power lol.

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.