Hoosierfan2017

"Billy Donovan to Indiana University" would send chills down the spine of every coach and fan base in the country. Make it happen by any means necessary.

Haha. Did you tell her that he was good but good isn't good enough at IU?

That kid from Michigan with 22 followers broke it first lmao. Hopefully he's wrong about Fife though.

Thanks Tom! Now that you're gone I can stop hating you and appreciate the things you did for our school.

I don't think this thread will be seeing much action for awhile haha. Thank you Fred! Now go kidnap Billy please.

Filling out my bracket made me sad. All those blue blood schools and IU couldn't even make it into the field. That in addition to knowing that even if we did I wouldn't be confident in us winning more than a game or two and this situation completely suckssss.

If Crean is back next year I hope the fans make him and Glass absolutely miserable. That's wrong to say, but at this point I don't care. I just want us to be great again and if Crean is back all the good will I have toward him for the good things he's done will turn to animosity.

Lol Rojo is one of them. Him and Newkirk are the two that I've seen.

Some of our guys are in Fort Lauderdale right now. Probably happy the season is over with and in time to enjoy some of spring break. I don't blame them, honestly.

I don't feel so bad about rooting for the tank now. I had a feeling that things would have to get real ugly for something to happen.

I don't want to ever hear Glass complaining about money after he gave up free money last night.

Would Cuban keep a coach that has produced an NBA equivalent of Crean's results? I doubt it.

If Illinois ends up with a top coach and we're stuck with more Crean.... Yuck.

Cal's open!! Think of the tan Crean could get coaching there.

They might have offered something different to Crean though.

If this meeting stuff is true then I bet the boosters expected Glass to make the change on his own but once they got wind that he wasn't going to they decided to take matters into their own hands.

He really only needs to hire one good coach. If the basketball program is doing well then few will care about what's happening with the other programs and his job will be safe.

I have a hard time believing that Crean is the hill that Fred Glass is willing to die on. His decision is so cut and dry: fire Crean and stay in everyone's good graces or keep him and watch the angry mob move on to him. I don't have faith in Glass making the right hire, but I can't see him risking his entire career on Tom Crean. Surely he's smarter than that..

There might not be any deemphasizing athletics but we sure aren't getting our money's worth. We pay our coach a top-ten salary and give him the highest recruiting budget in the conference and this is what we get out of it. We spend all this money and we've been the 5th or 6th best program in our own conference. Maybe deemphasizing isn't the right word, but we've been doing something wrong.

It doesn't make any sense to me. He can't use the "we're an academic school so that's what we're focused on, athletics come second" reason because plenty of fine academic schools also have great athletics. Athletics are the best marketing tool a school has. Duke is a great institution but the average guy walking down the street knows about it because of its basketball program. Without it, they're just another school.

Any idea how much it cost us to travel for last night? Between travel expenses and missed revenue I'd guess that we easily lost $300-400k. It's not a lot in the grand scheme of things but it would probably pay for half the yearly budget of one of the less expensive sports. Maybe I'm off on my numbers but a dollar spent on travel is more than what should've been spent.

He talks about how important money is, but then he turns around and pays for the team to travel to Atlanta instead of making money off them playing at home... Things are getting really bizarre in Hoosier Land.

McRobbie might not care about basketball but the man cares about the money. I can't imagine he was pleased by the decision to pass on the home game and give up free cash.

I'm pretty excited about football, I think we're making improvements as a program. I hope we can take the next step and get some 7-5, 8-4 seasons. The bowls are nice but we can't become complacent with 6-6 seasons and bowl losses.

Glass is going to walk up to a press conference tomorrow afternoon, fire Crean, pull out Billy D from underneath his podium and then crowd surf his way out of the room. That, or he's going to give Crean a vote of confidence and become the most hated guy in Bloomington since Kent Harvey.