Hoosierfan2017

This really sucks. We're going to win a few meaningless games and Crean is going to mess around and save his job. Next year will be another crappy season and IU will fade further into obscurity. I would put it at 75%.

I want to live stream the game on my phone on the way home but my parents would probably kill me after getting the data charges. Looks like I'll be getting my updates here for the first half.

Imagine the average Missouri fan's face when they stumble across Btown Banners and see we've dedicated 800+ pages to firing Tom Crean. He would be a good pickup for them, but still.. Seeing that would make your stomach drop for a second lol.

Thank you!

Does anyone have a good, non-biased article about Alford's Iowa incident? I'm trying to understand why everyone hates on him but all I'm really finding about it is that at the time he came out and said that he thought that his player was innocent. I assume there's a lot more to it, but I'm not familiar with the incident so idk which articles are telling the truth and which are spinning alternative facts.

Down years for me are finishing in the 4-6 range in the Big 10 and getting bounced during the first weekend. While it'd be nice to have a team capable of winning a championship every single year, I don't think it's realistic to expect. No one does that. Missing the tournament 2-3 years in a 5 year span goes way beyond "down years" and should be unacceptable.

Keep your uncle far away from Fred Glass!!! I expect us to have down years, they're a fact of life in college basketball, but I also expect to have hope. I expect to have hope in the down years that better days are ahead, and that things won't always be like this. I don't have that right now. Crean isn't recruiting nearly well enough to make me think that things will be better off a year or two from now. Maybe we won't find a better coach than Crean, but that doesn't mean we don't go out and try. He has had 9 years here to prove that he's the guy for the job and he's failed. We know that he's not the answer so we can't sit around afraid to make a move because we're worried the next guy won't be either.

I wondered about him when I saw the news. I'm really glad he didn't have to go through that again for a third time.

I feel like a little kid on Christmas Eve waiting impatiently to open my presents. The days are dragginggg. I think you're right, my inner pessimist just could see Crean doing Crean things and managing to do just enough at the right time to survive. Hopefully it's too late for that.

You're more confident than me. I could absolutely see Crean being able to sneak his way back for another year if we make the tournament. He'd be all like "we overcame so many obstacles and injuries to make it back to the tournament. No one thought we could do it!" For that reason I just want the season to be over so letting him go is an easy decision for Glass.

That's the first time I've seen the video. Looks like how Crean would react if someone told him he had to stop keeping track of deflections.

I've noticed that all the articles defending Crean are more about how IU fans have too high of expectations than about how he's a good coach. I actually lol'd when Rosenberg ended the article by calling Crean one of the smartest coaches in the country.

Here he was picking it out!

Found it on Twitter lol. For anyone confused, this is from a discussion board on Canvas (the site IU uses for all of its classes). I'm really curious what led Thomas Bryant to telling his class about the time he accidentally hooked up with his friend's girl.

And starting at center from Rochester, New York, #31.. (I didn't know which thread to post this in but it was too funny not to share so I put it in the one with the most traffic)

It would be cool if he did show up, but I don't care one way or the other. While we're on the Alford topic I was just wondering what other people thought and if anyone knew what the relationship between the two is like.

I wonder if Coach Knight would come back if Alford was the new coach.

Maybe Sean wants to coach with little brother and we're getting a package deal. I would be pleased with either of the two.

If you can't beat em, join em. I would prefer not to get down in the mud with the top schools, but I would rather do that than lose "the right way." Holding IU to higher standards and getting mediocre results doesn't do much for me when other schools are reaping the rewards of operating in the dark areas.

I'll still be an IU fan, but I'll be an "Oh IU won last night? Sweet" fan instead of a *refreshes btown banners obsessively* fan. My excitement would go out the window with another year of Crean.

Did they say during the O$U game that he's dropped 20 pounds? I swear that's what I heard. The kid's weight needs to be going the other direction. I agree with everything you said though. I'm glad he came here and helped us win a Big 10 title last year, but he would've been better off going somewhere else. I feel like that's the case with all the post players we get. He could be a beast if he had a coach that would park him on the block and make sure he eats enough.

Yes, are you surprised? I mean we've got dudes driving to the freaking airport hahah

It's like these people want us to accept a fate as a mediocre basketball program and roll over and die. They don't want us to push back. "It's not the 1980s anymore IU fans, you can't expect to be elite." "You're not going to find another coach better than Crean, no point in even trying." They make us out to be delusional fans for wanting success.

The signs of apathy showed up this season and they'll just keep getting worse if Crean is back next year, imo. Bringing Crean back would show the fans that Glass is all talk and doesn't care about IU being an elite program. About all we've got going for us these days is our fan base, and if they stopped caring I think IU would become a dead program. I know I won't waste my time being an IU fan if Glass keeps Crean. No point in hoping for a program to be elite when those in charge let you know they have no interest.

If Crean's back IU basketball takes a hit it's not getting up from.