Hoosierfan2017

Without D Wade, Crean is 7-7 in the NCAA tournament, with 3 sweet 16s in 15 seasons. He only advanced past the first round in 4 of those 15 seasons. He just isn't a good coach... The truth is right in front of us.

Crean seemed to make adjustments and changes last season but this year he's back to the way he was before. We know how our season will go before it even starts. It's hard to get too excited during the good times because they never last. He's been a D1 head coach since 1999. If he hasn't adapted by now, why would anyone think he ever will?

I agree, he deleted the tweet shortly after he posted it. I understand his frustration though. I think he was caught up in emotions after the game and hit send without thinking it through.

Getting Brad Stevens would be amazing and I think IU should give him a blank check and tell him we'll give him whatever it takes. If we can't, do you think we should hold tight with Crean and hope Stevens changes his mind in a few years? Given what's in bold, imo we could get a better coach than Crean to come here if Stevens tells us no. Idk who would be willing, but there has to be someone out there who would be better than Crean..

Its just a guess based on what I've seen, I have no inside info. I would love to be completely wrong. So far I just haven't seen anything that suggests that our administration will get rid of Crean even when he vastly underachieves. It seems like they're satisfied with competing for big 10 titles and making it to the tournament. Most schools would love to be in that position, but we're not most schools. Well, we didn't use to be at least. We all think that we should be at a Duke/UNC/Kansas level, but it seems like the administration is cool with being a couple levels below that.

I mean, he's not wrong...

The basketball team sells tickets and Crean doesn't break NCAA rules. I think that's what it comes down to for Glass and the university. They're satisfied with the success we have had. Winning national championships wouldn't make a top 10 list of their priorities for the program. He'll stay because IU doesn't want a coach who's bigger than the school.

Idk if the coaching staff had an arrangement with Zander or anything to keep him from being out there much and getting hurt, but I would've liked to see him play more tonight. I also would've liked to see Camion and Natee get on the field. Oh well, I guess /:

With this defense Suds might've won us 10 games.

That last play was the perfect summary of our season.

Yup. They have taken a ton of heat this season. They have a chance to erase it all right now.

Ralph Green has been phenomenal for us tonight.

How many kickers have lost back to back bowl games for their teams? Oakes might join the club tonight.

It puts the image in my head and I can really do without that

Our receivers aren't helping lagow out at all.

Is Zander dressed for the game?

Wilson's gone but Lagow handing the ball to the other team is here to stay.

Honestly I'm at the point where I'd be okay with taking a chance on an up and comer. With Crean its basically guaranteed that we'll have several terrible losses each season, lose our first game in the Big 10 tourney, and make it to the sweet 16 at best.

I really don't think there are any arguments for keeping him at this point. He has shown nothing that indicates he's capable of improving as a coach.

I thought the Fort Wayne loss would wake our guys up... Nah, that's just the team we are this year.

Post Christmas matchup hot take: The Warriors were better without Durant. Steph Curry just isn't the same this year, and they gave up too much to bring Durant in.

✅ CTA and staff making moves, I love it.

No one doubts his work ethic, character, etc. He's a great young man. His current game just doesn't really translate to the next level. I can't see him being able to guard very many players in the NBA. His feet are too slow. Noah Vonleh's game was better suited to the NBA imo and he's still struggling to find a role in the league.

"Get rich or die tryin" - Curtis Jackson

How much of that can he really change though? I feel like his weaknesses are things that another summer/college season won't be able to help. I think it'd be best for him to have a great Big 10 season, leave for the draft and hope a team takes a chance on him in the first round. I really hope he's back in the candy stripes next season but I think he runs the risk of dropping his draft stock even more if he does.