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That's what she said.

I just found out that Tom Crean is related to Mark Gottfried (albeit by marriage). I wonder if that has any effect on him considering the NC State job.

It's because the media only look at tangible things...wins, losses, injuries, ratings for recruiting classes, big ten titles, etc. Effectively, things they can do apples to apples comparisons with to other coaches. What they don't take into consideration are things like wacky substitution patterns, players getting lost on defense, a half court offense that often doesn't even seem to attempt to get the ball within the 3 point line until there are 5 seconds on the shot clock, and, my personal favorite, continuing to run a set that seems to consist of a clear out so that Thomas Bryant can go one-on-one 20 feet from the basket. Those are things we are seeing, but aren't really great metrics for a journalism piece.

Mile just posted this on TOS: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/tipsheet-indiana-s-crean-could-be-headed-to-market/article_38dc22c2-1941-50a5-a735-1d071acb61bc.html

Kent Sterling is talking about Crean and the IU job right now: http://www.cbssports1430.com/pages/15799772.php

Unfortunately, the Mavs already have a coach. But, maybe they could hire him as the Director of Clapping and Sign Making.

That's the thing about Tom Crean, though. He actually knows a lot about basketball, or at least one would think so. I've been catching his radio show a lot lately and everything he says, I agree with, but he really doesn't seem to be able implement any of it. So, I'm really trying to figure out where the disconnect lies. Is he just parroting info he doesn't understand or is there some disconnect between Crean and the players? Or Maybe he's over-complicating things. Who knows? He spent a fair amount of time discussing how important taking care of the basketball was and, yet, we have a team that is 339th (out of 346) in the county in turnover margin. He also talks about all the little things like defensive positioning, going over screens, rotating the help man, etc... In essence, all the thing they need to do to get better. Yet, game in and game out, there's just confusion on the defensive end. Seems like the team wants to do well, but they just look lost out there. Regardless, as with the wiki page, it's pretty comical (or at least it would be if I weren't a lifelong IU fan).

Marquette fans were pretty spot on about Tom Crean overall. He was actually largely supported there until he jilted them for Indiana. The overall vibe coming from them was that he was a good, not great, coach and that he could turn IU around but never fully get us back to where we wanted to be. After 9 years, it really looks like they were right.

Thanks. Tyler's a great kid, a good student, and whatever the baseball equivalent of a gym rat is (maybe a field mouse?) Really looking forward to seeing him play at IU.

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