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I know this topic has been beaten to death...doesn't make the problem any less real.  If you think Crean can succeed at a high level at Indiana without significant in-state success, you're kidding yourself.  There is no evidence to support that, and as long as Purdue DOES have in-state success, you'll always have your #1 rival caring more than our kids do, and that matters.  The reason we're not having in-state success is simply that it's not a high priority for Crean, and he views in-area kids like any others.  I think that's a huge mistake.  

9 substance arrests since the start of 2014 is a problem.   A systemic problem.   Character matters.   The kind of role model a coach is matters.   Either we're not recruiting the right kind of kid, or the coaches aren't doing their homework.   This is not happening on this scale at other places, and if we want to maintain any integrity at all, enough is enough.    Excusing it by saying it happens everywhere does not solve the problem, and is not correct.   What has happened at Indiana in the last 19 months certainly does not happen everywhere.   How are leaders being held accountable?   I don't see it.  What I do see, like I said, is systemic failure.

At some point, and I wish I knew when that was, Fred Glass has to be accountable for the BS going on within his athletic department.    His seat HAS to be getting very, very hot.  Is anyone in his office asking what the hell is going on and why we keep seeing arrests and drug problems throughout his most visible entities?    I see no accountability with admin or coaches.    Enough is enough.

Advice to the people in charge and anyone who might support it :   You cannot put toothpaste back in the tube.  $700K is WWWAAAAAYYYY too much money to offer an 18 year old kid; and enticing kids to become McD's all Americans will be awful for high school basketball and high school coaches.   There will be unintended consequences to this which nobody can see now, and it smells of Vince McMahon.    That's not what anyone wants basketball to be.

I kind of go the other way.   Trent Richardson was very...um...."patient."   And he was a dismal failure.  The Colts need a guy who just hits the hole, makes one cut, and goes.  Coleman can do that.   I see the Murray comparison, however TC is taller, isn't he?    I think Murray's about 5'11" and Coleman 6'1", but either way, I see the comparison.  I also think Coleman runs a bit more vertically than Murray does.  I also love TC because he's "low mileage."   Wilson didn't ever over-work him, and he's had few carries compared to some other highly rated backs.

Tevin Coleman reminds me of Eric Dickerson.  He's a one-cut guy, runs vertically, has break away speed, and he's about the same size.  Now...that's not a comparison.  It's a reminder.  I'm not saying Tevin Coleman is an NFL hall of famer....but he reminds me of a back who is.  And he has very low miles, compared to some other backs out there.   He'd look awfully good in a horse shoe if you ask me.

As nuts as this sounds, we have the option to go "big" if we need to.   Yogi, JBJ, Troy, Hanner, Bryant.   That's some serious length...Not much in the way of perimeter defense, but if we run up against a...Purdue, for example; this would all but take away the advantages they used to beat us.      I think the more likely lineup is the one given by the OP.  Yogi, JBJ, Johnson, Williams, Bryant; but at least we have options, and I think Morgan is going to make a case for himself, too.

I'd heard Coach Moren was difficult to be around, and you can be that way if kids will play for you and you win.   But this is reflective of many things, and as much as this needs to be about the WBB program, Glass' finger prints are on the hire, so he's culpable for the way it plays out.

Those are the ones that make sense, no doubt.

I actually have to give the guy (Crean) credit.  He's kept his head down during a time when it would have been easy not to.   Nice job by him to get Bryant, convince him to avoid the noise, and add a needed player to the program.    

Nice get.  Anybody know anything relative to who goes to make room for him?

Just shows what a complete mess basketball has become.   Now shoe companies have more influence over where a kid goes to school than any coach, any business school, or any high school counselor, etc.    If coaches want to get out of college basketball, this is why.   AAU basketball has done far more harm than good, and those shoe reps (many of them without much college education and rough around the edges) have become the enemy of building a program.     To me, this is why the Wichita State's, the Gonzaga's, the Northern Iowa's, etc have had so much success.  They can recruit kids who will be seniors.  They can recruit students and people who care about the quality with which they represent themselves.   There are a few major schools (Wisconsin, Michigan State, North Carolina to some extent, etc) who can recruit that same kind of kid; and they seem to "be there" every year.    Then you have Kentucky who bucks every trend and just brings in the cream of every crop.      And then you have the whores.    Oklahoma, LSU, Florida State, West Virginia, and teams like that who'll take any great player who'll say yes and care very little for building a basketball program because football will always be first.  Those schools always get a McD's All American or two, a top 50 recruit or two.  And I always wonder why.....before I then remember :  'ah yes...shoes."  Or "ah yes...an AAU coach with some affiliation."   And I hate it for basketball, and I hate it for the kids because I think they get the short end of that stick.   So many really good players are never truly developed and end up falling way short of their potential, due in large part to their whoring out because of shoe companies.    And I am now off my soap box.

For what it's worth, I just spent 30 minutes reading the Scout site, and I probably read 50 of his posts.   What is it you find offensive?   Something in the past?  I didn't see even a syllable that wouldn't be welcomed here.   Surely if he were a problem for anyone, it would show up at some point, right?   Maybe I'm missing something and maybe the problems were with particular posters, but there was nothing in what I read that would suggest "VERY" abrasive, or even mildly so.   What is it you say people would grow tiresome of?

A passionate guy who seems to be shy about really saying what he knows...if anything    I would bet nobody knows anything yet, and I'm sure he, like everyone, has ideas or sources who give sniffs of what's going on.   That board and this one are the only reasonable places to discuss anything, though.    I never had any dealings with GoColts, but he does sort of have the pulse on that other board.   When he posts, people reply.   I've seen lots of criticism of him and I've seen a few people who really enjoy him.  Kind of like Knight.  I like Bob on that board, too.   I do wish people would unite because I also love Terry Hutchens.  That guy deserves better.  Maybe we get those three to come over here?