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If Glass decides to keep Crean he will sink with him if things go badly next year (very likely) just as Greenspan sank with Sampson (which is ironic since from what I've heard Greenspan did not want Sampson but had it pushed on him by Herbert).

As I keep saying (if Glass was indeed planning to keep Crean which no one still knows through all this) if the push back is from donors with their wallets that's huge and could make a difference. If it's just average Joe fans bombarding him with emails or media pressure that does very little.

Maybe Glass passing on the men's team hosting was to drum up support for Women's team hosting which is giving that way more attention that it ever would off. Maybe it's a creative ploy to push 5,000 or more to women's game. Totally kidding but think we all need a good laugh in these stressful times.

I'm not sure. He's always leaked Colts and Pacers stuff before they become official so I'm assuming he's heard something from someone important about IU. I'm sure Dakich knows but I have not heard him say which way IU is leaning but just his personal opinion unless I've missed it. Like I said we can hope even if Glass is leaning towards keeping Crean donors can change his mind with their wallets over next couple days.

The fact that the 'janitor' is willing to admit he doesn't know makes me think he's the one guy with actual sources on the inside. These other posters I question if they know a thing or just drawing attention to themselves and rile people up. Also don't think Greg Doyle has any sources at IU but just guessing. JMV saying on his radio show today he's heard IU has no intention of making a move is the ONLY worrisome thing I've seen/heard through all this over the last few days as he tends to have inside sources and be right before others with local teams. Curious to see how this plays out. Also Glass could change his mind if enough big donors threaten to pull money if he keeps Crean. That's the only thing that could change Glass' mind if he indeed plans on keeping Crean (which really no one knows since he has stayed silent).

and senior night net cutting embarrassment vs OSU. That to me despite all the ups and downs remains the low point in Crean's tenure.

http://kentsterling.com/2017/03/13/indiana-basketball-iu-ad-fred-glass-chooses-broken-window-over-cracked-foundation-iubb/ I agree. As I've said IU was between a rock and a hard place. Sterling has also been pretty anti-crean to my understanding.

Didn't want to re-live Vanderbilt game of 05 with 4,500 people. That's how many would of come and Glass basically said IU didn't want to re-live that. Reasonable people can disagree whether that is a good idea or a good reason but that's why,

Everybody thought they would from the beginning. Different fan base that is in town all yr. Women will draw 2,000 whether its regular season or WNIT and not affected by break and that's expected. If the men drew even twice that people would laugh. Different situations.

That's an alternate smaller on campus arena. I'm sure if IU had a smaller on campus arena they would jump at that and the new replacement for U-Gym would be an ideal solution starting in 2020 when it opens for this situation. However, right now IU has no where on campus you can host a basketball game at this moment besides Assembly Hall. Certainly being at U-Gym and the Field house a ton I can tell you those cannot host basketball games anymore. Neither can Wildermuth.

Not sure if that would of worked or not. Would free tickets have filled place. I'm not sure? I think the bigger problem here is people are looking for anything to criticize the program for right now given the state of what where it's at. That falls on Glass and Crean and that is 100% their fault for letting it get to this point. The criticism of not hosting an NIT game is anger placed at the larger issue at hand and this is the easy thing to throw it at right now.

How much do we want to bet if IU hosted and 3,000 people showed up people would of trashed IU also. I also think IU maybe should of hosted but don't have a strong opinion either way. However, from an IU perspective they were gonna be criticized either way but after game as oppose to before. And I think they might not let you host at other sites unless your arena is unavailable. Like I said I'm not positive on that but do think that is possible.

Glass has reiterated today that ESPN saying renovations was something that ESPN invented on its own. I thought that was ESPN's mistake and not IU's from the moment it was said and have texts to prove it. We can reasonably argue whether IU should of hosted and how Fred Glass handled it but the renovation part was not IU's fault.

I'm not positive on this but I think if you decline to host in your home gym than lower seed gets to. Don't think they let you hold on 'neutral' sites unless your arena is being used or renovated. Again I'm not sure on this but I'm thinking this could be the case.

Anyone who feels like they have been 'cheated' over not being able to go to an NIT home game should re-evaluate their life. I can tell you as a several year season ticket holder I had no interest in going to this game even if tickets were offered for free. Now granted I'm in Indy and not Bloomington so people in town may feel differently. Still I run down for every weekday Big Ten game despite having to wake up at 8am everyday for work. Not doing it for NIT though. If we keep Crean than people should be calling for Fred Glass and all higher ups head in the department but not over declining to host an NIT home game.

Here's a thought. Maybe Crean wanted to host NIT game and Glass hopes that by denying him that opportunity he'll resign on his own and Glass won't have to fire him. Probably not a sound theory but no crazier than any of the others I've seen tonight.

For what its worth Terry Hutchens tweeted he believes there is more to this than what meets the eye in terms of IU's explanation for passing on hosting game. I'm not sure what he knows or believes is the actual motivation but thought that was interesting.

The 'renovations' was a mistake by ESPN. IU has said from the get go from moments after the bracket went out that 'it was due to students being on break'. Not sure if this is a good excuse but no one at IU every tried to put something out there about renovations.

What is this "btown insider" saying? As I've said I place no weight on posters but just curious.

I may be in the minority but glad IU didn't host. After embarrassment in 05 of under 5,000 people attending why have that again?

Bingo. Thats where i'm at

I have an HT subscription and the article stated nothing new. Just that the players back Crean as you would expect. Nothing earth shattering.

2013-2014. That Pre-Conference tourney in New York that year does not count anymore that our invented tourney this year to play IPFW.

I've seen one "insider" thing that pointed to him being gone several weeks ago but would not make it certain in anyway. Just remember what big time donors think matters (especially ones with names on a university building). That's all I will say.

What about our run in 02 to National Championship? That was exactly 15 yrs ago so I can see you not taking that into account except your also saying 3 Big Ten Tourney semi's one of which in 01 (and its actually 4 since we went to semi's in 02 and lost on Recker's shot) occurred before our national title run in 02.