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I thought I would do a little detective work of my own. Tom Crean is represented by CAA Sports which has an office in Chicago. There was a flight into Bloomington yesterday and another scheduled for today as well. Both flights were twin jets that came from Midway International Airport. That airport is 29 minutes from their office. O'Hare is 25 minutes so not a huge difference in distance so that isn't a debunker. So I think that this could be a sign that Creans representation has been in and out of Bloomington because they are working a potential deal for Crean potentially to Missouri.

Why is it that people think the only guys that are an improvement have the last names Stevens, Donovan, Miller, Bennett, or Marshall. Come on people I'd be happy with anyone as long as they can play defense and not run the weave and heave. It would also be nice if they didn't talk about deflections all the time as well ;)

Yes and that is why I could see why they would want him to commit now or else move on to other targets.

As good of a coach as he is Billy D has a bad history of being like this. I'm guessing IU wanted him to commit now but he wanted to wait till his NBA season is over but IU didn't want to wait for him to change his mind and then miss out on other high profile coaching targets if he did back out.

It makes since that Sean Miller would have interest. IU is a blue blood school. Miller has ties to the Midwest. He played at Pitt and is from Pennsylvania. Plus his brother Archie is the coach at Dayton as we all know. Plus his connections to USA basketball could also help boost recruiting to an even higher level since most of the guys that play for USA basketball are high 4 star or 5 star guys.

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The fact that 0708 is saying that he feels that Sean Miller is next on the list would in fact go along with what the Janitor said that the next coach was from out west.

The Janitor said that he is positive that Crean is gone now more than ever on twitter. When asked why Crean sounded so positive tonight he said that Crean never gives up and he is like the energizer bunny. He also said that Crean is coaching practices like they are a top ten team he is so positive.

I also know a player on Butler's team and have not heard this. I will say it would seem odd if he is only there for the short term sense he seems to be recruiting at a high level. I mean he has the best class in school history coming in. He also went to visit one of those commits in Vermont last week. It also wouldn't surprise me if Butler gave him a pay raise if he was considering a move. I'm sure they have more revenue since they are in the Big East and they are paying him 1.5 million I believe. That is only .5 million more than what they paid Brad Stevens when they were in the Horizon League. Not saying I am right but that just doesn't add up to me. So since I have said this he will probably be gone next week ;)

Probably another false alarm.

There is a flight from Bloomington to OKC that is taking place later today. Could be a meeting between Glass and Billy D.

The flight from Wichita just showed up on my computer when I refreshed it.

Glass is probably just watching to make sure he doesn't want to add him to the list if something would happen won't fall through with Billy.

Looks like this might have been a false alarm.

The plane to Dayton was the prop plane the plane to St. Louis was a private jet that was there for about 3 hours. According to Mile.

I 100% agree.

Several insiders have repeatedly said that he isn't on the list. Could that have been a smokescreen by Glass???

With IU's future coach on the sidelines. ;)

Might just be a contingency plan.

I've been wondering about that.

Maybe this is a sign that Archie is in fact #3 on their list.

Another poster on 247 said this "I noticed that a flight just left Bloomington for Dayton. Is that unusual?" the another poster said " There is also a return flight back to Bloomington from Dayton at 7:00 pm. Interesting." Is it for Archie???

Saw someone post this on 247 and seemed like a logical possibility. Also because it referenced the Stephanie White situation that I mentioned in another post. "For the people that think that Billy wouldn't consider IU until the Thunder are eliminated all I can say is look at what Stephanie White did when she left the Indiana Fever to go to Vandy. Also I think the reason that his house in Florida could be in correlation with him coming to IU potentially and here is why. It is plausible that the reason he kept that home was because he wanted to stay there rather than OKC during the NBA offseason. However if he goes back to college to coach there isn't much of an offseason like the NBA because of the offseason workouts and all of the recruiting that goes on in the summer. So if it is that he is coming to IU the Florida home goes up for sale now and OKC home goes up for sale when he leaves OKC."

Dakich said on his show that Gottfried wanted out if he didn't get fired due to some family things that at going on. So if true I doubt of it would be to awkward.

Dakich finally went off today on his show about IU's brand of basketball. He said he is tired of the turnovers. He said he thinks Crean should get one more year. But things need to change. He said Bryant shouldn't be dribbling the ball 30 feet from the bucket and the guards are all ridiculous starting with JBJ. Not saying he is right about Crean getting one more year but at least he is starting to get a realistic outlook that things need to change.