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The stress of not knowing whether or not Crean is for sure gone has been crazy the past couple of weeks!! Now just the last couple of days has me feeling like a 10 year old on Christmas Eve...it seems like it's taking forever for xmas morning (Crean being gone) to get here and I'm so excited to find out if I get what I want, and will probably throw a tantrum if I don't get it! Please Santa, don't let me down! Haha

You would think that with the kind of ego Glass most likely has, that he would WANT to make a good hire and replace Crean so that he can have the opportunity to be like "yeah that's right, that was ME who made that happen." You would think he would look at all the ecstatic fan base and just eat that alive.

If there is indeed a meeting between Glass and some boosters this evening, what are the chances some info gets leaked about it afterwards tonight that we end up knowing about before a presser comes a different day?

Yeah I'm wondering that if the meeting really does happen this evening it has to do with the big boosters saying "seriously Fred, we don't want this guy anymore. How much do you need to make sure we get the replacement we want for the program." I heard that Fred was gonna announce yesterday that he planned on keeping Crean but the trustees came forward and said no not so fast...so hopefully this meeting has something to do with boosters/trustees telling Glass that we for sure no longer want Crean, here's some dough to get the guy we want, or you won't be getting any more dough if Crean stays. I just wonder though that if there truly is a meeting tonight, then it probably wouldn't be until at least tomorrow or after that we get an announcement.

Where on tv would the presser be once there is one? Big Ten Network? ESPN? I'm gonna assume BTN will have it regardless

Well hopefully that was just icing on the cake for Glass to see that. Crean had a pretty uneasy look on his face every time it showed him the last few minutes of the game....more so that just knowing they were about to lose the game. The players definitely made a lot of lazy plays in the game and didn't seem like they wanted to be there at all. I feel bad for them.

Ha, it's kind of neat that Wichita State and Dayton play each other in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Indy. Maybe it'll be loser of the game is announced head coach of IU and we will know who we have as soon as the first round is over! (Im kidding, but wow that's crazy that those two got matched up together...and in Indy).

Definitely has been a different feel on the boards the past couple of days....people getting worried and whatnot. Is there anyone out there who still think there should be no doubt Crean will be gone?

Right, soon after seeing it, the game in Georgia tonight came into mind..

Someone spotted Glass at the Indy airport.

The slice of hope I have for that twitter post is that Tucker knows Crean is gonna be gone so he's waiting to see who the next coach will be before he decides to come to IU.

Hopefully Jordan Tucker being in waiting, if true, isn't something big enough for Crean to use in persuading Glass he should stay. Maybe Tucker is aware that Crean will be gone and is waiting to see who the coach will be at IU before he commits to going there. That would obviously mean though that he is truly interested in playing ball at IU and not just for Crean, but would depend on who the replacement would actually be.

Haha, yes I've got that going on with me at my house as well!

Even my wife wants there to be a change in coach. I told her that I'd be so excited to see Crean gone that it would result in taking her out for dinner and a movie!

Ha, of course! I will say though, if we end up finding out that Crean accepted a job at Missouri, I will gladly accept his insult.

Aren't there at least a handful of other schools that have openings who would love to have Crean? I'm hoping we don't have to think there are only one or two schools Crean would go for, in turn limiting the chances of him being gone...(considering Glass seems so adamant in him finding a landing place instead of just getting it over with and firing him). There's another part of me that thinks once our season is officially over, he will then announce he is gone and just hasn't done it yet since we still have another game to play.

I'm hoping that it will all just be a matter of since we got into the NIT and therefore our season continues, Glass isn't going to say anything until they lose and season officially ends just as a respect to Crean thing wanting to coach his players. Once we lose the game and our season is officially finished, Glass comes out and says Crean is gone. As far as making the NIT game an away game, I'm hoping THAT is showing that Glass, once again out of respect to Crean, wants to play away from Assembly Hall to avoid Crean's potential last game of the season beinf one filled with 5,000 booing fans at your own place. Although, it is quite ridiculous at the same time for him to make it an away game knowing we could have groups of fans attend who normally couldn't make a trip to Assembly Hall for a game with their families. Putting that aside though, maybe it's just all about Crean's last experience with the team and the environment he would have to encounter (even though that does look "cowardish"). Hopefully once we do lose, he just comes out and officially says Crean is done.

I can't imagine how upset people would be, or how bad it may look in the eyes of IU fans, to see Illinois end up getting a bigger guy than IU goes out and gets.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BallerIU/status/840674839111335936 legit?

Yeah, hopefully this isn't a sign of Glass saying "aww heck Tommy, come on back, we'll be glad to have you."..and then Crean tells Missouri "thanks, but I'm gonna go ahead and stay put where im at." I'd like to think that's definitely not the case though just based off how Crean's demeanor has been the past week or so.

Illinois just announced that Groce has been fired.

This could be out of the realm, but I wonder if Donovan has it set up as "yep, I'll be the coach, but I want it kept quiet and don't want it announced until Crean is officially announced as gone", and then we know something sooner than we may think. But I'm thinking he may want to wait til he is done with the Thunder. My reason behind thinking they may announce sooner than later his him being well aware of the importance of the recruiting time frame and establishing a good set up for the new season ahead.

Let's say that it is in fact Donovan who will be our next coach. Would that mean we wouldn't find out until later down the road after he finishes the playoffs with the Thunder? Or would that not matter and we find out just as soon as any other candidate? You may think that if it does indeed take a while for a new coach announcement to be made, that it might be safe to assume that it could be Donovan just for the fact that we are waiting on him to be done with his NBA season....or that could not matter at all and we find out whether it's him just as soon as any other candidate. Curious as to how that would play out.

When players are hitting their shots it makes Crean's teams look great. When the shots aren't falling and he has no Plan B against the team we are playing against, our flaws are exposed and get screwed because he usually doesn't make adjustments. Wisconsin is a team more than capable of exposing those flaws. If the we are hot shooting the ball again tonight and we win, I don't see that as making Crean a good coach who should stay. He has nothing to do really with the player's shots going in. Wisconsin is gonna present us with better perimeter defense than what Iowa did, so I don't see us shooting as well, but IF we do, it's not gonna be a matter of "holy cow, Crean can coach, we better keep him!". If we don't hit our shots it truly shows where he lacks as a coach.

Hahaha, it sounds so horrible to say doesn't it?...but yes