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So not a top 2 job lol? Thanks. Add in McCollum who wanted nothing to do with Indiana and you’re looking at a mid-tier conference job, let alone nationally.

I disagree. Throw out the first 3 years of a total rebuild and Crean’s tenure was pretty damn impressive once he got his feet under him.

Because the rest of the B10 wants IU to continually shuffle coaches every 3-4 years?

What does hiring a capable coach look like? Was Hurley a capable coach after completing his 4th year without a single tournament win and two early exits as a higher seed? Would Hurley have seen a 5th season at IU? Maybe? Bet you though that all the ballknowers around here would have deemed him incapable though after two years. Just a guess.

Known who he was going to get and limited to who he was able to get are two different things. Just further reinforces the total disconnect from reality between IU and the rest of the college basketball world.

People, meaning the prominent boosters and figureheads surrounding Indiana basketball, not fans.

Wouldn’t have gone 15-57 at Georgia had IU not fired him.

They supposedly made Scott Dolson hire Mike Woodson and keep him an extra year, so why not?

I could have told you. Who in their right mind is taking just another job with delusional expectations?

How many mediocre coaches win the B10 outright twice and make the second week three times in a 5 year span? I’d love to have a mediocre coach right now, wouldn’t you?

I certainly can tell you, look at where IU is today post-Crean.

Who cares what he did at Georgia? That's irrelevant to what he did at IU. Mike Woodson won the Eastern Conference regular season in New York, how did that translate here? It doesn't mean anything. You can't say out of one side of your mouth that making the tournament is the only thing we ask out of IU coaches while saying Crean should have been fired because it was clear he was never going to win a championship here. It's hypocrisy at its finest.

Except for the people that thought we were hiring Billy Donovan... I understand Archie's accolades at the time. Firing a coach with multiple conference championships for an up and comer isn't a home run hire or a solid plan. I'm sorry.

Crean got a raw deal with Anunoby's injury, or else they absolutely would have made the tournament his final year. That would have been 5 in 6 years. There's a good chance James Blackmon Jr doesn't forego his senior year if Crean is retained and along with him you bring back senior Robert Johnson and Juwan Morgan as an upperclassmen to go with some nice young pieces in Justin Smith, DeRon Davis, and Devonte Green. Won't pretend to know what happens that year as it doesn't matter now, but have to think it's better than anything we got from Archie Miller. Had he survived, would have been interesting to see how a team full of guards and shooters would have fared with TJD commanding the middle. Add in the portal a few year later and who knows where Indiana is with Crean today, can't be worse than where we are now. As far as a plan goes after firing Crean? Who did Glass realistically think he was going to get after firing a coach who had just previously won multiple conference championships?

How is it wild? Crean basically had two tenures at IU: the first 3 years rebuilding from absolutely nothing without the help of the portal, immediate eligibility, etc and then the 6 year period in which he won the B10 twice and reached the S16 on three different occasions. He missed the tourney after losing 4 starters that won the B10 outright the year prior and in his final year after losing a lottery pick to an ACL injury in early January. And the fanbases/administration said that wasn't good enough. And here we are a decade later where making the tournament is simply a chore.

It wasn't just the "calls". It was the habitual pattern of repeating said behavior while being punished for said behavior. And without any regard. It was the constant lying to IU officials and NCAA investigators. Habitual offenders are the most likely to repeat. He wasn't here even two full years.

He's one player. He's also 6'10, skilled as hell, and a nightmare for opposing bigs on the perimeter. They have a 6'2 shooting guard who leads the nation in 3 point percentage, but other than that, every other guy on their team is 6'4-6'8, rangy and athletic as hell with 2-3 of those guys built like defensive ends.

He's a weird prospect for me. I'm not sure his athleticism translates to the NBA, but he's highly skilled and not afraid to bang. He'll be highly coveted this offseason as will the two guards who play for Hofstra today.

I think it was stupid to hire him in the first place. I don't think we had a choice in firing him as the NCAA made that clear. But agree, he's one of the best in the business.

According to @Golfman25 that type of length and athleticism doesn't exist at the mid-major level. It was a treat to watch VCU and SLU play back to back last night. Wait till you watch Santa Clara at noon today. Really good team built very similarly to SLU.

So it isn't about just simply making the tournament like others have stated? Got it. We deserve everything we get it.

You don't think there was internal as well as external pressure to get rid of Crean? Nonsense. I knew he was toast after the Syracuse game and yet he somehow rebounded and won another conference title. What he did at Georgia really doesn't phase me because it's irrelevant to Indiana. But the idea that IU was going to get rid of coach who won two B10 titles in a 4 year span and replace him with someone like Billy Donovan or Brad Stevens just never made sense to me.

We had to overpay to get an unproven coach in DeVries. You're nuts if you think a top flight coach is coming here, money be damned. Another post that shows how out of touch with reality this fan base can be at times.

It becomes increasingly harder to consistently make the tournament when you're constantly shuffling coaches and turning over rosters all while starting from scratch. If you haven't paid attention to that the last 20 years I beg to ask what you've been doing? Excusing Crean's first 3 years as he started from ground zero without a roster or the transfer portal, he won two B10 titles and made the second weekend on three different occasions in essentially a 6 year period. The fan base and administration determined that wasn't enough. He was fired because he didn't win a national title. You're right, making the field of 68 isn't a monumental task, but appeasing a delusional fan base if it doesn't happen in years 1 or 2 becomes redundant.

IU hasn't won a national title in 40 years. What happened 40,50, 60 years ago should have little to no bearing on today's climate. Current IU recruits parents were barely alive the last time IU won a national title.