TOM CREAN FIRED

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14 minutes ago, ALASKA HOOSIER said:

Tax writeoff, duh!

 

[Yogi's Picnic Basket 5,004]

Spiece field house is amazing. Played a lot of great pick up ball there. The old store on coliseum was my go to place for kicks as a kid. 

You are absolutely right. Spiece Fieldhouse was the reason I fell in love w basketball. Tom always gave my uncle tickets to any event there. He still gives the select few employees through his stores a lot even while bankrupt. My uncle became a season ticket holder directly from Tom. He is a stand up guy. I hated his stores closing though. He always had cool memorabilia. He probably knows whats going on and I have been blowing my uncle up for days now but Tom isnt gonna say anything to anyone. He is one of the few RMK loyalist that gave Crean a real shot. Sounds like he is on board with him leaving though. I know he used to donate a few hundred thousand a year until his stores closed. Nor sure what all he has out there still or in the Indy area.

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[ALASKA HOOSIER 11,276]

can you believe we have over 1/2 million views to this thread! LOL

[Hoosier Guy 7,529]

Yeah if there is truly a booster meeting tonight, I'm pretty sure Crean is gone. Boosters aren't gonna have a meeting with Glass if everything was gonna stay the same

[Aaron 4,294]

13 minutes ago, Uwe Robb said:

I give at the Hoosier Loyalty level every year which is probably way too much for a guy that has been on the Season ticket waiting list since 2003.

#Non-Alumni problems

You can't have been on the waiting list since 03 unless you declined tickets. Everyone was offered tickets in 08-09 on waiting list and the waiting list was exhausted at that point. I as well as family bought in 2010-2011 with no waiting list. It returned in 12-13 when IU was number 1 and has remained with at least a small no. of people on it since. 

[Chris Nieman 669]

2 minutes ago, Yogi's Picnic Basket said:

You are absolutely right. Spiece Fieldhouse was the reason I fell in love w basketball. Tom always gave my uncle tickets to any event there. He still gives the select few employees through his stores a lot even while bankrupt. My uncle became a season ticket holder directly from Tom. He is a stand up guy. I hated his stores closing though. He always had cool memorabilia. He probably knows whats going on and I have been blowing my uncle up for days now but Tom isnt gonna say anything to anyone. He is one of the few RMK loyalist that gave Crean a real shot. Sounds like he is on board with him leaving though. I know he used to donate a few hundred thousand a year until his stores closed. Nor sure what all he has out there still or in the Indy area.

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The store on Coliseum has been closed a long time but the fieldhouse is still open. My step daughter goes there for daycare sometimes. If I had the means while I lived in the fort I would've been a gym member there but it was too expensive. 

[JSHoosier 20,297]

12 minutes ago, pumpfake said:

This was a question I was going to pose - even if he DOES fire Crean, how much confidence do you have that he'll hire one of the top coaches?

Now, I don't follow college football closely, but he's had a couple of opportunities with the football team and hasn't come close to that home run hire.  This may be because it's just no feasible with our history/tradition of suckage, but that shouldn't be the case in basketball.  For the record, I'm very nervous now about what caliber of coach FG might hire.

IU basketball should be much more capable of hitting the home run than IU football.  One is a historical blue blood with every resource needed located in the heart of one of the country's most fertile recruiting grounds (thanks again, Tom!), the other is a historical doormat.

My issue with Allen being hired isn't that he got the job, it's that Glass didn't even conduct a coaching search before hiring a guy with 5 total years coaching and none as a HC anywhere.  I liked how the defenses improved with Allen, just don't think he's ready to be a head coach.

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can you believe we have over 1/2 million views to this thread! LOL

It's a crime against humanity that we've subjected half a million people to our awful jokes and painful poetry.


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Yeah if there is truly a booster meeting tonight, I'm pretty sure Crean is gone. Boosters aren't gonna have a meeting with Glass if everything was gonna stay the same

I just hope it is tonight. My uncle said that Tom planned on being away for a few days. I pray it is tonight or first thing in the morning. I assume the boosters have a meeting alone first then with Glass. Unless they really want him gone it could all happen today I guess.

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[Yogi's Picnic Basket 5,004]

The store on Coliseum has been closed a long time but the fieldhouse is still open. My step daughter goes there for daycare sometimes. If I had the means while I lived in the fort I would've been a gym member there but it was too expensive. 

Yeah our Wabash store got closed to about a year ago. He made some money selling to Napa Auto Parts though. Place was HUGE. Nice to see the Fieldhouse is still going. Every Indiana kid should play there once at least.

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2 minutes ago, Yogi's Picnic Basket said:

I just hope it is tonight. My uncle said that Tom planned on being away for a few days. I pray it is tonight or first thing in the morning. I assume the boosters have a meeting alone first then with Glass. Unless they really want him gone it could all happen today I guess.

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If the boosters have any sense of knowledge, they want Crean gone now since the season is officially over

[Hoosiers High Life 278]

PULL THE TRIGGER!!!!

[Chris Nieman 669]

2 minutes ago, Yogi's Picnic Basket said:

Yeah our Wabash store got closed to about a year ago. He made some money selling to Napa Auto Parts though. Place was HUGE. Nice to see the Fieldhouse is still going. Every Indiana kid should play there once at least.

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Right on. I used to work at Wabash Electric in Fort Wayne before i joined the Navy. Yeah the field house is top notch and i hope it stays open. Its a great gym but i just couldn't afford it.

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4 minutes ago, Yogi's Picnic Basket said:

I just hope it is tonight. My uncle said that Tom planned on being away for a few days. I pray it is tonight or first thing in the morning. I assume the boosters have a meeting alone first then with Glass. Unless they really want him gone it could all happen today I guess.

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I'm sure he is trying to get out of town before the hurricane hits!!!  

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6 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

IU basketball should be much more capable of hitting the home run than IU football.  One is a historical blue blood with every resource needed located in the heart of one of the country's most fertile recruiting grounds (thanks again, Tom!), the other is a historical doormat.

My issue with Allen being hired isn't that he got the job, it's that Glass didn't even conduct a coaching search before hiring a guy with 5 total years coaching and none as a HC anywhere.  I liked how the defenses improved with Allen, just don't think he's ready to be a head coach.

Allen only has five years of coaching experience? Everything I have read and seen shows his coaching career dating back to the early 90s in high school football and he started coaching in college in 2007?

[Trish 11,616]

Fire him tonight or Friday night, I'm busy tomorrow night.


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3 minutes ago, Treesh said:

Fire him tonight or Friday night, I'm busy tomorrow night.


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Take one for the team and be okay with a fire tomorrow if it means he's truly gone forever.

[bleedhoosier 3,627]

So Glass was going to have a presser to keep Crean todays.. boosters stepped in.. presser on Friday evening to avoid some bad publicity as people check out for the weekend

Noted... lol

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[Trish 11,616]

Yeah!


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