Fred Glass Interview (CBI, Mike Woodson, IU Scheduling)

[CampHoosier 3,697]

I said it's a good addition, and it is.  I'm certainly not confident in a win, I just wouldn't categorize it as a 'marquee' game.  When you say "marquee home game" it sounds more like Kansas or Arizona or those programs.

 

True. But I think it's marquee for another reason. It's old school vs new school. SMU is emerging and will be preseason ranked next year. Networks will be all over this game because it brings back Brown as well as pits two teams with similar circumstances against one another. It may not be a huge name, but the publicity and hype around it will be just as huge

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

[quote name="CampCrean" post="49561" timestamp="1395116392"]True. But I think it's marquee for another reason. It's old school vs new school. SMU is emerging and will be preseason ranked next year. Networks will be all over this game because it brings back Brown as well as pits two teams with similar circumstances against one another. It may not be a huge name, but the publicity and hype around it will be just as huge[/quote]

Hope you are right about the hype and publicity. We'll see what IU really thinks of that game when the ticket prices are announced...


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[DrMAK8892 20]

I think everyone should back off a little here. Scheduling is done too far in advance to make a change for next year. Also, consider that IU's strength of schedule is higher than half of the top 25 teams right now. It all boils down to winning games we should win (PSU, PU, NW come to mind). It's not easy to lose all the leadership and talent from last year and bounce back. Be patient. And also, knock off the fire Crean crap. You all are so fickle. We could win the B1G next year and all you yelling fire Crean would be back on his bandwagon. You're not true loyal IU fans.


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[schoosier 3,500]

Mikes comments sound like there must be something to all this discussion. Says no then how he can't control what's being said.

Glass comments sound exactly like something Crean would say after a defeat. They must have the same public speaking coach.

[Hovadipo 56,502]

Aaaaaand the hornet's nest has been kicked. Again.


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[Rayl 527]

I think everyone should back off a little here. Scheduling is done too far in advance to make a change for next year. Also, consider that IU's strength of schedule is higher than half of the top 25 teams right now. It all boils down to winning games we should win (PSU, PU, NW come to mind). It's not easy to lose all the leadership and talent from last year and bounce back. Be patient. And also, knock off the fire Crean crap. You all are so fickle. We could win the B1G next year and all you yelling fire Crean would be back on his bandwagon. You're not true loyal IU fans. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Our overall strength of schedule is decent because we play in the Big 10. Our non-conference strength of schedule is only tougher than 13 other Division 1 teams and the worst in the Big 10. While it might not be easy to bounce back after losing most of your starters, no one expected a number one ranking. Making the NCAA was not insurmountable. It is hard to have the talent we have and completely whiff on the NIT.

[Naturalhoosier 15,434]

This is one of the few things the NCAA actually got right IMO.  I like the concept for the automatic qualifiers in the NIT, even if it knocked us out this year.  It's the right thing.

 

• • "All the automatic qualifiers knocked us out of the NIT. I think most other years we would have been in the NIT if not for all the automatic qualifiers."

 

[BlueDevil 8,693]

[quote name="Naturalhoosier" post="49597" timestamp="1395148856"]This is one of the few things the NCAA actually got right IMO. I like the concept for the automatic qualifiers in the NIT, even if it knocked us out this year. It's the right thing.

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Completely agree. Conf winners that don't make the tourney should atleast have a bid in the NIT.

[welder332 9]

As usual Fred Glass is acting like the weak AD that he is. And of coarse like the one person said, Glass is not going to say oh yea I am looking for Creans replacement. Like I said before CTC and Glass are to big of buddies. BOTH NEED TO GO "NOW". Crean doesn't get it-his horrible decision making during a game is not going to change and we are going to continue to see his dumb mistakes. This guy has never played the game and thinks he can coach at a high profile school like IU. Fred Glass is a typical business person who doesn't want you to rock the boat-now what he says is whats best for IU.

[Rayl 527]

Completely agree. Conf winners that don't make the tourney should atleast have a bid in the NIT.

 

I agree as well. It's a good rule.

 

I do take issue with Glass' use of it though. Perhaps it is just his style of speaking, but it came across as somewhat dismissive and as an excuse. We really shouldn't be in a position where automatic qualifiers can knock us out of the NIT. Maybe we would have made the NIT in any other year. Maybe. A bottom of the bracket entry into the NIT doesn't make everything better and it wouldn't satisfy the critics. We do expect more than that at Indiana.

 

I think Glass knows that, but he seems to be going out of his way not to acknowledge it. The entire interview had a bit of an Iraqi Minister of Information feel to it. It really sounded to me like Glass is feeling some heat and he's trying to put an everything is going according to plan spin on things.

[ou812dude 3,326]

non conference schools that should be on IU's schedule every year are as follows:

 

UK

UofL

Notre Dame

Butler

Cincinnati

[BlueDevil 8,693]

[quote name="Rayl" post="49618" timestamp="1395152151"]I agree as well. It's a good rule.

I do take issue with Glass' use of it though. Perhaps it is just his style of speaking, but it came across as somewhat dismissive and as an excuse. We really shouldn't be in a position where automatic qualifiers can knock us out of the NIT. Maybe we would have made the NIT in any other year. Maybe. A bottom of the bracket entry into the NIT doesn't make everything better and it wouldn't satisfy the critics. We do expect more than that at Indiana.

I think Glass knows that, but he seems to be going out of his way not to acknowledge it. The entire interview had a bit of an Iraqi Minister of Information feel to it. It really sounded to me like Glass is feeling some heat and he's trying to put an everything is going according to plan spin on things.[/quote]

I also agree with everything you just said. Very well said.

[schoosier 3,500]

If his excuses about how we couldn't get in to the nit are true, then we should blame all of the schools that actually won their conferences. "It's your fault for winning" should be what he is quoted as saying instead of "Its Indiana". Says were too blueblood to play in the cbi after wildly underforming with no where else to go. Then mentions SMU like were playing UK, Kansas, UCLA or UNC. Sorry, not even close. Is this whole interview made up because its hard for me to believe he would actually say these things? How does anyone defend this?

[Hwy 1 2,053]

If his excuses about how we couldn't get in to the nit are true, then we should blame all of the schools that actually won their conferences. "It's your fault for winning" should be what he is quoted as saying instead of "Its Indiana". Says were too blueblood to play in the cbi after wildly underforming with no where else to go. Then mentions SMU like were playing UK, Kansas, UCLA or UNC. Sorry, not even close. Is this whole interview made up because its hard for me to believe he would actually say these things? How does anyone defend this?

 

 

 

Sometimes I read posts on here and I think to myself it's hard to believe anyone would actually say these things. It's all perspective.

[JSHoosier 20,315]

I think everyone should back off a little here. Scheduling is done too far in advance to make a change for next year. Also, consider that IU's strength of schedule is higher than half of the top 25 teams right now. It all boils down to winning games we should win (PSU, PU, NW come to mind). It's not easy to lose all the leadership and talent from last year and bounce back. Be patient. And also, knock off the fire Crean crap. You all are so fickle. We could win the B1G next year and all you yelling fire Crean would be back on his bandwagon. You're not true loyal IU fans.


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I'm not a loyal IU fan?  You know absolutely nothing about me.  I want this program to succeed, which is why I have concerns about Crean's coaching.  It's why I say he has to improve drastically, because if he doesn't this program likely will not reach greatness with him as coach and that just happens to be his job.  I'm only expecting him to do what he's paid 3 million dollars to do, and me wavering on him as coach is nothing no because I've seen the same problems exist for year with no improvement.

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only way he'll get any faith back from me is to contend for the B1G AND go to the Elite 8 at minimum.  I don't see that much improvement though, next year's roster looks to have too many holes still so if the team even makes the tournament an early exit is likely, and that should not be enough to keep his seat from getting hot.

[Dalton26 16,892]

[quote name="DrMAK8892" post="49577" timestamp="1395142195"]I think everyone should back off a little here. Scheduling is done too far in advance to make a change for next year. Also, consider that IU's strength of schedule is higher than half of the top 25 teams right now. It all boils down to winning games we should win (PSU, PU, NW come to mind). It's not easy to lose all the leadership and talent from last year and bounce back. Be patient. And also, knock off the fire Crean crap. You all are so fickle. We could win the B1G next year and all you yelling fire Crean would be back on his bandwagon. You're not true loyal IU fans.


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Caring what happens to the program isn't being a loyal fan? What a joke. I'd say not putting my head in the dirt and just blindly thinking everything is ok yet still supporting the team through everything would make me pretty damn loyal. Extremely ignorant comment.


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[DrMAK8892 20]

Not sayin any of you aren't loyal fans. Or you wouldn't be on here. Just sayin we can't scream fire him from one up and down season. I've been a financial supporter of the program since I graduated in the 80's. I was pissed when RMK got fired and I think Davis and Sampson were jokes. They destroyed IU's program. Crean inherited a decimated program and has done a good job getting it turned around. Don't throw him off the ship because we hit a rough current. We are starting to go in the right direction. Starting over again so soon will cause a bigger delay in getting it back to where it used to be. Not to mention we'd be once again paying a lot of money to former coaches. It's very fickle and fair weather to cheer one year and yell fire the next because we underperformed. We lost a lot of good personnel early due to the Lure of the money in the NBA. So did UK the year before and they had a rough year last year. No one was screaming for Calipari to be fired. The bigger picture fix is to let high schoolers enter the NBA developmental leagues directly and get back to committed players using their scholarships and developing programs and enough of the one and done users.


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[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

[quote name="welder332" post="49605" timestamp="1395150813"]As usual Fred Glass is acting like the weak AD that he is. And of coarse like the one person said, Glass is not going to say oh yea I am looking for Creans replacement. Like I said before CTC and Glass are to big of buddies. BOTH NEED TO GO "NOW". Crean doesn't get it-his horrible decision making during a game is not going to change and we are going to continue to see his dumb mistakes. This guy has never played the game and thinks he can coach at a high profile school like IU. Fred Glass is a typical business person who doesn't want you to rock the boat-now what he says is whats best for IU.[/quote]

You are off the rocker here.. Say what you want about Crean, Fred Glass has been an incredible asset to IU since he has been there. Indiana needed a "business person" for that role. I would hardly call Fred Glass typical. The dude gets it, and gets it done.


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[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

[quote name="ou812dude" post="49619" timestamp="1395152274"]non conference schools that should be on IU's schedule every year are as follows:

UK
UofL
Notre Dame
Butler
Cincinnati[/quote]

Then you'd have the ACC/ Big ten challenge and a preseason tournament of 2 more decent teams.... That would mean you'd play 8 of 13 games against solid teams. I like your thought, but that IU team would be exhausted by tournament time. Not mention have a lot of losses.


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[HoosierAloha 30,068]

I've posted this numerous times about our OOC schedule so one more won't hurt.

We need...
(1) marquee home/home
Candidates: UL, KU, UCLA, etc

(1) B1G/ACC Challenge
Most likely playing upper tier ACC team

(2-3) solid precon tourney
Needs to include at least 1 top 25ish team

(1) Crossroad Classic
Butler/UND not always great competition

(1) solid mid-major
Candidates: Gonzaga, GW, Xavier, etc

(2-3) 50-100ish RPI teams
This can be tricky but need this group badly

(3-5) 100-200ish RPI teams
This will allow the team to try some new sets and build confidence

This is my wish when IU has a solid team. As others have pointed out we need to find teams that play similar games as B1G opponents.




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