College Bball Thread

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The phrasing was agreed to part ways, so they probably reached a settlement on the buyout.

[JSHoosier 19,811]

6 minutes ago, Dalton26 said:

Reports are that Crean is out at Georgia 

Wow, he lasted longer here than he did at a place that doesn't care much as long as you don't embarrass football.

[Demo 19,585]

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/providence-ed-cooley-sporting-news-coach-year/h50xhraqbyiwyhi3tagcpylq
 

Not sure this is really debatable. 

[Chris007 43,565]

14 minutes ago, HoosierX said:

I wonder what his buyout is...that man's agent should win a lifetime achievement award.

His buyout was reduced to 3.2 million this month. It was 7 million last year at this time. 

[Hovadipo 54,962]

Fired revenue-generating college sports coach: greatest job on the planet.

[Stuhoo 79,573]

58 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/providence-ed-cooley-sporting-news-coach-year/h50xhraqbyiwyhi3tagcpylq
 

Not sure this is really debatable. 

Do you think IUBB could have had him last year?

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,825]

1 hour ago, HoosierX said:

I wonder what his buyout is...that man's agent should win a lifetime achievement award.

Per this story, it's 3.2 mil.   Search firm has already been in place for 2 weeks and in the early going at least, Georgia appears to be focused on four primary targets: Xavier associate head coach Jonas Hayes, Cleveland State head coach Dennis Gates, Wake Forest head coach Steve Forbes and USC head coach Andy Enfield.

 

https://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-bulldogs/uga-coach-tom-crean-to-part-ways-after-basketball-season/HJUAG6Q4EFEPHFSKJS52FLU76Q/?fbclid=IwAR0jLbVpNnkLYZuLDCEVm-QJfgeOUzzG6BJL5nsuDyE6iPSG3QzNhzWpL9E

[RaceToTheTop 24,851]

In a week and a half, Tom Crean and Archie Miller will be sipping margaritas on a beach while other coaches try to explain how their three seeded team blew a game to Northeastwestsouth University in the NCAA tournament.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,607]

Bring him back. 

[Demo 19,585]

25 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Do you think IUBB could have had him last year?

Truthfully, I would hope not. I think he’s exactly where he should be. Never bought the idea that he would have actually taken the Michigan job if offered. He’s from there. His wife’s a grad. Never coached anywhere but New England. They love him there. He’s in a big time conference. Hope he coaches there until he hangs it up.

[IUc2016 7,121]

Pretty hard to argue with.

While the Big ten doesn't have any great teams, the top end talent in this league is as good as I can remember. Those 5 are ridiculously good basketball players and 3 of them will be lottery picks

[IUFAN1976 2,772]

2 hours ago, Dalton26 said:

Reports are that Crean is out at Georgia 

He sucks as a coach.  I know many liked him here, but he wasn’t a good coach, just had some good players 

[Uspshoosier 44,987]

Johnny Davis won player of the year in the B1G but that’s not the story.    A media member actually didn’t vote for him for the 1st team B1G   Lol.   Ridiculous.  

[IUc2016 7,121]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Johnny Davis won player of the year in the B1G but that’s not the story.    A media member actually didn’t vote for him for the 1st team B1G   Lol.   Ridiculous.  

I saw that. I am Hoping that the media person picked the wrong Davis on accident. Maybe they should look at the ballots and see if someone put his brother Jordan Davis instead lol

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27 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Johnny Davis won player of the year in the B1G but that’s not the story.    A media member actually didn’t vote for him for the 1st team B1G   Lol.   Ridiculous.  

Juwan Howard threatened to slap him if he voted for a Wisky player.

[Uspshoosier 44,987]

5 bids to hand out tonight 

ACC gets started as well

Boston College/Pittsburgh start the day 

[HoosierHoopster 6,761]

1 hour ago, IUFAN1976 said:

He sucks as a coach.  I know many liked him here, but he wasn’t a good coach, just had some good players 

I'm not a Crean apologist but you don't develop one of the best offenses in college basketball consistently without being able to coach. It's more that he was a bad defensive coach and failed to develop sustained recruiting with depth for the next year. He would land a strong class, lose players to the NBA and overseas, with a follow-up lackluster recruiting class, and then he lost the high school coaches' respect, and the vicious circle began. 

You could certainly make the argument he's a better coach than CAM. Here's a thought, Crean was IU's third winningest coach of all time. Big 10 COY 2011-12, coached IU to wins over, among others, UK of course, twice, MSU, etc., first IU team to beat 3 top 5 teams in a season, the 2011-12 team was 2nd in the nation in 3-pt percentage (imagine that, today), same team finished 1st in the Big 10 in shooting and 3-point shooting and fg%, consistently after had IU among the top teams in scoring/shooting. He's not a really bad coach, but he's only good on one side of the ball and is too much a cheerleader on the sideline.

[HoosierX 1,521]

36 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

Juwan Howard threatened to slap him if he voted for a Wisky player.

Now that is some A+ message boarding.

[HoosierX 1,521]

2 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

I'm not a Crean apologist but you don't develop one of the best offenses in college basketball consistently without being able to coach. It's more that he was a bad defensive coach and failed to develop sustained recruiting with depth for the next year. He would land a strong class, lose players to the NBA and overseas, with a follow-up lackluster recruiting class, and then he lost the high school coaches' respect, and the vicious circle began. 

You could certainly make the argument he's a better coach than CAM. Here's a thought, Crean was IU's third winningest coach of all time. Big 10 COY 2011-12, coached IU to wins over, among others, UK of course, twice, MSU, etc., first IU team to beat 3 top 5 teams in a season, the 2011-12 team was 2nd in the nation in 3-pt percentage (imagine that, today), same team finished 1st in the Big 10 in shooting and 3-point shooting and fg%, consistently after had IU among the top teams in scoring/shooting. He's not a really bad coach, but he's only good on one side of the ball and is too much a cheerleader on the sideline.

I would take CAM over Crean in a heartbeat, simply because I wasn't embarrassed to have CAM on the sidelines. Tom Crean became a caricature of himself by the end of his time here.

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4 minutes ago, HoosierX said:

I would take CAM over Crean in a heartbeat, simply because I wasn't embarrassed to have CAM on the sidelines. Tom Crean became a caricature of himself by the end of his time here.

Crean could've coached wearing nothing but a polka-dot thong and did cartwheels on the sidelines every time the cameras were pointed his way and I would have still preferred him to Archie. That way, I would've at least enjoyed LISTENING to the games.