Tom Crean Update from Fred Glass

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

Welp...

"My goals for this program are to perenially contend for and to win multiple Big Ten championships, regularly go deep in the NCAA tournament and win our next national championship," Glass said. "Be elite, if you will. As a lifelong Hoosier and IU basketball fan, alumnus and current AD, nobody wants that more than me."

"Coach Crean's status should be based on his ability to achieve those goals going forward, not what he has or hasn't done in the past. Because I believe in the team he has assembled and is assembling, his leadership of it and their ability to start achieving our program goals, I continue to support Tom Crean as our coach."

- Fred Glass

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2015/03/27/glass-supports-crean-still-expects-iu-hoops/70561080/

[Rookie33 932]

Note that Glass specified that HE is behind Crean (not Indiana or the administration).

[southernindianahoosier 422]

Third vote of confidence ??

http://www.mandatory.com/2012/11/15/10-votes-of-confidence-in-sports-that-were-the-kiss-of-death/

[Str8Hoosiers 2,965]

Doesn't matter who he specified. He is the one pulling the trigger (or not pulling it)... Crean isn't going anywhere.... Time to start looking forward to next year and what he can accomplish

[Hovadipo 54,866]

I wish someone would just say he's the frickin coach next year. This does nothing besides keep speculation up. Glass supports him, but is he the coach next year?

Edit: AND, WHAT?! "Coach Crean's status should be based on his ability to achieve those goals going forward, not what he has or hasn't done in the past."

[bnkepner 1,509]

Ive said it all along, Glass has to go with Crean.

[southernindianahoosier 422]

Let's hire Butlers AD. He's proven he can hire a bball coach.

[mdiu28 1,752]

Time for Fred to go!!!!!!!!!  He isn't listening to his alumni-fan base.....TOSS his ASS out the door with Creans!

Agreed. HE may support Crean but the fan base doesn't. Fred, what have you seen from him that makes you think he can hang a banner? 

[LazOffTheBench 3,638]

It's vague, meaningless lawyer drivel-speak. Glass could fire Crean tonight regardless of what he said in this statement.

[pumpfake 3,930]

Agreed. HE may support Crean but the fan base doesn't. Fred, what have you seen from him that makes you think he can hang a banner? 

 

Hell, what has he seen to make him think he can beat Wisconsin or even Purdue?

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

I wish someone would just say he's the frickin coach next year. This does nothing besides keep speculation up. Glass supports him, but is he the coach next year?

Edit: AND, WHAT?! "Coach Crean's status should be based on his ability to achieve those goals going forward, not what he has or hasn't done in the past."

Yea he's gonna wish he had that statement back worse than the suicide comments a couple weeks back. Absolutely insane to make that statement.

That's like a domestic abuse comment. "He's a good man and he means well, I know there is good in him and that's what I'll focus on. The past is the past."

[crazywillie 192]

Glass is becoming a joke alongside his buddy.  Laughable.  How does a future prediction of performance not have anything to do with past performance?

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

Also note the time of this press release.

5:00pm on a Friday. The EXACT time you want to bury news.

[pumpfake 3,930]

"Because I believe in the team he has assembled and is assembling, his leadership of it and their ability to start achieving our program goals, I continue to support Tom Crean as our coach."

 

After 7 years it's time to start achieving our program goals?

[barrettballer 513]

"Coach Crean has five years on his contract," Glass said. "I don't expect him to go anywhere, and I don't want him to go anywhere."

That line right there scares me.

[Uwe Robb 1,072]

This is maddening. I am not an alumni so I do not see what other good things Fred does for the school, but this alone makes me want him fired along side Crean.

[Dalton26 16,892]

If he's not willing to fire crean then he needs to go too.

[Magnanimous 4,457]

This probably doesn't mean much since I live in DC and am one of the poor $100 donors, but IUBB will not be receiving another cent from me until Crean is gone.

[Trish 11,497]

IM READY FOR MORE CTC BBALL! 

 

 

Few good wins early in the season.. then towards February, well.. you might as well stop watching because it won't be enjoyable!

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

This probably doesn't mean much since I live in DC and am one of the poor $100 donors, but IUBB will not be receiving another cent from me until Crean is gone.

If 1,000 people share your view..

It's $100,000. It all adds up.