Emmitt Holt dismissed from team

[MartintheMopMan 7,765]

Whhaaaaat a "four year player" was unceremoniously let go from the team early? I'm shocked I tell you! Shocked

[Hoosierfan2017 21,390]

Don't worry. We still have tim priller

MSB will never let us down.

[BlueDevil 8,687]

Now if IU would only dismiss the root of the problem...

[KelleyHoosh 2,263]

I have mixed feelings on this. I understand it's been a trend and so to right that wrong you want to come down hard.

But I feel like to this point all it does is leave everyone with negative feelings. Giving him a 10 game suspension tells the players and the public that IU is serious about discipline. Kicking him out after a second (extremely minor) offense seems like a raw deal for Emmitt personally and does a disservice to our team. What does this say for recruiting?

I think you have to exercise context clues and treat every situation differently. The crean that forgives his players would be rewarded by a guy like Holt, not so much a guy like Hanner.

If nothing else, hopefully this is the wake up call the team needs and they spend their free time getting better. Or you know, at a minimum, avoiding cops

[coonhounds 8,939]

This isn't what I wanted to see happen by far since I liked holt as a player. This is going to kill us down low and is a big blow to what looked like a promising season.

[Dalton26 16,892]

That's the only way we'll get the on court results we want, but that's a different conversation. I'm not convinced this wasn't too late but that's wait and see.

That's not a different conversation at all. It all on/off the court inevitably lands at the feet of the man in charge.

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

Standing ovation to Crean and company. Takes balls to dismiss Holt this year, especially at this point of the season. 2 strikes you're out is the way it should be handled and they did that here.

If the players don't get their acts together...

- Hanner
- Davis
- Holt

The writing is on the wall... Everyone left with 1 strikes or no strikes should pay close attention to what has transpired.

The OLD precedent of doing nothing and no consequences is gone... Good for you Coach Crean. Good for you.

[Defenserocks28 393]

I have mixed feelings on this. I understand it's been a trend and so to right that wrong you want to come down hard.

But I feel like to this point all it does is leave everyone with negative feelings. Giving him a 10 game suspension tells the players and the public that IU is serious about discipline. Kicking him out after a second (extremely minor) offense seems like a raw deal for Emmitt personally and does a disservice to our team. What does this say for recruiting?

I think you have to exercise context clues and treat every situation differently. The crean that forgives his players would be rewarded by a guy like Holt, not so much a guy like Hanner.

If nothing else, hopefully this is the wake up call the team needs and they spend their free time getting better. Or you know, at a minimum, avoiding cops

Utterly and completely agree.  10 game suspension would have been more than fair.  I get that an example had to be made...but 10 games would have been more than sufficient.  I feel bad for Emmitt.  What he did was dumb, but the consequences were much greater than what his transgression deserved.  If I'm a teammate and close friend of Emmitt, and I know what other players have been getting away with in the past (ie, multiple failed drug tests, fake IDs, etc), then I'm quite resentful of Crean.  

 

Basically, Emmitt is being punished because Crean was weak on Yogi, Standford, Hanner and Troy. 

[Stuhoo 80,782]

Doing stupid things doesn't guarantee that you'll get caught, but it dramatically increases the odds.

When someone is caught doing something stupid there is no guarantee that there will be consequences. However, when there are consequences, it should be no surprise.

Life is not about doing what it takes to guarantee success; it's about doing what it takes to dramatically improve the odds of success. Emmit Holt had multiple episodes where he did what it took to dramatically lower his chances of success in life.

Sad news.

[recker222000 1,010]

I'm done with IU basketball. Not until the coach and the AD is gone. The coach hasn't received a single lick of punishment for a single issue. I'm done. This was the final straw for me. It's been real fellas.

You may be done for awhile cause glass will never fire crean.

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[recker222000 1,010]

Beat me to it. Gonna be pretty hard playing with just Bryant as our lone talented big man.

Small ball again baby!

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[KelleyHoosh 2,263]

Apparently a second IU basketball freshman was at the scene of the citation according to mike miller

[Stuhoo 80,782]

I expect Collin Hartman to start.

[KingPG21 6,584]

Wish him the best. Hopefully this has more of an impact on current players and future players/recruits than past punishments have. Wish we didn't have to be in a position to dismiss guys from the team this late in the summer

[Hoosierfan2017 21,390]

You don't always get a second chance in life. Holt got one and threw it away. It stinks for him that he's basically paying for the sins of some of the other players, but if he was getting work in at Cook or hanging out at home with some friends he wouldn't have had to. Good luck to him wherever he ends up.

[hoosierpap 14,300]

Mike Miller @MikeMillerHT
Asked Fred Glass if president McRobbie had role in decision. "No. He leaves that to me and makes it very clear that Im responsible for that"

 

lol

 

 

Mike Miller @MikeMillerHT
Glass tells me there was a 2nd IU basketball freshman at scene when Holt, Bryant were cited. 2nd player not involved, Glass declined to name

 

Mike Miller @MikeMillerHT
Glass said Holt is not paying for his teammates' past sins "because of Emmitt's direct involvement with what happened with Devin Davis.

[recker222000 1,010]

This isn't what I wanted to see happen by far since I liked holt as a player. This is going to kill us down low and is a big blow to what looked like a promising season.

Well then maybe the coach needs to get control if his team! Program is out of control.

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[HoosierTrav 7,886]

You may be done for awhile cause glass will never fire crean.

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. That's what I'm afraid of.

[KingPG21 6,584]

LOL..All the people whining about him being dismissed were the same people pushing for harder punishment. It wasn't about the crime, it was about his poor decision making. Deal with it

Who exactly is doing that? Most have held to the stance they took when the news broke

[The Ola Depot 1,213]

I guess this answers the question whether Crean will play Emmitt and Thomas at the same time.