Tom Crean's postgame locker room speech

[Magnanimous 4,573]

Good stuff

[Alford Bailey 12,375]

I really hope this guy has made changes and will continue to improve as coach. I really want to root for him.

[BlueDevil 8,687]

Hell of a speech. Almost felt personal towards the end.

[GnarlyTimGarl 1,433]

Lyonel Anderson had me crackin' up.

 

"Wooooooooooooooooo!!!!"

 

Not Ric Flair-style, but equally impressive.

[bleedhoosier 3,627]

I want Crean to be the long term coach so bad. So bad. Please make a run Tom

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[Lt. John McClaine 541]

I'm so happy for him. Criticism aside, you can't ever take away the fact that he's got two Big Ten Championships in 4 years. That's a big deal to Hoosier Fans after such a long dry spell.

[ALASKA HOOSIER 11,264]

and we will hang one next year, as well!

[Ryno6284 2,652]

and we will hang one next year, as well!

And, to me, is the bigger question!  Can we come back and be successful next year after the year we are having and losing Yogi?  If we can sustain success without the huge drop off years like we have seen.  If he can do that I will be on board to see out the rest of Crean's contract.

[JSHoosier 20,178]

And, to me, is the bigger question!  Can we come back and be successful next year after the year we are having and losing Yogi?  If we can sustain success without the huge drop off years like we have seen.  If he can do that I will be on board to see out the rest of Crean's contract.

We've already seen him have a 2 year run.  I don't have any doubts he can have a year or two here or there.

[USMCHoosier 157]

Abundantly clear the players love the man.

[BtownBanner6 1,298]

Abundantly clear the players love the man.

To me that has always been his strength, it was obvious that every team he had loved him.

[BlueDevil 8,687]

Epic watching him dance in the pile

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,312]

To me that has always been his strength, it was obvious that every team he had loved him.

Vonleh team? Just a dysfunctional group that year sadly.

[NRT137 316]

Lyonel is a goofball

[MartintheMopMan 7,765]

It's better to hear it in that gravel voice with all of the emotion, but here is the transcript courtesy of The Assembly Call:

 

"You guys have earned this memory. You've earned this memory. You really have. You've earned this memory. 

 

"You'll hear the word 'process' a lot in your life. You'll hear it. You'll use it. You'll use it in your businesses, you'll hear it from your next coach someday, because we got a lot guys that are going to play at another level. They really are. A lot of guys. 

 

"And you'll hear that word, and you'll hear all those different things, and then you'll be somewhere where you'll have people that don't believe in you, you'll have people that leave you on the side of the road, you'll have people that tell you you can't do it.

 

"And then you'll have that group of people that will tell you how good you are, they'll tell you how much you're capable of, they'll tell you what you should be doing.

 

"And at the end of the day, you go back to this year, and you understand that all that matters, is your faith, is belief, your family, and looking around at each other and absolutely understanding that together you're capable of so much. 

 

"You're going to get into a situation someday in your life, long after this is over, and we're not anywhere close to that, and you're going to have to be the one that picks that team up. You're going to have to be the one that understands the difference ...

 

"When this person has been beat up.

 

"When this person is too full of himself.

 

"When this person doesn't have confidence.

 

"When this person has got arrogance. 

 

"You're going to have to be that person that says, 'No, this is how you win. This is how you prepare to be a champion. This is how you work every day.' And that is exactly what you guys have done. That is exactly what you guys have done. 

 

"Everything that was left as fact about you, okay, coming up through the season, all it was was a myth. That's all it was. Because every day you worked to build the facts the right way. 

 

"And the facts are: this is a resilient, tough-minded, highly disciplined, love-each-other group that is absolutely committed to greatness. It is unbelievable. It's unbelievable. 

 

"It's an absolute honor to be your coach. It really is. 

 

"Two last things, then we'll close the room, and then we'll finish ourselves here.

 

"Don't ever, ever, let anybody take away your nerve, take away your spirit, put doubts into your minds and heads that you can't do things. 

 

"And don't ever look at anything in life and say, 'Oh, that's easy.' That won't take a lot of work. I heard Rob say it tonight: 'You want something great? We gotta work for it. It's not going to be easy.' That is how you're a champion. It really is. 

 

"There's a lot of things that have happened in this group, and there's a lot more things to happen, so we're not going to talk too much more in the past tense.

 

"But the bottom line is: when you believe in what you're doing it is amazing what you get done. 

 

"Now we've got one more regular season game, and there is absolutely no way, there is no way, there's no way, that we're not walking out of that place Sunday with our seniors with their heads held extremely high. There is no way. There is no way that this group is not going to walk out that way. And that's what our focus is going to be. 

 

"I'm proud of you. Congratulations."

[IUsafety 2,775]

Did anybody see Blackmon in the locker room or at the game?

[OliviaPope40 6,514]

Did anybody see Blackmon in the locker room or at the game?

Blackmon was not in attendance he was watching from Assembly Hall.

[TheWatShot 13,947]

Man, Crean has even upped his postgame speeches to resemble that of a championship caliber coach instead of a bunch of platitudes and mindless coach-speak. 

 

 

I'd love to know what was said in his office and the locker room since Maui. 

[rebelhoosier848891 9,588]

This is great stuff---heart felt.

 

I heard a radio interview after the game and he was talking about Yogi and you could just hear in his voice and through his emotion just how much he cares about Yogi and the team.

 

Hard fought and well-earned Big Ten Title!

[Ryno6284 2,652]

We've already seen him have a 2 year run.  I don't have any doubts he can have a year or two here or there.

after next year does he have 2 years on the contract?