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Tom Crean

BradleyJD said:
Of course you are correct. But I hope I am not the only one that refuses to allow this attitude to grow and be seen as acceptable.
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There are so many things in our culture today that need to be re-adjusted. I thought personally like to see the names on the back of the jersey so I know who I'm looking at on TV not for any other reason.
 
BradleyJD said:
Hoosiers blog about state of Indiana Basketball

http://blogs.indystar.com/hoosiersinsider/archives/2010/03/people_need_to.html
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OMG! I have never seen so many "excuses" put forth in defense of a bad team! We have always been told here that injuries, player defections, players being "young", learning a new "system", and "rebuilding" excuses just can't be used to explain a team doing poorly!

Coaches should be held up to their promises, and Crean promised to turn Indiana back into a winner, in the tradition that Hoosiers are accustomed to.

Next year will be Crean's 3rd season, and it doesn't look like it will be a whole lot better than this one. Recall that after a disappointing 2003-2004 season at Bradley (his 2nd year), there were many people calling for Jim Les' head. But this column asks fans for patience! How dare they expect fans to have patience! Crean is not delivering on his promises!

Disclaimer- the above is 100% sarcasm. I fully support Tom Crean, I believe he is a great coach and motivator, and believe he will turn things around at IU.
My purpose is to skewer those who had a 180?° different opinion about this subject when it involved Jim Les.
 
BradleyJD said:
When Crean took the job, I took heat on the PJStar board for saying that I thought Crean could have Indiana back to competing for Conference titles in 3 to 4 years.

In year two, he is heading in that direction. The guy is a good recruiter and a great coach.
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He won 9 games this year with about as soft a non-conference schedule as you can get. Indiana has lost 10 straight games. I hardly think this qualifies for heading in the direction of competing for conference titles.

While they were obviously going to be a lower-level team this year, I think they have enough talent to have won a few more Big Ten games, or at least be somewhat competitive in games, which they haven't been. Also, they are rebuilding at a time when several Big Ten teams are loading up on talent. It's going to be a rough road ahead for iu.
 
10 conference losses in a row is an all time record for IU, and they are about to tie, then break their all time consecutive loss record (conf or non-conf) in their next couple games, even after bringing in 6 separate players last year who were Top 100!!!
They had the 3rd best recruiting class last fall and were Top 10 the year before!
http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=857523
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache..."indiana"+and+"2009"&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

comes a time that you stop hanging it all on your predecessor.......
 
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Da Coach--I don't ever remember fans wanting Jim Les fired after only two or three seasons. That seems pretty premature. At least, I never heard that from anyone. If you did, wow.

Its my opinion (outside of really unique circumstances), that you shouldn't even start to look at that stuff until year four. Year five more like it. That's ample time to get things in place, etc.

Year two? Seems pretty quick to pull the trigger.
 
Yes, a couple of those who were saying that after 2 years are still around. This board got it's start in Jan. 2005, and there were discussions about who Bradley should replace JL with right from the start of BradleyFans.
 
I have no problem admitting that at the end of Year 3, after a 2nd consecutive play-in round embarrassment, I was ready to pull the plug. I held that belief through January of 2006, which was the middle of Year 4. At the time, there was little evidence to suggest I was wrong. We know what happened then, and things appeared to be finally heading in the right direction for the next 18-24 months. Unfortunately it's my contention that things have leveled off, and it can be argued that they're trending downward. I would like nothing more than for things to change for the better like they did in 2006.
 
More salt in the wounds of all the Hoosier fans in Indiana and more reason for the IU fans to get on Tom Crean...

In the Indiana-Kentucky All Star game yesterday the Purdue recruits and the recruits that are headed out of state totally dominated, while all the IU recruits....well...actually they did nothing, since IU and Tom Crean have totally struck out and missed on every one of the instate kids....

 
wow - Crean filling his 2012-2014 scholarships-- obviously taking a page out of Bruce Weber's playbook in the manner that he solidified his seat as head coach by locking in on really talented youngsters (like Jereme Richmond).
But with the current players he has now and for the next couple years (since he's already maxxed out), he's almost destined to struggle for at least 2-3 more years....will the fans be patient??

BTW -- as demonstrated elsewhere -- so many of these really early verbals (Boatright, Euton, Polee, Jordan Dykstra) end up elsewhere for various reasons, so it's risky...
 
Probably more symbolic than anything...At least it gets IU and Crean in the media in front of other potential recruits...Trying to make IU relevant...

At least he isn't recruiting 6th graders!
 
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