This Jones kid is Jim Television. He's just a Crean can or lacky. Even he can't defend the past three out of four years so he changes his handle and instead of building Crean up by tearing IU down (Indiana isn't what it used to be and no other coach could do better than what Crean has done, even though Mike Davis did as did Kelvin Sampson as did Bob Knight in his 'down' years)
Now his angle is to poop on prospective coaches.
Marshall has one of the best resumes in the game and will probably only jump to a bell cow program. We can offer that. Hell we were the tenth best team in the conference but was still on national TV for most of our games. Our Twitter site has the most followers. We pay top five money to that top 100 coach. Our practice facilities are best in class and we're smack dab in the middle of some of the most bountiful recruiting in the country.
You should look at Archie's year over year...his program is getting better each year.
You should look at the adversity Archie had to go though. One year because of injuries and stupidity he had just six scholarship players. This year he had a starter DIE! Yet his program keeps getting stronger...not inconsistent wild swings based on recruiting and constant underperforming like Crean has done his entire career.
Lastly you should check out what Brian Gregory did at Dayton before Archie. Archie is over ten percentage points better than Gregory and even stronger in the conference.
Archie has coached and recruited in the big east, the big ten and the pac 12. He was Sean's main recruiter in the early days of Arizona and delivered a couple of top five classes before he was hired by Dayton.
NC State is trying really hard to get Archie, he's supposedly not interested.
Nothing is guaranteed but I can confidently say that Crean would have nowhere near the success that Marshall or Archie has had at Winthrop, Wichita or Dayton. Hell other than the final four run (and subsequent largest loss in final four history with a future hall of fame player and a week to prepare) Crean has been no better than Brian Gregory.
Why on Earth would you stay with a losing hand vs grabbing a Marshall or Archie who have proven themselves over time, particularly Marshall.
A flavor of the month is a guy who goes on a single run or had one great year surrounded by mediocre.
We hired a flavor of the month...Crean.
