Crean goes off on teams stupidly declining NIT bids…
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He has that nice pnut butter skin
going on already! Btw, I'm still glad IU can still make notable teams left off the list for the NIT!
IU wouldn't have received an invite.
Bingo. So they got out in front of it & declined.
Either way to come out and decline like they're somehow above it is a flat out joke and is why the program is a dumpster fire with no mental toughness.
Tom was born to coach in the NIT
He’s right. We’re telling the basketball world that we’re too good for that lousy tournament. Our record and results over the last 25+ years says otherwise. The basketball world is laughing at us right now.
It’s getting harder and harder to back this program.
If the NCAA wants the NIT to be anything then it needs to change the transfer portal opening up until after the National Championship game. You're only talking a few weeks timeframe. I can't imagine it would be a good look to get an NIT bid, accept it and then have half your team in the portal and not playing. While it can work in Football, in basketball you just aren't that deep and who wants to put a product on the floor in the NIT going against some mid major team who has all their players and get embarrassed. That's not a good look for recruiting.
VanPastorMan
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Is that like breaking up with a girl because you think she wouldn't marry you if you asked? If IU was in the NIT who would play? I didn't think about who would but who wouldn't. Guys like Ware and MgBako are NBA bound. Guys who are transferring would probably not play. So who would play? I would think X would play because this might be the last time he gets to play organized basketball. I bet Leal would play and Galloway would if he wasn't hurt.
Woodson couldn’t get them to play hard for 40 minutes in meaningful games.
Can’t imagined how bad it would have been in the NIT.
Can’t imagined how bad it would have been in the NIT.
Just because he's not a great coach doesn't mean his points aren't valid.
VanPastorMan
Hall of Famer
Coach Crean is not a bad man. Is he a little quirky? Yes. But why can't we love quirky? People don't have to be all the same.
I agree on all counts.
Poor sportsmanship to turn down the invite. If our “stars” chose not to play, I would try and play with our walkons.
It would have made the university some money(no idea how much) and provided minutes for guys who were at every practice and never played.
VanPastorMan
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That was very funny. I am pretty pasty because burning was the main option when in the Sun. But I am not overly wrinkled so that is a good thing.
How do those Big Ten championships look right about now?
Recall the Wat shot?
Recall the buzz from March Madness...?
Mob rule seldom ends well....
Karma.....
Seriously, what possesses a man 50+ to use a tanning bed or tanning creams? Bizarre... I'd agree: don't trust a man who does that.
I think IU just made a pre-emptive strike. Rejecting a bid you aren't getting is the lesser of two evils...compared to being dissed with no offer. I think the university saw that as a way of saving face...in the course of an otherwise disaster of a program. And IU's players refusing their coach's wishes and not playing adds fuel to the fire that Woodson has lost this team. It would be one more argument to part ways with him.....and the university doesn't want to do that. They are fine with the mediocrity...as long as they get to keep some self respect, which is about the only kind they have left.
He’s not a great coach, but he’s a lot better than the two that have followed. I hated that he had the program on an up and down trajectory, but right now the ups aren’t nearly as high and the down feels like it’s permanent.
I think you are right that is why they declined to avoid looking really bad.
Meanwhile butler vs minnesota tomorrow night should be good game to watch.
IU is/was getting a bid.
A they are good enough
B they deliver tickets and ratings.
You sure about that (“A”)?
These are the four teams matched up against the 1 seeds:
St Joes (by far the lowest in this group with a net of 92)
App state (net 72)
SMU (net 65)
VCU (net 71)
IU 98.
To be fair to all people calling Tom a terrible coach, he has by far been our best coach since Knight.
He's pretty odd..
But damn ..He won two Big Ten 🏆🏆
I'd put huge money the current coach for Indiana doesn't do that..
But damn ..He won two Big Ten 🏆🏆
I'd put huge money the current coach for Indiana doesn't do that..
Shows the flaws in the formulas.
Now that assumed we were at full strength. With ware and Gallo out we wouldn’t do very well if we were in
It’s a stretch to call IU “organized basketball.”
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