if this article is true
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nca...osition/ar-BBypswE?li=BBgET5V&ocid=spartandhp
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nca...osition/ar-BBypswE?li=BBgET5V&ocid=spartandhp
Crean has been contacted by LSU
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Good spot for him. Football school that doesn't pay attention to the basketball team
Yes,Calipari and Crean have no choice but to play each other. That's a great comedy play.This would make for great news coverage.
They will be forced to play in their home courts. This reminds me, I hope our new coach stands firm to Calipari and keeps future games in college basketball venues.
Crean has beaten Kentucky three or four times in the NCAA tournament. How soon you forget.
Exactly what I was thinking. He not only needs to be in the SEC, but as far south in the SEC as you can get. If he could win the SEC once every four or five years he'd probably get a lifetime contract at LSU.
If he takes the job at LSU, he'll get a chance to beat UK every year there too.
I have a lot of respect for Crean. I want him to have success. I hope he gets the LSU job.
Love this part of the quote: ". . . the Tigers have reached out to Crean to gauge his interest in the vacation position . . . ." [emphasis added]
Not sure that fits Crean all that well, actually.
probably - but I think that's a reasonable expectation for an SEC football school wanting to pump up its program with a name brand coach.
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LSU has a decent basketball tradition and have Final Four banners hanging in the rafters along with Shaq and Pistol's jerseys. They ran Brady off and he made it to a Final Four in 2006.
I don't know the timeline - did Crean get that monster contract after beating the 2012 UK team?
IIRC Before... after signing Zeller. I may be mistaken though.
I'm trying very hard to forget everything about Crean.
Perhaps Calipari, in an effort to avoid Crean, will reach out to Glass and throw his hat in the ring...
Man, I'm glad you made it clear to everyone that was a false statement. I'm sure the entire board took it seriously. Thanks for clearing that up.
agree or that new coach could successfully recruit Indy and not have to worry as much about Cal beating his ass there
I was just making it clear that you know absolutely nothing about LSU Basketball.
Yeah they are supposable friends, but I am not buying it. I don't like how either act, but it isn't even close when it comes to being creepy and a poor coach. Wonder if he gets a tanning bed on the deal or if he has to bring his own...
This I do know. There is a tight network among coaches at all levels. Todd Franklin, coach of Vincennes University, is very friendly with Calipari. Crean and Calipari are friends. Franklin was a former room mate with Crean at WKU and they are still friends. Franklin and Pitino are bitter enemies. So much so when Pitino (among others including Crean and Gregg Marshall) was recruiting Mulder, he bypassed Franklin and reached out to Mulder's high school coach to set up a recruiting call.It is my opinion and at least one other coach I know, that Calipari got involved late with Mulder due to disruptive recruiting and that Pitino really wanted Mulder. Calipari didn't need Mulder. Anyone else wonder why UK would want to pick up a juco player?
In a similar hatred of coaches. Carl Landry was escorted to IU to meet with Mike Davis by former VU coach Dan Sparks. Davis showed little interest in the visit and Coach Sparks wasn't shy in telling others that he would never recommend another player to play for that "idiot". The idiot being Davis. As we know, Landry went to become a star at Purdue and on to the NBA.
Word got out quickly that Davis wasn't only disliked by high school coaches, but other coaches like Sparks. I feel Crean had a similar lack of respect among the state high school coaches. We saw this as the state players have dwindled down to Indiana kids that are walk-on or DII level playing at IU. Meanwhile, TV analysts would say what a wonderful coach Crean was. If so, why did the home talent steer clear of him?
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