That's why "this" is so hard to take. At my age, old/not young, I don't expect to see another one. We're so far removed from a Final Four performance, the likes of what we saw this past one, it's sad, not like funny. I see no end in sight from my aged perspective, like fine wine never drunk.
With all respect, winning in basketball (or football, or any other sport) at IU isn’t inherently difficult, but we’ve systematically done everything possible to not win. We’ve lacked a commitment to winning at the highest levels of the school for decades. With rare exceptions, we’ve hired and kept Athletic Directors who knew very little about any of the programs for which they were responsible. They didn’t know how to hire or work with coaches or maintain standards relayed to academics or decorum. They didn’t fund them properly, either and, often, that meant that facilities were substandard compared to our peers. And in many cases, they hired and kept poor coaches. All of this, by the way, with the tacit backing of alumni, fans, friends and boosters.
IU fans went overboard when TC had some early success and eventually beat #1 Ky, but "cult" is not a word I would use and certainly nothing I ever saw.
For 15 years IU bball was coached by Mike Davis and then Tom Crean. 15 years. That set the program back big time.
Just be glad a trustee intervened and directed the AD to move Crean out or we would’ve had him much longer. Of course, Glass and Crean were the stewards the last time IU dealt with a series of vehicular shenanigans, with one incident nearly costing a kid his life. That they reacted so weakly was deplorable. Leadership matters, and both of those guys were really poor in that regard.
No Davis did not set us back we were in a position to make a very good hire at that point. Davis actually made the tourney 4 or his 6 years which is a heck of alot better than Archie or Crean did. The mistake was hiring Sampson instead of John B and keeping Crean at least two season too long. And the four years on the mid major flavor of the month were totally wasted years. All of this was caused by our admins.
Yep Glass would never of fired his bro Crean and he would not have fired Archie either. That is why he bolted like a coward before Archie needed to be canned.
He bolted because he lost the confidence of too many trustees. When Buckner intervened, Glass had already confirmed with Crean he was safe and sent him on a family trip to Florida. It was FG’s only opportunity to let him go, since Crean was only one year past a Big Ten regular season championship and couldn’t have been fired that year. When the BOT realized he wasn’t going to act, QB was tapped to step in, which he did. Then Glass wouldn’t even go fire him in person. Such a lack of leadership and, after the Miller debacle, he was out of second chances with the BOT. He jumped before being pushed.
That is not accurate. In fact, and as I stated, Glass was stopped from firing TC on the first pass by the BOT. I know this directly from two BOT members.
When did Glass try to do that? Please be very specific. I’ve asked you this on a number of occasions and you’ve consistently failed to provide an answer. In the interest of civility, please provide an answer. Thanks.
As well as the extension. Part of the reason there was initial resistance to moving on him. Resistance that was not completely gone even when it happened.
It’s one of the reasons Glass never wanted to fire him and Buckner had to step in. Glass wanted him to stay.
