So yesterday I was pretty surprised to see no coverage on any ncaa tournament game network (cbs,tbs,tnt,trutv) what so ever on Iu firing Tom Crean. Not bc I want the national recognition for Iu...Don't get it twisted. But rather bc I was highly curious, its my team, and as so many other Iu fans felt as well I'm sure, it been nice to soak up all the info we could about the entire situation... None the less, it was never ever mentioned. However, over on espn, and only on the 6 o clock version of sportscenter. Seth Greenberg and Jay Bilas sat down to briefly speak about it. Come to find out, apparently the reason it wasn't mentioned is bc alot of America believes we live in a bubble, we live in the past, and we tried to make firing Crean a trendy story along side sabotaging the ncaa tournament in announcing Creans firing right before the start of it...and so apparently those networks made it a point to not air anything on that situation, and "take away from the tournament", yea how selfish of iu, afterall, the ncaa knows nothing about exploiting situations for money, publicity, etc right? especially in the month of March.
Anyway, Seth went on to say how he thinks Glass echoing at the press conference "we will be looking heavily into any past alumnus when considering our next coach" is nothing more then a sly way of directly tryin to speak to Alford. And how Alford is no better then Crean on paper, etc etc etc, (almost to the point its like Seth Greenberg read this board for viewpoints on the pros vs cons of hiring Alford,remarkably similar vocal points)
Seth is saying iu is tryin too hard to maintain blue blood status, the banners were 30 years ago,and how dare the way Iu went about firing Tom Crean...I say, tell us how you really feel America, and I'll tell you how they'll reply...Not only does Dan Dakitch, Seth Greenberg, Jay Williams, & Jay Bilas all agree. But In fact, any basketball analyst I read yesterday through other sources of media and that actually had an opinion on the Crean firing... was nothing but negative & in favor of Crean. Furthermore they literally almost make it seem like Crean is actually too good for IU.
Anyway, Seth went on to say how he thinks Glass echoing at the press conference "we will be looking heavily into any past alumnus when considering our next coach" is nothing more then a sly way of directly tryin to speak to Alford. And how Alford is no better then Crean on paper, etc etc etc, (almost to the point its like Seth Greenberg read this board for viewpoints on the pros vs cons of hiring Alford,remarkably similar vocal points)
Seth is saying iu is tryin too hard to maintain blue blood status, the banners were 30 years ago,and how dare the way Iu went about firing Tom Crean...I say, tell us how you really feel America, and I'll tell you how they'll reply...Not only does Dan Dakitch, Seth Greenberg, Jay Williams, & Jay Bilas all agree. But In fact, any basketball analyst I read yesterday through other sources of media and that actually had an opinion on the Crean firing... was nothing but negative & in favor of Crean. Furthermore they literally almost make it seem like Crean is actually too good for IU.
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