I've lost a ton of respect for him ever since I heard the Patterson story. He took too many commitments, didn't have room so he basically took Pattersons scholarship away then told the press Patterson couldn't cut it academically in the summer. Lucky for us tho we ended up with Patterson and I think he'll be a real nice player for us. Then last year there was a guy Roth who was expecting to come back for his 5th year, was a good program kid who never got in trouble and Crean never sat down with him or anything to tell him he didn't have a scholarship offer for his 5th year. Roth found out while coaching Crean's camp when Crean said let me know if you need me as a reference for any job interviews next year. Between that, the videos of him telling his guys to fake injuries, everytime IU loses they say Player X was sick and make excuses, the recent episode yesterdy, Crean would barely shake hands and blew Matta off in the post game hand shake at IU last week, and his constant attention seeking behavior, I can't stand him. It's funny because IU has the best team they'll have for a long long time, against the weakest field in years and they still haven't been overly dominant and I doubt they win the whole thing this year. Yet when you talk to Crean or IU fans you'd think they were in the midst of a dynasty. I may be mistaken but I think IU gave the players rings for making the sweet 16 last year and then had that whole cutting down the nets ceremony after they lost to Ohio State last week to celebrate their B1G title they only won a share of at that point. "Elite" programs don't do that, I know they have history but the last 20 years they've been mostly irrelevant.
