Gregg Doyel of the Indianapolis Star thinks the recent problems in the Indiana University men’s basketball program are an epidemic and it’s time for IU to part ways with head coach Tom Crean.
Check out Doyel’s thoughts:
It’s only a matter of time, now. Tom Crean cannot coach the Indiana basketball team much longer. When would be too long? The Hoosiers’ first exhibition is Thursday night. That would be too long.
Less than two days after one drinking IU basketball player was injured by a car driven by another drinking IU basketball player – neither of whom is of legal drinking age – two other Hoosiers were suspended by the school for failing a drug test.
Those two Hoosiers – the ones suspended Monday for drugs, not the ones involved early Saturday morning with alcohol; it’s getting difficult to keep this stuff straight – are sophomores Stanford Robinson and Troy Williams.
Five players out of 13 on scholarship. All busted for one thing or another. All since February. That’s damn near half the team, and if you consider that the official police report from Saturday says Devin Davis also had been drinking (he’s under 21) on the night he reportedly walked into traffic and was hit by Emmitt Holt, that brings the number of Hoosiers identified as drinking illegally, or drinking and driving, or failing a drug test, or some combination thereof, to six.
Tom Crean exits the press conference by walking straight to @GreggDoyelStar and shaking hands. GD wrote this Monday: http://t.co/KJJ1P6PI08
— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) November 5, 2014
Ouch.
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