To say the Tom Crean experiment is off to a rough start in Athens would be a ridiculous understatement.
The former Indiana and Marquette men’s basketball coach has slightly improved the team’s record year-to-year from his disastrous first season at Georgia, but that’s not the problem here.
The problem is Crean was brought in to lock down the state of Georgia in basketball, or at least pluck a handful of in-state products from the likes of Auburn, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Alabama and others.
Mark Fox did a solid job getting the most out of his players at Georgia prior to Crean, but many wanted to see the program take the next step with a guy like Crean who was expected to recruit.