You can see how it could work.
After realizing his nine-year run at Indiana might not get the chance to turn 10, Tom Crean departs for a fresh start at Missouri before the Hoosiers can fire him.
Hoosiers and Tigers could celebrate together.
Crean, 50, would leave behind a complicated legacy at Indiana. After inheriting a program bogged down by NCAA sanctions, he totaled four NCAA tournament appearances, three trips to the Sweet 16, two first-place finishes in the Big Ten and one conference coach of the year award (2016). But Indiana fans expect more. They want to hang a sixth national championship banner and reconfirm their status as one of college basketball's blue bloods.