Well, it happened. Tom Crean, who is a blistering 1-5 in his last six games against Purdue, has been fired as head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers. Indiana is Purdue’s second biggest rival (our first being the NCAA Tournament itself, which has complete mastery over the Boilers unlike that school in Bloomington), so this merits being big news here.
Not only that, Purdue and Indiana battle for many of the same in-state recruits. It is the most important rivalry in Big Ten basketball, so this is a bit of a big deal for us. It appears that Fred Glass is, to quote Bob Knight, “sick and f***ing tired of losing to Purdue.