Podcast – CrimsonCast

We’d like to thank all of you loyal listeners and readers that have stuck with us over the past 9 years. Today is a great day to let you know that CrimsonCast is moving to a new home, starting later this month! We’re very pleased to announce a partnership with TheHoosier.com, which will be the new home of CrimsonCast’s podcasts on IU football and IU basketball. Our thanks to Stu Coman and the rest of the crew for making this move a possibility, and we’re looking forward to working with everyone. You can listen to some more of the details in this short podcast. Stay tuned to the Twitter feed for more info on where to find our next podcast. And let us know if you’ve got any questions.

College GameDay coming to Bloomington still seems like some sort of weird IU fanfic instead of a real thing, but it’s happening, and we’re pretty excited about it. We talk about what it means for the football program, how the teams might react, and what we can expect as far as ESPN’s stage setup is concerned.

On this emergency edition of CrimsonCast Live, we delve into the sudden recruiting successes of the last 24 hours, and discuss how the perspective around IU basketball has changed so rapidly. We also talk about what to expect moving forward with IU recruiting, and what we might expect from Archie Miller and company when it comes to future targets. We also delve into IU football a bit, and talk about the lead-in to the 2017 season.

Scott reaches out across the aisle and is joined by Travis from Hammer and Rails to discuss how the Purdue community viewed the Tom Crean era, his firing and their views on Archie Miller.  Learn why much of the Purdue fanbase was eager to see us hire Steve Alford.  They also talk about the Matt Painter era at Purdue, where Purdue is going from here and a long range view of the B1G over the next 5-10 years.  

Galen and Scott host a giddy CrimsonCast as we break down the Archie Miller hire, evaluate the now-completed IU basketball coaching search, and answer a cavalcade of listener questions. This podcast is obscenely long and we don’t care. Hope you enjoy it.

We’re joined by Bloomington Herald-Times beat writer Mike Miller, as we talk about the Crean era at IU. Mike talks about his experiences on the beat covering Crean, the disconnect between the coach’s plan and the execution of that plan, and what lasting impact Crean had on the program. We also get into the coaching search, talk about some candidates, and discuss what a new coach could do to bridge the gap between the basketball program and the fan base.

The Tom Crean era went for nine years at Indiana, and Dustin Dopirak was the Bloomington Herald-Times beat writer during the heart of that era. He joins us on this episode of CrimsonCast to talk about his perspective on covering Crean at IU, the struggles the program had under Crean with putting the finishing touches on a return to national prominence, and the direction that IU and Fred Glass might chart moving forward. We also talk about potential coaching candidates, including an in-depth conversation on the profiles of Steve Alford and Tony Bennett.

CrimsonCast and Hoosier Chronicles unite! Galen and Chronic Hoosier sit down for a wide-ranging conversation about IU basketball, deep-diving into the Crean era, the national position of IU basketball, Indiana fandom, and what direction IU will (or should) go for a new coach.

When the IU coaching job is open, we have to talk about it with the people who know it. Our guest on this podcast is Alex McCarthy, former writer for 24/7 and Inside Indiana, as he gives his thoughts on Tom Crean, the Tom Crean era, and what’s next for Indiana basketball.

Galen is joined by Sam Beishuizen of TheHoosier.com to talk about his reaction to the firing of Tom Crean. Sam gives us his post-mortem on the Crean era, and we discuss what might have gone wrong to lead to the firing this week. We also talk about the coaching search for Indiana, what we think the IU athletic department is looking for, and when we might hear word about the new coach.

Galen is joined by Zach Osterman, IU insider for the Indy Star, to talk about Tom Crean’s firing, the past nine years of IU basketball, the status of the Indiana men’s basketball position, and what’s next for IU and for Tom Crean. Come for the expert analysis by one of IU’s most respected media members, stay for the sounds of two dogs wrestling in the distance.

It’s day two of the interregnum for IU basketball, and we’re still trying to get our heads wrapped around the firing of Tom Crean. Scott and Galen sit down and look back at the Crean era, talk about what went wrong, and evaluate where we are as IU fans in the aftermath.

We give a quick post-mortem to the NIT game, then dive in and get to the heart of the controversy surrounding Coach Crean’s job status at Indiana University. The contents of this podcast are probably going to expire within days (if not hours).

We got together to talk IU basketball for a few minutes and ended up going for an hour and a half. We cover the Michigan loss, the general malaise of the program, the near future, and the far future — basically everything regarding the current and future state of the program. It’s a noisy podcast file due to some cell phone sounds, so be forewarned. Thanks for listening.

On this episode, we talk a bit about the loss to Nebraska, discuss the broader implications of the team’s struggles and the program’s difficulty in getting over the hump, and answer a bunch of reader questions about a variety of things.