Around the Hall: The dismissals
By Big A | May 3, 2008
It was another day of big news for Indiana basketball on Friday as DeAndre Thomas, Eli Holman, Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis were all dismissed by the university and will not return next season. Here’s a look at coverage of yesterday’s announcement from around the Web:
- Crean and Indiana basketball clean house (Indianapolis Star)
- Big losses? Sure, but they’re good losses (Indianapolis Star)
- Four players to leave basketball team (Indiana Daily Student)
- Bassett, Ellis, Thomas, Holman all leaving Indiana program (ESPN.com)
- Ex-Richmond basketball star leaves Indiana (San Francisco Chronicle)
- IU drops three players from men’s team (Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette)
- Thomas, Bassett, Ellis out at IU (Evansville Courier & Press)
- IU cleans its hoops house (Evansville Courier & Press)
- IU’s top priority is to restore credibility (Times-Mail)
- Crean loses three more returning players from Indiana (Associated Press)
- And then there were three…left at Indiana (AOL FanHouse)
- Bassett: No comment (The Hoosier Scoop)
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Indiana press release on dismissed players
By Big A | May 2, 2008
Here is a statement released a short time ago by IU Media Relations:
Tags: Armon Bassett, DeAndre Thomas, Eli Holman, Jamarcus Ellis, Tom Crean Posted in Media |BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Indiana Men’s Basketball Coach Tom Crean announced today that junior DeAndre Thomas has been dismissed from the program and will not have his scholarship renewed. In addition, sophomore Armon Bassett will not be reinstated for failing to comply with University and Athletic Department guidelines. Junior Jamarcus Ellis also will not be reinstated to the active roster. Both Bassett and Ellis were originally dismissed from the program on March 31. Crean also announced on Thursday that freshman Eli Holman could not return next season.
“Before you build a team, you need to develop a family,” said Crean. “We will go through the learning process, feel some growing pains and experience some bumps in the road along the way. We need the Hoosier Nation to rally around this program as we go through these stages.”
“Our staff if going to ensure that anyone who attends this University and wears the Indiana uniform will make this privilege among their highest priorities and not treat the opportunity as an entitlement,” added Crean. “We fully expect our student-athletes to accept the responsibilities academically, athletically and socially that come with representing one of the top programs in college basketball history.”
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Report: Bassett, Ellis, Thomas and Holman gone
By Big A | May 2, 2008
Andy Katz over at the World Wide Leader is reporting the following this afternoon:
New Indiana coach Tom Crean will be down to three returning scholarship players and eight players in all for next season once the school officially announces the departures of four Hoosiers later Friday afternoon, a high-ranking Indiana source told ESPN.com.
Sophomore Armon Bassett and junior Jamarcus Ellis, who had appealed their suspensions by former interim coach Dan Dakich, were dismissed from the program. Junior forward DeAndre Thomas will also not return and neither will freshman Eli Holman, who has elected to transfer after a meeting Thursday that required a call to campus police when Holman became agitated.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it does. More later today after we’re able to wrap our collective brains around this mess. For now, I’ll just say: Thank you Kelvin Sampson. Not.
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Eli Holman speaks, sort of
By PostmanE | May 2, 2008
Tough day, and night, for Eli Holman, and he’s a released statement addressing it:
Last night and this morning I had the opportunity to apologize to Coach Crean and today I would like to extend that to everyone involved in the program for allowing my frustrations to get the best of me. I appreciate everything Indiana University and Coach Crean have done for me and I hope nothing but the best for the program in the future.
Pretty milquetoast stuff. And we still have absolutely no idea what got Eli so riled up in the first place. Thirty Five Seconds has a pretty decent hypothesis — that Crean maybe, just maybe, questioned Holman’s manhood for abandoning the program in its hour of need — but since that hypothesis is untestable, best to leave it alone. Who knows, right?
Regardless, it’s unfortunate Eli isn’t going to get to pursue his potential here. He seems like a good kid, and would have been a lot of fun to watch. And I hate potted plants anyway.
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Eli Holman will not return to IU next season
By Big A | May 1, 2008
According to a report by the basketblog, an afternoon meeting between Eli Holman and Tom Crean turned ugly. The Hoosier Scoop reported that Holman broke a flower pot near the basketball offices. IU police were called and Holman will likely no longer be a part of the program.
IU Media Relations Director J.D. Campbell released the following statement from Crean just a short time ago:
TOM CREAN STATEMENT ON ELI HOLMAN
We met with Eli Holman this afternoon. He had a good meeting with our assistant coaches earlier in the day. I felt like he still was not sure whether or not he wanted to be here which surprised me because everything we have seen from him had been very positive in terms of staying at Indiana and moving forward. I have no idea what made him change his mind and arrive at this point. He indicated that he would like to leave Indiana, although I was hopeful that we could work through this situation to come to an arrangement we both were comfortable with and to take some time to make a decision.
The conversation was very cordial but unfortunately, it did not end that way. His behavior took me, along with the other people in the office, by surprise. We saw him as a danger to himself and wanted to take precautionary measures to help him. We felt bad for Eli and hopefully were able to help him.
I do not anticipate Eli being back at Indiana. We will do our best to help him move forward and wish him well.
Add this to the list of bizarre events that have transpired over the past seven months in Bloomington. Holman had the potential to be a very good player at Indiana, but that looks to be totally out of the picture at this point. Best of luck to Eli and let’s be thankful that nothing more serious transpired in this situation.
Elsewhere:
- Police dispatched to calm angry Holman (Indiana Daily Student)
- Player’s frustration boils over (Indianapolis Star)
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Is Sutton the final piece to 2008 class?
By Big A | May 1, 2008
Both Hoosier Nation and Peegs are reporting that Maurice Sutton will make an unofficial visit to Bloomington in the near future and with an offer in hand, Indiana may now be the favorite to land the 6-10 Maryland big man. Sutton had previously favored Kentucky, but the Wildcats did not offer a scholarship and probably won’t with the recent signing of Josh Harrellson.
Sutton’s recruitment seems to have picked up after his 17-point performance at the Derby Festival Classic in Louisville. Although I’ve not seen Sutton play, I have now spoken with two different scouts who have watched him play and both told me that Sutton looks like a project. There’s no doubt Tom Crean and staff have to be given the benefit of the doubt on who they are recruiting, but Sutton likely figures into Indiana’s plan because there is an immediate need for a big man next season and he is one of the best options still left on the board.
(Photo credit: Jody Demling)
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Server Downtime: Our apologies
By Staff | April 30, 2008
Inside the Hall was down for a majority of the day on Wednesday due to an issue with our host. We’ve had instances with down time, but nothing quite like that. So without going into any more detail than you care to hear, we apologize and hope that its smooth sailing from here. (We thought about putting the blame on PostmanE, but R and I just couldn’t do it.)
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