#18: From Chumps to Champs w/ Tom Crean
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dave interviews former Marquette and Indiana University Coach, Tom Crean, to discuss the steps Crean used to turn the worst team situation in the Indiana Hoosier's 100-plus year history into a championship season. If you want to learn how to play a poor hand well, don't miss this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. Some people sit around waiting to be dealt a good hand hoping all conditions are in their favor |
| 0:22.3 | so they can inch their way towards success but real leaders don't wait for good hands to be dealt |
| 0:27.1 | real leaders understand how important it is to play a poor hand well i don't want to talk a little bit |
| 0:32.3 | about that with my friend former head coach of marquette in ind, awesome broadcaster, all-around great guy. |
| 0:39.1 | Tom Crean is visiting us in our studios today here in Agora Hills. |
| 0:43.8 | My friend and coach, great to have you here, Coach Green. |
| 0:47.1 | Dave, it's great to be here. |
| 0:48.4 | And you've been an inspiration since I've known you. |
| 0:52.5 | And even before I met you and getting a chance to see you |
| 0:55.3 | in your own environment here with everything you have in this training center in your office |
| 0:59.7 | and seeing all your people is even more inspiring. So it's great to be here. Thank you. Just so |
| 1:05.9 | wonderful you had the time to stop by with all you've got going on out here. Coach, what a lot of people don't know |
| 1:11.7 | about is when you moved from Marquette to take over the head coaching job at Indiana, the Indiana |
| 1:18.0 | Hoosiers, you weren't inheriting a good situation. You weren't even inheriting a fair situation. |
| 1:25.0 | You inherited, I don't know, in my estimation, it's a mess. When I look at the history of Indiana basketball, to me, it looks like it was the worst they had been in, situation-wise, arguably, in 100 years. And we have people that listen to this. They go through tough times, or maybe they take over a department, they take over a team, they take over a business that is struggling. And first, |
| 1:44.6 | what I'd like you to do is set the stage a little bit for what you did inherit. And then |
| 1:48.9 | how do you keep, in that situation, how do you keep people focused? How do you keep them motivated? |
| 1:55.0 | How do you keep them believing that they can win, that they can move forward? So tell us what |
| 1:59.9 | the hand looked like when it was |
| 2:01.1 | dealt to you and what you did in those areas. Well, the first three months that we were on the |
| 2:07.0 | job, accepted it on April 1st and was introduced on April 2nd and had our first meeting on |
| 2:15.7 | April 3rd of where we were academically. |
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