Not every day as the athletic director at Indiana is an easy and fun one for Fred Glass.
Firing someone is never easy. Whether done for financial or qualitative reasons, making the call to fundamentally change the life of a person in your charge – and his or her family – is tough.
It’s not just hard because of the upheaval it causes the person being told to scram. Termination is the final corrective measure, which means there has been a managerial failure as well.
Indiana Basketball coach Tom Crean was fired a couple of weeks ago. Archie Miller was hired to be the next coach. That level of massive change within the athletic department at Indiana takes a toll on the leader of the department.
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Below is a text I received from a well-heeled alum of Indiana yesterday after he listened to the Glass interview on my radio show Thursday:
I was thinking about your interview with Fred Glass yesterday.
Your interview simultaneously made me like Glass even more, made me really like Archie Miller, and dislike Tom Crean less. That’s really hard to do. Crean should send Glass a bottle of scotch, and his brothers in law a cup of hemlock.
Glass gracefully let Crean off the hook for not showing up for his firing, Glass took the heat for the game in Georgia, and didn’t dodge any questions.
I intended none of that when the interview began. My goal was to ask questions about the firing and subsequent hiring that I felt had not yet been answered in a way that satisfied my curiosity.
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The result was exactly as described by the alum. As you read the seemingly endless series of eulogies for Crean that extoll his empathy, decency, and unmatched goodness, take a listen to the guy who sat in the big boy chair where the decision to move forward from mediocrity was made.