Happy Spring to you all Marquette.

That’s something I thought I’d never be able to say during this winter of nearly 100 inches of snow. Yesterday on our Web site, The Warrior was the first campus-wide news outlet to report on this story, but as of press time, it looked as though Marquette men’s basketball head coach Tom Crean didn’t orchestrate some elaborate April Fool’s Day joke and was actually planning to leave Marquette and accept the head coaching job at Indiana.

The Warrior brought you the scoop first when we confirmed it with one of his players shortly after dinner yesterday. IU is considered one of the top four or five coaching jobs in the nation and we shouldn’t necessarily blame Crean for leaving. After all, it’s an upgrade for him in term coaching prestige- although some loyalty would have been nice. But, it does show that Marquette is not yet considered in the highest echelon of college basketball programs. That’s fine, it leaves something to strive for. And I can’t imagine anybody better to bring us there than the man who brought Indiana into that upper echelon: Bobby Knight.

So, I hope the administration looks seriously at hiring the current ESPN analyst and former head coach of Army, Indiana and Texas Tech. Read on below for more on the Crean departure from Warrior reporter Eric Hart and be sure to check out our Web site for tons of information.

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