He's been much more than an average recruiter at IU. It's actually been an amazing recruiting job. His in-game coaching is still very questionable though. I may just be underestimating how difficult it's been for IU, but it seems like if Crean is such a great recruiter, he should be doing better than well below .500 in the Big Ten in year 3. You're severely underestimating how difficult it is to take a team with zero upperclassmen, very few legit D1 guys, and build it into something resembling a competitive program. Convincing anybody with any talent to come to a program in the state IU was is an accomplishment in itself. He's not going to get the guys that Calipari does, so to be as competitive as they've been this year, especially considering the injuries, I think he's done a pretty solid job and I'm an Illini fan who hates IU.