In what world is NCAA sanctions ever a justification for going 6-25?

How did Crean build the program? Through recruiting classes which consistently got better. There is very little that sanctions will actually do to basketball. They were not put on a post season ban and they self imposed scholarship reductions, we have essentially self imposed scholarship reductions if you believe that Kennedy "ran off" all the players that left.

Ok throw out his first year in which he had a roster of no bodies ... year 2 and 3 what was his issue? 2009 he added 3 4* freshmen and he had a slew of 3* stars that he added in 2008,09 and 10 .. how exactly was his situation any different in his 2nd and 3rd year than BKs?

The scholarship limits weren't hurting them. He was a good coach with a team consisting largely of kids playing their first year of D1 basketball.

Don't try to act like the IU fans looked at the "sanctions" they received and said "oh that excuses our shitty record" no they were just as pissed as we are but after given a chance to get players he wanted into the system and let them mature some he kicked it up and delivered.

The simple fact that you think we were left with a team that should have gone to the tournament despite the injuries we had to deal last year with shows that you are not reasonable. Quote being picked to win the Big 12 all you want, no coach would have been able to live up to those expectations last year. Turgeon's players obviously wanted to play for Turgeon so they left ... none of them are major losses except for Branch but it still leaves us depleted.