So apparently… Tom Crean was an influencer on Todd Monken’s decision…

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“If I was going to do it, it was going to be somewhere that was parallel to Georgia. Part of the reason I went to Georgia — one of the main reasons was because of culture, head coach, winning, really good on defense, obviously trying to find a way to do it better on offense, so I thought [the Ravens job] was a parallel that I thought fit me,” Monken said. “That doesn't mean that I'm not grateful for Kirby Smart and the coaches that I worked with there. I get way too much credit for our success. I came in there and the culture was already set, the players were always recruited, the staff that we put together was tremendous in terms of our success, but this is what was next. “That was a great job, and [leaving] was hard. You get close to the players, but you can't be two places at once. This is what's next.”

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Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh told reporters that Monken’s name first landed on his radar thanks to his sister Joani and her husband, former Georgia men’s basketball coach Tom Crean. Harbaugh said his sister and brother-in-law raved about Monken and Monken’s wife Terri, which got the wheels in motion for Monken’s candidacy.


...tom crean about to get cyberbullied. No way around it

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