If you were to give Tom Crean a nickname, it might be “Caffeine.”
To watch the first-year Georgia basketball coach pace the sideline is to come to view the Energizer Bunny as a sloth.
In fact, on Monday morning, when a verbal commitment from No. 2 recruit (according to 247Sports.com) and Atlanta native Anthony Edwards gave Bulldogs hoops its best recruiting news since Dominique Wilkins joined the program prior to the 1979-80 season, one of the five-star guard’s reasons for picking Georgia was as follows: “On my visit we watched film together, and (Crean) talks with so much energy.”
But this past Saturday evening Crean talked with too much frustration. After watching his Bulldogs bullied by Ole Miss during a 80-64 home loss that included the return of 90 UGA basketball lettermen, Caffeine Crean sounded as if he’d had three too many double espressos, causing his lips to move twice as fast as his brain.
Though he sort of took the blame for the loss, the coach’s excuse for the Dawgs’ eighth straight Southeastern Conference defeat was unique to say the least.