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Originally Posted by WilyMoROCKS

Wonder if Crean will retain Dakich? If so, it'd be hard to bring those two back.

Good point. I don't think either will want to come back if Dakich is retained.

“I never had plans to leave,” Ellis said. “It was just – Dakich being the head coach – we didn’t see eye-to-eye on things, so I thought the best thing for me was to part ways and get my academics right.

“I never left the team, I quit,” he added. “So there really wasn’t that we got kicked off, we quit. I’m looking forward to still being a Hoosier. I never had intentions on leaving – that wasn’t even an option.”

Thomas agreed, also saying Ellis and Bassett quit the team instead of Dakich telling them to leave.

“They went with what they believed in,” Thomas said. “They thought something wasn’t right, so they stood up for themselves. They came to me before that and wanted something to change.”