I don't normally get into the "Mick" frays, and I really don't want to now. But so many of you really don't understand what it takes to build a high level Division 1 basketball team, it is embarrassing. When Mick came in here, he had one recruit on his "team". Cedrick. He took a team of Jucos and walk ons and won 9 games. I don't know the over/under, but 9 wasn't bad. He is now in year 2 with a senior class of jucos, and 6 freshmen. He still has the same jucos that lost to Wofford, and 6 people who never played at this level. What the hell do you expect from him? Do you expect the juco seniors to blossom into all-Big East players? Well, they ain't gonna. The best move that I saw all season happen late in the 2nd half, when the only jucos/hold overs in the game were Williamson, Vaughn, and Warren, and he started substituting Freshmen en masse. I don't remember (I'm not real good with time/numbers, but somewhre around the 5:00 minute mark, didn't UC cut the lead to around 6? The freshmen played better than they have all season, and i would not be surprised to see that combination of players in the future. Sikes can plant his ass somewhere around the end of the bench, next to Gentry, and watch our future play. Wilkes has so much talent, it is insane for him and Mitchell to sit down.

I do not believe that Huggins, Wooden, Rupp, or Branch Rickey could win with this team. This "Fire Cronin" thread is so much bull****, it is pitiful.

Sorry, I'm off my soapbox now.