Will serve in an advisory capacity

http://www.gobearcats.com/sports/m-baskb...15aaa.html

See http://csnbbs.com/thread-721436.html

No surprises there.

Shouldn't he be placed on disability so he can collect via the University Disability Coverage?

(01-02-2015 11:21 AM)dossbig Wrote:  Shouldn't he be placed on disability so he can collect via the University Disability Coverage?

He will be working his "normal" job (planning, recruiting, etc) only no coaching at either practice or games. As he is working, I would presume that he will be drawing his normal salary.

For those who understand this stuff, how can rest fix the situation? I would think without surgery this would be a chronic issue.

I remember when Krysewski was out of commission at Duke a while back he petitioned to not have all the losses accrued that season count on his record. Is Mick still the head coach of record for the rest of the year?

(01-02-2015 11:36 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  I remember when Krysewski was out of commission at Duke a while back he petitioned to not have all the losses accrued that season count on his record. Is Mick still the head coach of record for the rest of the year?

Thats a fair request.

(01-02-2015 11:27 AM)Billy_Bearcat Wrote:  For those who understand this stuff, how can rest fix the situation? I would think without surgery this would be a chronic issue.

I'm baffled now. This whole arterial dissection thing is all different from the previous diagnosis of an unruptured intercranial aneurysm. Dissection would suggest it was a leaking artery and maybe he's on rest and meds till they're sure it heals up. Mick talked about never having to worry about it again after he's checked in three months which wouldn't be the case with an unruptured aneurysm. So the press Conf left me with more questions than answers. An unruptured aneurysm is either treated surgically or monitored to make sure it doesn't enlarge over time. They do MRIs annually to see if it has changed. If no change over 2-3 yrs, they then do follow up scans and longer intervals 3 yrs and then every 5 yrs. but bottom line is unruptured aneurysms are a different animal from a ln arterial dissection.

I read a bit more of the earlier part of the press Conf and it makes a bit more sense. When they did the angiogram they may have discovered it was bit different from a simple unruptured aneurysm. It was actually a small dissection of a cerebral artery. This would explain a lot. the headaches would be due to some slight blood leakage into the brain. It would also explain why they're not surgically treating him and why rest, low BP and low stress are in order as this small leakage heals. Think of the aneurysm being a balloon and the dissection being more of a small scratch or cut on the arterial wall. The anuerysm won't heal or go away but the small flap/dissection will heal up on its own. I had a friend who's daughter had this. She woke up with massive ice pick headache. They did a CT and saw some small bleed into the brain. But they didn't find a full aneurysm. All they found was evidence of a small bleed and assumed it was from a slight dissection. They watched her and did scans to check her every few months and they never saw any evidence of it after a few months. Basically there was nothing to actually operate on. With a dissection, if they locate it, they can put a stent in to firm up the area of the artery that was dissecting. Anyway, this sounds like a very good prognosis and much better than a full on unruptured aneurysm.

I figured this would be the ultimate outcome when the news originally broke. Coaching at any level is incredibly demanding and stressful, which could only complicate his health issues. Best to take the time and make sure he's 100% when he returns. A lot more important things in life than basketball.

My only question is that he apparently has been watching and following the team, right? I'd imagine his blood pressure rises and heart races like the rest of us during key moments of the game.

LD called one hellova game against NCst. I'm looking forward to see what Larry Brown sends against us..

(01-02-2015 12:07 PM)Coopdaddy67 Wrote:  I figured this would be the ultimate outcome when the news originally broke. Coaching at any level is incredibly demanding and stressful, which could only complicate his health issues. Best to take the time and make sure he's 100% when he returns. A lot more important things in life than basketball.

My only question is that he apparently has been watching and following the team, right? I'd imagine his blood pressure rises and heart races like the rest of us during key moments of the game.

My guess is that it's a lot easier to control himself watching on tv than being on the bench and tempted to scream and yell a lot of instruction etc. he also said he can get up and take a walk during the games when he gets riled up watching on tv.

(01-02-2015 11:36 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  I remember when Krysewski was out of commission at Duke a while back he petitioned to not have all the losses accrued that season count on his record. Is Mick still the head coach of record for the rest of the year?

The losses, but, of course, not the wins

(01-02-2015 11:54 AM)Murph29 Wrote:  I read a bit more of the earlier part of the press Conf and it makes a bit more sense. When they did the angiogram they may have discovered it was bit different from a simple unruptured aneurysm. It was actually a small dissection of a cerebral artery. This would explain a lot. the headaches would be due to some slight blood leakage into the brain. It would also explain why they're not surgically treating him and why rest, low BP and low stress are in order as this small leakage heals. Think of the aneurysm being a balloon and the dissection being more of a small scratch or cut on the arterial wall. The anuerysm won't heal or go away but the small flap/dissection will heal up on its own. I had a friend who's daughter had this. She woke up with massive ice pick headache. They did a CT and saw some small bleed into the brain. But they didn't find a full aneurysm. All they found was evidence of a small bleed and assumed it was from a slight dissection. They watched her and did scans to check her every few months and they never saw any evidence of it after a few months. Basically there was nothing to actually operate on. With a dissection, if they locate it, they can put a stent in to firm up the area of the artery that was dissecting. Anyway, this sounds like a very good prognosis and much better than a full on unruptured aneurysm.

Thanks for the breakdown of the issue. Sounds a lot better than the original diagnosis.

In addition to the obvious recovery, looking at ANY possible silver lining, this might be an interesting way to improve. Watching without being caught up in the moment is a great way to learn what works really, really well and what doesn't. I wish I could watch one of my trials as an observer and not a participant. I learn a ton watching others ply their wares I can only imagine what I would pick up in reall time if I could step outside of the ring when the shtf and see. Not talking video. Video when you are involved s its own distraction.

He might walk out of this a much better coach. And with him as "acting GM" we might end up a better team. Who knows?

I maintain the fact that I don't like him being out for the entire season. A little nervous to see if or how it affects recruiting, particularly negative recruiting against us.

But like Rath I tend to agree that Cronin can learn a ton from this. I also think this could potentially impact the team in a positive way.

We will see how it plays out. That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

(01-02-2015 08:07 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  In addition to the obvious recovery, looking at ANY possible silver lining, this might be an interesting way to improve. Watching without being caught up in the moment is a great way to learn what works really, really well and what doesn't. I wish I could watch one of my trials as an observer and not a participant. I learn a ton watching others ply their wares I can only imagine what I would pick up in reall time if I could step outside of the ring when the shtf and see. Not talking video. Video when you are involved s its own distraction.

He might walk out of this a much better coach. And with him as "acting GM" we might end up a better team. Who knows?

That's a good point. He's gonna see things from a much different perspective and get outside of his norm for a while.

Wait goes if watching and not coaching was so advantageous why doesn't every coach do it? Take a sabbatical.

The only coach I recall that benefited from a year off was Coach Huggins but he was able to "recruit" since he did not have a job.