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(10-16-2018 04:52 AM)crex043 Wrote:  

(10-16-2018 01:34 AM)Not Duane Wrote:  

(10-15-2018 09:49 PM)Recluse1 Wrote:  

(10-15-2018 07:50 PM)Not Duane Wrote:  

(10-15-2018 07:20 PM)Recluse1 Wrote:  Blue chips play in the NBA, blue chips don't give a flying **** about March. If they did, Ben Simmons wouldn't have gone to LSU. Johnny Jones, Will -whatever his name is and Trent Johnson before them have done butt **** nothing in March and they still have better recruiting classes than us the past few years. You know why? Because kids would rather go to LSU than UC. We aren't an NBA pipeline and we aren't a party school. Resign yourself to that fact sir...

Tell that to UK/Duke/KU/UNC....you must be blind AND deaf....we used to be mentioned in the same neighborhood with those programs...

We used to be an NBA pipeline. Then your people blew it up...ON PURPOSE!!

Good coaches don't grow on trees--that's why when you have a proven winner you move heaven and earth to KEEP him because of the value to the program.

Don't blame me for your mistakes.

Uh... 1. Did it occur to you that this isn't 1996? The last half of the Huggins years were bleh. Thunder lizards used to walk across the fern covered marshes where the Bengals currently play. That doesn't imply anything about our present situation.
2. Those schools you mentioned worship the sport, have a completely different culture and campus life than we do.
3. Hiring any coach isn't going to turn us into Duke or UNC. You can't just choose to be that. At that point you might as well be saying "If we click our heels together and really believe... " Dude, how many high school basketball stars do you think have Clifton in their top 10?

It doesn't matter to an 18 year old that Nick Van Exel or Kenyon Martin went here. You might as well be talking to them about president Coolidge or the new fangled horseless buggies going down the road. It's irrelevant. The fact is there can only be so many blue bloods and the ones that became that way took more than the right coach to do it.

As for my previous post, you said blue chips care about March, they obviously don't if there headed to lesser SEC schools. Look at the top 25 recruiting classes the last 5 years and you'll see they get 5 stars. At some point saying "but Huggins... " is a lot like Loyola/Chicago bragging on pre WW2 NCAA success. No one cares.

Got to love your mindset...we can't do it so we should be happy continuing to suck.

Excellent way to promote progress.

With an attitude like that, you may as well shut down the program.

Of course that might be what you're after to begin with since you ceaselessly defend mediocrity and claim it's our ceiling.

Since you are so happy with the state of things as they are, why don't you argue for a reduction in resources dedicated to the program--cut the cost of the program by slashing the payout to the coaches and reduce the number of scholarships. In fact, why not argue to go full-on IVY and eliminate those athletic scholarships altogether--then you'd have all the snoot appeal you seem to crave at a fraction of the cost.

People with your attitude are worthless.

Man, you just be a real joy to take in a basketball game with. I'm not sure who is more insane... You or real Duane. Only insane people deal in absolutes, and you believe if we aren't spending Duke or UNC money that we should shut the whole program down.

All that $$ is going to FB. I'd like to see just a quarter of it go into a coaching search for an up-and-comer or a solid proven coach who's run into a temporary lull. Crean or Matta would be excellent IMHO. Or choose any ex-lottery pick with coaching experience that came through the program.

Try something different...it worked when we went from Yates to Huggins...there's no reason it can't work again.

Success in MBB follows the coach more than the program these days. Examples are abundant:

Lon Krueger
Pitino
Calipari
Williams
Self
Beilein
Huggins

Where they go, success follows. Proven track records mean something.

Throw some coin down--pull in a name with cred. Try something new.

Don't just bury your head in the sand and say "it can't be done--it's Cronin or nobody".

What are you going to do when Cronin moves on? Quit? Panic?

There's a whole world out there for the brave. I'll go with that mindset any day.