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(05-14-2019 02:07 PM)Topcat Wrote:  

(05-14-2019 01:14 PM)Marcus Wrote:  

(05-14-2019 12:41 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(05-14-2019 10:49 AM)Topcat Wrote:  He also had Trey Burke until Michigan undercut us at the very last minute.

I don't care much about anything else...but for the love of God can we stop using "almost gots" has a way to place a feather in someone's recruiting cap? It's the dumbest non-argument I've ever seen used to justify anything...in a sales business you can't go to you boss and say "Well, I almost got the $2M contract sir, but a bigger company came in last minute, that still means I'm a good salesman."

The "almost got's" are hilarious and a sure sign of grasping for straws to defend something indefensible. These Cronin shills are still in full force I see. Gotta love it, even after this article.

If you will go back and read my initial post in this thread sir, you will see that I too am glad that he's gone. While I generally thought he did a good job here, I too got tired of losing to lesser teams in the NCAA tournament.

However, what I don't like is revisionist historians who come on here as the smartest people in the room and all just pat themselves on the back now that the guy they hated is gone.

Trey Burke was a COMMIT to UC... until he wasn't. That's what 18 year old kids do. They like what they have until something shinier comes along and then they want that.

If this Evan Prater guy from Wyoming decides at the last minute that Notre Dame is a little cooler than UC, is Fickell then an idiot that can't recruit?

A guy who makes 9 straight NCAA's must know something about recruiting no matter what conference you come from.

… but not if you don't say so.

I know...I was responding in a general sense to a trend I've seen, and yours was the opportunity to respond.

For someone seemingly interested in the literal reading of posts, you'll note I said nothing about Cronin being "an idiot who can't recruit", I simply said that saying someone almost got someone isn't a sign that they're a good recruiter, and shouldn't be used as such. In your example, I wouldn't say that a kid who signed somewhere else is a sign that Fickell is a good recruiter, that's a dumb argument.