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(05-14-2019 04:37 PM)Bearhawkeye Wrote:  

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

The revisionist history is the he was "pushed" out and that Bohn "didn't want him". IMO this article is a bad look for Cronin and his shills. That's really the bottom line for me. I get sick of the constant bashing of the UC admin/AD over the handling of this, when clearly it was the other side that was the issue.

Haven't read the article so this is a response to comments. So if Bohn actually wanted to keep Mick as earnestly as this article apparently makes it sound what does that say about Bohn? Was he just another Mick apologist who was satisfied with mediocrity in March and fooled by a coach who paradoxically "can't recruit" and "doesn't develop players very well" while winning frequently and consistently enough to appear more regularly in a merit based tourney than almost any other school only to typically lose to inferior teams due to his "poor coaching decisions"?

Sounds to me from the comments that Bohn wasn't especially ready to "move on" from Cronin. Instead it sounds like he understood that Cronin is the type of coach that you do everything you can to hold on to because the grass very likely isn't greener under somebody else at UC. Or is Bohn just another "shill"? Asking for some friends on the board...

The question is what offer would have kept Cronin from taking his "dream job"?