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(11-15-2021 11:18 AM)UCBearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  

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(11-15-2021 07:41 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(11-15-2021 06:40 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  I watched Mick’s postgame media after they beat Nova. He is so much less wound up there than he was here. He sorta referenced the recruiting bit. One of the reporters asked something about UC and he as always was very complimentary. Said the goal at UC was to play as hard as Jay Wright’s teams and once they did that they went to 9 straight tournaments. He also referenced that his team now is filled with guys who are much better offensively than what he generally had up and down the roster here. Not just recruiting to UCLA, he said not many eastern schools want to recruit the west coast hard - makes it easier for him to recruit but harder to schedule games like Nova since nobody wants to come all the way out to an area they don’t recruit.

He’s a smart dude. I don’t think it was just the UCLA blue blood and history that interested him. I think he saw fertile recruiting areas on the coast that were under utilized and he’s reaping those benefits.

Interesting post based upon his post-game comments; thanks for sharing.

In some ways, I think Mick made UC more of a pressure job for himself than what he's experiencing at UCLA and I actually mean that in the most positive sense. Being an alumnus and lifelong Cincinnatian, and following the second most successful coach in UC history, a potential hall of famer, he took the weight of the world upon his shoulders. He succeeded on many levels here, on and off the court, but his move in retrospect appears to have been mutually beneficial for these universities.

They almost lost in the play-in game last year. Posters on here would be laughing and talking about how he's about the get fired had they not made that crazy tourney run. It's hilarious.

As for recruiting the west coast, it doesn't take a genius to see that there was an opportunity there, especially with Arizona floundering. He's a very good coach in a great situation and he had some luck last year in the tourney that he didn't have before and narratives are now being created around it.

Mutually beneficial? Yes, it's been just great at UC since he left . . . I'm excited about Miller and the team, but this is delusional.

I thought Brannen was awful but Mick left a toxic program due to the Nevada collapse, the opening night loss to Ohio State, and debacle in Columbus against Iowa. There was a segment of this fan base who was done with him.

Yes, of course a huge segment of the fanbase wanted to move on (most did long before those events), and I don't want to relitigate that. My point was that Cronin is the same guy now as he was then.