Future teams

BearcatTalk

Help Support BearcatTalk:

Jon Rycek said:
I wonder how long you’ll continue to bash Cronin after he is gone. Bet he kills it at UCLA, recruiting was the only place he struggled, UCLA recruits itself. Just drop the hate already, it’s super old
Click to expand...

Recruiting and offense and not making excuses
 
Jon Rycek said:
I wonder how long you’ll continue to bash Cronin after he is gone. Bet he kills it at UCLA, recruiting was the only place he struggled, UCLA recruits itself. Just drop the hate already, it’s super old
Click to expand...
Kansas and Xavier backed off Harvey??? Not what a recruiting insider just said on the radio...Gonzaga still wanted him also. Baggage I'll take it when it was the girl he was dating sent him some nude pics. He was 16 she was 15. Not a big deal to me or USA basketball apparently. Great job Brannen and sorry Xavier!
 
Vanhoop said:
Kansas and Xavier backed off Harvey??? Not what a recruiting insider just said on the radio...Gonzaga still wanted him also. Baggage I'll take it when it was the girl he was dating sent him some nude pics. He was 16 she was 15. Not a big deal to me or USA basketball apparently. Great job Brannen and sorry Xavier!
Click to expand...

The little information I have seen on X is that they wanted him to commit months ago and he decided on prep school and to reclassify to 2020. After that interest faded over time especially with whatever issue that is keeping him out of prep school.
 
Jon Rycek said:
I wonder how long you’ll continue to bash Cronin after he is gone. Bet he kills it at UCLA, recruiting was the only place he struggled, UCLA recruits itself. Just drop the hate already, it’s super old
Click to expand...

I used to be a huge Mick fan. Still to this day I wish he had gotten UC to the promise land and would have retired here. However, as time went on he started to wear on me. That said, when he moved on I was wishing him the best and very optimistic on Brannen. But to see what Brannen has been able to do in such a short time does make me wonder if Mick had given up (or maybe just stopped trying as hard) or if we were getting his best. In two month's Brannen has put together a better 2019 class than Mick did (the 2019 class for Mick was flat out awful).

juckerrules said:
He's certainly getting a lot more pub.....Here's a link to ESPN story

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...775/why-mick-cronin-move-ucla-just-basketball
Click to expand...

I wish Mick would get a communications coach. This article wasn't his worse but the shit he says is just ridiculous at times. If the only thing that drives him is his daughter knowing she loves him, why take the job? And to say that his name would be on the court (instead of Ed Jucker's) if he had stayed is laughable. The man is so insecure.

I do think he is a good guy, so I hope he is able to have success, but I think he might have a hard time recruiting there. Yes, they are blue blood, but they also have to beat out the other blue bloods for those recruits and I don't think he can go up against Calipari, Mike K, Roy, etc. for recruits. Unless location plays a huge factor I don't see him getting the 5* recruits that he needs.
 
Jon Rycek said:
I wonder how long you’ll continue to bash Cronin after he is gone. Bet he kills it at UCLA, recruiting was the only place he struggled, UCLA recruits itself. Just drop the hate already, it’s super old
Click to expand...

Yeah if only he could have recruited and coached well in the tournament he would have been awesome. Yawn.
 
cincrulz11 said:
he wasn't and mick just said that recently.



HE couldn't recruit here. That doesn't mean you can't recuit here.
Click to expand...
Cincrulz one My favorite posters. But I clearly remember people saying he was number 43. I didn’t specifically read it. But others were saying it and, I took it as accepted .
 
TheLongHaul said:
I used to be a huge Mick fan. Still to this day I wish he had gotten UC to the promise land and would have retired here. However, as time went on he started to wear on me. That said, when he moved on I was wishing him the best and very optimistic on Brannen. But to see what Brannen has been able to do in such a short time does make me wonder if Mick had given up (or maybe just stopped trying as hard) or if we were getting his best. In two month's Brannen has put together a better 2019 class than Mick did (the 2019 class for Mick was flat out awful).



I wish Mick would get a communications coach. This article wasn't his worse but the shit he says is just ridiculous at times. If the only thing that drives him is his daughter knowing she loves him, why take the job? And to say that his name would be on the court (instead of Ed Jucker's) if he had stayed is laughable. The man is so insecure.

I do think he is a good guy, so I hope he is able to have success, but I think he might have a hard time recruiting there. Yes, they are blue blood, but they also have to beat out the other blue bloods for those recruits and I don't think he can go up against Calipari, Mike K, Roy, etc. for recruits. Unless location plays a huge factor I don't see him getting the 5* recruits that he needs.
Click to expand...

I, too, was a fan. Gotta wonder if he got bored or just frustrated that his “success” wasn’t appreciated. I think he’ll find the sledding at UCLA a bit tougher than anticipated. Trying not to take to it personally when he suggests that being at Cincinnati limited his ability to win, but only time will tell. Knowing he never reached out to Jaxson Hayes (and who knows who else) is frustrating. Not saying he commits, but you don’t know until you try. Mick’s perception of the program ultimately held the Bearcats back. CJB doesn’t seem to have the same pessimistic view point. It’ll be nice having a coach who doesn’t assume he has to concede a recruit before even trying.
 
I know it was Big East, but Mick had his better classes his first years. He fell off cliff lately though really doesn't matter at this point.
 
beeman7467 said:
I, too, was a fan. Gotta wonder if he got bored or just frustrated that his “success” wasn’t appreciated. I think he’ll find the sledding at UCLA a bit tougher than anticipated. Trying not to take to it personally when he suggests that being at Cincinnati limited his ability to win, but only time will tell. Knowing he never reached out to Jaxson Hayes (and who knows who else) is frustrating. Not saying he commits, but you don’t know until you try. Mick’s perception of the program ultimately held the Bearcats back. CJB doesn’t seem to have the same pessimistic view point. It’ll be nice having a coach who doesn’t assume he has to concede a recruit before even trying.
Click to expand...
Im with you. I liked mick but he did get annoying after a while. Always whining and making excuses. I still don’t mind him. I think he gets his guys to play hard and has a great defensive mind.
Having said that, if you leave the team I root for, I’m going to give you a hard time. That’s sports.
 
beeman7467 said:
I, too, was a fan. Gotta wonder if he got bored or just frustrated that his “success” wasn’t appreciated. I think he’ll find the sledding at UCLA a bit tougher than anticipated. Trying not to take to it personally when he suggests that being at Cincinnati limited his ability to win, but only time will tell. Knowing he never reached out to Jaxson Hayes (and who knows who else) is frustrating. Not saying he commits, but you don’t know until you try. Mick’s perception of the program ultimately held the Bearcats back. CJB doesn’t seem to have the same pessimistic view point. It’ll be nice having a coach who doesn’t assume he has to concede a recruit before even trying.
Click to expand...

There were a couple of reasons Mick didn't recruit as much high end talent. By his own admission he didn't think he could get them to UC but he also didn't want to recruit over his projects. He didn't want grad transfers because he felt couldn't teach his system fast enough to them and it sent a bad message to other players on the roster at that position (his perception). He was probably right in a way that he couldn't get many of them to UC because of his style of play. It wasn't player friendly. But getting as many good players on your roster as you can should be a goal of any coach really. It kept turnover low but it limited overall potential (especially in March).

He talked himself into these things IMO and made them a self fulfilling prophecy.
 
cincyguy13 said:
Im with you. I liked mick but he did get annoying after a while. Always whining and making excuses. I still don’t mind him. I think he gets his guys to play hard and has a great defensive mind.
Having said that, if you leave the team I root for, I’m going to give you a hard time. That’s sports.
Click to expand...

I agree with this, I was 100% a Mick guy...…. but the last few classes have not been all that great in terms of recruiting. I was tired of the Mick excuses and all the BS that came out of his mouth. He never took the full blame, he said the fans were unappreciative of how much he won, I guess maybe that's true in a sense but again pretty bs statement. He blamed the early loss to Ohio State and Mississippi St on not having Jacob Evans saying "this schedule was made thinking Jacob Evans was going to be here". The dreadful East Carolina loss was blamed on officiating, the loss to Iowa in the tournament when Mick said Iowa was ranked more weeks than we were its crazy they are a 10 seed even when they got to play in Columbus, then he took one last jab at Cane and Justin saying its hard to win with guys "who you can look eye to eye with, but they have a lot of heart" Mick rarely ever said flat out I was out coached and they were just the better team tonight, he always had some bs excuse as to why he couldn't recruit certain players or win in the tournament.

He always said I only care about winning the whole thing, it doesn't matter what round we lose in. I think that is the line that pissed me off the most, either way I think a change was needed.
 
Last edited:
ZCat said:
Did he hold all those offers at the end? Or did Kansas pull the offer? Due to legal issues?
Click to expand...


i dont know, but a lot of schools had his visit after the legal stuff came out.


i think him going back to the 2019 class helped, i think the other teams were more looking 2020.
 
If we can assume the transfers out were inevitable, I gotta say Brannens first offseason from a bringing in players stand point is as good as realistically possible
 
cincrulz11 said:
i dont know, but a lot of schools had his visit after the legal stuff came out.


i think him going back to the 2019 class helped, i think the other teams were more looking 2020.
Click to expand...

Alot had to do with the 2020 vs 2019 playing.... But regardless. Idc. Huge win for brannen

Now its time for the kid to mature and play ball at an elite level
 

Similar threads

Q
BYU
Replies
8
Views
27K
Queens_NYC
Q
Q
Florida Gulf Coast
Replies
9
Views
34K
sedziobs
S
Q
UCF
Replies
6
Views
27K
Queens_NYC
Q
Q
Howard
Replies
12
Views
49K
sedziobs
S
Q
Northern Kentucky
Replies
10
Views
33K
TheLongHaul
T
Back
Top