I recommend making another section on the forum where Amerbly, anbuc and L-T are allowed to post. Everywhere else should be left to Bearcat fans that are not stuck circa 2006.
Since my name keeps getting thrown out there, I guess I might as well respond. First and foremost, I'm a Bearcat fan, and have been for a lot longer than 99% of the people on this forum. I don't have to like the coach to like the Bearcats. I support the university and I support the student athletes with my money, my attendance, and any other way that I can....and in doing so, I am also supporting the head coach. I watched the video, and it was very good. In the video, Mick Cronin talked about Rick Pitino questioning everything he did every single day and how he was continually telling him that this and that was not good enough. He also admitted that he runs his own program in the same way. There's no such thing as being loyal. Everyone is accountable and if they aren't performing, they get replaced. He also said he has to answer to the fans and meet their expectations. Based on his own personal philosophy, which he communicated very eloquently in the video, I highly doubt that some fans questioning his performance is that unsettling to him. It sounds as though he is very driven to succeed and is working his tail off to win back any and all fans that doubt him. And for that, I respect him a lot!
This is a site for Bearcat fans. It's called "Bearcattalk". Every fan site in the world has people questioning and being upset with the coach, as well as others promoting and loving the coach. I "respect" the passionate fans on here who love coach Cronin and who will argue and debate why they love him. The bottom line is I know they love the program and are great fans, no matter whether they disagree with me on the coach or not. If the title of this site was "The Mick Cronin Fan Club", then anbuc88's suggestion that anti-Mick Cronin people establish their own website to bash him, would be valid. But, since this is "Bearcattalk", then a discussion of the pros and cons of the head coach of the Bearcats is fair game and would be considered a normal topic in a forum like this.
What destroys these sites, are not fans who debate the pros and cons of the coach, but who take the forum into the gutter with immature name calling and personal attacks toward fellow fans. Anbuc88 and some of his cronies consistently did that on bearcatnews and ruined that site to the point that today each thread on that site gets about 5 to 20 replies max. It's a dead site. He was doing the same thing on this site early this year and was finally banned in March, then showed back up a few weeks ago spewing his wrath and personal attacks once again, and as you can see, this site is now getting caught up once again in the same negativity, bickering, and personal attacks that destroyed Bearcatnews and was beginning to destroy this site back in March.
As for me, I try hard to debate my points based on as many facts as I can. I really try to do it in a respectful way to the others that post on here. After all, we are all great fans and want the same thing for the program......a program that wins, wins as many championship as possible, and has good student athletes that graduate and represent this great university in a classy way. I'm certainly confident that anbuc88 will spend the whole weekend now searching 14 years of my posts to find examples where I disrespected a fellow fan and we'll get another mini-novel written about me. I'm sure I've gotten caught up in the negativity a few times. Again, when someone decides to take the forum off the topic by calling someone an idiot or a moron, that is when the emotions get flowing and everyone gets caught up in the negativity. If I have ever disrespected any of you, I sincerely apologize.
My final comment is to Bearcat NTS. As I told you the other day, it's pretty hypocritical for someone who is trashing our new football coach after just one season, to be attacking someone who is questioning a basketball coach after 8 years. TT did an amazing job under a lot of adversity this season, and was a great hire for this program! You're certainly entitled to your opinion, as I am on Coach Cronin, but if we are all banished to a special section, then you should probably join us.
I'll close this by stating that I hope the Cats, and coach Cronin, defeat Memphis on Saturday. I kind of expect a loss, but hoping we find a way to win. As little as a 1-point victory will make me very happy!
