Southern Methodist

[anbuc88]

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!

You certainly have an inflated sense of self importance to think I would waste any time researching the drivel you have posted for the past upteen years. To accuse me or any one who supported the program of ruining Bearcatnews is laughable. The UC AD's office contacted the administrators of Bearcatnews that you and your ilk had created such a negative atmosphere to the point that recruiting was being affected. For that reason Bearcatnews cleaned up the site and you were permanently banned. Funny how you convienetly failed to mention this in your revisionist history of that site. I didn't get you banned. Your constant attacks on Cronin that made the rebuilding process more difficult did. As far as personal attacks, who started calling Cronin supporters "Mick Cronin's brother" to belittle their stance? You did. So spare everyone here that you are above this.

What ruins sites like this are people who come on here with an agenda, not those who take them to task for it. Longtimer had an agenda at Bearcatnews, and has one here. Calling for Cronin to be fired after the Xavier loss, and stating that he had been proven right after 8 years of championing so, is proof of this. That thread went out of control as people were forced to defend the program, simply because one poster, Longtimer, took the loss as the perfect opportunity to bash Cronin. Nevermind the 3 straight Ncaa appearance and a sweet 16 trip. That one loss proved he was right and and it was now 'Time for a change.' Really??? If he was so persecuted on Bearcatnews, and unfairly banned, why come one here with a different screen name? The majority of fans, especially those who despise Cronin as Longtimer has stated, would have welcomed his return. He wouldn't have to hide under a different name. Amberly also has an agenda to foster, and we all know what that is. I won't dignify it any further.