In Reply to: Re: But you can’t even acknowledge that you were posted by BruinsFTW on June 08, 2024 at 22:57:15
Nice goalpost shift there. You still can’t admit that you were wrong when you claimed Juzang was one of Alford’s guys who was inherited by Cronin. So instead you shift the claim to Juzang choosing UCLA rather than Cronin. What’s the basis for that claim? Did you personally speak with Juzang? Because unless you had it directly from him you couldn’t possibly know what factored more heavily in Juzang’s decision.
Nobody has ever suggested or stated you don’t have as much of a right to post as anyone else. Nobody here think Cronin is God and can do no wrong. The only thing that anyone here has taken issue with is your irrational dislike of Cronin. I call it irrational because while it is certainly possible to make arguments about Cronin’s deficiencies and failures that are supportable, you seem more interested in advancing arguments without solid foundation-in short, you act like a troll.
You keep calling Cronin a mediocrity. What’s your definition? Currently there are only six active college coaches who have won an NCAA title-Hurley, Self, Calipari, Izzo, Tony Bennett, and Scott Drew. I’d like to believe that even you would accept that it is not necessary that a coach have won a title to be a good coach. Looking at Cronin’s 21-season career as a head coach before UCLA I count three conference titles, 4 2nd-place finishes, and two conference coach of the year awards, as well as the 2018 national coach of the year award. Looking at UCLA alone he has one conference title, two sweet 16, and one FF. Overall record of 480-224, .682; at UCLA, 115-53, .685. While that’s not Bill Self or Roy Williams territory, he’s got a higher overall winning percentage than Dana Altman, Dan Hurley, Shaka Smart, Rick Barnes, or Scott Drew, and he’s practically tied with Kelvin Sampson. Again, whatever Cronin is, mediocre he is not.