Sorry, wrong, this is not a nil problem, you are ucla hopium addicts. Nobody wants to play for cronin… fix!ing period. They just don’t. Wake up you blind ucla fans… the rest of the college basketball world adapted and left cronin in the dust. He is trash
Sorry, wrong, this is not a nil problem, you are ucla hopium addicts. Nobody wants to play for cronin… fix!ing period. They just don’t. Wake up you blind ucla fans… the rest of the college basketball world adapted and left cronin in the dust. He is trash
This, and your comments below, is an AGGRESSIVELY ignorant response. Anyone who does not believe that NIL is now a primary factor in program success frankly should not be paid attention to. Student athletes aren't idiots. They aren't going to turn down 6 and 7 figure NIL deals. UCLA is the equivalent of the Oakland A's. Our dysfunctional collective literally does not have the money to bring in transfers and freshmen.
The nil is an excuse for our Cronin apologists who think that nba bound players are dying to come play for a defensive minded coach. News flash! They DONT want to play for cronin! They DONT! Look at next years recruiting class you nit! They’d rather go play for unlv or Boise st for chri!!ta sake!
Look, I’ll lower my temperature when bruinsnation starts putting out the facts. This is the second worst loss ever. This team is bad. This is the FIRST cronin recruited team. I want bruinsnatiion to stop sugarcoating this nonsense. This is the worst ucla basketball team in 50 years and you can’t just blame the players! Cronin recruited this team and he deserves most of the blame for what is being rolled into the court. I don’t care how much you like cronin. This is at least 50% of his fault if Not more!!!
Baskets, Since you're not viewing games, then you've time to read my comments from the past few TMB columns, please. I've been highly critical of Cronin. But two things can be true at once. He can have many flaws, AND the NIL has limited the athletes that UCLA can attract. For the next coach beyond Cronin, even a Paul Westhead with his System would be hard pressed to bring in top recruits.
This is the best talking points for sure, and to which I have no answer… who should be ucla next coach? I would really like to see ucla go after a coach with no track record. Aka, Arizona, Lloyd was a head coach when? I think ucla needs to take a shot at a no-name that will truly try to bring the entertainment. I don’t think it can get worse than this, so give it a shot!! Pick someone I’ve never heard of that wants to give it a go. As long as they practice what they preach AND they preach offense. Offensive basketball is the way of the future. Alford preached it and brought really good recruits, but didn’t practice it… let’s take a chance on a no-name that talks a high power offensive game. If nothing else we will be able to tell if recruits by in at least. I’d say it was fairly obvious with Alford that he actually wasn’t a good offensive coach, but at least he could recruit!
And yes, to be fair, we can all point to the nil as the problem, but can we at least discuss the fact that cronin couldn’t hold onto recruits like Watson before this was a thing? Watson left before the nil was in place… I think it’s because he couldn’t stand to play for a coach like cronin
Sorry, wrong, this is not a nil problem, you are ucla hopium addicts. Nobody wants to play for cronin… fix!ing period. They just don’t. Wake up you blind ucla fans… the rest of the college basketball world adapted and left cronin in the dust. He is trash
This, and your comments below, is an AGGRESSIVELY ignorant response. Anyone who does not believe that NIL is now a primary factor in program success frankly should not be paid attention to. Student athletes aren't idiots. They aren't going to turn down 6 and 7 figure NIL deals. UCLA is the equivalent of the Oakland A's. Our dysfunctional collective literally does not have the money to bring in transfers and freshmen.
The nil is an excuse for our Cronin apologists who think that nba bound players are dying to come play for a defensive minded coach. News flash! They DONT want to play for cronin! They DONT! Look at next years recruiting class you nit! They’d rather go play for unlv or Boise st for chri!!ta sake!
Again, sir please lower your temperature. Nobody here is a Cronin apologist. We all feel bad as you do.
Look, I’ll lower my temperature when bruinsnation starts putting out the facts. This is the second worst loss ever. This team is bad. This is the FIRST cronin recruited team. I want bruinsnatiion to stop sugarcoating this nonsense. This is the worst ucla basketball team in 50 years and you can’t just blame the players! Cronin recruited this team and he deserves most of the blame for what is being rolled into the court. I don’t care how much you like cronin. This is at least 50% of his fault if Not more!!!
Baskets, calling someone a "nit" is not very mature. Temper tantrum time for Baskets!
Baskets, Since you're not viewing games, then you've time to read my comments from the past few TMB columns, please. I've been highly critical of Cronin. But two things can be true at once. He can have many flaws, AND the NIL has limited the athletes that UCLA can attract. For the next coach beyond Cronin, even a Paul Westhead with his System would be hard pressed to bring in top recruits.
This is the best talking points for sure, and to which I have no answer… who should be ucla next coach? I would really like to see ucla go after a coach with no track record. Aka, Arizona, Lloyd was a head coach when? I think ucla needs to take a shot at a no-name that will truly try to bring the entertainment. I don’t think it can get worse than this, so give it a shot!! Pick someone I’ve never heard of that wants to give it a go. As long as they practice what they preach AND they preach offense. Offensive basketball is the way of the future. Alford preached it and brought really good recruits, but didn’t practice it… let’s take a chance on a no-name that talks a high power offensive game. If nothing else we will be able to tell if recruits by in at least. I’d say it was fairly obvious with Alford that he actually wasn’t a good offensive coach, but at least he could recruit!
And yes, to be fair, we can all point to the nil as the problem, but can we at least discuss the fact that cronin couldn’t hold onto recruits like Watson before this was a thing? Watson left before the nil was in place… I think it’s because he couldn’t stand to play for a coach like cronin
Watson did not do shit in a UCLA uniform. 32% shooting and 3 ppg. LMAO.
So you've gone from he is a good coach to trash. LMAO. The sky is falling!