Mick Cronin on Huggins
Mick just did a conference call with the West Virginia media. Here are a few of the tidbits from it:
On his relationship with Huggins: "I've never had anything but love for Coach Huggins. I don’t know if he was always happy with me."
On what he learned from Huggins: "I learned how to be very bubbly and smily with the media from coach Huggins. And I’ve tried to carry that into my head coaching career. Seriously, I learned so much from Coach Huggins there isn't enough time to tell you about it. All I can tell you is I wouldn’t be here without him. To sum it up, he taught me how to win."
On who was the better player:
"We got in an argument one summer. We both took a bad player and played two-on-two against each other. They won, 10-9, and I still haven’t forgotten about it. But if we played today you’d better have an ambulence parked close to the court."
67 Comments:
Huggins, Huggins, Huggins. I don't think he coaches here anymore, does he? I'm confused... Hey did anyone see this over the weekend?
Dispatch Ohio Coach of the Year http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/football/stories/2008/01/27/ohfb_coach_of_year_voting.ART_ART_01-27-08_C5_LF95UIM.html?sid=101
BK didn't even get one vote. Why is that? I'll tell you why, this is a vote amongst all the college football coaches in Ohio. Not one single coach voted for Kelly. It's because he's an A$$. But you're not out there to make friends.
2:22 .... next time wait until you have something of value to write down.
Bill - Understand you voted for Top 25 in Dustin's absence.
Will you list how you voted - Thanks.
Hey 3:18,
If 2:22 waited until he or she had something worth reading. that genius would never be on the blog!
Anon 2:22
Just stay in Columbus. Or did you even get tossed off the o$u blog for being more ignorant than most of their bloggers?
I guess you don't care about your football program at UC. I've got some breaking news for you "repeat and peat (something worth writhing) losers" Your football program is paying the bills right now. Not the terrible basketball program. What a bunch of dolts. You don't care if your coach gets completely snubbed????? Get your head out of the Ohio Riverbed Muck!!
Actually, last year the footaball team lost about a million, basketball made about a million. Attendance for both is up this year, so who knows, maybe football will manage to break even.
anon 5:05
Please read the first 5:05 post. You're likely the same idiot as anon 2:22!
Just be happy that you're not in the SEC. With your track record against the SEC in bowl games, you'd likely be 3-9 each season. You would be 3-9 because of the 3 MAC teams that you're not afraid of playing each year. Catch me up on this. Aren't you 0-9 against the SEC in bowl games????? ***LOL***LOL***LOL***
please delete jim tarbucket
LOL at the ignorant haters and (anonymous) attention whores....
"Look at me, look at me I'm stupid and advertise it"
yawn
You sure do.
you sure are
This blog is a joke. Anonymous authors are a joke. Every time I come here it makes me long for the good old days of 2007 with the Post, jk, and his blog.
Anon 8:03
You come on here and post anonymously. Josh's blog at the Post also allowed anonymous posting. You're the joke.
Hey anons,
Here's piece on Huggins
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/SPT0101/301280104/1064
Actually whether someone has a name such as Dave in Siberia or whatever, it's actually all anonymous. So, what's the big deal?
The two articles in the paper this morning (by you and Tim Curtis) are very good, and no mention of good ol what's her name, either.
We are making progress.
Thank You!
Bill - I see X moved up to #15 in top 25.
Where did you place them on your ballot?
MC and Bearcats will pull the upset tonite in Morgantown in OT.
Huggs will refuse to shake Mick's hand after the game and complains about the officating.
Hey Bill--
Is Tim Curtis your pen name? Why do you guys have the same article?
Anon,
The game in Morgantown is tomorrow nite (Wed), not tonite (Tues).
PLEASE DELETE ANONYMOUS POSTERS. Some Sippin Mick lover objects to my accurate but not flattering post concerning your beloved wanna-be and you pull it down. Well YOU SUCK too...
Aren't we the lucky ones? WVU has Huggins, Ole Miss has Kennedy and we've got Little Mickie!! GREAT!!!!! But, of course, we'll be back. Just you wait and see. Yeah right. Just you wait and see!!!! Oh, that's right, I'm living in the past when our BB team was respected.
Bill,
Are you afraid to tell us where you voted 'x' in the poll? Or ashamed? Come on now, it'll be alright. Don't be afraid.
10:47, you're living in the past when both the team AND coach were respected!
Bob Huggins hates Mick Cronin. The only reason Cronin got the head coaching job at UC is because Zimpher wanted to rub it in Huggins' face.
After no longer approving posts, this blog has just about become useless.
I have been a fan of blog pages for some time, but the more idiots that post on this page, the less I visit. If people still want to bitch and moan about Huggins being gone and about the program not going anywhere, go do it on the NCAA page or on the site for the Morgantown paper. UC fans would love to enjoy the posts that Bill places on the blog, but unfortunately for us, morons who are 30 and still mooching off mom and dad have nothing better to do with their lives.
Cronin would still be the UC video coordinator if it weren't for Huggins. Can anyone really blame Bob Huggins for having strong feelings toward Lil' Mickie? Why does everyone only blame Nancy? The imbiciles of the BOT is where the real blame lies. She was the tool they used, although not an unwitting one!
Bill -
has there ever been any other basketball programs that haven't had a winning record in the second year of a new coach?
what is your observation of the cronin / huggins relationsip - but I guess that is hard to judge as they aren't around each other enough. would be interesting to hear you comments on what you see tomorrow in morgantown.
keep up the good articles - they are covering the things we like to read and hear.
About time for you to move out and be on your own Danny C. Boy
And what 'blog' is not useless?
GROW UP! GET A LIFE! AT LEAST GET A NAME!
Well, well, well. It seems the mouth breathers at the Columbus Dispatch must be using their O$U educations again. They couldn't even count the Ohio Coach of the Year correctly. Brian Kelly did get votes. Somehow those imbeciles couldn't seperate Mike from Brian Kelly. Probably the same people who counted the votes in the 2004 Presidential election.
"has there ever been any other basketball programs that haven't had a winning record in the second year of a new coach?"
Ha ha ha ha ha - you have got to be kidding me? Is this really a serious question? This just shows the mentality/intelligence of the morons on this blog.
11:46 Go back to the eggsavior or o$u blog where your miniscule, if existant, brain belongs.
11:46 - Cause you have no idea what you're talking about I'll fill you in on some things.
MIKE KELLY was the coach at Dayton. Yes they have a football team and their coach received votes while BRIAN KELLY didn't. Also according to the USNEWS and World Reports top colleges, OSU is ranked 52nd, while UC is Third Tier. This is like 300 behind OSU. Nice try though.
This blog is flaming thanks to the insipid attention whores and jackasses.
Too bad. The opportunity was here. Too many jealous dullards who think that they are funny and/or intetesting.
Dave in Siberia,
Are you a Hucker fan or a corn shucker? Maybe just a foremost authority regarding this blog? Turn your small mind in a different direction.
Just a UC alum and lifelong supporter now living on the prairie and getting info where I can. Thanks for caring, though...
Same here, except for the prairie life. Just wish that more of the energy was directed toward the ignorant and obnoxious trolls on this blog than indiscrimate volleys...
Mick Cronin should change his name to Mick Yates. Let the 10 game losing streak begin!
Huggs will show Mick Yates how to coach and WVA beats UZ by 20 points or more.
Hey OSU trolls, guess what OSU is ranked again,
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Just so you don't have to wait - another reason UC won't win next year is that they won't have any seniors on the roster.
what a wah baby - uc needs a coach, not a multi-million dollar excuse maker.
3:46, don't worry at all. Sippin' thought of that two years ago and can't wait to say it next year. Isn't this just great?
Does it make you all feel like big men to call a grown man Little Mickie? Or Lil Mick? I believe that he stands right around 6 foot or so. And I'm pretty sure that is taller than average. Sure, he's shorter than his 6'10 centers, but who isn't? Please stop disrespecting the hometown coach. Like it or not, he is OUR coach now and represents us. When the Cincinnati Bearcats are on television, its not you or I that the rest of the country sees, its Mick Cronin. Like it or not, he represents all of us.
Yeah, Huggs NEVER whined about losses, or underachieving players, or players that didn't listen to him, or officiating. He was a model of professionalism. Please.
I don’t know if he was always happy with me."- Traitor Mick
Gee... why would he be upset at you for taking a job at your arch rival's school. Hired specificaly to destroy Huggins and the Bearcat program you now love so much. Going to work for Coach Armani.
Hell yeah you traitorus twit, of course he has no respect for you.
Why would he.
Bob Huggins is the Marty Schottenheimer and Wade Phillips of college basketball....top 10 teams every single year, to include quite a few top 5 teams and a few #1 teams, underachieved in the tournament every single year. Get behind a coach that can actually draw up a play that works when needed.
4:56 BIG MICK is 6 foot? At about four inches shorter than Hilliary C.? And Bill C. never had sex with Ms. L? HaHaHa
5:00 - I'm pretty sure Huggins now works for the "archrival" team now, after flirting with them a few years before being fired. Not to mention what he did to local phenom Bill Walker by getting him all the way out to Kansas State only to bail on him after 1 year. Yeah, his loyalty shines right thru. Cronin did what he had to do to get where he needed to be, as Huggins did. And believe it or not, Pitino is 5 times the coach Huggins is and I don't recall him crying when Cronin took over at UC, his "archrival". If you're gonna be a moron and hate on one of em, hate on em both.
5:10, OK, I will.
we'll see who the better coach and team is tomorrow night.
the first year coach, or the second year coach.
currently mick and all of his recruits are at rpi 114 and heading south.
sux to play third fiddle to XU and WVU. Sux to have nancy smiling in the background, pulling on mt's leash.
5:25... Don't know???
Am I missing something?? Don't UC and West Virginia have the same number of conference wins??
Good call though...
5:44, don't worry any. They won't have the same number of wins at the end of the season either...LOL
"Does it make you all feel like big men to call a grown man Little Mickie? Or Lil Mick?"
I call him "Little Mickie" and "Sippin Mick," because I'm a depressed. I believe that by belittling my favorite team and its players, I will look clever, make friends and help motivate them. Just like my dad did to me. By the time I was 12 I was afraid to play basketball with the other boys and never tried out for any sports in High School. Now I'm 39 and live in my mom's basement. It's cool. She cooks for me and does my laundry, but something wrong. Won't somebody please pay attention to me and help me learn a better way to communicate?
hey 5:44 - if they both have the same number of wins - that means they are even. so who do you think will win?
to 7:06 pm:
Thanks for saying what i've been thinking. The "sippin Mick" sicko saddens me to no end. He is the middle aged loser flipping burgers at Mcdonalds. You can sense the angst in every letter he types. But alas his act has grown old. i just skim by.
I remember reading an interview from USF the first time UC travelled there. The reporter said that he had expected a fire breathing dragon to lash out and kill him. But he was surprised that the monster of the media was polite, cordial, and even funny. The reporter commented that from what he had heard and read from other press reports (primarily the Enquirer) he thought Huggins was a terrible person. After the interview, he said that Huggins was the best travelling coach that he had spoken with.
I blame a lot of what has happened here in Cincinnati to the local “lets report only the negative” press.
12:00, Hate to break it to you, but your O$U boys at the Dispatch can not count votes right. With their subpar O$U educations, they announced today they incorrectly counted votes. Brian Kelly was mistaken for the Dayton coach. No go back to mommies basement.
There was not a single posting that informed me, highlighted what is going on at UC or expanded my knowledge of UC basketball.
Guys, grow up. Ignore the OSU and XU wantabees. Stay positive and post the information that we want to see. Quit arguing with baby sister.
Bringing it back to basketball:
1. Who's more motivated WVU or UC?
2. Will Vaughn work for his shot early in the game or wait again unitl it's too late.
3. I'd rather be grooming McLain by giving him more PT. He can miss bunnies and lose the ball just as well as Adam H but McLain has the promise to get better.
4. Williamson is the only Senior that will be missed.
On Cronin's 2 v 2 story - nothing against Mick but isn't Huggins about 6'5" and a former college basketball All-American. I would put my money on him in a two on two against 5'6" Cronin who only played HS ball even giving up 15 years age difference.
8:27, Mick makes it to 5'-6" only when he's wearing heels.
Hey 7:36-
I'm the one who started the Sippin' Mick moniker but I am NOT the one who posted at 3:46 p.m. or4:23 or 5 p.m., etc. etc. That is someone else (or multiple posters).
I still use the phrase but I always discuss other issues and/or issues RELATED to Mick as opposed to discussion of his height, etc. etc.
Just so you know.
It's really sad that on Bill's UC blog there seems to be more anti MC/Bearcat BB folks than supporters of the program and the team.
As for as Huggs and the Mountainteers their dominance of . BB in W.VA. is about to end.
Marshall will become within the next few yrs. the dominant BB program in the state. New first yr Marshall coach Donnie Jones is getting the players he needs to dump Hugss and WVU to second place in BB behind the Thundering Herd.
Just as X has surpassed UC in recent yrs the Herd will surpass Huggs and WVU.
Bearcats will win tonight by 2.
Marshall grad
Marshall grad,
Little sister 'x' hasn't surpassed UC. Our BB team was decimated by the BOT and the University president. Hopefully, we'll soon be back and far better than 'little sister' for many years to come.
As for Marshall overcoming WVU on a consisent basis, that remains to be seen.
As for you, you just need to put your false teeth back in and mind your own business.
11:09 - When you can't attack the logic you attack the messenger.
You're right it remains to be seen if Marshall will replace W.Va. as best BB team in the state. That's my opinion.
However it's a fact, not an opinion that Xavier is currently better than UC, perhaps temporarily, as the premier team in Cincy. You can't debate that.
Still got my own teeth.
Marshall grad
There is no logic to attack, merely opinion and specuation. Nice try, anyway. I guess it hurts knowing you'll ALWAYS be a mid-major.
Xavier has a cupcake schedule. The A10 is a joke. Xavier did play a few tough games early. IU, KState to name a few, but Cincy plays a tough team every night in the Big East. Xavier would lose 9 or 10 games in the Big East and that's with the team they have now and they don't always produce talent like they have now. Xavier is a Mid-Major not an elite program.
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