Re: Cronin

[Dan Marshall]

That's a sad state when Oscar stops by his own school and you have to report
it like that.

Yes, having a "living legend" as "part" of UC's program is an advantage for
UC, But it's also a fact, he's "part" of the program why do we have to
report it?

Anyway...kudo's for orchestrating a great "drop-in" while 3 recruits
happened to be in the office. Frankly it's great for recruiting,

That said, I'm curious how many of the recruits really know who Oscar is?
Not disrespecting Oscar, but they don't seem to pay much attention to
history.. I'm certain after they meet him, people educate them on his
accomplishments, "son, he averaged a triple double in the NBA..." etc etc.



-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of richard l. kandell
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:55 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [UC Basketball] Cronin

Just back from listening to Coach Cronin for about 2 hours.  If he can
recruit back to his days at UC and UofL, and coach as well as his 3 years at
Murray seem to indicate, concededly 2 very big "ifs,"  he will be a very
fine representative for UC basketball and UC athletics as a whole.

He had a variety of interesting things to say - I'll just mention that his
current take on this year's team is they will be competitive if Adam H. and
Hernol H. are declared eligible, with a chance to be really good next year
when Mike Williams, whom he is very high on (expects him to be a star at
UC), becomes eligible.  If the 2 big guys are not ok to play it will be a
long season, and damage next year as well (lack of playing time this year
for them).

He discussed in detail his reasons for leaving UC for UofL, parts of his
recruiting philosophy, given his druthers and players, what kind of offense
and defense he'd like to run, etc., etc.  He is articulate and personable -
and keeps saying he wants to be at UC for at least the next 20 years.  I
think he will be if he wins, and he admitted that to win takes players, so
he has to go out and get them - his work ethic for recruiting reminds me of
Huggins in his early years at UC.

Finally, he did mention that Goins had a study done for a facility to
replace Shoemaker - they know exactly where it will go - it will be on
campus - it is a question of getting the money out of the legislature for
building the building.  One of the primary movers is that they could sell 40
more luxury suites at $15,000-20,000 a pop - and he conceded what we all
know, 5th/3rd is a lousy place to watch a basketball game for most of the
attendees (except for the really big givers in the down stairs side seats).
However, any new building is at least 5-7 years away.

Richard K.

PS - He commented that the recruiting rules are so complex that recently he
had 3 recruits in his office and Oscar stopped by to say hello to him, and
they had to report Oscar's contact even though all he did was smile at the 3
guys in Cronin's office.