In Reply to: I Doubt Anyone Saw This Coming. posted by NYBruin on January 17, 2026 at 12:55:17
He was pretty sour on Cronin since last year.
I think more and more Ucla fans are seeing how washed Cronin is because the system of bball he teaches, especially on the o end, is dramatically subpar, both in effectiveness and in entertainment.
Sure, some people can't see the forest for the trees, and cling to random stats or compare Cronin to other failed Ucla coaches in the mother of all ad hominem arguments.
But my sense of the cbb landscape is that a good coach with 3 elite players can take a team a long way in the ncaa's. But Cronin is unable to find 3 elite players and get them to play in an elite way.
Even his most successful team lost its last 4 regular season games, and was down by 11 and getting thoroughly outplayed by a b10 team in an elimination game before coming back to win and keep the season alive. Thank goodness for an ill-timed schizzo brain melt by their head bully as his "team" (hostages?) left the court at halftime or Ucla may have lost that game rather badly.
Most players at Ucla aren't getting significantly better at the game of bball while they are under the control of Cronin.