In Reply to: Small wager posted by BRUINFLIP on October 03, 2026 at 17:06:40
Not interested. Just making the tournament is a much lower bar than I've ever had for UCLA, and it's wild to me that some fans would actually consider that a successful season (provided we don't even survive the first weekend).
I don't bet on sports. Ever. And at present, I'm less interested in another middling "Croninesque" team than in a future for the program under a different coach. I hope the investment in Kusturica pays off and that he's good enough to overcome our lack of coaching. But given how it's gone recently with Cronin's Euro recruits, I expect NK to either develop slower than we need or for him to leave UCLA altogether after one year, as others who dislike Cronin have done.