30Duck Moderator No. 1 Share Posted Tuesday at 02:13 AM “We’ve sold our soul to television”: Mick Cronin continues to voice traveling frustration after game against UConn WWW.SPORTSKEEDA.COM UCLA Bruins basketball coach Mick Cronin expressed displeasure about his team's travel schedule following their game against... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandaian No. 2 Share Posted Tuesday at 06:09 PM Is he willing to take a salary cut? I didn't hear him fight to stay in the Pac 12. They could do better about game start times, but UCLA had the same turnaround time last year in the Pac 12. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Moderator No. 3 Share Posted Tuesday at 06:15 PM Come On Man! And, DUH. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 4 Share Posted yesterday at 05:21 PM I do think he's right about TV being at an unprecedented level in sports now. It was the major factor in the demise of the Pac-12, whose identity to a lot of the country was "Pac-12 After Dark". ESPN, on it's ridiculous TV Reveal Show during the CFP pleads for chaos, for entertainment. Time slots are crucial for games, if it's inconvenient, even a true hardship on one of the teams, that's irrelevant. ESPN tried to whitewash the negative talk about the CFP, citing its "Blueblood Final 4". Unfortunately for them, the ratings were down. But, the format will be the same next season, and the "Reveal Show" will be entertaining as we all watch to see which teams end up in the coveted 5 and 6 seeds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Moderator No. 5 Share Posted yesterday at 05:27 PM On 1/29/2025 at 12:21 PM, 30Duck said: I do think he's right about TV being at an unprecedented level in sports now. It was the major factor in the demise of the Pac-12, whose identity to a lot of the country was "Pac-12 After Dark". ESPN, on it's ridiculous TV Reveal Show during the CFP pleads for chaos, for entertainment. Time slots are crucial for games, if it's inconvenient, even a true hardship on one of the teams, that's irrelevant. ESPN tried to whitewash the negative talk about the CFP, citing its "Blueblood Final 4". Unfortunately for them, the ratings were down. But, the format will be the same next season, and the "Reveal Show" will be entertaining as we all watch to see which teams end up in the coveted 5 and 6 seeds. Excellent post and I agree but the $$$ is at an unprecedented level. And UCLA is a B1G Partner and not an Associate like OBD. You take the money you're going to have to pay the price. But if Cronin is just 'getting this,' where has he been? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan2785 No. 6 Share Posted 20 hours ago I don't think Cronin was ignorant, I think he was focused on his team in the moment. Last year, he wasn't being asked these questions, he wasn't feeling the exhaustion that I'm sure he is now feeling. He probably also was told not to complain before the first year in conference. I'm sure all of these players and coaches are not exactly enjoying this level of travel. Football has it pretty easy, for the basketball, volleyball, softball, baseball, all these other sports where you play a 18 or so game schedule it's an absolute slog of a season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonDucks No. 7 Share Posted 18 hours ago I wonder if we are going to see more turn over at the non-football coaching positions at the West Coast schools, as a result of the increased travel. If you could make just as much (or more) at another school and don’t have to travel…Cronin is barking up the wrong tree and should be complaining to the UCLA administration instead. They are the ones who blew up the PAC for $$$. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 8 Share Posted 18 hours ago On 1/29/2025 at 2:58 PM, OregonDucks said: Cronin is barking up the wrong tree and should be complaining to the UCLA administration instead. They are the ones who blew up the PAC for $$$. UCLA and USC did leave, because of TV, TV that the Pac-12 wasn't going to get enough interest, $$ from to exist. Complaining to the UCLA administration now would be the epitome of beating a dead horse; Cronin is the embodiment of "don't shoot the messenger" here, but I didn't see where he was wrong in anything he said. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan2785 No. 9 Share Posted 17 hours ago Cronin does have a right to complain, he's not the one that made the decision to move conferences, he probably was blindsided by it just as much as everyone else was. It's also not just the amount of travel, it's the way the schedule has no rhythm to it. In the Pac-12 you pretty much were Thursday-Saturday, occasionally Friday-Sunday. Now you could play on pretty much any day of the week. You don't have traditional road trips, it's a huge change to how you need to prepare, and I do think it's huge disadvantage to our teams since it seems that we have to do a lot more of this type of travel. Just look at the Oregon team right now, we had a game in Minnesota then have a road game to UCLA. So we have to go over to Minneapolis, probably then go home, then we are right back on the road down to UCLA, we come back for a game against NU, then right back on the road to the Michigan schools. I will say he's complaining more than he needs to, everybody gets that this is far from ideal, but you don't hear Altman, Sprinkle, and Mussellman doing this much complaining. I don't think he's helping himself, and I do think we'll probably see him leave since it looks like he's miserable right now. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 10 Share Posted 17 hours ago On 1/29/2025 at 3:40 PM, spartan2785 said: I don't think he's helping himself, and I do think we'll probably see him leave since it looks like he's miserable right now. Let's hope the Ducks make him really miserable tomorrow, they will be the more rested team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
