Mick Cronin certainly got put under the gun when joining The Herd with Colin Cowherd on Monday, as the Fox Sports radio host asked him point blank if he’d take the Kentucky head coaching job if they called him.
Cowherd brought up the blockbuster move by John Calipari to leave Kentucky for Arkansas which occurred late Sunday night and asked Cronin his thoughts on it, to which the current UCLA head coach lauded the UK gig and the fanbase that comes with it.
“Well, their fanbase is second to none. Period. I grew up 60 miles from there,” said Cronin. Cowherd quickly responded with the ultimate question:
“What if they called you tomorrow?”
Cronin’s answer: “I’d turn left on Sunset.”
He then added: “When we leave here I’m going to the Grand Havana room in Beverly Hills to watch the game tonight.”
A sly answer from the longtime college hoops coach. He went on to explain that the expectations at a place like Kentucky are just so immense.
“No, seriously, we talked about this last time. Some of these jobs, the expectations are so high, the magnitude of the job, you can’t feed the beast forever. When you build the beast early and he had unbelievable success, and when you can’t repeat that, it’s really hard. It’s a hard existence.”
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