Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

You know the one I'm talking about.

You went out with her for awhile. You had fun. Then when you realized you were done with her, and it was going nowhere, you landed the "I need a little space" blast, and dropped her like a hot potato.

But she can't let go.

She calls your cell like 50 times a day. She leaves rambling, erratic, and increasingly angry messages on your voicemail. She loads up your e-mail with crazy messages of "love" and "we were meant for each other", followed by links to love song lyrics. Then you come home from work one day and she's in your house with your pet rabbit boiling on the stove.

Okay. So maybe not the last one.

But I bring this up because we are not even a week into the college basketball season, and I'm already noticing a disturbing trend: UC Basketball fans are the crazy ex-girlfriend of the college basketball landscape.

Granted, Mick Cronin hasn't really helped his cause by starting this season 1-2, but I'm already hearing Mick has to go, Bob Huggins should have never been fired comments.

For the mental health of the Queen City: LET HIM GO!

Granted, Bobby H. got a raw deal from Devil Z, and the whole situation was the messiest divorce around. But for better or worse, it was a divorce. And just like all messy divorces, there is no hope for rekindling the flame.

Continuing to call local sportstalk radio (and you still do because not only do I hear them, but our local sportstalk guru, Mr. McAllister, saw fit to post a little article on the matter in his blog recently), still pining for Huggy Bear is just like the crazy ex leaving messages of love.

I thought that after the first year he was away (always the hardest in a divorce), when all the crazy alum bought K-State gear to wear to the UC games, things would calm down. But they haven't. In fact, they've gotten worse.

I opened up the Enquirer's regional basketball insert a few weeks ago to find that there was a section covering West Virginia, where the Hugster is now coaching. And you are even hassling the media accusing them of giving Cronin a "free pass" from criticism.

Well, you know what? They are. You know what else? Cronin deserves to get that pass right now. So shut up.

Even if you run Cronin out of town, your divorced coach won't be coming back. Devil Z won't allow it.

So if you need to get into a 12-step program to cope, do it. If you need to watch old tapes from the Huggins days, do it (I hear the one where he was driving drunk is a real hoot). But wherever you get help, just get help, because if you don't, then this program won't be given the chance to excel that the players rightly deserve.

Huggins isn't coming back. Period. Continuing to pine for him only makes you the crazy ex-girlfriend.

The players deserve better than that.