In the end, Mick Cronin chose 5-way Skyline Chili over 1-way 99-cent shrimp cocktail.
Can’t say I blame him.
So UNLV didn’t get its man (again). It should have seen it coming. It probably had little to do with the palate-pleasing spaghetti at world renown Skyline Chili, which has five Cincinnati locations, and four more across the Ohio River in Kentucky.
It probably had a lot to do with a sentence I read in one of the myriad stories and Twitter posts about the relentless and apparently solitary pursuit of the Cincinnati basketball coach.
It said Mick Cronin had joint custody of a 9-year-old daughter named Sammi.