[quote="MCNPA" post=335149][quote="Moose" post=335104][quote="Knight" post=335102]A lot of back and forth going on, but little about next season. Coaches, recruiting, players, schedule, facilities, etc. Why so much animosity? Rhetorically posed.[/quote]
Talking about next season = animosity.
Pretty simple equation[/quote]
100%. It pisses people off the way Mullin has attempted to put together a coaching staff. It isn’t the record. It’s the way we lost our top recruiter and placed Richmond in his place. It’s about how he, Bobby G and the old guard refused to replace a very highly paid recruiting assistant. It’s about how they refused to hire an AD because Mullin wasn’t going to answer to one. They hired a figurehead who had no power and was fired because of his ineptitude as well. It’s because the Big East had to FORCE SJU to hire a real AD like Cragg for a chance at success because they didn’t want to deal with SJU witnhiu. It’s about have nobody on the road recruiting except Matt and putting all those eggs in one basket. It’s about zero coaching experience on the staff and the implosion on the court for most of Mullin’s tenure that left pundits shaking their heads about what we were trying to do out there. There’s a ton more that can’t just be glossed over just because we tried to schedule the easiest OOC known to man and lucked out with the NET as well as a weak Big East this season. I’m pissed and all us die hard s should be about what had transpired over the past 4 years. This ncaa appearance this year was fool’s gold based on a cupcake schedule.[/quote]
This. The OOC schedule (by GSJ) really made me lose faith in the staff. We were completely bailed out by going 12-1 OOC, but had we lost one or two of those nail bitters it would've almost certainly cost him his job. In the end it worked out for us, but any schedule that requires going undefeated (with one loss @ Duke) is mind boggling.
Fact is we completely collapsed two years in a row. Yes, we made the play in game but it was still a collapse and will have major repercussions going forward. This was not a one game fluke but rather the new normal. We simply are not on an upwards trajectory. As Jack said, barring a miracle this staff won't win 21 games again.