2019 Coaching Changes

[quote="Adam" post=334982][quote="SJU11phd" post=334971][quote="Adam" post=334965][quote="Paultzman" post=334959]Per Rothstein
BREAKING: Alabama has hired Buffalo's Nate Oats as its next head basketball coach, per @Greg_Byrne.[/quote]

Damn!

Have to assume Mullin is coming back at this point, otherwise he'd be screwing over St. John's. Other schools are getting straight to business and soon there won't be any good candidates left.[/quote]

I think Oates is a good coach and all, but I doubt he would have wanted to come here, and also doubt SJU admin would want him. Yes, he did coach in the state of NY, but 7 hours away from NYC, and he is originally from Wisconsin. I doubt SJU would consider someone who wasn't a proven great coach, and had no NYC ties.[/quote]

I'm not so sure. I think we could have matched whatever Bama was offering. They aren't a highly respected basketball program, despite improvements in recent years.

I agree Buffalo is far away from NYC, but Alabama is a lot further away.

Anyways, no reason to think about it any longer as he is gone. On to the next candidates...[/quote]
Bama just fired a coach making 3.5 million per with a negotiated buyout that was at 8 million so imagine they would be willing to go even higher for next coach and if someone goes after Oates if he does well there they will more than match any offer.
 
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[quote="Paultzman" post=334959]Per Rothstein
BREAKING: Alabama has hired Buffalo's Nate Oats as its next head basketball coach, per @Greg_Byrne.[/quote]

So much for that contract extension he just got from Buffalo.
 
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[quote="Paultzman" post=334959]Per Rothstein
BREAKING: Alabama has hired Buffalo's Nate Oats as its next head basketball coach, per @Greg_Byrne.[/quote]

So much for the extension he signed two weeks ago.
 
[quote="stjohnnie75" post=335009][quote="Paultzman" post=334959]Per Rothstein
BREAKING: Alabama has hired Buffalo's Nate Oats as its next head basketball coach, per @Greg_Byrne.[/quote]

So much for the extension he signed two weeks ago.[/quote]

Buyouts are the key.

Especially for mid major coaches signing an extension means nothing.
 
[quote="L J S A" post=334951][quote="fordham96" post=334948][quote="Paultzman" post=334921]Sources: UNLV will hire South Dakota State's T.J. Otzelberger as its next head basketball coach. Official announcement expected soon.
Per Rothstein[/quote]

Official...[/quote]

Very good hire.

Maybe Matt will try to play TJ and Fred off each other to extract $500,000.01 from a school instead of $500,000, only to have it backfire and come back to us right when a whole bunch of quality transfers are popping up.[/quote]

Hard pass
 
With all due respect, the thinking that CM cannot and must not be pressured to leave is NOT because he led us to the Tournament.
He didn’t.
We limped into the ‘play-in’ game to the NCAAs and lost that!
No, the reason he’ll return is that he’s the All-Time Poster boy of St. John’s hoops and loved by all of us for ‘that’.
I’m disgusted with his record and what I can glean about his attitude and work ethic and management skills as our HC but even at this point, I’d support his return IF he agreed to gut his staff, which he will not likely do.
Be assured that any other coach would be bought out of his deal given a very poor record over the past 3 years: 51-49 overall and 19-45 in the regular Big East season.
And that’s the way it is.
 
Sources: LeMoyne's Patrick Beilein is finalizing a deal to become the next head coach at Niagara. Son of Michigan head coach John Beilein. Official announcement expected soon.

Rothstein
 
Rutgers assistant Jay Young is a leading candidate at Fairfield, per sources.
Zags
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=335083]Sources: LeMoyne's Patrick Beilein is finalizing a deal to become the next head coach at Niagara. Son of Michigan head coach John Beilein. Official announcement expected soon.
Rothstein[/quote]
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Returning to his family roots..... many- many cousins in Buffalo.
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=335083]Sources: LeMoyne's Patrick Beilein is finalizing a deal to become the next head coach at Niagara. Son of Michigan head coach John Beilein. Official announcement expected soon.

Rothstein[/quote]

Shocked he didn't go for Buffalo.
 
Just watched Nate Oats presser at Alabama. Said he has already met with Kira Lewis and will do everything he can to keep him at Bama. Also said maybe some players need to be in the transfer portal. No nonsense coach. Said very few defections at Buffalo because created a culture that players wanted to stay and play there.
 
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[quote="bamafan" post=335161]Just watched Nate Oats presser at Alabama. Said he has already met with Kira Lewis and will do everything he can to keep him at Bama. Also said maybe some players need to be in the transfer portal. No nonsense coach. Said very few defections at Buffalo because created a culture that players wanted to stay and play there.[/quote]

The way he left is disgusting. Buffalo insiders are reporting he attended an Athletic Department meeting like it was a regular day and then supposedly bolted on a plane to Alabama. Didn't even tell his players, who are "shocked and betrayed". Everyone at UB was blindsided by this, including administration.
 
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