Anderson - is he really the guy ?

Team has no backbone. Anderson recruited all these guys, so it’s on him. Cannot wait for the board to spin this season. Always excuses for the program like injurys or it’s we’re clean and everyone else cheats. The powers that be do not care about winning a championship or conference title. Let’s pack the garden and everything will be great is their motto.  Once Repole exposed the clowns, their was one person to hire but they didn’t do it. Will have another winning season but no tournament and Beast can say we’re a program with integrity. 
 
Enright post=460231 said:
I certainly don’t expect SJU to have any contact with the players who transferred but If it true and I don’t know if it is,the fact that it was reported that the  players wanted no part of the NIT but wanted to end the season would make me look for answers if I was Cragg.
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Exactly, and that was my point regarding Cragg. He saw the red flags but chose to ignore them. The rumored turmoil on the team, the 9 transfers, the DeMeo situation. Whether real concerns or not, he could have waited another year to extend Anderson’s contract. Now, even if making changes were the best thing for the program, he can’t cause he would look incompetent for extending Anderson too quickly. 
 
Knight post=460495 said:
I almost feel that we won't win another game this season.
Another mass exodus, I think.  Posh will move to a better program.
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Posh leaving would set this program back another 2-4 years. Unless something unheard of happens, CMA will be the coach next year. Posh leaving this offseason would send a message all across the country and especially within the city that something isn't right with the way Anderson is running this program. This staff surely won't be able to find Julian and Posh replacements in the transfer market that would propel us to more success. Anderson would essentially be a lame-duck coach in line for another bottom dwelling season before we'd have to make another change and start all over again, wasting a year of everybody's time.
 
we are sju post=460591 said:
Didn’t see and don’t feel like scrolling back, what is deal with Posh not starring?

 
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No explanation other than standard “Coach’s Decision” Obviously this being the third occurrence of such with PA, it has to give one pause 
 
Sad to say...but this team is far from good enough to have doghouses.  C'mon coach.  Another mass exodus will keep us in the crapper for at least another three or four years.
 
 
Paultzman post=460593 said:
we are sju post=460591 said:
Didn’t see and don’t feel like scrolling back, what is deal with Posh not starring?


 
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No explanation other than standard “Coach’s Decision” Obviously this being the third occurrence of such with PA, it has to give one pause 

If lose Posh he should get fired
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I agree that losing Posh would have local recruiting implications in addition to what we would lose on the court.   Let's hope this is not an issue.  CMA needs to begin re-recrutiing some of these kids right now.  Waiting for the offseason will be too late.
 
 
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I dont think Posh or Wusu are coming back.  Both seem completely disinterested in listening to coach during timeouts.  Posh has been benched at the start of games 3 times now.  

How come coach doesnt have to elaborate on why the "coaching decision" was made? 

I see Posh at Rutgers next year.

 
 
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Anderson is just the latest in a long string of bad hires.  There's a high likelihood the next guy won't be any good either.
 
I think to know if Anderson is "the guy" we first have to ask ourselves what our realistic goals are for this program.

Here are mine - not sure about others:

20-24 wins per year
Consistently in the top half of the Big East
Consistently in the Dance (let's say three out of every four years)
Make a run to the second weekend every four or five years

So having said that, do I think Anderson is capable of taking us to that level?  If you asked me after last season I would have said unequivocally yes.  Now I am not so sure.
 
I like CMA. But this program is now in such a state of lethargy that it needs a severe jolt. I was in favor of hiring Pitino a couple of years ago and I think that's what the program needs right now. Yes, he is polarizing to the extreme-- but that's the point. He will energize the fan base. He's done his penance at Iona, time for the bright lights again.
 
I watched Auburn at Tennessee this weekend, and it was hard to avoid the conclusion that Bruce Pearl is coaching almost exactly the same system as Mike Anderson.  The difference, of course, is the talent level.  This SJU team just doesn't have the length and athleticism that are needed for that approach to work against high-level competition.

That can be worked into an indictment of Anderson's recruiting and use of the transfer portal, or it could be worked into an indictment of his lack of flexibility in adjusting his system to the players he has.  Or both, I suppose.

Another way to look at it is that the program took two steps forward, now took one step back, and will hopefully take another two steps forward from where it is now, that it's all part of a building or rebuilding project.  Not that our fans have one bit of patience for that, but:

Anderson is certainly going to be given some more time to prove that either his system can work in Queens given the recruiting limitations the program has (which I think many underestimate), or that he can adjust his approach to succeed with the players he recruits.  Personally I think the former is the more likely of those two options, I don't see a man who's been coaching with a fair degree of success for a long time making radical changes to his approach.

Obviously if neither of those options pans out and the program stalls out at "the top of the bottom of the league" then the university will have to go in another direction, but that time is not now, whether folks like it or not.
 
If Anderson does get canned, what happens to Storr and King?  Do they both now have the option to renege on their signing and are free to go elsewhere?
 
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