[quote="Beast of the East" post=288341]You would think that the Wilpons are running St. John's basketball.
SJU has never gone top shelf in hiring a replacement for Carnesecca, Lapchick for that matter, hiring the assistant coach Lou.
Frank McGuire was an easy heist by North Carolina but simply paying him the extra 2 thousand or so he needed to help medical bills for a sick kid (if memory serves me correctly)
When Lou left for the Nets, they hired assistant Frank Mulzoff at a salary of about 18,000 - what SJU faculty was paid.
So is it any wonder that we slipped from the ranks of the high echelon teams to the bottom rungs of the Big East and among the dogs of college basketball.
After Mahoney and Fraschilla were gone, they "went very deep" for SJU but not the market to pay Jarvis a salary of 700-800K, which included to and sneaker money. When Jarvis derailed, they scaled back to a lower salary for Roberts, as if Jarvis' wipeout proved you should pay that kind of money. They "opened the vault" for Lavin, but still his salary wasn't in the range of elite coaches, and he was sort of damaged goods. Mullin is essentially making what Lavin was paid once sticker shock wore off and they also realized the uncertainty that $2 million would buy.
Big East basketball generates a lot of money. The way SJU operates is sort of the way small market baseball teams do with their revenue share of tv money. Bank it.
I'm sure Goff came cheap coming from Hartford, and I really don't know if he is or isn't capable of running the athletic department, or he is simply not given the chance.
Aggravated today about other stuff. Sorry for the negativity.[/quote]
I think Musselman earns $1 million at Nevada. Paying multi-millionaire Mullin 2 million without one day of coaching experience shows what a fck up this current SJU president has been.
I wouldn't blame Goff for leaving after seeing St. John's athletics operate as if they are in receivorship .
