Anton Goff Leaving?

[quote="Beast of the East" post=288490]7[quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

No one implied or stated that pecora had big time success at Hofstra. By the same token as Wright's top assistant at Hofstra he was part of that success, where during that time they passed us as the bnb top program in the area.

If he wasn't an able assistant, Wright wouldn't have suggested to Dunleavy to hire him.

What I did say, and what the post article suggested at the time of his hire was that turning around Fordham would be a very difficult job.

Apparently folks who know college sports and not just blog about it here thought enough of him to hire him at Hofstra, the Fordham, and as an assistant at Quinnipiac.

If people here give credit to Dunlap for lavins success, does pecora deserve his share as a wright assistant back then.

We could do far worse than adding a guy who knows basketball and is well liked by area hs coaches to our staff.

I was simply responding to a supposed conversation a poster had with Goff with Goff bashing Pecora profanely.[/quote]


Ive heard pecora has had similar issues to Goff. No way st johns would hire him.

If pecora was clean he would be at nova but he is not and that is a fact why Jay has not hired him
 
[quote="RedStormNC" post=288495]Must have missed something...

What issues does Goff have that are similar to Pecora?[/quote]

I think he's implying "the love of the grape."
 
Not trying to denigrate Goff's character, just going off what I personally have heard and seen. Who really knows? Maybe the nice suit and the photo ops were covering up another area he was lacking in.
 
[quote="SJ_NYC" post=288485][quote="Class of 72" post=288417][quote="Rob" post=288404]Can someone elaborate on what they heard is driving this, cryptic responses aside?[/quote]

His decreased Twitter activity.
Spending too much time away from job related functions.
Spending too much time out of town.

Oh wait........that's.............[/quote]

Your agenda is ridiculous. Please stop.[/quote]

My sincerest apologies!:whistle:
Would it make you happy if we returned to bashing AD Goff and all things Pecora?
 
[quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

I agree Pecora has had as mediocre a career in college basketball as our own head coach but on March 28, 2017, Pecora was hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac so he wasn't unemployed for very long was he!
As for the alleged comments made by Anton Goff regarding Tom Pecora and the St. John's job in 2015, Goff was at Hartford at the time so who would have fed him Pecora's feelings regarding St. John's?
I'll give you two guesses.
 
[quote="Manhattan1" post=288492][quote="Beast of the East" post=288490]7[quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

No one implied or stated that pecora had big time success at Hofstra. By the same token as Wright's top assistant at Hofstra he was part of that success, where during that time they passed us as the bnb top program in the area.

If he wasn't an able assistant, Wright wouldn't have suggested to Dunleavy to hire him.

What I did say, and what the post article suggested at the time of his hire was that turning around Fordham would be a very difficult job.

Apparently folks who know college sports and not just blog about it here thought enough of him to hire him at Hofstra, the Fordham, and as an assistant at Quinnipiac.

If people here give credit to Dunlap for lavins success, does pecora deserve his share as a wright assistant back then.

We could do far worse than adding a guy who knows basketball and is well liked by area hs coaches to our staff.

I was simply responding to a supposed conversation a poster had with Goff with Goff bashing Pecora profanely.[/quote]


Ive heard pecora has had similar issues to Goff. No way st johns would hire him.

If pecora was clean he would be at nova but he is not and that is a fact why Jay has not hired him[/quote]

That's a total joke. I know first hand both are best of friends and when Baker got the Q job, wright put those two together as an experienced coach helping a first time HC. So your post is pure garbage
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=288526][quote="Manhattan1" post=288492][quote="Beast of the East" post=288490]7[quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

No one implied or stated that pecora had big time success at Hofstra. By the same token as Wright's top assistant at Hofstra he was part of that success, where during that time they passed us as the bnb top program in the area.

If he wasn't an able assistant, Wright wouldn't have suggested to Dunleavy to hire him.

What I did say, and what the post article suggested at the time of his hire was that turning around Fordham would be a very difficult job.

Apparently folks who know college sports and not just blog about it here thought enough of him to hire him at Hofstra, the Fordham, and as an assistant at Quinnipiac.

If people here give credit to Dunlap for lavins success, does pecora deserve his share as a wright assistant back then.

We could do far worse than adding a guy who knows basketball and is well liked by area hs coaches to our staff.

I was simply responding to a supposed conversation a poster had with Goff with Goff bashing Pecora profanely.[/quote]


Ive heard pecora has had similar issues to Goff. No way st johns would hire him.

If pecora was clean he would be at nova but he is not and that is a fact why Jay has not hired him[/quote]

That's a total joke. I know first hand both are best of friends and when Baker got the Q job, wright put those two together as an experienced coach helping a first time HC. So your post is pure garbage.

That’s fine, still did not want him near his program and that is a known fact to numerous nova Insiders
 
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[quote="Class of 72" post=288521][quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

I agree Pecora has had as mediocre a career in college basketball as our own head coach but on March 28, 2017, Pecora was hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac so he wasn't unemployed for very long was he!
As for the alleged comments made by Anton Goff regarding Tom Pecora and the St. John's job in 2015, Goff was at Hartford at the time so who would have fed him Pecora's feelings regarding St. John's?
I'll give you two guesses.[/quote]

Goff's comments about Pecora being very pissed when Mullin got the job over him is not alleged...he literally said it to me in person lol. As for how Goff knew that, idk.
 
[quote="Mike Zaun" post=288541][quote="Class of 72" post=288521][quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.



I believe you, he was fuming when Lavin got the job over him in 2011.

He has quite an ego for the fact he has done really nothing in his career as a head coach. For all the success Jay Wright had at Hofstra he never kept it to that level. Admittedly it was tougher due to moving conferences

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

I agree Pecora has had as mediocre a career in college basketball as our own head coach but on March 28, 2017, Pecora was hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac so he wasn't unemployed for very long was he!
As for the alleged comments made by Anton Goff regarding Tom Pecora and the St. John's job in 2015, Goff was at Hartford at the time so who would have fed him Pecora's feelings regarding St. John's?
I'll give you two guesses.[/quote]

Goff's comments about Pecora being very pissed when Mullin got the job over him is not alleged...he literally said it to me in person lol. As for how Goff knew that, idk.[/quote]








I believe you, he was fuming when Lavin got the job over him in 2011.

He has quite an ego for the fact he has done really nothing in his career as a head coach. For all the success Jay Wright had at Hofstra he never kept it to that level. Admittedly it was tougher due to moving conferences
 
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[quote="Mike Zaun" post=288541][quote="Class of 72" post=288521][quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

I agree Pecora has had as mediocre a career in college basketball as our own head coach but on March 28, 2017, Pecora was hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac so he wasn't unemployed for very long was he!
As for the alleged comments made by Anton Goff regarding Tom Pecora and the St. John's job in 2015, Goff was at Hartford at the time so who would have fed him Pecora's feelings regarding St. John's?
I'll give you two guesses.[/quote]

Goff's comments about Pecora being very pissed when Mullin got the job over him is not alleged...he literally said it to me in person lol. As for how Goff knew that, idk.[/quote]

Goff couldn't pick Pecora out of a line up in 2015. The inquiring mind that you are, you should have asked him where he got that profane laced impression of him! Perhaps another redmen wino fed it to him???
As for the use of profanity playing any part in the dismissal of our "public figure" athletic admin, HOGWASH!
If that were a factor Mullin would have been fired after season two. I heard more "F" bombs from Mully that season than all the Roberts and Lavin seasons combined.
Dig a little deeper for the truth next time Mikey.
 
[quote="Class of 72" post=288546][quote="Mike Zaun" post=288541][quote="Class of 72" post=288521][quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

I agree Pecora has had as mediocre a career in college basketball as our own head coach but on March 28, 2017, Pecora was hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac so he wasn't unemployed for very long was he!
As for the alleged comments made by Anton Goff regarding Tom Pecora and the St. John's job in 2015, Goff was at Hartford at the time so who would have fed him Pecora's feelings regarding St. John's?
I'll give you two guesses.[/quote]

Goff's comments about Pecora being very pissed when Mullin got the job over him is not alleged...he literally said it to me in person lol. As for how Goff knew that, idk.[/quote]

Goff couldn't pick Pecora out of a line up in 2015. The inquiring mind that you are, you should have asked him where he got that profane laced impression of him! Perhaps another redmen wino fed it to him???
As for the use of profanity playing any part in the dismissal of our "public figure" athletic admin, HOGWASH!
If that were a factor Mullin would have been fired after season two. I heard more "F" bombs from Mully that season than all the Roberts and Lavin seasons combined.
Dig a little deeper for the truth next time Mikey.[/quote]

Thanks 72. I didn't want to keep refuting horsecrap. Pecora is genrally known in coaching circles as one of the all time good guys. It's absolutely asinine to say Wright wouldn't want him close to his staff, but then would advocate to both Pecora and Baker Dunleavy to work together - as if Wright would submarine one of his assistants in his first HC gig.

The fact is that Pecora bombed at Fordham (like everyone else since Digger Phelps had a magical season 100 years ago and flew the coop), he did well enough at Hofstra to get a pretty nice bump in pay from Fordham. I'm sure Wright was thinking that Baker needed a year or two of help form an experienced HC, and by then something would open up for TP.

TP really isn't needed here at present. He is more of a bench coach than recruiter, and I think with St. Jean and Mullin's increased involvement on the sidelines, 3 would be a crowd.
 
[quote="Manhattan1" post=288492][quote="Beast of the East" post=288490]7[quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

No one implied or stated that pecora had big time success at Hofstra. By the same token as Wright's top assistant at Hofstra he was part of that success, where during that time they passed us as the bnb top program in the area.

If he wasn't an able assistant, Wright wouldn't have suggested to Dunleavy to hire him.

What I did say, and what the post article suggested at the time of his hire was that turning around Fordham would be a very difficult job.

Apparently folks who know college sports and not just blog about it here thought enough of him to hire him at Hofstra, the Fordham, and as an assistant at Quinnipiac.

If people here give credit to Dunlap for lavins success, does pecora deserve his share as a wright assistant back then.

We could do far worse than adding a guy who knows basketball and is well liked by area hs coaches to our staff.

I was simply responding to a supposed conversation a poster had with Goff with Goff bashing Pecora profanely.[/quote]


Ive heard pecora has had similar issues to Goff. No way st johns would hire him.

If pecora was clean he would be at nova but he is not and that is a fact why Jay has not hired him[/quote]

This is total BS. Complete BS. Borderline defamation. Back up your comment you clown, or else take it down.
 
[quote="Class of 72" post=288521][quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

I agree Pecora has had as mediocre a career in college basketball as our own head coach but on March 28, 2017, Pecora was hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac so he wasn't unemployed for very long was he!
As for the alleged comments made by Anton Goff regarding Tom Pecora and the St. John's job in 2015, Goff was at Hartford at the time so who would have fed him Pecora's feelings regarding St. John's?
I'll give you two guesses.[/quote]

Either Pecora himself or someone else inside. SJU reached out Pecora and told him they wanted to bring him in and were considering hiring him. They never followed up with him and left him to dry with no update. That's why he was pissed about it, more so related to the professionalism of it, or lack thereof for that matter.
 
[quote="Chris7" post=288559][quote="Class of 72" post=288521][quote="otis" post=288484]Mr. Pecora was fired 2 full seasons ago and there seemingly has not been a rush of offers for him to resume his coaching career.

A number of above posts imply that Pecora had big time success at Hofstra. His 9 season win loss percent at Hofstra was a mediocre 55% never finishing higher than 3rd in the Colonial Athletic Association and never qualifying for the NCAAs.

Pecora’s overall 14 season career winning percent as a head coach is 46%. His Fordham team finished “DFL” 4 of the 5 years he was at the school.[/quote]

I agree Pecora has had as mediocre a career in college basketball as our own head coach but on March 28, 2017, Pecora was hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac so he wasn't unemployed for very long was he!
As for the alleged comments made by Anton Goff regarding Tom Pecora and the St. John's job in 2015, Goff was at Hartford at the time so who would have fed him Pecora's feelings regarding St. John's?
I'll give you two guesses.[/quote]

Either Pecora himself or someone else inside. SJU reached out Pecora and told him they wanted to bring him in and were considering hiring him. They never followed up with him and left him to dry with no update. That's why he was pissed about it, more so related to the professionalism of it, or lack thereof for that matter.[/quote]

They did a nice job vetting Goff, too.
 
I am not sure if Anton Goff is leaving, as is rumored in this thread, or not. However I always appreciated both his presence and positive energy at Carnesecca Arena during our home games. He was consistently visible to and engaging with fans in the Arena. I also sensed he was invested and cared about the program.

I have no personal knowledge or information about why he might be leaving but the talk of his potential departure motivated me to look up his introductory press conference here (see link below). It is worth a look IMO.

 
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[quote="ghostzapper" post=288578]I am not sure if Anton Goff is leaving, as is rumored in this thread, or not. However I always appreciated both his presence and positive energy at Carnesecca Arena during our home games. He was consistently visible to and engaging with fans in the Arena. I also sensed he was invested and cared about the program.

I have no personal knowledge or information about why he might be leaving but the talk of his potential departure motivated me to look up his introductory press conference here (see link below). It is worth a look IMO.

[/quote]

Agreed regarding his personality. Unlike his predecessor, who was always dour and couldn't be bothered speaking to fans and alumni, Goff was a breath of fresh air, engaging and a passionate fan. If you met him more than once you'd get a hug the next time instead of a handshake.

Whatever the reasons for him leaving you cannot dispute that he was friendly, warm, and engaging.
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=288605][quote="Paultzman" post=288603]Workplace comportment counts.[/quote]

Paultz obviously studying for the SAT's[/quote]

Context clues helped me guess...google confirmed :)
 
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