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Las Vegan said:
I watched the second half of the West Virginia - Iowa State game last night and Joe Toussaint was the best player on the court and led the Moutaineers to a win which might have clinched an NCAA bid. He can hit threes, handles the ball at crucial times, went six for six from the line, in the last two minutes, and defends like Posh did as a frosh. He would have been a major player for SJU.
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He was great last night. If only……..
 
RM86 said:
He was great last night. If only……..
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While Touissaint had a great game last night and stars don’t always tell the story, overall his stats (better than Andre’) are not eye popping.

PTS 9.8
REB 2.9
AST 2.7
FG% 37.7

Of course probably less drama.
 
He blew the end of the game over the weekend along with a few questionable incidents earlier in the 2nd half. Seemed to lose his cool a bit. Steady player though.
 
Syracuse getting their doors blown off by Georgia Tech at home. A Georgia Tech team that is going nowhere and will probably fire their coach, Pastner.

This will be 4 losses in a row all by double digits (Duke -22, Clemson -18, Pitt -17 and now G-Tech).

Syracuse is not anywhere near the NCAA's which will make 2 years in a row they don't even sniff the NCAA's. And the ACC is not even that good.

I just don't understand how Jimmy justifies staying on.
 
austour said:
He blew the end of the game over the weekend along with a few questionable incidents earlier in the 2nd half. Seemed to lose his cool a bit. Steady player though.
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That's true. He performed poorly at the end of the Oklahoma game, but Huggins and staff love him and he plays about twenty minutes. He doesn't start, but usually finishes the game. His defense is probably best part of his game. He would start at SJU.
 

MSN

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Top guy? We all know who it is.

RICK PITINO: Pitino should likely be the odds on favorite but it’s anybody’s guess how the administration views him as a candidate. If there were no baggage, he’d be a no brainer. He still likely the top candidate. At what other time would you back into one of the best coaches in the history of college hoops telling you he has five to six good years left, his goal is to make another Final Four, and he more or less is willing to walk to D.C. for this job? On top of that, he may be the least expensive candidate out there—requiring no buyout and likely only a semi-lucrative contract. CBS Sports thinks he Georgetown is somewhere he could pick, and his recent complaints about a single-bid conference make folks think he’s ready to get back in a high-major conference. The main competition for Pitino looks to be South Florida and St. John’s, but in reality the only people standing between Pitino and Georgetown are those making the final decision on the next coach. It would be negligence to not give him a legitimate interview.

Here are 10 great quotes from Norlander’s piece:

  1. “I’ve been doing this for 45 years ... and I’m more excited about doing it now than I was even when I was 40, because I know it’s not going to go on forever.”
  2. “I want to coach five or six more years ... I still exercise like a demon. I still get after it. And as long as you do that [and] your mind is sharp.”
  3. “I want to do something special, whether it’s at Iona or it doesn’t matter. I want to do something special, and I think we are doing something special.”
  4. “It would have to be someplace really, really special with the type of president that I have here ... Now, it’s easy. I got exonerated by the NCAA, they said you didn’t do anything, now it’s easy to hire me. But [Iona AD] Seamus Carey didn’t have that guarantee.”
  5. “[Pitino] still gets to the gym before 8 a.m. most days and does individual workouts with his bigs, then the wings, then the guards.”
  6. “Minimal commute time has been huge for [Pintino’s] productivity, which includes near-weekly fundraising. Nearly $2 million has been raised to overhaul Iona’s athletic facilities and offices ... with $400,000-$500,000 coming from friends in Kentucky.”
  7. “I was offered three really good jobs last year ... But I told the one job, it was a big-time job, I said, ‘Look, I’ve got a $5 million buyout. I had $10 million prior to that. I’m not worth that.’”
  8. “In the offseason, Pitino went to [AD Seamus] Carey and had his buyout taken down to $0, making him easier to pluck.”
  9. “I have no idea what the answer is about where I’ll be or what I’ll do,” Pitino said. “I know I love the place. I know I’m eight minutes away. I know I love Winged Foot … I do know that there’s certain places and there’s 20 or 30 states where I don’t want to live.”
  10. “Many of those states are covered by Big Ten country, a conference Pitino said he’d never work in after his son, Richard, was fired by one of the league’s schools (Minnesota). With no eagerness to leave New Rochelle, Pitino will be picky if schools come calling.”
 
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Jack Williams said:
“How is this not getting more attention?” Jaeson wondered aloud last week. “I would’ve thought people would be making a bigger deal of it.”

Probably because it has taken 5 years. I can't wait until every player that was affected by covid in college athletics is out of the picture honestly. It is just weird. I am glad they got to make up for lost time but goddamn there are some old heads in college sports now
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Davis fell 4 points short.
 
Sign of the times. Impact transfers are so big now.

You want to know why Boeheim is struggling and whining about NIL and buying players, he brought in 6 freshmen. A couple of real good ones to be fair. The only player in his top 10 that is a transfer is Symir Torrence from Marquette. All 5 of his starters are Syracuse recruited players, Judah Mintz, Joe Girard, Chris Bell, Benny Williams and Jesse Edwards. How many high major teams today have no transfers in their current starting 5 or don't have at least 2 or 3 in their top 7 or 8 players? Seriously?

Jimmy is trying to do it the old way and that won't work.

 
fordham96 said:
Sign of the times. Impact transfers are so big now.

You want to know why Boeheim is struggling and whining about NIL and buying players, he brought in 6 freshmen. A couple of real good ones to be fair. The only player in his top 10 that is a transfer is Symir Torrence from Marquette. All 5 of his starters are Syracuse recruited players, Judah Mintz, Joe Girard, Chris Bell, Benny Williams and Jesse Edwards. How many high major teams today have no transfers in their current starting 5 or don't have at least 2 or 3 in their top 7 or 8 players? Seriously?

Jimmy is trying to do it the old way and that won't work.

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I wonder how that relates to 5 years ago and 10 years ago. I’m not sure the number of true freshman double digit scorers then would be much higher than it is now
 
Are the top 100 recruits spread mostly among great teams who also have lured top transfers who then steal minutes and touches that top 100 kids would have gotten in the past?

It seems like a vicious cycle that top 100 kids can beat simply by going to schools like St. John's. 😁
 
fordham96 said:
Sign of the times. Impact transfers are so big now.

You want to know why Boeheim is struggling and whining about NIL and buying players, he brought in 6 freshmen. A couple of real good ones to be fair. The only player in his top 10 that is a transfer is Symir Torrence from Marquette. All 5 of his starters are Syracuse recruited players, Judah Mintz, Joe Girard, Chris Bell, Benny Williams and Jesse Edwards. How many high major teams today have no transfers in their current starting 5 or don't have at least 2 or 3 in their top 7 or 8 players? Seriously?

Jimmy is trying to do it the old way and that won't work.

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I just checked every corner of my apartment again, and I still could not find a an ounce of sympathy anywhere (I know that was not the point of your post).

Those pesky NILs are in the way of Syracuse paying players the old fashioned way.
 
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