Around the Big East 18/19

Agree, 2019-20 is shaping up as a challenging year for St. John's and the new Iron Mike era to begin.
As said previously, it'll be the foundational year in which CMA establishes his culture, the team buys-in, and we shock a few teams in-conference and OOC.
Fuel for 2020-21...and after.
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=351340]Per Jake Weingarten
Five-star Chet Holmgren has booked two unofficial visits for this weekend: He will visit Georgetown and Maryland, a source told @Stockrisers. 7-footer is having an amazing spring.
2021 player[/quote]

I guess Patrick Ewing's ability to recruit top notch big men was underestimated. In fact, his ability to rebuild Gtown at all was underestimated. Appears to be doing a very credible job, after what appeared to be a me too hire.
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=351348][quote="Paultzman" post=351340]Per Jake Weingarten
Five-star Chet Holmgren has booked two unofficial visits for this weekend: He will visit Georgetown and Maryland, a source told @Stockrisers. 7-footer is having an amazing spring.
2021 player[/quote]

I guess Patrick Ewing's ability to recruit top notch big men was underestimated. In fact, his ability to rebuild Gtown at all was underestimated. Appears to be doing a very credible job, after what appeared to be a me too hire.[/quote]

Agreed. I perceive Patrick to have a strong work ethic. I also think succeeding in this job means a lot to him.
 
Ewing put in his time as an AC in the NBA for a few teams and felt he deserved a head coaching opportunity. He definitely is highly motivated to succeed at Gtown and has always been a hard worker.
 
Ironic, but I think that CMA is highly-motivated to succeed at St. John's as well...for different reasons.
Should be a fun 'ride' the next few years.
 
[quote="NCJohnnie" post=351356]Ewing put in his time as an AC in the NBA for a few teams and felt he deserved a head coaching opportunity. He definitely is highly motivated to succeed at Gtown and has always been a hard worker.[/quote]

I'm skeptical about the value of being an NBA assistant compared to a college HC. Not sure how good he is with game strategy, but he certainly is recruiting well. His legacy in the NBA and at Gtown probably carries a lot more credibility than Mullin's did at SJU and GS, but not to discredit Ewing, who appears to be working very hard at building a winner.
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=351359][quote="NCJohnnie" post=351356]Ewing put in his time as an AC in the NBA for a few teams and felt he deserved a head coaching opportunity. He definitely is highly motivated to succeed at Gtown and has always been a hard worker.[/quote]

I'm skeptical about the value of being an NBA assistant compared to a college HC. Not sure how good he is with game strategy, but he certainly is recruiting well. His legacy in the NBA and at Gtown probably carries a lot more credibility than Mullin's did at SJU and GS, but not to discredit Ewing, who appears to be working very hard at building a winner.[/quote] I don't think his legacy over Mullins legacy is the reason. He has exp coaching, seems to have worked harder than Mullin at recruiting, and put together a better overall staff.
 
I think the only difference between Mullin and Ewing is that Ewing is committed and puts in the effort needed. I don't think either are good coaches IMO. Ewing's work ethic and staff construction have helped him recruit well and it's been paying off. I feel G'Town is 1 legit big man away from being in the top 25 all year. Even though I will have minimal expectations this year since only Heron and Fig are true Big East starters, it will be more fun having targets on the back of several ranked teams.
 
Patrick is not stubborn like Chris, and has the self confidence and lack of ego to know his own limitations. That led him to hire two uber-experienced lead assistants to guide him. Chris, on the other hand, after Slice left went 3 seasons with 3 assistants who had no idea what they were doing. This will never make sense to me (or i'd imagine most others on here).
 
Mike Zaun wrote: I feel G'Town is 1 legit big man away from being in the top 25 all year.

They will have Omar Yurtseven, 7'0 275 pound transfer from NC State where he averaged 14 point & 7 rebounds and shot 50% from three. Gtown should be much improved this year despite losing Govan.
 
Not to mention he hired a balanced staff. Mullin could have used a Louie Orr in the worst way.


[quote="JohnnyFan" post=351353][quote="Beast of the East" post=351348][quote="Paultzman" post=351340]Per Jake Weingarten
Five-star Chet Holmgren has booked two unofficial visits for this weekend: He will visit Georgetown and Maryland, a source told @Stockrisers. 7-footer is having an amazing spring.
2021 player[/quote]

I guess Patrick Ewing's ability to recruit top notch big men was underestimated. In fact, his ability to rebuild Gtown at all was underestimated. Appears to be doing a very credible job, after what appeared to be a me too hire.[/quote]

Agreed. I perceive Patrick to have a strong work ethic. I also think succeeding in this job means a lot to him.[/quote]
 
[quote="Rob" post=351404]Not to mention he hired a balanced staff. Mullin could have used a Louie Orr in the worst way.


[quote="JohnnyFan" post=351353][quote="Beast of the East" post=351348][quote="Paultzman" post=351340]Per Jake Weingarten
Five-star Chet Holmgren has booked two unofficial visits for this weekend: He will visit Georgetown and Maryland, a source told @Stockrisers. 7-footer is having an amazing spring.
2021 player[/quote]

I guess Patrick Ewing's ability to recruit top notch big men was underestimated. In fact, his ability to rebuild Gtown at all was underestimated. Appears to be doing a very credible job, after what appeared to be a me too hire.[/quote]

Agreed. I perceive Patrick to have a strong work ethic. I also think succeeding in this job means a lot to him.[/quote][/quote]

#1) I do not know the constraints put on Chris financially not to hire another assistant once the school had a multi year commitment to Slice. I have no idea what he was asked to do, or volunteered to do. Remember, once federally subsidized student loans went away, the school had a financial crisis with freshmen enrollment dropping by 500. Bobby G. froze salaries and instituted belt tightening across the board. That being said, Mullin was allowed to waste money on Mitch, which I believe was not an insignificant factor in his release.

#2) Although Mullin recruiting effort has been questioned, my point is that with inner city kids I believe Georgetown and Ewing always resonated much stronger than St. John's and Mullin. I worked uptown Manhattan in our Mullin years, and just about every inner city kid wearing college gear (mostly expensive jackets, and there was a ton of those kids), wore Georgetown stuff. All in all, Ewing was the beast of college basketball, the number 1 pic of the draft, and did his NBA work on some very good New York teams. As such he was much more visible than Mullin, who played largely for non contending teams on the West Coast.
 
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Arrested at least 33 times and released early after a prior vicious assault, that says it all.
 
Zagoria
Seton Hall announces AD Pat Lyons has been promoted to Executive VP for Operations and Chief of Staff. The school will begin a national search for a new AD.
 
FYI alert...ESPN Classic has on an Arkansas game from 2015 right now and another one at 5pm also from 2015.
 
Good player. but injury prone it appears

“Marquette's Greg Elliott will miss 3-4 months after undergoing ankle surgery, per release. Redshirted last season for the Golden Eagles”
Rothstein
 
Somebody watched the draft..........

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except he can get his college degree anytime. If you have a chance to go in the first round of the NBA draft, you take it.
 
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