Around the Big East 19/20
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[quote="Duke of Earlington" post=389494][quote="Paultzman" post=389489]Creighton’s McDermott on UConn/Hurley
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“There’s probably a feeling of some unfinished business,” McDermott said. “We were playing our best basketball. Our guys were really excited about the opportunity to play in the NCAA [Tournament] and how well we were playing. We felt like were in a really good place.”
I guess mcdermott is forgetting they were getting pushed around AGAIN by St johns until the game was canceled. Like Iron mike said, "Creighton was in trouble."[/quote]
Nice to be bold and confident. As of right now we have given Creighton bulletin board material so we better be able to back it up. If you are going to talk the talk you had better walk the walk. Puts more pressure on CMA to get results. Hope we live up to the bravado.
[URL]https://www.courant.com/sports...0200609-qd6dan5ldzhwdmevuoho67i63a-story.html[/URL][/quote]
“There’s probably a feeling of some unfinished business,” McDermott said. “We were playing our best basketball. Our guys were really excited about the opportunity to play in the NCAA [Tournament] and how well we were playing. We felt like were in a really good place.”
I guess mcdermott is forgetting they were getting pushed around AGAIN by St johns until the game was canceled. Like Iron mike said, "Creighton was in trouble."[/quote]
Nice to be bold and confident. As of right now we have given Creighton bulletin board material so we better be able to back it up. If you are going to talk the talk you had better walk the walk. Puts more pressure on CMA to get results. Hope we live up to the bravado.
MarkRedman
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[quote="Paultzman" post=389509]Per Fox Sports
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Obviously, this was based solely upon Fox Sports numerical ranking of each player not on the potential value that the player might have to his team next season.
I'll go out on a limb and predict that Posh will be a member of the first team All Big East Rookie Team next season
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Obviously, this was based solely upon Fox Sports numerical ranking of each player not on the potential value that the player might have to his team next season.
I'll go out on a limb and predict that Posh will be a member of the first team All Big East Rookie Team next season
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MakingPlays
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[quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Did I count this wrong... MQ only going with 11 non-conference games? Even with the Big East moving to a 20 game schedule, shouldn't they get 12?
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Did I count this wrong... MQ only going with 11 non-conference games? Even with the Big East moving to a 20 game schedule, shouldn't they get 12?
2022 UConn target & apparently in good shop, potentially stocking up on bigs
On and off the court, one word to describe Donovan Clingan: Gritty. The seven-footer lost his mother two years ago to Breast Cancer, now, he plays in her honor. It’s no secret that he isn’t just ‘tall’ but that the kid from Bristol, CT, could flat out hoop.
He holds offers from several programs including the local powerhouse, UConn, Syracuse, Georgetown, Providence, and UMass. Being from Bristol, many think that the Huskies could be the current likely destination for Clingan, but, that hasn’t stopped other national powerhouses from expressing interest in him.
“Michigan State and Michigan,” are among the programs who have expressed interest in Clingan, he told Stockrisers.com. He said that some others have also expressed interest but he didn’t know off of his head, probably due to the fact that 2022’s can’t be contacted by coaches.
That changes next week.
Clingan has no clue who will call him when the clock strikes midnight on June 15th, but, I fully expect several coaches including UConn’s Danny Hurley to reach out. Highlighting the connection between Clingan and the Huskies, Hurley’s son Drew plays at East Catholic high school where he’s lead them to the state title once before, one of their marquee opponents: Bristol Central.
What does that mean? Hurley has seen Clingan several times, even when he is really just at the games watching his son. In addition, he was able to visit UConn three times this past season as well as visits to Syracuse and Providence.
https://stockrisers.com/2020/06/11/2022-fyi-donovan-clingan/
On and off the court, one word to describe Donovan Clingan: Gritty. The seven-footer lost his mother two years ago to Breast Cancer, now, he plays in her honor. It’s no secret that he isn’t just ‘tall’ but that the kid from Bristol, CT, could flat out hoop.
He holds offers from several programs including the local powerhouse, UConn, Syracuse, Georgetown, Providence, and UMass. Being from Bristol, many think that the Huskies could be the current likely destination for Clingan, but, that hasn’t stopped other national powerhouses from expressing interest in him.
“Michigan State and Michigan,” are among the programs who have expressed interest in Clingan, he told Stockrisers.com. He said that some others have also expressed interest but he didn’t know off of his head, probably due to the fact that 2022’s can’t be contacted by coaches.
That changes next week.
Clingan has no clue who will call him when the clock strikes midnight on June 15th, but, I fully expect several coaches including UConn’s Danny Hurley to reach out. Highlighting the connection between Clingan and the Huskies, Hurley’s son Drew plays at East Catholic high school where he’s lead them to the state title once before, one of their marquee opponents: Bristol Central.
What does that mean? Hurley has seen Clingan several times, even when he is really just at the games watching his son. In addition, he was able to visit UConn three times this past season as well as visits to Syracuse and Providence.
https://stockrisers.com/2020/06/11/2022-fyi-donovan-clingan/
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While the calendar may read June, that doesn’t mean coaches aren’t up at night thinking about what their team could look like come November. For Butler head coach LaVall Jordan, the backcourt and late-game situations specifically will have a very different look in the 2020-21 campaign. That has much to do with the graduation of All-BIG EAST First Team selection and Jerry West Award finalist Kamar Baldwin, who finished his Bulldogs career with 1,956 career points, good for fourth in program history.
“When you have a guy as good as Kamar Baldwin walk out the door, you don’t know exactly right now how things will look once the season starts,” said Jordan. “But in our program, it’s always a next-man-up mentality to do the job. When Kelan Martin, a great player in our history, graduated, it just meant others had to step up and we saw that. We’re going to find out after this summer who has put forth the best individual efforts that they can make.”
Jordan will find that out from both a four-member senior class, led by returning starters Aaron Thompson and Bryce Nze, as well as a youth movement. The fourth-year head coach will usher in the highest ranked recruiting class in program history, currently tabbed at 41st in the 247sports.com rankings.
“Versatility really sticks out to me with the freshman group,” said Jordan, who played at Butler 1997-2001. “You’ve got a really versatile player in Scooby Johnson, who can play and defend multiple positions at 6-foot-6.”
Johnson is the highest ranked player in the class at No. 141 overall according to 247sports.com, with point guards Chuck Harris and Myles Tate as well as center Jakobe Coles all filling out in the Top 160 of those rankings.
While Jordan doesn’t know what to fully expect from the group yet, he said one thing that is certain about the 2020-21 edition of the Bulldogs: “Defense will be a non-negotiable.”
After leading the BIG EAST and finishing 11th in the nation in scoring defense at 62.1 points per game, the groundwork has been laid for a defensive identity to continue. With Butler losing nearly 70 percent of its scoring from last year, that will be magnified.
Let’s transition from Butler to a school roughly 120 miles away right down I-74. The Xavier Musketeers lose two high-impact stars in Naji Marshall, who declared for the NBA Draft this spring, and senior Tyrique Jones.
That being said, Travis Steele will bring in a consensus Top-25 recruiting class powered by four-star guards Dwon Odom and C.J. Wilcher. The talent is in place for the Musketeers to once again contend in the conference, with rising senior Paul Scruggs returning and an intriguing duo in rising sophomore guard Kyky Tandy and forward Zach Freemantle, both of whom were on the BIG EAST All-Freshman Team. The talent isn’t the focus, though. The Musketeers are using the offseason to continually stress something different.
“We’ve got to have better communication,” said Freemantle. “It’s got to get better both on and off the court, but mostly on the court, we’ve got to make sure everybody is on the same page with what we are doing.”
Like many freshmen, Freemantle seemed to find that page late in the season, turning on the jets and averaging 10 points and six rebounds per game over Xavier’s final nine contests of the season. That stemmed back to a moment in which Steele lit a fire underneath him.
“The coaches told me they wanted me to score and to produce,” said Freemantle, who said he battled through striking that balance between aggressiveness and making the right play in his first season. “My coaches didn’t want me to just take up space. And that really hit me that if I’m going to get on a roll, it’s time to do it.”
Freemantle’s late-season surge was highlighted by a Feb. 17 victory at Madison Square Garden over St. John’s, in which the New Jersey native hit the game-winning shot in his first game at the arena he grew up dreaming of playing in.
The rising sophomore is expected to be a mainstay for the Musketeers’ future, and one of the better post players in the BIG EAST.
Finally, Julius Erving Award winner and All-BIG EAST First Team selection Saddiq Bey made it official that he would stay in the NBA Draft this October, and depart from Villanova. The sophomore is coming off a season in which he made a major rise, averaging over 16 points per game, finishing fourth in the nation at over 45 percent from beyond the arc and taking on the role as the Wildcats' lead defender.
"There's not a better time than right now for Saddiq to go into the draft," said his head coach Jay Wright. "He can help a team immediately, and also has a very high upside that can help a team grow going forward."
Wright said his initial anticipation for Bey when the Largo, Md., native came to Villanova as a freshman in 2018 was that he could be an NBA Draft pick following his four-year career. But with a physical frame that he likened to seven-time NBA champion Robert Horry added with his ball handling ability, Wright saw a rise that is unique to the program.
In the likely event that Bey is drafted, he will become the seventh Villanova player in the last four years to get selected. In the previous 16 years, the Wildcats had five combined.
Elsewhere, three of the 12 players who tested the draft waters have yet to finalize a decision. Seton Hall's Sandro Mamukelashvili and Creighton's Denzel Mahoney and Damien Jefferson will have until the Aug. 3 deadline to decide whether they are returning to school or staying in the draft. With both of those teams projected as NCAA Tournament teams in 2021, these decisions are ones to continue to keep an eye on.
http://www.bigeast.com/news/2020/6/11/mens-basketball-bigeasthoops-summer-notebook.aspx
“When you have a guy as good as Kamar Baldwin walk out the door, you don’t know exactly right now how things will look once the season starts,” said Jordan. “But in our program, it’s always a next-man-up mentality to do the job. When Kelan Martin, a great player in our history, graduated, it just meant others had to step up and we saw that. We’re going to find out after this summer who has put forth the best individual efforts that they can make.”
Jordan will find that out from both a four-member senior class, led by returning starters Aaron Thompson and Bryce Nze, as well as a youth movement. The fourth-year head coach will usher in the highest ranked recruiting class in program history, currently tabbed at 41st in the 247sports.com rankings.
“Versatility really sticks out to me with the freshman group,” said Jordan, who played at Butler 1997-2001. “You’ve got a really versatile player in Scooby Johnson, who can play and defend multiple positions at 6-foot-6.”
Johnson is the highest ranked player in the class at No. 141 overall according to 247sports.com, with point guards Chuck Harris and Myles Tate as well as center Jakobe Coles all filling out in the Top 160 of those rankings.
While Jordan doesn’t know what to fully expect from the group yet, he said one thing that is certain about the 2020-21 edition of the Bulldogs: “Defense will be a non-negotiable.”
After leading the BIG EAST and finishing 11th in the nation in scoring defense at 62.1 points per game, the groundwork has been laid for a defensive identity to continue. With Butler losing nearly 70 percent of its scoring from last year, that will be magnified.
Let’s transition from Butler to a school roughly 120 miles away right down I-74. The Xavier Musketeers lose two high-impact stars in Naji Marshall, who declared for the NBA Draft this spring, and senior Tyrique Jones.
That being said, Travis Steele will bring in a consensus Top-25 recruiting class powered by four-star guards Dwon Odom and C.J. Wilcher. The talent is in place for the Musketeers to once again contend in the conference, with rising senior Paul Scruggs returning and an intriguing duo in rising sophomore guard Kyky Tandy and forward Zach Freemantle, both of whom were on the BIG EAST All-Freshman Team. The talent isn’t the focus, though. The Musketeers are using the offseason to continually stress something different.
“We’ve got to have better communication,” said Freemantle. “It’s got to get better both on and off the court, but mostly on the court, we’ve got to make sure everybody is on the same page with what we are doing.”
Like many freshmen, Freemantle seemed to find that page late in the season, turning on the jets and averaging 10 points and six rebounds per game over Xavier’s final nine contests of the season. That stemmed back to a moment in which Steele lit a fire underneath him.
“The coaches told me they wanted me to score and to produce,” said Freemantle, who said he battled through striking that balance between aggressiveness and making the right play in his first season. “My coaches didn’t want me to just take up space. And that really hit me that if I’m going to get on a roll, it’s time to do it.”
Freemantle’s late-season surge was highlighted by a Feb. 17 victory at Madison Square Garden over St. John’s, in which the New Jersey native hit the game-winning shot in his first game at the arena he grew up dreaming of playing in.
The rising sophomore is expected to be a mainstay for the Musketeers’ future, and one of the better post players in the BIG EAST.
Finally, Julius Erving Award winner and All-BIG EAST First Team selection Saddiq Bey made it official that he would stay in the NBA Draft this October, and depart from Villanova. The sophomore is coming off a season in which he made a major rise, averaging over 16 points per game, finishing fourth in the nation at over 45 percent from beyond the arc and taking on the role as the Wildcats' lead defender.
"There's not a better time than right now for Saddiq to go into the draft," said his head coach Jay Wright. "He can help a team immediately, and also has a very high upside that can help a team grow going forward."
Wright said his initial anticipation for Bey when the Largo, Md., native came to Villanova as a freshman in 2018 was that he could be an NBA Draft pick following his four-year career. But with a physical frame that he likened to seven-time NBA champion Robert Horry added with his ball handling ability, Wright saw a rise that is unique to the program.
In the likely event that Bey is drafted, he will become the seventh Villanova player in the last four years to get selected. In the previous 16 years, the Wildcats had five combined.
Elsewhere, three of the 12 players who tested the draft waters have yet to finalize a decision. Seton Hall's Sandro Mamukelashvili and Creighton's Denzel Mahoney and Damien Jefferson will have until the Aug. 3 deadline to decide whether they are returning to school or staying in the draft. With both of those teams projected as NCAA Tournament teams in 2021, these decisions are ones to continue to keep an eye on.
http://www.bigeast.com/news/2020/6/11/mens-basketball-bigeasthoops-summer-notebook.aspx
MarkRedman
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[quote="Making Plays" post=389596][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Did I count this wrong... MQ only going with 11 non-conference games? Even with the Big East moving to a 20 game schedule, shouldn't they get 12?[/quote]
No - regular season max is 31 games
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Did I count this wrong... MQ only going with 11 non-conference games? Even with the Big East moving to a 20 game schedule, shouldn't they get 12?[/quote]
No - regular season max is 31 games
MarkRedman
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[quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?
[quote="MarkRedman" post=389609][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
Broken mimeograph machine
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
Broken mimeograph machine
[quote="MarkRedman" post=389609][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
It is hard for us to put a schedule together because as many on this board are want to say, NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY US!
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
It is hard for us to put a schedule together because as many on this board are want to say, NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY US!
Moose
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[quote="MarkRedman" post=389609][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
Teams that play in NBA/NHL arenas have to take place in line behind them in making schedule. This year will be even worse.
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
Teams that play in NBA/NHL arenas have to take place in line behind them in making schedule. This year will be even worse.
[quote="Moose" post=389595][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Pretty solid OOC[/quote]
General comment about Marquette, but I'm a bit surprised Wojo is still hear and now entering his 7th season as Marquette head coach. I thought for certain he'd use this as a springboard to a bigger gig. I know the results have been mixed, but he certainly hasn't been bad.
Overall, have to be really happy that the Big East has been able to retain the majority of their top coaches. Obviously lost Chris Mack and Chris Holtman, but both have been replaced with successful picks.
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Pretty solid OOC[/quote]
General comment about Marquette, but I'm a bit surprised Wojo is still hear and now entering his 7th season as Marquette head coach. I thought for certain he'd use this as a springboard to a bigger gig. I know the results have been mixed, but he certainly hasn't been bad.
Overall, have to be really happy that the Big East has been able to retain the majority of their top coaches. Obviously lost Chris Mack and Chris Holtman, but both have been replaced with successful picks.
L J S A
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[quote="Room112" post=389622][quote="Moose" post=389595][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Pretty solid OOC[/quote]
General comment about Marquette, but I'm a bit surprised Wojo is still hear and now entering his 7th season as Marquette head coach. I thought for certain he'd use this as a springboard to a bigger gig. I know the results have been mixed, but he certainly hasn't been bad.[/quote]
He has a really good budget there, so lateral move program level-wise doesn't make sense. Unless he lands a premier job, he may as well stay put.
There will be stiff competition for that eventual Duke opening, but if the Maryland job ever opened, I think he'd actively pursue it.
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Pretty solid OOC[/quote]
General comment about Marquette, but I'm a bit surprised Wojo is still hear and now entering his 7th season as Marquette head coach. I thought for certain he'd use this as a springboard to a bigger gig. I know the results have been mixed, but he certainly hasn't been bad.[/quote]
He has a really good budget there, so lateral move program level-wise doesn't make sense. Unless he lands a premier job, he may as well stay put.
There will be stiff competition for that eventual Duke opening, but if the Maryland job ever opened, I think he'd actively pursue it.
MarkRedman
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[quote="Moose" post=389616][quote="MarkRedman" post=389609][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
Teams that play in NBA/NHL arenas have to take place in line behind them in making schedule. This year will be even worse.[/quote]
Marquette plays in an NBA arena, no?
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
Teams that play in NBA/NHL arenas have to take place in line behind them in making schedule. This year will be even worse.[/quote]
Marquette plays in an NBA arena, no?
Moose
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[quote="MarkRedman" post=389630][quote="Moose" post=389616][quote="MarkRedman" post=389609][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
Teams that play in NBA/NHL arenas have to take place in line behind them in making schedule. This year will be even worse.[/quote]
Marquette plays in an NBA arena, no?[/quote]
Yes. But they don’t have an NHL team further clogging up the schedule. Like SJU. Gtown. Nova.
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Why does our OCC schedule always come out so late?[/quote]
Teams that play in NBA/NHL arenas have to take place in line behind them in making schedule. This year will be even worse.[/quote]
Marquette plays in an NBA arena, no?[/quote]
Yes. But they don’t have an NHL team further clogging up the schedule. Like SJU. Gtown. Nova.
SJU14
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[quote="Room112" post=389622][quote="Moose" post=389595][quote="Paultzman" post=389594]Marquette out with
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Pretty solid OOC[/quote]
General comment about Marquette, but I'm a bit surprised Wojo is still hear and now entering his 7th season as Marquette head coach. I thought for certain he'd use this as a springboard to a bigger gig. I know the results have been mixed, but he certainly hasn't been bad.
Overall, have to be really happy that the Big East has been able to retain the majority of their top coaches. Obviously lost Chris Mack and Chris Holtman, but both have been replaced with successful picks.[/quote]
Has his 6 years at MQ really warranted a look for a better job? Their fanbase isn’t enamored with him and their future isn’t exactly on a positive trajectory.
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Pretty solid OOC[/quote]
General comment about Marquette, but I'm a bit surprised Wojo is still hear and now entering his 7th season as Marquette head coach. I thought for certain he'd use this as a springboard to a bigger gig. I know the results have been mixed, but he certainly hasn't been bad.
Overall, have to be really happy that the Big East has been able to retain the majority of their top coaches. Obviously lost Chris Mack and Chris Holtman, but both have been replaced with successful picks.[/quote]
Has his 6 years at MQ really warranted a look for a better job? Their fanbase isn’t enamored with him and their future isn’t exactly on a positive trajectory.
prjohnnies
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No fan base in the BE dislikes their coach more than Marquette fans and Wojo, in my experience. He has recruited well, but I think the results overall have been underwhelming given the talent he has had. That said, I think recent history shows that Marquette coaches view that job as somewhat of a a stepping stone if a Power 5 school job opens that is at least somewhat attractive. I would think Wojo jumps at that opportunity if one presents itself.
Based on how he has fared, I don't see him leaving for another job of that kind anytime soon. I think the next logical one will be Willard if he continues to have some success. He's overtly flirted or apparently considered leaving the Hall various times, including early in his tenure when he wasn't as successful (Holy Cross), later when he started to have some degree of success (South Florida) and then two years ago when Va Tech opened up.
Based on how he has fared, I don't see him leaving for another job of that kind anytime soon. I think the next logical one will be Willard if he continues to have some success. He's overtly flirted or apparently considered leaving the Hall various times, including early in his tenure when he wasn't as successful (Holy Cross), later when he started to have some degree of success (South Florida) and then two years ago when Va Tech opened up.