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austour said:
It remains to be seen if that BE tourney championship becomes a mirror image of the Hatten NIT win. Did more harm than good.
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Can’t compare. Jarvis took us to an Elite 8 and we were a 2 sees the following year. We also made the tournament with Hatten his first year. Winning the NIT was not an aberration
 
SJU85 said:
Although I went to the finals of that NIT (I don’t recall if I went to the semis) and supported that team, I remember complaining on the old Board how that was considered a success when the year before with basically the same team, we were dancing. I don’t want to derail the thread, but Jarvis comments about being one of two teams winning a national championship that year makes my blood boil even now.
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Yeah and they were 15-12 going into the BET. 16-13 into the NIT. STJ still owned a piece of the NIT at that time. That might have also saved Jarvis' job, unfortunately.
 
austour said:
Yeah and they were 15-12 going into the BET. 16-13 into the NIT. STJ still owned a piece of the NIT at that time. That might have also saved Jarvis' job, unfortunately.
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Checked the field and there were a lot of teams with similar records so maybe not. Gtown who STJ beat in the finals got in at 14-14. There were 40 teams and not low major automatic qualifiers. Lots of high major teams with mediocre records.

Ang Hatten was not an aberration, but Jarvis's success was.
 
Zagoria;

UConn continued to add to its recruiting haul in the Class of 20232 with the addition of four-star shooting guard Solomon “Solo” Ball of Brewster (N.H.) Academy.


Ranked the No. 11 shooting guard by 247Sports.com, the 6-foot-3, 185-pound Ball chose the Huskies over USC, DePaul, Miami and Providence. He took an official visit to the Big East school June 24-26.
 
This kid is quite a find and talent, killed it last year for Creighton. Bluejays with solid returnees and tremendous transfer in Scheierman from South Dakota St seem poised to be a Final Eight or possibly better Dance team, depending on draw Of course.

 
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UConn football coach Jim Mora is apparently pitching membership in ACC in two years to recruits per Middletown press in Ct. I would gladly help them pack if that happens with all the conference movement now. Lesson learned hopefully for Val to avoid football school additions in the future.
 
paultzman said:
UConn football coach Jim Mora is apparently pitching membership in ACC in two years to recruits per Middletown press in Ct. I would gladly help them pack if that happens with all the conference movement now. Lesson learned hopefully for Val to avoid football school additions in the future.
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I would guess this would come with a hefty exit fee as well
 
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