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Maybe Maryland should cut out the middle man and just hire Shaheen Holloway…after all, he’s now got one more win in the Dance than Willard has.
 
So Xavier hires Seam Miller. I guess they were able to forgive his former indiscretions.

Miller was fired last year after he was implicated in the massive federal investigation into college basketball and the NCAA hit Arizona with multiple violations.

Too bad the St. John’s brain trust was not willing to do the same with some former candidates for head coach. This program may have been in a whole different place right now. 
 
 
Jermane Attoil post=465154 said:
So Xavier hires Seam Miller. I guess they were able to forgive his former indiscretions.

Miller was fired last year after he was implicated in the massive federal investigation into college basketball and the NCAA hit Arizona with multiple violations.

Too bad the St. John’s brain trust was not willing to do the same with some former candidates for head coach. This program may have been in a whole different place right now. 

 
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I do understand not hiring a certain someone a few years ago. I wouldn't understand not hiring him(or anyone with a checkered past) if the opportunity presented itself moving forward. But the older I get, the less I understand. 
 
We are loosing our best player(anyone who thinks that his production  can be easily replaced is gravely mistaken)
and I wouldn't be surprised if Wheeler, who was our 3rd best player for the last 2 months and who will be 24 in Sept, decided to try his hand at a pro career somewhere. That leaves us with Posh, who hopefully will take a step forward, and a group of  decent role players. The likelihood that  Storr will be an immediate impact player is slim. So I'll add him to the list of decent role players for at least his freshmen season. I expect we'll grab a few players from the portal, but I don't expect any to be impact players. I hope I'm wrong about that. And with all due respect to those of you who are convinced that our front line of Soriano, Nyiwe, Stanley and Traore are solid, I wholeheartedly disagree. Maybe individually they are or can be solid role players, but collectively they are not going to instill fear in the rest of the big east. So, as it stands right now we head in to next season with a bunch of decent role players and one legit potential star. I say potential because because is not there yet. My thoughts on next season are probably less optimistic then they were going in to this past season. Most likely we'll finish  towards the bottom end of big east, but if we pick up a couple of impact players and things break right for us, middle of the big east pack and a bubble tourney team. This is all subject to change based on who leaves and who comes. 
 
Monte post=465155 said:
Jermane Attoil post=465154 said:
So Xavier hires Seam Miller. I guess they were able to forgive his former indiscretions.

Miller was fired last year after he was implicated in the massive federal investigation into college basketball and the NCAA hit Arizona with multiple violations.

Too bad the St. John’s brain trust was not willing to do the same with some former candidates for head coach. This program may have been in a whole different place right now. 



 
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I do understand not hiring a certain someone a few years ago. I wouldn't understand not hiring him(or anyone with a checkered past) if the opportunity presented itself moving forward. But the older I get, the less I understand. 
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I hope we don't hire any coach with a checkered past. Don't want to be playing checkers while other teams coaches are playing chess. /media/kunena/emoticons/wink.png
 
Per Jeff Goodman

Some coaching updates:

Kevin Willard to Maryland and Dennis Gates to Missouri both expected to be done in the next day or so, Shaheen Holloway likely to replace Willard at Seton Hall and Baylor assistant Jerome Tang firmly in mix at Kansas State.
 
If Steve Lavin had held his nose and hired Tiny Morton in 2014, Kevin Willard's legacy at the Hall would probably not be worth writing about.

But he used the Whitehead commitment to save his job and jumpstart the program so kudos... others have failed doing so (see Mahoney, Brian).  Willard inherited a dumpster fire of a program and left it exponentially better. 

I still can't believe it's been 12 years since Gonzo's shoplifting arrest.
 
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MainMan post=465331 said:
If Steve Lavin had held his nose and hired Tiny Morton in 2014, Kevin Willard's legacy at the Hall would probably not be worth writing about.

But he used the Whitehead commitment to save his job and jumpstart the program so kudos... others have failed doing so (see Mahoney, Brian).  Willard inherited a dumpster fire of a program and left it exponentially better. 

I still can't believe it's been 12 years since Gonzo's shoplifting arrest.



I don’t know. Again I saw so much recent love for Willard lately on our board and I never got it. His teams always underwhelmed me and were eminently beatable. 

now of course we can only dream of having such stability and respectability and we should aspire to it (we ain’t that far off - like 2/3 more wins per year), but again Willard never blew me away and without whitehead he gets shown the door. 

Works out absolutely perfect for the Hall. they get rid of guy who prob plateaued there without having to pay out his contract and get a better coach better suited for success there. They steeped in it. 
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Willard out officially per the Post. Somehow everything works out for the hall and they’ll wind up w the hottest coach on the market and a seamless transition 
 
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