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This is a key loss that may be easy to overlook. Tyler Watson seemed to bring an intensity to the team's training program. It's not easy to maintain kids' motivation and focus in the weight room throughout the offseason. It's a time when important strides can be made. I hope CMA is able to find another top notch strength & conditioning coach quickly.
Big loss
The bright side is that SJU had something of value that someone else wanted.
Alumni Hall
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Valued him so much that Butler offered him a substantial increase from what he made at SJU. This will be the third strength coach for the team in 3 years…
Yeah he kept Ragland from previous staff, added Mike Pegues was at Louisville and Kevin Kuwik from Davidson-he had stints at Butler with Stevens and OSU with Matta. Also added Oden and Diebler on administrative side.
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All I can say in this thread is that the league will really miss the genius of Jay Wright. The league needs the stability he provided at Nova. Jay had to make a family focused decision which shows love of family trumps basketball.
May coach Anderson assume the mantle of the face of the league starting next season with recruiting success and NCAA tournament bids.
May coach Anderson assume the mantle of the face of the league starting next season with recruiting success and NCAA tournament bids.
Sorry, face of the league falls to Ewing (only if he wins, however) and/or Cooley.
The Big East has its share of high profile coaches who have know success
proven winners
Thad Matta
Greg McDermott
Ed Cooley
Mike Anderson
$ean Miller
Danny Hurley
Shaka Smart
Shaheen Holloway (elite 8 appearance)
yet to be proven winners
Patrick Ewing
Tony Stubblefield
Kyle Neptune
proven winners
Thad Matta
Greg McDermott
Ed Cooley
Mike Anderson
$ean Miller
Danny Hurley
Shaka Smart
Shaheen Holloway (elite 8 appearance)
yet to be proven winners
Patrick Ewing
Tony Stubblefield
Kyle Neptune
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With all due respect to CMA and all of the other big east coaches, I don't see any one of them filling the huge void left behind by Jay Wright's departure. Wright was not only one of the greatest coaches in the history of college basketball, but he was arguably the most charismatic ever. Lots of winning coaches in the big east, there was and will always be only one Jay Wright.
Jay Wright was great no doubt and will be missed. There aren’t too many coaches around with his pedrigree.
The Big East has survived losing Hall of Fame coaches before (some more charismatic than others and some who won national championships). They will survive this also and if not, it was not or I’d not as good of a league as we thought.
So you include a man who in a 8 year span won 5 Big Ten regular season titles, 4 Big 10 Tourney titles along with 1 second place regular season finish and a Tourney runner up that year along with 2 Final 4 appearances with a guy who went 14-6 and a second place finish in the MAAC after 3 a year run as a proven winner?
Agree completely. I didn't mean to imply that the league wouldnt move forward without Jay Wright, just that there may not be any one coach who assumes the role as the coaching face of the big east.
I believe that LIU was on the tentative schedule that Zach B leaked earlier in the week.
IMO, the second Strickland lays down a rule about being on time, or practicing hard, it's Hypocrisy 101.
Just because I don't want to tax my lazy old brain at the moment, how many Big East coaches(Crean and Willard come to mind right away) have bolted for CFB schools, and of those that bolted, how many have had success at those CFB schools?
Good question.
Going way back, Gary Williams left BC for Ohio State and then Maryland (won a National Championship at Maryland) and Rick Pitino (in a circuitous fashion) left Providence for the Knicks, then UK then the Celtics and then Louisville (no doubting his college success).