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M9nasch was at the sju prov game on sunday too. I saw him on the subway platform after, by himself
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M9nasch was at the sju prov game on sunday too. I saw him on the subway platform after, by himself
STJ11Redmen
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Yep I saw him walking in the regular gate with a ticket to the Providence game by himself.
beast of the east
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He hacked Rabinowitz's account here and has been asking for tickets all season
I don't believe that. I saw Theo outside the Garden multiple times this season, asking "Who need tickets?"
RedmanMike
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The AD fired Crews right after he came off the court when the game ended -- before the post-game press conference. That is disgraceful.
MarkRedman
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Many on this board wanted St Louis in the Big East when there was talk of going to 12 teams.
Boy, were they ever wrong!!
jerseyshorejohnny
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Hurley would bring familiar problems to RU / Phil Mushnick, New York Post
Someday we’ll figure it all out. But it won’t be today.
In 2010, Rutgers hired Mike Rice as its men’s basketball coach. He had spent the previous three seasons coaching Robert Morris near Pittsburgh, where he regularly was seen acting like a raging, raving lunatic. But Tim Pernetti, Rutgers’ athletic director at the time, claimed to like just that about Rice.
Even when Rice coached Rutgers, Pernetti dismissed the concern of an alum who worried Rice’s public courtside comportment — he seemed to lose control of games at roughly the same time he would lose control of himself — didn’t reflect well on the sport or the university.
But Pernetti disagreed: “Mike’s enthusiasm and temperament is exactly what I was looking to hire, and I won’t ask him to change.”
In time, it came to light Rice had profound self-control problems, not just during games, but at practices — where he was verbally and physically abusive of players.
Soon, what led to Rice’s hiring — his “enthusiasm” — led to his and Pernetti’s dismissals, and the hiring of former Rutgers star Eddie Jordan, who was fired Thursday.
Word then passed quickly that the No. 1 man on Rutgers’ list is Rhode Island head coach and Jersey boy Danny Hurley. Hmmm.
The last time I saw Hurley coach in person was February 2011, for Wagner, when the Staten Island college was beaten at home by St. Francis of Brooklyn.
Hurley ceaselessly acted like a wild man, like, well, Mike Rice. That he wasn’t ejected — he spent more time stomping and screaming at the officials than coaching — was a matter of either the refs’ extreme tolerance or their conditioned expectations from Hurley.
At one point, Hurley removed his sports jacket and flung it into the stands — perhaps a signal to replace it with a strait jacket.
At game’s end, the handshake line abruptly ended when Hurley apparently had something unkind to say to a St. Francis player. A hassle ensued until St. Francis’s gentlemanly coach, Glenn Braica, stepped in and sent Hurley away.
Benefit of the doubt: Hurley just had an exceptionally bad day.
But then on to Rhode Island, where it was reported that in a 2013 game at Fordham, Hurley was start-to-finish out of control, and “on multiple occasions in the second half after media timeouts or whistles, sprinted from his bench toward the Fordham sideline, attempting to provoke Fordham coach Tom Pecora.”
That season, Hurley, rather than try to defuse a bumping incident between players, got into it with Providence head coach Ed Cooley.
This season, Hurley was in the focus of an ugly, strange brew near the end of a Maryland-Rhode Island holiday tournament game in Mexico.
Late in the game, he and Maryland coach Mark Turgeon were hit with technicals after hollering at each other, then, at game’s end, the handshake line ended with pushing and shoving between coaches as per claims Hurley had shaken hands while making derogatory comments to Maryland players.
Anyway, that Mike Rice hire in 2010, for all the energy and enthusiasm he brought to Rutgers, didn’t turn out so well, did it? Live and learn.
Someday we’ll figure it all out. But it won’t be today.
In 2010, Rutgers hired Mike Rice as its men’s basketball coach. He had spent the previous three seasons coaching Robert Morris near Pittsburgh, where he regularly was seen acting like a raging, raving lunatic. But Tim Pernetti, Rutgers’ athletic director at the time, claimed to like just that about Rice.
Even when Rice coached Rutgers, Pernetti dismissed the concern of an alum who worried Rice’s public courtside comportment — he seemed to lose control of games at roughly the same time he would lose control of himself — didn’t reflect well on the sport or the university.
But Pernetti disagreed: “Mike’s enthusiasm and temperament is exactly what I was looking to hire, and I won’t ask him to change.”
In time, it came to light Rice had profound self-control problems, not just during games, but at practices — where he was verbally and physically abusive of players.
Soon, what led to Rice’s hiring — his “enthusiasm” — led to his and Pernetti’s dismissals, and the hiring of former Rutgers star Eddie Jordan, who was fired Thursday.
Word then passed quickly that the No. 1 man on Rutgers’ list is Rhode Island head coach and Jersey boy Danny Hurley. Hmmm.
The last time I saw Hurley coach in person was February 2011, for Wagner, when the Staten Island college was beaten at home by St. Francis of Brooklyn.
Hurley ceaselessly acted like a wild man, like, well, Mike Rice. That he wasn’t ejected — he spent more time stomping and screaming at the officials than coaching — was a matter of either the refs’ extreme tolerance or their conditioned expectations from Hurley.
At one point, Hurley removed his sports jacket and flung it into the stands — perhaps a signal to replace it with a strait jacket.
At game’s end, the handshake line abruptly ended when Hurley apparently had something unkind to say to a St. Francis player. A hassle ensued until St. Francis’s gentlemanly coach, Glenn Braica, stepped in and sent Hurley away.
Benefit of the doubt: Hurley just had an exceptionally bad day.
But then on to Rhode Island, where it was reported that in a 2013 game at Fordham, Hurley was start-to-finish out of control, and “on multiple occasions in the second half after media timeouts or whistles, sprinted from his bench toward the Fordham sideline, attempting to provoke Fordham coach Tom Pecora.”
That season, Hurley, rather than try to defuse a bumping incident between players, got into it with Providence head coach Ed Cooley.
This season, Hurley was in the focus of an ugly, strange brew near the end of a Maryland-Rhode Island holiday tournament game in Mexico.
Late in the game, he and Maryland coach Mark Turgeon were hit with technicals after hollering at each other, then, at game’s end, the handshake line ended with pushing and shoving between coaches as per claims Hurley had shaken hands while making derogatory comments to Maryland players.
Anyway, that Mike Rice hire in 2010, for all the energy and enthusiasm he brought to Rutgers, didn’t turn out so well, did it? Live and learn.
Agree here. I think it's career suicide IMO. Hurley can use his "interest" in this job to motivate other schools to pursue. I think ultimately that is what will happen. The RU job is a daunting overtaking and the RU administration hasn't shown willingness to build new arena and support basketball at all.
He probably wants out of URI. He's the highest paid state employee and he's not even the best college coach in that tiny state. His URI record is under 500 with a 4th season that took a few steps in the wrong direction from his one post season - an NIT year.
He has not done well there.
MarkRedman
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Good recruiter - horrible coach
Always has great talent but his teams tend to under perform
The wheels completely fell off the bus this season
Looks like Rutgers is negotiating with Hurley
I think Hurley is a lot like Pastner - good recruiter / lousy coach
His URI teams have not exactly set the world on fire either
I think Lonergan (GW coach) is a better option for Rutgers
He has successfully rebuilt programs in the past and is a solid coach