I can only imagine the damage to our credibility as an institution if we had brought on Mas and then found out about his lack of a degree. We dodged a bullet with that!
Lavin's Future in Doubt at SJU
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I can only imagine the damage to our credibility as an institution if we had brought on Mas and then found out about his lack of a degree. We dodged a bullet with that!
beast of the east
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Your post, as usual, is divisive. I do not believe that except for a few ardent Lavin supporters that people who would favor renewal don't have their eyes open. I'm ambivalent, but supported him being successful this season. You on the other hand complained about him during the season, which I find distasteful in a so called fan, but completely within your right.
Do yourself a favor. Write the university a check that would help pay for the next coach. Until then, you're just rambling.
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Hurley is already making 700K plus incentives. His trajectory is higer than SJU, and he may already have a better situation as a stepping stone to his next job. I don't see it happening.
How much say does a big donor like Repole have? Does the school go to him and asks him if he will kick in a certain donation if they have to pay a certain coach X amount?
Here's the difference between me and you. If Lavin is replaced, I will not be bitching and moaning about our new coach while he rebuilds the program, which will certainly be the case, and posting the same propaganda over in every thread ad nauseum.
I've always questioned the intentions of some of the most ardent Lavin haters on this board. Not the critics; but the haters.
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A school like SJU should be looking at the complete package. Mas is not that. We don't need a Fran 2 here. Lots of better choices should Lavin get canned.
On that note, it would take a holw lot more courage for the university to fire Lavin than to extend him. If they do fire him they'd better already have a shor tlist and have put out feelers to see who may be interested in coming here.
I would wait until mid next week when only 16 teams remain, since more guys will be free to talk with their season is over. Should Lavin be fired, the new guy should be hired within 72 hours.
At Xavier, a single donor is now footing the entire bill for the head basketball coach's compensation. My assumption is that he has more than a little say over who remains in that job.
So if someone like Repole wanted to step up in a similar way, I would think he could.
The largest donation ever made to Xavier's men's basketball program, a gift from Tom and Genny Sedler, endows the head coaching position held now by Chris Mack.
The men's basketball coach will be renamed the Sedler Family Men's Head Basketball Coach.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/spo...ws-xaviers-mens-basketball-position/21989653/
beast of the east
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Repole is far from being our biggest donor. There literally are some guys who have given ten X as much in a single check. Not to diminish Repole's generosity, which is substantial, but he isn't our prime benefactor.
redstorm89
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When is this conclave going to happen?
We simply cannot afford to screw this up if Lavin is in fact let go.
Mark Jackson has never coached in college. He has never recruited a day in his life. The team he coached has excelled since he left and they are doing better without him than they ever did with him. He's also pretty militant and was let go because primarily because he was difficult to work with. Not to mention, he's crazy. Hiring Mark Jackson could be a disaster and that is not something we can risk.
Hiring Archie Miller or Bobby Hurley (if they would even consider us) would never be a disaster. Worst case, it simply wouldn't work as well as we would have liked, but we would have landed some quality players and got some good pub.
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And Bobby Hurley is recruiting Wagner college kids and Buffalo kids. I was recruited to play baseball at Wagner. Am I the type of recruit you want the school looking at? Stop the Hurley nonsense already. And as far as SJU legends Jackson would far and away be the best choice of that lot as Mullin has never recruited or coached and would probably choose to commute from the West Coast. I hope they hbire Ron Artes, at least that would be entertaining as we suck
Marillac, if you don't mind me asking. Why are you so sold on Bobby Hurley? Listen, I get Buffalo had a good season this year. But the guys been a head coach for 2 years in the Mid-American Conference. I'm not even saying he'd be a bad choice. But I think the gap between Bobby and Archie Miller is huge. To be perfectly honest, I think the gap between Bobby and Dan Hurley is huge.