Admittedly this is just semantics. But Lavin got NIT bids when the criteria was different, you just needed a .500 record or above. Not sure both teams would have qualified based on the current NET/RPI Criteria
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Admittedly this is just semantics. But Lavin got NIT bids when the criteria was different, you just needed a .500 record or above. Not sure both teams would have qualified based on the current NET/RPI Criteria
Well we definitely would have qualified that one year we barely missed the tournament.
We were the 1 seed in one of the NIT regions.
Unfortunately, that led to one of the more embarrassing showings I have ever personally seen from a St Johns team. That Robert Morris game
God. I was there. I’ll never forget that night.
That is not true. Lavin's bids were AFTER they changed the criteria not before.
The issue with Lav is that we were looking at another rebuild the following year with or without him.
D'Lo, Dom, Branch, Phil all graduated.
Would Sheed or Obekpa have stuck around?
Felix Balamou, Amar and Christian Jones were the only other returnees.
He had Branson Sampson, Samir Doughty and Federico Mussini coming in and would likely have gotten a commitment from Kassoum Yakwe and Marcus Lovett. But Marcus would fail to qualify.
Would he have landed Cheick Diallo over Kansas?
All in all the cupboards looked pretty bare in Spring 2015.
D'Lo, Dom, Branch, Phil all graduated.
Would Sheed or Obekpa have stuck around?
Felix Balamou, Amar and Christian Jones were the only other returnees.
He had Branson Sampson, Samir Doughty and Federico Mussini coming in and would likely have gotten a commitment from Kassoum Yakwe and Marcus Lovett. But Marcus would fail to qualify.
Would he have landed Cheick Diallo over Kansas?
All in all the cupboards looked pretty bare in Spring 2015.
No but if season ends as badly as it's going I wouldn't mind hearing it but I would put it a little bit more delicately, maybe something along the lines of "We're going to fire his butt".
Zach
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St. John’s AD doesn’t give any Mike Anderson assurances with team struggling
Mike Anderson didn’t receive a vote of confidence from St. John’s, but he got no hot-seat warning, either.
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Cragg said a lot without saying much. Don't think we could have asked for much more all things considered.
I believe that's incorrect. Previously the only criteria was you needed a .500 record. That only changed a few years ago to where they started selecting teams based on NET ranking and conference champions who lost their post season tournament. For example, the 2012-2013 team was only 17-16 and made it.
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Barring a miracle turnaround this year, I will bet large sums of money that the departures will not be limited to those two or CMA returns
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Doughty wasn’t eligible as a freshman either as i recall. Obekpa threatened to transfer the year before under Lav so I think he would have been gone regardless. Sheed didn’t go to class so he wasn’t coming back. We would have been awful with our without Lav
My daughter was at Marist between 2006-10 and they won the MAAC during that period but lost the Conference Tournament. It was known at that time (2007) that the result was an automatic NIT bid which they received. I am not sure when NCAA instituted that but it was in place by 2007 for sure. That change alone made it more difficult for a Power conference team to receive a bid.
I’m less sure how long the dumb NET/Quad system has been in place which also trickles down to NIT invites.
That is not true the rules had changed by then. That is also the same time they did brackets and seeding of the NIT. That was all part of the new NIT. SJU was seeded 5th and St. Joe's 4th and they played in the 4/5 game in Philly Johnnies won and then played number 1 seed Virginia and lost.
Norm's last year was under the new rules as well. SJU was a 6 seed and lost to 3 seed Memphis.
BTW a little while back I said Anderson makes $4 mil+ that was an error. He makes about $3.3/.4 mil+. Zach mentioned $2.5 Million that is his base salary. But other compensation puts him in excess over $3 million. That puts him in the top half of coaches inn BE.
I think the buyout is decent but can be managed.
It is clear from that interview Cragg likes CMA and would prefer he go on an end of year run and make this easy on him but short of that it is clear Cragg will do what he has to do.
I think the buyout is decent but can be managed.
It is clear from that interview Cragg likes CMA and would prefer he go on an end of year run and make this easy on him but short of that it is clear Cragg will do what he has to do.
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Boo Harvey
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That team was loaded. All the same guys as the Lavin team plus Mason Jr. I’ll never forget the Nova game I was at where Hardy was on fire on the first half. We had a big lead and Hardy must have had at least 15 points in the first half. Roberts didn’t bring him in to start the second half and by time he finally got back in the game, he was out of the flow and we ended up getting creamed. If Roberts would have featured/started Hardy and Brownlee like Lavin did, that team would have been an NCAA team as well. Instead, he buried them behind guys like Booth and Evans.
St. John’s AD doesn’t give any Mike Anderson assurances with team struggling
Mike Anderson didn’t receive a vote of confidence from St. John’s, but he got no hot-seat warning, either.
nypost.com
Assume Cragg and Shanley have had several discussions on coaching situation and what kind of finish would dictate need for a change. Pretty sure if last nine games go similarly to the way the first 11 went, they will pull the trigger. Also agree they'd love to see a miracle finish that gets us dancing. Question in my wind is what happens if we finish 9-11 or 10-10 in BE and make the NIT rather than NCAA with 19 or 20 wins. I suspect CMA gets one more year in that case.