“We need your assistance and leadership in buying more tickets, adding to your Red-White Club giving….”
Really, Cragg? The fan base has just had a crushing disappointment and you’re hitting them up?
He’s an idiot. The day Pitino walked in the door was the luckiest day in his life.
Trust me, Cragg is at least as pissed as all of us, and probably a lot more. Outraged is more like it.
The base is very disappointed, yes. Crushing? I'd leave that for the players. The rest of us got up the next morning and life goes on.
What you are probably unaware of is that you are the reason (folks who react like you) why Rick said that coaching at St John's is much more difficult than he thought it would been.
Athletic fund raising has been flat compared to Pre-Rick and he is by far the highest paid coach we've hired. The school just announced plans for a brand new basketball practice facility and renovation of Taffner as a student health center which in total will approach $100 million. The NIL raise next season will be in the $3 million dollar range.
If fans and alumni don't support this none of it happens, and Rick goes back to playing golf in his backyard.
What Rick was doing in part was calling out people who react like you because he had tremendous $$ support from fans and alums at Louisville and UK.
Be careful who you call an idiot, because it's a bad look for you. Cragg is doing a very good job, managing nearly 20 d1 sports, and is often physically present to watch all our teams play. The new facility plan began with Cragg. Fixing the CA problem is on his plate.
Did you expect a scorched earth tirade that would accomish nothing and be beneath his position? There are things going on in the background involving.ALL Big East schools to insure this doesn’t happen again and joint meetings began within 12 hours of not getting the bid.
Of course you didn't stop to consider all this and are ignorant of some of these facts or your post is just idiotic. If i were you I'd just plead ignorant.