Vinnie is a Brooklyn guy who graduated from West Point. A friend coached him is sandlot baseball and thinks the world of him as does the son of another friend who also went to the Point and raves about what a superb person he is. A great friend to his fellow Pointers and servicemen. Self made real billionaire (like Repole, another city kid who both have love of the ponies). Vinnie's connection to Fordham is through his sons who attended and graduated from Fordham, which he came to appreciate as a Catholic institution teaching service to others. He would have made a great secretary of the Army but realized/understood the conflicts of interest issues and asked for the nomination to be pulled.Moose post=433567 said:
But he also threatened that Cragg would be gone within a year if the school didn't let Cragg operate independently (presumably to do what his wealthy advisor wanted). Cragg had to make it clear to the school that Repole was expressing his own opinions and that he was comfortable working within the framework of how the process was going. In the end, Hurley used our offer to parlay that into a big raise from Arizona State, and even if he had come here, if he had success would probably have left at the first better offer. I would say this is a case of the best thing possible happening above what Repole wanted in the hire. We got a better coach for now and maybe the next 10 years.SJU85 post=433658 said:
