SLYFOXX1968 wrote:
No one , despite the self professed Geniuses on this site, would have remotely thought this Season would fall off the tracks so badly in the BE Conference games . Most knew the Roster was razor thin, even with Clark and Simon being added ..............
I agree with most of what you say but would add that the "razor thin" roster which the coaching staff had planned on became even thinner with the unexpected departure of Sid Wilson. Had Wilson's unlikely departure been foreseen, or had Mr. Wilson never committed to StJohns then it is likely that the StJohns staff would have used efforts to add another player before the season started.
I also agree that "It seems to me that a vocal segment of the posters here, actually want Mullin to fail and have been that way since he was hired" (your quote). Unfortunately the only amusement which this season has brought is read the comical elongated posts by a poster who repeats the same "I told you so" statements s/he message.
The bottom line is that next season, season #4, will be the "make or break" season for Mullin.
Your proclamation that next year, Mullin's 4th, will be a make or break year is truly enlightening!
Maybe you should check with a friend of yours who predicts Mullin is our last hope! There is no St. John's basketball program after Mullin. What I find amusing is that you think losing every freaking game is somehow making paying customers feel vindicated about hiring a $2 million coach with zero experience. A saviour so arrogant as to think he was even worth $2 million doesn't need critical fans to point to his impersonation of a real coach, especially in year one when he was an observer and student to a twenty something fellow neophyte.
Your smug partisanship with a double-talking SlyFox is completely contradictory to what is now seemingly obvious to most observers. Both point to recruiting as the source of the problem yet distance Mullin from that process. You point to Sid Wilson who had little interest in St. John's even before a hurried press conference. Where was Mullin in the recruitment of Hashan French a year earlier? Why did they pursue an obviously troubled Zach Brown? Why weren't they able to retain Yankuba Sima? How many coaches not on a hot seat lose 5 players in one season? Your make or break season is predicated on a stability that has to include not losing Owens or Ponds. It is predicated on actually signing a 4 star player that has now become a must - get target. In short, he has become Mullin's Isiah Briscoe. Should Matt Abdelmassih actually find a safer haven down south or be run out of town by your friend, then Brooks becomes a big question mark. As your buddy Slyfox indicated both Clark and Simon are just role players, who, in their previous better programs would have been 6th or 7th men. Which leaves your final ultimatum to Mullin in the hands of returning 3 star players and on boarding 3 star players.
Therefore, your Passion Play depicting the Passion of Chris Mullin: his trial on social media, his suffering all the way to cashing $2 million at the bank and possible demise on the Celtic cross on the campus quadrangle comes across as quite Pontius Pilate like. Hope I kept this brief enough for you.
