Next Coach?
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All it takes is 3 beers and I am easily flummoxed and taken advantage of. Speaking of beers, when will you get intoxicated enough to get married? Be careful but Baldi may have eyes for a cute Latina.
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Jerry Tarkanian is out of the hospital. Dean Smith remembers his name on occasion and is a Hall of Fame coach and Gene Keady is itching to get Lavin's job. He even wants to hire Rick Mount as a shooting consultant. My personal choice would be Bobby Knight who would recruit only "clean cut" kids from the midwest.
Not a huge fan of Cleuss but in the position roster wise we will be in next season he sure has a knack of finding players from all over. I believe a good choice would be Archie Miller of Dayton, his teams move the ball can shoot and seem to be fundamentally sound. His brother at Arizona is a great recruiter and if he has recruiting success here he could accomplish big things. Hasn't gotten big names to UD but lots of really solid players and if he hires a good recruiter as an assistant can accomplish big things here IMHO.
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I'm sorry.....but when was it announced that Lavin was going to be fired this year? Could someone please post the link.....
Well, if you read this forum, he's a goner.
hmy: I'm sure some ppl can't wait. I'll be honest if he makes the tournament this year I'd give him another two yrs. to see what happens. I've never entertained this thought but if we go to NIT this year and he is retained I don't know if I can support the program until there's a change. So I guess time will tell
Sirvoo, that pretty much sums up how I feel. I couldn't agree more. Well said. The results of this year will determine if I renew my season tickets for next year, or not. I debated whether or not to renew this year. And then after the start we had, I was glad I did. And now? Well.......
Yes exactly. I think 95% of us are reasonable like you and agree that if we pull together somehow the rest of the year and earn a birth, we can accept losing out on Briscoe and barely being able to field a team for next year(at the moment). But if things continue to trend downward and he stays I will be very disappointed.
Whether he stays or goes is an administration decision.
You can take the posts on this thread as a commentary that lots of people who know something about basketball and who care about St Johns have a clear opinion about what the administration should do.
I am militantly anti-Lavin so my posts should be read in that light. We have had 5 years of trending downward under the man with the very distinct possibility of fielding one of the worst rosters in the history of this program next year. That is not a fact but a possibility. So with that in mind and I certainly respect your different opinion, but I have a hard time following the reasoning that this year's results should affect anything concerning the future.
I hear you Logen. And you make a good point. The question of replacing Lavin is, IMHO, not an easy one because it does mean starting from scratch all over again and hoping that whoever is hired will turn out well. We could end up finding a Coach K or Pitino just starting out, or we could end up with a Norm Roberts again. And that's where I come from. Not that I am so pro-Lavin, but I am not comfortable with throwing the last five years out and rolling the dice, starting all over again and hoping for a good hire.
I will say one thing. This is not the old Harrington administration at St. John's. So I do have more faith that this current administration will take the decision to replace Lavin, if it comes to that, very seriously and with great care.
In any event, the current situation is not acceptable.