Possible Coaching Candidates
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I believe Jones recruited one of our former commit to Norfolk State after he left us. I can’t recall the name.
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If CMA is not back next season, and
If St. John’s does not open its wallet to hire a big time established coach
…… then Speedy Claxton deserves consideration.
In his 2 seasons as head coach at Hofstra which plays in the strong mid major CAA, Claxton has quietly earned a solid record of 36 wins and 19 overall (65.5%) and 21 and 7 in conference (75%). Pretty darn good.
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If St. John’s does not open its wallet to hire a big time established coach
…… then Speedy Claxton deserves consideration.
In his 2 seasons as head coach at Hofstra which plays in the strong mid major CAA, Claxton has quietly earned a solid record of 36 wins and 19 overall (65.5%) and 21 and 7 in conference (75%). Pretty darn good.
Speedy Claxton - Men's Basketball Coach - Hofstra University Athletics
Past. Present. Future. That is what defines Speedy Claxton and his relationship with the Hofstra men's basketball program. During his spectacular playing career,
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Same lol. And on that note, if he was such a hot name, why is he in his 12th year at Colgate? Regardless, I doubt he'd even be interested in the St. John's job. Seems like his connections are in the Philly area, but Colgate is up near Syracuse, so I do wonder if he'd hold out for that job.
Nate Tabor
At least we know we'll have a pipeline to CTK.If CMA is not back next season, and
If St. John’s does not open its wallet to hire a big time established coach
…… then Speedy Clayton deserves consideration.
In his 2 seasons as head coach at Hofstra which plays in the strong mid major CAA, Clapton has quietly earned a solid record of 36 wins and 19 overall (65.5%) and 21 and 7 in conference (75%). Pretty darn good.
Speedy Claxton - Men's Basketball Coach - Hofstra University Athletics
Past. Present. Future. That is what defines Speedy Claxton and his relationship with the Hofstra men's basketball program. During his spectacular playing career,
MugCostanza
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Do people still believe those Twitter guys when they quote their phony sources after they’ve been wrong the past 50 times?
MarkRedman
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The last guy who did well at Hofstra and moved to a power conference school did pretty well for himselfIf CMA is not back next season, and
If St. John’s does not open its wallet to hire a big time established coach
…… then Speedy Claxton deserves consideration.
In his 2 seasons as head coach at Hofstra which plays in the strong mid major CAA, Claxton has quietly earned a solid record of 36 wins and 19 overall (65.5%) and 21 and 7 in conference (75%). Pretty darn good.
Speedy Claxton - Men's Basketball Coach - Hofstra University Athletics
Past. Present. Future. That is what defines Speedy Claxton and his relationship with the Hofstra men's basketball program. During his spectacular playing career,
Can lightning strike twice in the same bottle?
We could do (and have done) a lot worse than Speedy
I was talking about the Norfolk State guy.
Thanks
Why would you advocate for two coaches named Clayton and Clapton and then post an article about a coach named Claxton?If CMA is not back next season, and
If St. John’s does not open its wallet to hire a big time established coach
…… then Speedy Claxton deserves consideration.
In his 2 seasons as head coach at Hofstra which plays in the strong mid major CAA, Claxton has quietly earned a solid record of 36 wins and 19 overall (65.5%) and 21 and 7 in conference (75%). Pretty darn good.
Speedy Claxton - Men's Basketball Coach - Hofstra University Athletics
Past. Present. Future. That is what defines Speedy Claxton and his relationship with the Hofstra men's basketball program. During his spectacular playing career,
Lavin may not have been a good coach but he was smart enough to realize his weakness and
not only hired Dunlap but listened to him.
Out of the blue, Dunlap is then shockingly hired to be the Charlotte Bobcats head coach and Lavin couldn't really replace him in year 3.
Lav also had lots of problems with recruiting after his first big class, some due to his cancer diagnosis before year 2. He recruited talented head cases in Obekpa and Sheed and then a lot of marginal talent like Balamou, Jones, Hooper, etc.
But goddammit, I still miss him.
MugCostanza
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It was right to move on from Lavin at the time. There's a reason he didn't land anywhere until 7 years later at a middling at best WCC school. Replacing him with Mullin was the wrong move.
Actually he loved the tv work and was great at it. He didnt want to get back into coaching right away he had a ton of personal stuff happen those last few years here. Did he maybe want a job before 7 years ? Could be but it definitely wasn't in the first few after here even if his name was floated for a job. And agree obviously the Mullin hire was horrible
MugCostanza
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Yeah maybe the comfy TV gig worked for him which is why he stayed in it for so long both times he was between jobs but regardless he didn't have power conference teams banging on his door begging him to return to coaching.
I do respect the Lavin should have never been fired opinion. Maybe he would have put together another strong recruiting class or two. I remember at the time it felt like he was getting lazy (possibly because he heard Mullin was angling for the job and he saw the writing on the wall), his solid core was graduating and the only two potential returnees would have been the two biggest mental midgets in Rysheed and Obekpa. While he did have a few good players lined up to come we were staring at another mini-rebuild going into his 6th season.
Had we hired Hurley that offseason people wouldn't even remember Lavin's name around here.
L J S A
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I completely forgot about that guy.
SJUWillRockNYC
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Big East notebook: St. John’s Mike Anderson’s struggles, Xavier waits for Zach Freemantle, more
St. John's coach Mike Anderson say it's his responsibility the team has under-performed, while Xavier hopes to have New Jersey native Zach Freemantle back for the Big East Tournament.
www.nj.com
With Cragg being from Duke, a source says Bobby Hurley will be their target. Meanwhile, Georgetown will be looking to hire Pitino.
That would be hard to take. Why do we want Hurley, he hasn't really done much at AZ St., ok maybe more then CMA but that's not saying much.
So we'll get Bobby and be alittle above avg, and Georgetown will be getting to atleast the 2nd week of the NCAA Tourny by his 3rd year.
Bobby doesn't do it for me. I'm getting a splitting headache just thinking of SJU being nothing with Hurley and G-Town kicking ass with Pitino.
If SJU doesn't atleast try for Pitino then they don't deserve any fans, just my opinion.
hey Rock. …. When was the last time you say soon to be 71 year old Pitino coach? When I watched his Iona team get drilled by Siena last week he sure did not look like the aggressive hard working coach, up and down the sidelines, making adjustments I saw a decade ago. The soon to be 71 year old may have lost some speed on his fast ball.
Do you uderstand the Pitino family’s longtime close relationship with Georgetown ?
Rick Pitino's son is blogging ... at Georgetown University
Rick Pitino's son is blogging ... at Georgetown?