Possible Coaching Candidates
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Johnny Rapper
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I have thought Cragg to be incompetent for some time for many reasons. Shanley’s problem is, as a new president he put too much confidence in Cragg’s decision making. Cragg’s idiotic extension to Anderson and Shanley’s approval of it is the biggest example of that. Hopefully Shanley learned his lesson and doesn’t give Cragg any type of free rein on a coaching search.
In terms of whether Anderson will be let go, while the Johnnies almost pulled out the victory with three miraculous three point shots, if they had won, that would have given the brain-less trust more reason to give Anderson another chance. Again, hoping the season ends quickly and abruptly after the next game.
Outside of you financially don't want to pay his buyout there is no justification to keeping him unless you are ok with another year of bottom of the league performance. There is certainly no guarantee that his successor will be a savior and as this thread has shown there likely will not be many top choices. I still hope we go with Speedy as I personally believe he has a chance. All this said it wouldn't shock me if they kept CMA one more year but I don't expect it. Anyone have some coaching possibilities to post?
This is where I give Cragg some credit. Regardless of how it's done, he had "fannies in the seats" throughout an absolutely horrid season. There were at least two games when I wondered if I would be the only schmuck to show up. Yet, attendance was decent all year.
I have to disagree with you. The new President is not going to stand for his signature sport program to be mediocre at best.
As a leader, sometimes you make mistakes and have to cut your loses. This is one of those times.
The scary thing is my Con Ed CEO mention is better than some of the serious suggestions on this thread. I think this thread needs a 24 hour timeout
These recent posts have got me thinking that perhaps the posters on one hand and Cragg and Anderson on the other have different expectations of what constitutes a successful season. Posters are looking for a post season bid and competing with the top echelon of big east teams.
I don’t recall Anderson talking about post season play and with Cragg setting him up with easier and easier OOC schedules he achieves his better than 500 win loss record.
SJU hasn’t had much success at making post season play but the prior coaches always mentioned it as a goal.
Maybe Anderson figures it has been so long since we won a post season game it is not really expected.
I don’t recall Anderson talking about post season play and with Cragg setting him up with easier and easier OOC schedules he achieves his better than 500 win loss record.
SJU hasn’t had much success at making post season play but the prior coaches always mentioned it as a goal.
Maybe Anderson figures it has been so long since we won a post season game it is not really expected.
Not true GC. There was a much publicized New York Post article just before start of the season where CMA said this was the most talented team he'd had at SJU and also said they were definitely good enough to make the Dance and that was the goal.
Totally agree! I believe there have been public comments made by Cragg, Shanley and Anderson that have indicated that getting the team into the Big Dance regularly was a standard they aspire to achieve. Additionally, I kind of remember, that when hired, Mike Anderson talked about building an NCAA tournament champion as something that he aspired to achieve here. If the bar has been lowered, it has been based largely by results not by stated aspirations or goals.
Pretty poor response unless it’s meant to be sarcasm. If you don’t want another mistake I wanna know these candidates strengths and weaknesses.
I like to refer to my posts as Mahercasm
just kidding 
In order to assess risk, you have to determine what there is to lose. Care to explain what SJU has to lose if it parts way with Anderson?
Think your screen name answers that
Everyone seems to be assuming that CMA is, to coin a phrase, "irredeemable" at this point. I'm not so sure. I am, on the other hand, 99.9% sure that his buyout will cause the admin to go with a mid-major "up and comer" whom the odds say will not ultimately materialize into a successful high-major coach - and in any event, will involve another lengthy rebuild. I'll take my chances with one more year of CMA.