Questions On Our Previous Coaches

[Spocky Ramone]

If you know anyone who needs a dissertation topic for their doctorate in psychology, you may want to refer them to this thread. Or even this site. Mmmmmm, Juicy Fruit.

 

[bamafan]

And yet somehow this coaching savant was unemployed in the profession for 10 years before SJU and ever since. It's almost as though folks figured out that while given resources he can recruit with the best of them, he can't actually do the job.

Does no one realize that the savant was indeed subsequently hired and has been toiling away in relative obscurity at San Diego for the last number of years.

 

[SJU85]

My

My liver might not survive tonight after reading this

I know the feeling.

 

[austour]

Jay Wright would definitely have been successful here. The problem was that Mike Jarvis was hired in the spring of 1998. At that time, Jay Wright was not "Jay Wright". During the two seasons prior to Mike Jarvis' hiring, his record at Hofstra was 12-15 and 19-12 in Speedy Claxton's freshman and sophmore years. The following two years, Hofstra won over 20 games.

In the spring of 1998, no one could have predicted that Jay Wright would end up being a Hall of Fame coach. Fun fact, Jay Wright told me that when he was at Hofstra, St John's was his Dream Job.

As far as him being successful at St John's, that would not have been a problem. While Gary Charles and I disagreed of some things, we both respected Jay Wright. Jay Wright was hired at Villanova in 2000 and his first recruiting class included Jason Fraser and Curtis Sumpter, who played for the Panthers throughout their high school careers, and Allen Ray who played in a few tournaments with us. Daryll Hill, Tim Doyle, and Charlie Villaneuva were also ion that our team that won every Adidas tournament throughout the summer of 2001. All of them would have signed with St Johns if Jay Wright was our coach. The next year we had Sammy Mejia, Lamont Hamilton, and Charlie was also in the class of 2002. Eric King was aalready at St John having graduated in 2000. Barring injury, the players mentioned would have had St John's in the Top 10 throughout their college careers.

Unfortunately, in 2000 Villanova fired Steve Lappas and hired Jay Wright. The rest is history.

Thanks for the memories?

I think the point folks were trying to make was if the Wizards interest in Jarvis was real and if Jarvis took the job in 2000 (he removed himself from consideration that May) STJ could have beaten Nova to the punch. That would have been coming off Wrights first NCAA appearance with Hofstra making him eminently hireable. The next year he made it again, and went to Nova and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

[mjmaherjr]

I know the feeling.

I asked the waitress here in Rio an hour ago. What’s your best local beer. She’s says an IPA. It’s almost like they know “ Chocolate Branco “ already

 

[room112]

Even in the midst of one of the brightest seasons in our experience, we still are compelled to re-live the garbage years. Sick bunch we are. It's like a rich guy lamenting that he went hungry growing up.

It's totally my fault. I was going to save this post for the off season but I figured I'd forget lol

 

[19854ever]

As far the Lavin era, the Fr Hatrington/Rob Wile/Cecilia Chang scandal broke and Lavin had three school presidents in theee years leaving Joe Olivia basically in charge of the University .

 

[lawmanfan]

Does no one realize that the savant was indeed subsequently hired and has been toiling away in relative obscurity at San Diego for the last number of years.

I am aware and have been sparing the "Lavin can coach" crowd the indignity of seeing what he's been doing with a low mid-major program the last few years. Let them cherish their memories of his awesomeness

 

[Boo Harvey]

1)The next season the Red Storm stumbled out of the gate, losing to several nonconference teams that they usually beat with ease. Jarvis was fired on December 19, 2003—the first Big East coach to be fired during the season. Assistant Kevin Clark replaced him for the remainder of the season. His final record at St. John's was 110–61.

It later emerged that school officials had fired Jarvis in part due to a series of embarrassing off-court incidents. Among these, a junior college transfer had been charged with assaulting a female student, and a senior guard had been kicked off the team after being caught smoking marijuana near St. John's campus in Queens.

During the 2003–04 season, St. John's center Abe Keita claimed that a member of Jarvis's basketball staff had paid him nearly $300 a month for the past four seasons. As a result, St. John's placed itself on two years' probation, withdrew from postseason consideration for the 2004–05 season, and forfeited 43 wins in which Keita participated. This included the team's NIT championship in 2003, making St. John's the third team in the history of the NIT to be forced to vacate its standing in the tournament; the two previous schools, Minnesota and Michigan, had also won the tournament in their respective years.

The NCAA accepted St. John's sanctions and faulted Jarvis for not properly monitoring Keita's situation, but otherwise cleared him of wrongdoing.[2] After his ouster, Jarvis was criticized for ignoring New York City's rich pool of high school players, which particularly rankled fans used to seeing national powerhouses built primarily on New York City talent.[3]

2) Rock bottom was three basketball players opting to celebrate a 20-point blowout loss at Pittsburgh by breaking curfew and sneaking off to a strip club called Club Erotica, bringing a working girl back to the Westin and ultimately finding themselves in the middle of an ugly, failed blackmail scheme. Mike Jarvis had already been dismissed a few months earlier, but the lingering lawlessness of his regime remained. Norm inherited this, and was given time to build the reputation and scholarship base back, as we had no player or recruits and sanctions.

3) Don't know

Grady Reynolds