Rick Pitino - Head Coach at St John’s University!!!

I think many of us have seen the CBS Sports article advancing RP as a great candidate for the IU Coaching job

It’s a interesting topic .

IU still has a blue blood pedigree , despite falling fro the upper echelons of success they enjoyed under Bobby Knight .

IU fans are not patient and are super demanding .
They have burned through a parade of Coaches since Bobby .

Mike Davis , Kelvin Sampson, Tom Crean , Archie Miller and now , Mike Woodson .

I think if RP was 10 years younger , he wouldn’t wait to pack to take the IU job . But , he’s not 62 .
Would he have Indiana beck to it’s former glory ? You bet he would ! In 2 seasons tops

But , I think for now , he’s committed to St John’s job . He’s driven to get us to a place , where we can contend for a NCAA Championship . Maybe not Win it all but , contend .

Realistically , he went all in to contend this year . Getting KR , Smith , Scott were the Players he wanted . Adding them to RJ, Wilcher , Zuby , Dunlap .

Injuries have hampered that plan but , it’s not over yet .
We lack the spot up shooter from 3 that contending Teams have to have . It was a recruiting misstep on Rick and the staff .
Believing they would have a healthy Brady to fill that role .

No, Rick won’t go after the IU job . Consensus seems they are going all out for Brad Stevens .
Who would be a great hire .

But , you never know .
 
Stevens came out in the press last night saying he's not a candidate for the IU job. Not that that means anything, though.
 
SLYFOXX1968 said:
Rick always goes full out with compliments for his former players , staff , etc .

Watching Auburn Vs Florida and Clayton jr going off in the 1 st half must have been a reasonably happy event for Rick .
I just keep wondering , as I’m sure he does , if we had Jenkins and Clayton last season and Clayton again this year .

The Lad can play and shoot .
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If we had Clayton at the two this year, can’t see us losing more then one freak game to date.
 
bucketshardy said:
if we don't add a team like Dayton... and consider them to be "below" Big East caliber... the only teams that make sense, are in the ACC.

Duke/ND/Wake/BC/Cuse... (Dayton and St.Louis have been been better than BC recently right?)... if we can't add ACC schools... we dont have much other options
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mattc said:
Syracuse lost to Miami tonight. They’ve become such an irrelevant loser program. Send them to the NEC or something.
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Similar to the StJohns situation when a bogus search committee chose Brian Mahoney over other more qualified coaches as a tribute to Looie. Red was better served as an assistant coach.
 
Silly Donovan said:
Similar to the StJohns situation when a bogus search committee chose Brian Mahoney over other more qualified coaches as a tribute to Looie. Red was better served as an assistant coach.
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No one did squat to acquiesce to Looie. They conducted a national search, made Frank Layden of the Jazz (a Brooklyn guy and Niagara grad) head of selection committee. They reached out to a bunch of renowned coaches. Nobody of note applied and no one they contacted wanted the job. Nearly all said the same thing: "Why not hire Brian Mahoney?" The school resisted at first since they initially believed this was the best job in the country and no one was off limits. Finally warmed to the idea.

Mahoney did win BE coach of the year in year 2, and also reeled in the #1 and #5 hs players, which we had none before or since.
 
Beasts of the East said:
No one did squat to acquiesce to Looie. They conducted a national search, made Frank Layden of the Jazz (a Brooklyn guy and Niagara grad) head of selection committee. They reached out to a bunch of renowned coaches. Nobody of note applied and no one they contacted wanted the job. Nearly all said the same thing: "Why not hire Brian Mahoney?" The school resisted at first since they initially believed this was the to job in the ckuntry and no one was off limits. Finally warmed to the idea.

Mahoney did win BE coach of the year in year 2, and also reeled in the #1 and #5 hs players, which we had none before or since.
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Pretty sure Artest was top 10 maybe around 9?
 
Beasts of the East said:
No one did squat to acquiesce to Looie. They conducted a national search, made Frank Layden of the Jazz (a Brooklyn guy and Niagara grad) head of selection committee. They reached out to a bunch of renowned coaches. Nobody of note applied and no one they contacted wanted the job. Nearly all said the same thing: "Why not hire Brian Mahoney?" The school resisted at first since they initially believed this was the best job in the country and no one was off limits. Finally warmed to the idea.

Mahoney did win BE coach of the year in year 2, and also reeled in the #1 and #5 hs players, which we had none before or since.
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Mahoney won BE COY in year 1.

He recruited better than anybody before or since.... at least on paper.

But he failed at the most important position of all: point guard.
 
Delaware said:
Stevens came out in the press last night saying he's not a candidate for the IU job. Not that that means anything, though.
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I think he and Billy Donovan have no intention of going back to the college ranks unlike Pitino, Calapari and Hoiberg.
 
Beasts of the East said:
No one did squat to acquiesce to Looie. They conducted a national search, made Frank Layden of the Jazz (a Brooklyn guy and Niagara grad) head of selection committee. They reached out to a bunch of renowned coaches. Nobody of note applied and no one they contacted wanted the job. Nearly all said the same thing: "Why not hire Brian Mahoney?" The school resisted at first since they initially believed this was the best job in the country and no one was off limits. Finally warmed to the idea.

Mahoney did win BE coach of the year in year 2, and also reeled in the #1 and #5 hs players, which we had none before or since.
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Oh really, so the best the search committee could come up with was Brian Mahoney whose head coaching record prior to that at Manhattan was
16-62? You really expect people to believe that Looie had nothing to do with the decision even though Looie nixed several coaching hires of other qualified candidates in the past like John Calipari and had a lot to do with the Mullin hire among others?
 
L J S A said:
Without Rutledge Ron Ron would have landed at Miami.
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This is somewhat how I remember.

Mike Quick who had a weekly High School sports show on MSG Network at the time, asked Artest to announce on the show, his college choice of SJU or Miami.

Prior to this, Artest had apparently told Fran he was coming, earlier that week. Quick’s show aired on a Friday. delaying the announcement an extra day or two, which would allow Miami a window to continue recruiting him, and possibly change his mind.

Fraschilla was a paranoid mess, and was irate with Quick. It was turning off Artest and his family a bit, and also annoyed Quick, who was popular among the HS community.

Rutledge had to swoop in and smooth things over with Artets and his family. It obviously worked and sealed it.
 
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kranmars said:
This is somewhat I remember.

Mike Quick who had a weekly High School sports show on MSG Network at the time, asked Artest to announce on the show, his college choice of SJU or Miami.

Prior to this, Artest had apparently told Fran he was coming, earlier that week. Quick’s show aired on a Friday. delaying the announcement an extra day or two, which would allow Miami a window to continue recruiting him, and possibly change his mind.

Fraschilla was a paranoid mess, and was irate with Quick. It was turning off Artest and his family a bit, and also annoyed Quick, who was popular among the HS community.

Rutledge had to swoop in and smooth things over with Artets and his family. It obviously worked and sealed it.
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Didn’t something similar happen with Isaiah Briscoe and Lavin but it was actually Lavin’s idea for him to wait on announcing which gave Calipari more time to win that race
 
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