SJU AD rankings

Alumni Hall said:
Kaiser- excellence. Beloved by staff, coaches and athletes alike! Athletic teams, for the most part, competed on a national level.
Manetta- continued the outstanding tradition set by Kaiser. Left SJU as Harrington tried to hijack the athletic department from him and dropped many programs against Manetta’s desire.
Monasch-OK, did his research on the future landscape of the Conference. Athletic teams were all going to conference tourney and NCAA’s. was Not as visible to athletes as previous AD’s. I think he was respected by his Big East peers. The Brian Colleary incident also hurts his reputation.

the rest you can place in the poor hire category.
Wegzen was a Harrington sidekick who was not respected by most coaches or peers. Did nothing to enhance the athlete experience when in charge. Was the complete opposite of what the athletic department needed at that time. Instead of fundraising, he slashed budgets and staff. No facility improvements during his tenure. Treated basketball very poorly, every thing was confrontational often clashing with hoops staff. Never took responsibility for the many incidents during his time there. He killed the money making program, basketball by falling so far behind our Big East foes in facilities, travel, academic laptops for players etc.

Goff, during his short time there, at least, was a former athlete who understood the importance of support areas in the success of the athletic teams. Dramatically increased spending and staff size of academic support area, sports medicine for health care, nutrition stations for teams and strength & conditioning of teams Through a huge NCAA one time grant. When he traveled on basketball trips, he personally arranged site visits of athletic facilities and saw how far behind we were and started the master plan of facility improvements at SJU.
Supported all the athletic teams in person. Too bad he imploded in such a short time.

Cragg, well the hiring and extension of Anderson will forever tarnish him IMO. In his 4-5 years at SJU, his strive for excellence mantra has not happened. Look at how fast and far the soccer, basketball, baseball, track, softball and lacrosse teams have fallen and continue to languish in the bottom half of the Big East. Facilities are still the worst in the Conference. Porta potties still dot all of our outdoor venues for athletes and fans alike. He was hired from Duke because of his supposed Iron Duke fundraising capabilities as well as facility enhancement. 5 years in and no major fundraising announcements. If there was still a Big East Commissioner's trophy for athletic teams results, we’d be in last place.
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Alumni Wall does it again.... I love when "walls" talk. 😁
 
Cragg probably #3. Mike Anderson was his first coaching , remained a winner and didn’t embarrass us. No not quite the hire we could have used, but he was fighting the board with Olivia and had to sell him something. The extension was bad no doubt: He’s done a solid job otherwise and seems to be engaged and smart enough. New lax coach was a great hire, but that’s just me. He did take too long to fire Miller. I think he just took too long to grow some balls and make executive decisions prior to the Shanley hire, but that might have been out of his control. Moving forward we have Shanley at the helm, so no doubt we will be in a lot better shape for future hires. I’d have no problem with Shanley looking around and finding a new AD that can crush it. The fact that Shanley stepped over Cragg to take the reins and land Pitino tells me something.
 
Alumni Hall said:
Kaiser- excellence. Beloved by staff, coaches and athletes alike! Athletic teams, for the most part, competed on a national level.
Manetta- continued the outstanding tradition set by Kaiser. Left SJU as Harrington tried to hijack the athletic department from him and dropped many programs against Manetta’s desire.
Monasch-OK, did his research on the future landscape of the Conference. Athletic teams were all going to conference tourney and NCAA’s. was Not as visible to athletes as previous AD’s. I think he was respected by his Big East peers. The Brian Colleary incident also hurts his reputation.

the rest you can place in the poor hire category.
Wegzen was a Harrington sidekick who was not respected by most coaches or peers. Did nothing to enhance the athlete experience when in charge. Was the complete opposite of what the athletic department needed at that time. Instead of fundraising, he slashed budgets and staff. No facility improvements during his tenure. Treated basketball very poorly, every thing was confrontational often clashing with hoops staff. Never took responsibility for the many incidents during his time there. He killed the money making program, basketball by falling so far behind our Big East foes in facilities, travel, academic laptops for players etc.

Goff, during his short time there, at least, was a former athlete who understood the importance of support areas in the success of the athletic teams. Dramatically increased spending and staff size of academic support area, sports medicine for health care, nutrition stations for teams and strength & conditioning of teams Through a huge NCAA one time grant. When he traveled on basketball trips, he personally arranged site visits of athletic facilities and saw how far behind we were and started the master plan of facility improvements at SJU.
Supported all the athletic teams in person. Too bad he imploded in such a short time.

Cragg, well the hiring and extension of Anderson will forever tarnish him IMO. In his 4-5 years at SJU, his strive for excellence mantra has not happened. Look at how fast and far the soccer, basketball, baseball, track, softball and lacrosse teams have fallen and continue to languish in the bottom half of the Big East. Facilities are still the worst in the Conference. Porta potties still dot all of our outdoor venues for athletes and fans alike. He was hired from Duke because of his supposed Iron Duke fundraising capabilities as well as facility enhancement. 5 years in and no major fundraising announcements. If there was still a Big East Commissioner's trophy for athletic teams results, we’d be in last place.
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You speak from the inside and first hand knowledge and not to pat myself on the back but my impressions and evaluations from the outside match up with yours.
 
With Pitino in the fold Cragg can forget about the men’s basketball duties involving schedules, venues etc. and working with Pitino concentrate on fund raising and finally make the facility improvements a reality.
 
GardenCity62 said:
With Pitino in the fold Cragg can forget about the men’s basketball duties involving schedules, venues etc. and working with Pitino concentrate on fund raising and finally make the facility improvements a reality.
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AD still going to have to do the leg work on scheduling, venues etc.
 
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