The St Johns Mount Rushmore

didnt include Chris while you certainly can I'm talking about creating longevity for St Johns and I think Shanley just had monster impact
 
Lapchick, Looie, Kaiser.. players are only here 4 years or less so I'd exclude. Baseball is by comparison obscure or Blankmeyer, but his overall contribution to university pales to those 3. I'm stuck at 3.
 
I'm surprised so many of you completely overlooked Dr. Dave Mazur!

Men's college soccer has become a highly competitive sport since Mazur came to St. John's and made it a national power on a shoestring budget.

The following is from his bio:

The fourth-winningest active Division I head men's soccer coach by victories (438) and the 16th-winningest by percentage (.671), Dr. Dave Masur enters his 36th season as a head coach in 2022 with a 438-189-99 overall record that includes a 385-168-93 mark in 31 seasons at St. John's. During his tenure in Queens, St. John's has won a national championship (1996), made four appearances in the NCAA College Cup (1996, 2001, 2003 and 2008) and reached 22 NCAA Tournaments, including 15-straight from 1992-2006. A testament to the program's consistent success, the Red Storm was the only program in the nation to reach 10-consecutive NCAA Tournament Rounds of 16 from 1996-2005. With Masur on the sidelines, the Red Storm has won a conference-record nine BIG EAST Tournament titles as well as six BIG EAST regular season crowns, and has earned 29 BIG EAST Tournament berths.
 
Mt Rushmore of championship coaches that SJU produced:

Frank McGuire: singlehandedly built UNC into a national force.
Al McGuire: singlehandedly built Marquette into a national force.
Kevin Loughery: two ABA titles with the Nets.
John Kresse: singlehandedly built Charleston into a force.

Don't think I'm missing anyone....
 
MainMan said:
Mt Rushmore of championship coaches that SJU produced:

Frank McGuire: singlehandedly built UNC into a national force.
Al McGuire: singlehandedly built Marquette into a national force.
Kevin Loughery: two ABA titles with the Nets.
John Kresse: singlehandedly built Charleston into a force.

Don't think I'm missing anyone....
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Tim Cluess in 10 seasons at Iona went to the NCAA post season tournament 8 times. The two times his teams missed they won the regular season MAAC title but were upset in the conference tournament. He inherited a 2-28 team that in the previous 6 seasons finished 10th, 2nd, three 5ths, and a 7th. He won big in every single coaching stop, building a nationally ranked powerhouse at St. Mary's HS, and at LIU Post went 98-23.

Yury Gelman is entering his 28th season at the helm of the Red Storm fencing teams. Over the last decade, Gelman has built a legacy as one of the top fencing coaches in the world, with success in both the United States and abroad. His collegiate teams consistently finish among the nation's elite and many of his athletes have collected world championship titles and Olympic medals. During Gelman's time at St. John's, his Red Storm has captured a national title (2001), has had over 125 All-Americans and has won 25 individual NCAA Championships.

Joe Russo had a stellar career as head coach of Sju baseball, winning 3 big east reg season titles, 4 big east tournament championships, 2 time big east coach of the year, and overall record 611-310-4
 
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I think it might be better to separate Coaches , School Presidents , AD’s, etc from the Players .

And , for Players , to be fair you might consider them by the Decades they played here .

Otherwise , you miss some great Players of Year’s gone by.

I’ll start in the 50’s :

Tony Jackson , Alan Seiden, Solly Walker , LeRoy Ellis .

60’s :

Sonny Dove , Bob Macintyre , Ken Mac , Billy Paultz

70’s:

George Johnson , Mel Davis , Glen Williams , Reggie Carter

80’s


Mullin, Berry , Mark Jackson , Malik Sealy


90’s

Felipe, Zendon, Boo Harvey, Jayson Williams


2000’s

Artest, Barkley, Bootsy ,Marcus Hatten


That’s all I got for now . I’m sure others may have other players on their list .
 
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Pitino
Jarvis
Lavin
Fran
Mahoney
Mullin
Anderson
Norm
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Anderson got the short end of the stick. The University tried to go the cheap route and hired Anderson without giving him the support necessary to rebuild the program with facility upgrades and shoring up booster support to fund NIL opportunities that are the lifeblood of recruiting.
 
fat johnnie said:
Anderson got the short end of the stick. The University tried to go the cheap route and hired Anderson without giving him the support necessary to rebuild the program with facility upgrades and shoring up booster support to fund NIL opportunities that are the lifeblood of recruiting.
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That is hardly an Anderson thing. SJU has been notoriously cheap with its basketball support system.

Anderson actually had more support than past coaches, for example he had the full support of Cragg.
 
fat johnnie said:
Anderson got the short end of the stick. The University tried to go the cheap route and hired Anderson without giving him the support necessary to rebuild the program with facility upgrades and shoring up booster support to fund NIL opportunities that are the lifeblood of recruiting.
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Except that Anderson did get decent talent here, so that wasn't the issue. It was his coaching that was the problem. He flat out stunk his last 2 years. And while I think that Rick has put together a deeper and more balanced team then Anderson ever did, I don't think that the talent level is significantly better then last year's team.
 
kranmars said:
That is hardly an Anderson thing. SJU has been notoriously cheap with its basketball support system.

Anderson actually had more support than past coaches, for example he had the full support of Cragg.
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Additionally, coaches are always a huge part of fundraising. Show me how Anderson helped increase donations in his time here?
 
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