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In The Jungle... / Re: SJU 2024 Off-Season Thread - Onto Year 2
« Last post by Celtics11 on Today at 08:24:26 PM »Ayo still on team as well as incoming freshman Glover, Maker and the Greek kid.
In fairness Foad, this time its different in the sense of the school has now made a commitment to improve its facilities and get into that realm. Even if we have a facility half as good as the Providence one that Fr. Shanley spearheaded there, that is progress and if they also renovate Carnessecca Arena we will be in a better position. As for your NIL point- its a good one BUT right now Repole is more involved again and he will help Rick do what he needs to, to win. This year was always going to be an uphill climb with recruiting almost an entire new team in a short amount of time out of the mediocre talent left to get.
Clearly. It was sometime in the 70s, I think during the McCoy years, but I can't be arsed to look. Al McGuire turned down the NCAAs in 1970, being uphappy with Marquette's seeding. MU beat SJU in the finals.
I didn't sit through many entire games this year (except during that glorious losing streak) and am a better man for it so I can't comment on this years team. That said, on the one hand Pitino is one of the greatest coaches of his generation and if anyone can turn SJ around he's on the short list. On the other hand, for 24 years of his career he was paying his players - which 24 years accounts for 500 of his lifetime 700 wins (at Kentucky and Louisville, two of the most corrupt programs in CBB history). Which was a huge recruiting advantage. Except now everybody can pay their players. With payola off the table what's he got to sell that no one else has? Scenic Jamaica? Majestic Carnesecca Arena? Elite academics? He's got almost nothing: UConn's home court the Garden and the privilege of playing for a thin skinned geriatric HOF coach who may or may not have lost a few off his fastball.
I keep coming back to this: SJU is where coaching careers come to die. Look at this conga line of losers: Mahoney, Fran, Jarhead, Norm, Lavin, Mullins, Anderson. Thirty years of shit sandwich. Why should RAP be any different.
Which clearly makes you an Old Foadie.
For all you've witnessed, what is your take on Pitino's ability to maneuver through the portal and have the team improved beyond this year's team?
I'm old enough to remember when SJU turned down an invite to the NCAA tournament to play in the NIT.Which clearly makes you an Old Foadie.
We actually turned down the NIT so we are actually heading to the transfer portal
Thanks Rick, we're back.
In the NIT.