Big East Coaches Comment on Steve Lavin [JohnnyJungle.com]

When Steve Lavin replaced Norm Roberts at St. John’s seven months ago, anyone who was remotely affiliated with St. John’s basketball realized immediately that positive changes were in store. Yesterday morning’s Big East media day proved no exception to the recent status quo in Queens, as Lavin was surrounded by hundreds of reporters, radio personnel and various other media members at Madison Square Garden for well over an hour. In fact, Lavin’s massive popularity kept him at the St. John’s table for an extra twenty minutes after his radio and print media session ended; and although late for the TV portion of the event, the extroverted head coach continued to stop and engage anyone who came within his field of vision on the way up the stairs.

Although there were more than enough nuggets from Coach Lavin himself to fill this post, (I’ll have some of those in a future edition of the Daly Dribble) the comments provided to me from Lavin’s sideline counterparts were just as beneficial in shedding some light on the increased expectations the Johnnies are now seeing for themselves.

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Sports illustrated not buying it for this year anyway. Thinks we should swap places with Seton Hall. I think 6 is too optimistic but 11 too low.

That Seton Hall pick is bizarre.  They finished 9th, the beat Pittsburgh, the only lost one starter, and lost FOUR overtime games in conference.  They could have been an NCAA team last year with one overtime win.

Its interesting to see how BE coaches react to everything however you're never going to get a tell me how you really feel answer. I do find the metro area arms race to be a pretty good one.