Hard-working Lavin re-energizing St. John’s [NY Post]

Steve Lavin is on his fifth cell phone in seven months.

Sitting in The Odeon on West Broadway, not far from his SoHo apartment, the first-year St. John’s coach is lamenting that his fourth phone died on Wednesday, which just happened to be national signing day. When he powered up his latest iPhone 4, there were 76 messages. He had lost about 240 others in a 24-hour period, but he didn’t lose a single recruit.

Lavin already has signed the best recruiting class in St. John’s history — five Top 100 prep players and a star JUCO point guard — for next season and it could become the No. 1 class in America if he closes on a few more players.


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Some quotes

“If you can’t sell St. John’s, New York, The Garden, the Big East, our tradition,” Lavin pauses, “I’m a 46-year-old guy with a pot belly and I’m ready to sign!”

“I think he’s getting St. John’s ready to make a run,” Harkless said. “And it will be crazy in New York City.”