I would get in my car right now and go pick Norm up if he was willing to come back and pick this program back up where he left off. Things were on the uptick with Norm when the idiot admin at St John's fired him. He was the only coach where we watched the program grow and prosper under them and more importantly did things the right way
When you jump in the car, drive it into the Hudson River. What "uptick" was Norm on?
Norm's conference record by year:
2004-5: 3-13 (inherited Showtime, Hamilton, Stanley)
2005-6: 5-11
2006-7: 7-9 (Showtime and Hamilton senior year)
2007-8: 5-13
2008-9: 6-12
2009-10: 6-12 (10 juniors and Mase. Jr.'s 5th year)
Please show me exactly where Norm progressed? He couldn't win with 10 juniors and his highest recruit as a 5th year senior. He wasn't even smart enough to identify Hardy and Brownlee as starters let alone the stats that they were.
And for sh*ts and giggles here is Norm's Queens College conference record:
1991-92: 2-6
1992-93: 7-11
1993-94: 2-20
1994-95: 4-18
Overall conference record of 47-135 (34%) His successor had them in the national tournament a few years after he cleaned up Norm's mess.