5 Predictions for the 19-20 season

Say what you want dummy, but every regular poster here recognizes that I'm a national treasure. Even the people who hate me for what I say how I say what I'm saying and how I'm saying it love me for what I am. Or since you're from Arkansas, were.

Frankly, your schtick is getting old. 

Seton hall just finished their most successful 4 seasons since the early 90’s. Mmm mmm.

I recall from last year that you were a SH fan, from when you started posting reguarly on the Pirate board when SJ was ranked in the top 25 after winning 12 straight games which winning made basketball not fun for you anymore. Thanks for the history lesson, which history I've <hosed> in the interest of brevity.

It's fortunate that when Willard was 30-60 in conference after his first five years at SH and had had only one winning season and a sub 500 record in toto that you counseled patience: trust the process you said. Just as you did when SH won 13 games with two future NBA players on the roster and then a couple of years later when he went 3-15 in the BE: rightfully you poo poo-ed the naysayers. And when Sterling Gibbs transferred out and Jeff Robinson also and when former top 30 recruit Herb Pope assaulted various student athletes before ending up in prison you rightly pointed out that transfer U was a misnomer and none of that was the staff's fault, especially not the felonies, that these things happen all the time in college basketball, that it's the cost of doing business if you want to be a big time program. And now having supported him through thick and thin and maybe even thinner you've finally been proven right, the great Kevin Willard having won a single NCAA game in a mere nine years, nearly equalling the great Tommy Amaker - hewasthisclose - and tieing the phenomenal Louis Orr. Sweet vindication for a national powerhouse. And for you.

That Seton Hall has won two NCCA games in six appearances since the 2001 season and that they've been over that period slightly more successful than the laughingstock that is Saint John's is no matter. They are what we aspire to be, a team that's won almost nothing since forever. You've been proven right again, even if you do say so yourself. Mmm mmm.

Don’t understand your point.

You should stay away from talking basketball and just call names. Our coach went to the final 4 multiple times and won a national championship as an assistant.

I don’t get your seton hall reference because I am an idiot

Coach Anderson did play providence this year. Without Arkansas’s best player, they bullied providence in the NIT.

SEC lately has not been as good as the big east.

(Besides last year) But the SEC is bigger and more athletic. Our style will be a huge advantage for us.

But this team will be no laughing stock.

Foady- I say we bet. You name stakes. Anything reasonable will be acceptable to me.  Last year in a down big east where St. John’s was picked to finish I believe 4th. Lazy ass won 7 big east games. Losing 3 starters i am assuming St. John’s will be preseason 8/9. More then fair line is 6.5 big east wins. Realistically that is a bad line for me. But I will bet you that. Let’s see which of us is full of shit. Doubt you will accept. Gentlemen’s bet for bragging rights is fine with me to.

because even Carmine can make you look like an idiot and Carmine's a nice person.

Mike Anderson is a decent coach, def better than most give him credit for, you don’t win 369 games in 17 seasons by accident. 9 tourneys in 17 seasons isn’t horrible either but could be better. I just believe his style will do wonders in the Big East, took down Seton Hall in the NCAA tourney in 2017, Killed providence last year in the NIT, Providence was SOOO slow compared to Arkansas, they couldn’t keep up. And especially since the Conference tourney is in the Garden, I see Anderson doing really well there because his games at home are like 80% overall. Rarely loses at home if he has a decent crowd.

I am a fair man and this is a fair post so I'm willing to say that. Obviously based upon his track record CTC is a "decent" coach - and perhaps better than that - and the odds are fair that he'll be decent at SJ as well. But I'm also a SJ fan and I know from bitter experience that no one excels at SJ, no matter how decent they were, once.

I'm not impressed that he beat PU on a night that PU shot 13 percent from three or SH on a night that shot 30 percent from three that other year and I notice that you conveniently failed to mention that Butler kicked the shit out of ARK  in 2018 and Butler stinks. But these things are anecdotal.

Here are the things that give me pause. That CTC's system will not flummox the coaches in the league who either recruit better than he does or are smarter than he is. Which is a bunch of them. That CTC is a lackadaisical recruiter, and that's not me talking, that's a herd of Arkansas fans, and you say that CTC is only going to beat teams that he has more talent than. That SJ does not have a significant home field advantage at MSG, where most of the important games will be played, including the BE tournament because most teams in the BE travel well. And perhaps most importantly that SJ is a snake bit program and that Jamaica is where coaching careers come to die.

I do not wish that CTC fails. But I expect him to. Because that's what SJ's coaches do. They fail. If he bucks the odds I'll be pleasantly surprised. If he doesn't I'm resigned to it. As usual, YMMV.

Defense flummoxes all players.

I mostly just sat around out there in the shed, tinkering around with a lawn mower or two. Went to school off and on from time to time. But the children out there, they were very cruel to me. Made quite a bit of sport of me, made fun of me quite a bit. So mostly, I just sat around out there in the shed. Mmm hmm

The last and final excuse for lazy coach Mullin is St. John’s is a place where coaching career goes to die. Hysterical!

Every coach since Lou Carnesecca has lost these games. The only coach after Carnesecca to not lose to a no name school in his first season was Mike Jarvis.