Explain yourself. My perspective is mullin was arrogant man who thought he could do whatever he wanted to. He thought he was above just about everything. If he came back. He still Wouldn’t be coaching. Mitch and st. Jean would still be here. He still wouldn’t be recruiting. Someone else would be trying to do that. We would certainly be finishing in last place.
Ponds came to play for 2 hall of famers. That nonsense wasn’t going to work the second time around. No way we would have gotten players. Besides a few people on here it is obvious to the rest of the world what mullin is. Whatever he is he isn’t a coach.
How should a new AD treat a hero: who doesn’t work hard? Who has no experience and isn’t a good coach? Who is so arrogant that he surrounds himself with assistants who aren’t qualified?
The mullin faithful made this happen. Instead of giving passes, changes should have been forced upon him. If he refused he should have been fired 3 years ago. The embarrassment of the first 3 years never had to happen. Our school isn’t cursed.
I would love to hear Mullin’s perspective. Is he just a fool or is he just that arrogant? Why didn’t he make changes?
Cragg goes to all the games. He was not happy watching mullin not coach and curse at people.
-I’m not arguing if Mullin should not have been relieved of his coaching g ditties. He is different from other coaches in recent SJU history because he is Chris Mullin.
-My point is that the most beloved player in SJU history is now estranged from the program. For how long, who knows.
-The way things went down and the rumors about his departure were not pretty. The AD saying that Mullin is SJU’s Coach, and within a week he resigned. Was the AD clueless, or is he being coy by being “surprised”.
Poison I also agree with you about the way that Mullin was hired. This was a high risk low reward situation. The gamble to hire him was not worth it. At least he did make the tournament, and improved every year. Mullin can hang his hat on that.
To bring back to Coach Anderson, the first game gave some optimism about his coaching, but he will it be fully embraced until he finds true success, and Mullin being the previous beach coach creates another hurdle to get over.
One more thing. As an eternal Johnny optimist, when SJU has had a Coach first Coach, they have done ok.
Fran, and Jarvis found success.
Lavin with Dunlap had a great year...The shame is when Kennedy blew out his knee and affected the seeding for SJU.
Mahoney and Lavin were primary recruiters and also had success.