the biggest reason fh loves norm is the contrast between him and jarvis. jarvis wouldn't even show up at the president's dinner...and no one is a bigger behind kisser than norm.
why is Norm a butt kisser?
read his "suckup" quotes. you never got those from jarvis...but then, jarvis could coach.
Jarvis could coach?
When was the last time we beat Uconn, Villanova, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Duke and oh yea, Hofstra?
I'd have to say it was last time St Johns had players on the payroll
Aaron Spears was a thug with a record. What criminal record did Marcus Hatten have before he came to SJU? Or any of our guys for that matter?
Easy to blame Jarvis for what happened, but the fact remains he had already been fired when everything went down.
It seems to me that the players were letting the University know by their behavior that they didn't care about the school. A problem that has plagued SJU since Harrington took over as president. Elijah Ingram and Abe Keita might have been great players, but at another school, like Uconn or Syracuse they wouldn't have been expelled for such a victimless crime.
At the time, I was in favor of getting rid of Jarvis, but it's clear now, that he was the devil we knew, and we were a relevant program when he was in charge of it.
We might not have been a powerhouse with Jarvis there, but he was not without talented players coming in for 04-05. Firing him mid season is really what destroyed this program.