Hey Guys, Im tired of hearing all the Roberts critiques. Jarvis brought the program to it's knees, not Roberts. Lets not forget Roberts was put in a virtually untenable position by the sanctions and scandal. He ran a clean program, developed his 2nd rate players reasonably well and left a group of players he developed for Lavin (or should I say Dunlap) to take to the torney. If only Lavin could teach the way Roberts did.
#1. Fr. Harrington brought the program to its knees. If he had either fired Jarvis when he first wanted to or if he had not taken the never done before step of firing a Big East basketball coach in mid-season there would have never been a scandal at SJU.
#2. Roberts developed NOBODY and proved to be a terrible recruiter, he just couldn't close on kids and get them to come play for him. Coach Dunlap was the person that took the scrap heap Lavin in hearted and got every thing they could out of them. Do you remember the difference between Sean Evans under Roberts the Lavin/Dunlap - that is development.
Careful PMG, the Lavin haters will get on you for giving GTAPL 1/2 a development credit there.
Boo, arent you getting close to lavin hater territory?
Depends who you ask...I just post and call it how I see it.. Game to game... Sometimes he's dreadful, sometimes he deserves credit (like SH)... Why woulld I put myself in one camp or another? Do I have to? Is it us against them?
I'm not directing this at you either Mase.. I get PMs from people asking how could I possible defend him on one hand and then say I'm getting tired of program on the other. Do you have to be one or the other all the time?
Probably my biggest pet peeve about this place.. Good, fun basketball analysis gets thrown out the window because of agendas and feeling the need to defend or tear down... Not necessary...
I like the coach when he does well, and I don';t when he messes up... like 90% of the rational sports fans in the world..