Like I said personally I don't know him, but Internet wise he is a troll. He is beyond annoying are many occassions. Need not look any further than the title of this thread. He comes on a SJU website and calls a Big East school, one that most of us here love, a mid major program. He does like SJU, so why does he post here?
perhaps he is a realist who sees the reality (zero ncaa tourney wins in 14 seasons), part of a conference that is on more of a decline than improvement, a coach who doesnt work, a staff who would screw up a cup of coffee, no recruits coming in, impending transfers (more will be coming i am told).
not everyone has to say our program is doing great and lavin should be extended.
There is a difference between saying the program is not doing great and not wanting it to do well (which he clearly wants).
I am not happy with some of the things that are going on but I will root like crazy, like I did through the dark days of Jarvis and Norm.
But in the end it doesn't change the fact that he is a troll.
So I'm the problem because I call it like I see it? I'm not the one standing around watching this disaster waving my pom poms. Fans like yourself are part of the problem
I just find it is pretty pathetic that you have over 12,000 posts on the basketball fan site of a program that you don't even like.
That is the classic definition of a troll. You don't need 20/20 vision to see that.
Bill, I respectfully disagree. Many times Baldi provides evidence/reasons (whether stats, his observations, etc.) for his opinions. When a team doesn't perform well, and on top of that, below most fans' reasonable expectations, it is totally appropriate to do some evaluation, for better or worse, of a team one roots for. In my 5 years on here and Redmen, I have seen nothing to indicate that Baldi doesn't root for SJ's to well along with his Iona roots. Frankly, I'm frustrated like many with the squad for letting a golden opportunity barely slip through their hands (especially the back breaking 2nd Xavier loss at home).
Baldi might be a bit too provocative on some occasions, but imho it is not the level you're stating. If you keep fanning the flames of the issue over and over, you are not addressing the thread yourself. But I know you love the team like I do, so I'm not taking umbrage with you.
I don't know Baldi but can tell that he has some bball knowledge and perhaps some contacts as do a lot of folks on the boards...but he absolutely goes out of his way to incite and I don't believe he is a fan of the program
History lesson boys and girls.
Back in the last years of the reign of terror known as the Norm Roberts era, Baldi was defending Norm against about 75% of the rest of BEB. By this time it looked as if Norm was given tenure and would be around until he retired or died. So anti Norm sentiment was very high. Baldi would spam the board and defend Norm all the while claiming this or that recruit was coming. No one ever came. Most people got tired of Baldi except for Choz who bless his soul mistook Bluto's trolling for being "the voice of reason on BEB." In fact Bluto even got himself banned on BEB at one point which happened even less frequently than ST John's makes the tourney.
Well eventually Norm did get fired and Lavin was hired. Now this was universally met with excitement in the ST john's fan forum world. So much so that yours truly We are Nostradamus predicted on one of these boards that Baldi would have to become anti Lavin to survive.
Now having actually met Bluto I can tell you he is a nice guy, if you can forgive the fact that he tried to molest Dave, Tha Kid and Marillac and successfully molested Carmine at the end of the BEB gathering. He is a ST John's fan but his favorite team is some made up school Faber, Hogwarts or Iona, I forget which one.
Finally the reason he bothers some of you is because some still don't understand that you can be a fan w/o being kool aid drinker. The program hasn't been good since Jarvis was here (take that Jarvis haters). SO criticism of program will occur even if it is from the troll variety. You have more important things to worry about then Bluto anyway. Guys prematurely leaving for the NBDL, transfers, shaky coaching, no frontcourt, no recruits and our pets heads are falling off.