Anyone who follows St Johns has know Father Shanley was all in on Pitino. They go back to Providence days. Olivia will be next to be sent packing allowing Repole to come backvto the program. Facilities will get their upgrades and the Johnnie's will return to National relevance
Yeah if out of some outrageous stupidity Virginia ever pushed Bennett out he'd be scooped up by another program before Virginia would even have a chance to have the presser announcing it.
1) Head to head, Pitino was 1-5 against Bennett while at Louisville. Even when Louisville was a good team since entering the ACC, UVA used them as a punching bag - 17-2 against them since the 2014-15 season.
2) Thanks to Arizona, we are no longer the biggest flop in this tournament and, thanks to Purdue, we no longer own the worst loss in tournament history. This FDU team is a good bit worse than 2018 UMBC, ranking 303 by Ken Pomeroy coming into the tournament compared with UMBC at 188 in 2018. FDU was only in the tournament because of a quirk in the rules. Merrimack was both the regular season and conference tournament champion and beat FDU twice. However, teams in their first year moving up from D-II are ineligible for the postseason, and thus FDU got in by making the conference final.
Never. Disappointing as the past several postseasons have been aside from 2019, we were in the wilderness before he was hired and will likely return to the wilderness after he retires.
After the discussions of the weekend games and before previewing the following weekend games.
This was in he works for a while, and nothing was coming out until after Iona was eliminated. Fr. Shanley knows Pitino (almost hired him back when he was president of Providence) and he was not going to eat Anderson’s $10-11 buyout without a major move to follow. Pitino does not have a buyout with current contract.
Fr. Shanley reached out to all of the “money backers” and they immediately pledged to fund Pitino’s contract, his staff, and recruiting budget. Not to mention the NIL pool will increase substantially (which in this day and age is even more important than the facilities).
Pitino lives in Winged Foot. He loves to golf and he does not want to move from the area. But he also wants to coach a multi-bid conference. SJU affords him both.
After the discussions of the weekend games and before previewing the following weekend games.
This was in he works for a while, and nothing was coming out until after Iona was eliminated. Fr. Shanley knows Pitino (almost hired him back when he was president of Providence) and he was not going to eat Anderson’s $10-11 buyout without a major move to follow. Pitino does not have a buyout with current contract.
Fr. Shanley reached out to all of the “money backers” and they immediately pledged to fund Pitino’s contract, his staff, and recruiting budget. Not to mention the NIL pool will increase substantially (which in this day and age is even more important than the facilities).
Pitino lives in Winged Foot. He loves to golf and he does not want to move from the area. But he also wants to coach a multi-bid conference. SJU affords him both.
The Winged Foot aspect to this is the most important. Pitino is 70 and doesn’t want to leave the NYC area. That’s why he turned down bigger jobs offering him more money while at Iona. He could easily coach a big name in the Big Ten (Ohio State) but that means leaving NY
1) Head to head, Pitino was 1-5 against Bennett while at Louisville. Even when Louisville was a good team since entering the ACC, UVA used them as a punching bag - 17-2 against them since the 2014-15 season.
2) FDU was only in the tournament because of a quirk in the rules. Merrimack was both the regular season and conference tournament champion and beat FDU twice. However, teams in their first year moving up from D-II are ineligible for the postseason, and thus FDU got in by making the conference final.
FDU swept Merrimack in the regular season and lost the conference final due to an awful phantom over the back call.
a savings of about $11M if SJU can make that stick. Anderson has already declared his intention to arbitrate the 'for cause' termination. Kinda sucks for both sides to have it end up that way. Don't know all the facts, but generally speaking being an unsuccessful coach by itself is not 'cause.'
to MSG for meaningful st johns games. Too young for the glory years but had a lot of fun watching the Artest, Barkley, Bootsy Thorton, Postell teams and the fun with Marcus Hatten. Very few good years after that. ThNk God
I am officially boycotting all St. Johns Basketball games until he is gone. I refuse to stand here and allow this man and his reputation to tarnish the great name of Big East Basketball without taking action.
Sorry, man.
Sorry, man.
Yeah if out of some outrageous stupidity Virginia ever pushed Bennett out he'd be scooped up by another program before Virginia would even have a chance to have the presser announcing it.
2) Thanks to Arizona, we are no longer the biggest flop in this tournament and, thanks to Purdue, we no longer own the worst loss in tournament history. This FDU team is a good bit worse than 2018 UMBC, ranking 303 by Ken Pomeroy coming into the tournament compared with UMBC at 188 in 2018. FDU was only in the tournament because of a quirk in the rules. Merrimack was both the regular season and conference tournament champion and beat FDU twice. However, teams in their first year moving up from D-II are ineligible for the postseason, and thus FDU got in by making the conference final.
So we got that going for us…which is nice.
This was in he works for a while, and nothing was coming out until after Iona was eliminated. Fr. Shanley knows Pitino (almost hired him back when he was president of Providence) and he was not going to eat Anderson’s $10-11 buyout without a major move to follow. Pitino does not have a buyout with current contract.
Fr. Shanley reached out to all of the “money backers” and they immediately pledged to fund Pitino’s contract, his staff, and recruiting budget. Not to mention the NIL pool will increase substantially (which in this day and age is even more important than the facilities).
Pitino lives in Winged Foot. He loves to golf and he does not want to move from the area. But he also wants to coach a multi-bid conference. SJU affords him both.
This was in he works for a while, and nothing was coming out until after Iona was eliminated. Fr. Shanley knows Pitino (almost hired him back when he was president of Providence) and he was not going to eat Anderson’s $10-11 buyout without a major move to follow. Pitino does not have a buyout with current contract.
Fr. Shanley reached out to all of the “money backers” and they immediately pledged to fund Pitino’s contract, his staff, and recruiting budget. Not to mention the NIL pool will increase substantially (which in this day and age is even more important than the facilities).
Pitino lives in Winged Foot. He loves to golf and he does not want to move from the area. But he also wants to coach a multi-bid conference. SJU affords him both.
The Winged Foot aspect to this is the most important. Pitino is 70 and doesn’t want to leave the NYC area. That’s why he turned down bigger jobs offering him more money while at Iona. He could easily coach a big name in the Big Ten (Ohio State) but that means leaving NY
2) FDU was only in the tournament because of a quirk in the rules. Merrimack was both the regular season and conference tournament champion and beat FDU twice. However, teams in their first year moving up from D-II are ineligible for the postseason, and thus FDU got in by making the conference final.
FDU swept Merrimack in the regular season and lost the conference final due to an awful phantom over the back call.
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I am officially boycotting all St. Johns Basketball games until he is gone. I refuse to stand here and allow this man and his reputation to tarnish the great name of Big East Basketball without taking action.