Zagoria: Lavin's future at St. John's in doubt

[Hoyas]

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mens-colleg ... src=mobile

sounds like it may even be more than 3 years?

St. John's and coach Steve Lavin are finalizing an extension to keep him with the Red Storm for the foreseeable future, a source told ESPN.
Lavin has one year remaining on his current contract. The number of years on the new deal is still being discussed.

[SJU1987]

I think Lavin will be fine. Three 20 win seasons and 2 NCAA's and 2 Nit's. He made the program better.
Lavin has shown he can recruit nationally. He has to do a better job with local recruits.
Lavin only had one recruiting class and they didn't play to their full potential. It happens. Judge the guy after he's had 2 recruiting classes.
You hire Hurley and he might leave after the program gets really good. Same with the other young coaches. I don't want SJU to be a stepping stone. Lavin likes St. John's and wants to stay in NY. Keep him !

[Hoyas]

I think you hit the question. Will a young coach coming into the Big East view it as the destination, or as a stepping stone to a bigger F5 program?

[SJU1987]

Hurley wants Duke.

[RDinNY]

Duke doesn't want Hurley. If they did, he would have been on the bench next to Coach K before he got his first HC gig.

[Hoyas]

Update from Zags Blog:
http://zagsblog.com/articles/lavin-st-j ... ussed-yet/

Steve Lavin and his higher-ups at St. John’s have begun their annual end-of-year talks but have not yet discussed an extension, a source told SNY.tv Wednesday evening.

So who knows what's going on at St John's.

[stever20]

looking on twitter some St John's fans think that the Lavin extension talk may be leaks from Lavin.

I guess 1 thing to remember Lavin used to work at ESPN, so he does have some connections there.

[stever20]

just saw interesting tweet from Jeff Goodman:
GoodmanESPN Jeff Goodman
Lots of coaches whose futures likely determined soon: Rick Barnes, Donnie Tyndall, Travis Ford, Steve Lavin.
34 minutes ago

With him on that tweet I would think that pretty much refutes the stories that we heard last night and it's still up in the air.

[ChestRockwell85]

Take it with a grain of salt but unless I misinterpreted my source, it looks like Lavin is done at SJU.

[RedStormHoops]

Take it with a grain of salt but unless I misinterpreted my source, it looks like Lavin is done at SJU.

Hearing similar reports, Rockwell