MUBoxer wrote:Westbrook#36 wrote:NJRedman wrote:On a scale of 1 (Ice cold) to 10 (Red hot) how is each of our ten coaches seats? I don't know how each fan base feels about their coaches so I'm just guessing. How do you guys feel about your coach and the others in the league?
St. John's/Chris Mullin- 1 Freezing, Mullin is the golden boy who returned home. Everyone is still feeling good about the hire.
Villanova/Jay Wright- 3 Cold, Wright has his team as the class of the league but I'm sure fans aren't happy with the quick exits from the NCAA tourney.
Actually here's what you said, Jay's seat is hotter than Mullin's, sorry that's just not the case. You can't make a rational argument that Mullin has more job security than Jay, you just can't. JW has years of equity build upon running a very successful program. The last 2 early exits are disappointing, but being ranked in the top 10 for 95% of those 2 years surely isn't. Not to mention Jay's excellent recruiting. Mullin has to turn around a program, win some NCAA tourney games, and recruit at a high level. All things Jay has accomplished for a long time. Sorry Mullins seat is most definitely warmer than Wright's.
As always, it's hilarious when St. John's fans speak of others insecurity, oh the delusions of grandeur. BTW, we didn't show up in this thread until you and your fellow St. John's cronies started talking shit.
Out of curiosity let's say both you have two coaches one is starting brand new, zero expectations for year one and then doesn't do much better year two. One has been a great coach but the past 5 years he's gone to four tournaments and hasn't done anything, despite three of those years having great seeding. Then the great coach misses two tournament (hypothetical) who's on the hot seat? The great coach shows a trend of going down (see Rick Barnes, Ben howland) and thus could get fired. whereas if the first coach doesn't do anything in his first two years he's not going anywhere, they'll let him at least do 4yrs of the usual 5yr contract. I love Jay, I think he's a great coach and a fantastic regular season coach. But you are reading too much into this ranking system instead of viewing it what it is. If in two years Jay chokes with two more early exits he'll be known as a choke and get talked to, if in two years he doesn't hit the postseason he'll likely get a really stern talking to or be fired. If in two years Mullin has eithe of those results he'll have a job but certainly won't be fired.
So round up the torches and pitch forks, I guess Jay's on the hot seat.
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[Just to be clear, I know your not saying Jay is on a hot seat, I'm not even rolling eyes, I'm being 100% snarky here. Just so another semi-flame war doesn't erupt.]
Look every coach has pressure, lots of it, unless you're Coach K. Barring like 3 consecutive years he had in 11-12, or like a 5 year span of making the tourney only once this isn't even a concern. Jay would have to repeat the last 2 years of top 10 and early exits before the Nova admin would even begin to consider firing him and even then it probably wouldn't even consider seriously . That's not even taking into consideration of making a deep tourney run this year or next, if that happens it's his job pretty much as long as he wants. It's almost to that point now, unless everything goes to hell in a hand basket.
Now for some right back at you stuff: what if Mullin doesn't turn the Johnny's around right away, what if he struggles just to get them to .500 for 3 or 4 season and makes no tourney appearances. What if he doesn't bag enough NYC recruits? How long is
the chosen one safe for? I love how people cherry pick worse case scenarios for Jay to be on a hot seat, but completely give golden boy a pass.