Re: Holy Land fan poll - who finishes in 4th place
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:47 pm
Bill Marsh wrote:Dave wrote:Bill Marsh wrote:
Sensible analysis.
But how can anyone say that Lavin underachieved? When he had the talent in 2011, he brought them to their highest finish in over a decade. When he had to rebuild in 2012 and he was out of circulation with cancer, they struggled. Last year they had a winning record in a very strong year for the conference until they suspended Harrison, their leading scorer, for disciplinary reasons and they lost their last 3 regular season conference games and 5 of 6 including the postseason. Hard to blame Lavin's game coaching for that one.
I'm ok with that explanation / those excuses. It's just that Lavin at SJU hasn't delivered to the level of JT3 or Buzz yet. Not as much confidence in SJU yet. Lavin is good for the conference. Maybe he wins it this year.
Excuses? LOL.
After 5 years at Marquette, Buzz has 5 NCAA tournaments, an Elite 8 + 2 other Sweet 16's.
Interesting to compare that with Lavin who, after 5 years at UCLA, had 5 NCAA tournaments, an Elite 8 + 3 other Sweet 16's.
Now I know I see the world through blue and yellow glasses but Marquette is no UCLA for what you're able to recruit like there (warm big city) vs here (frozen tundra medium city in the hood) he'd have better damn well have that type of record there because that's why you're supposed to have.