Django wrote:gtmoBlue wrote:Nice post Django. Let's go Marquette.
THIS is my kinda thread... Ordinarily, I'd go off on my Mac tirade. However, he just was a share of the BEAST, so I'm
reasonably happy (we wouldn't have gone far in the dance without Zeg...realisticly.
However, a repeat BEast championship will be nice and we need at least a SS this year...probably more as this Jays team is quite good.
Right on GTMO, and I'm not saying Creighton has "arrived" or even returned to where we were with Sutton but I also have hope in Mac and what he's been building on the Hilltop.
...and before Novachap gets all defensive, yes, Nova is now the Big Brother in the GT-Nova relationship (although I still like to live in 1985 sometimes too much!).
TBH it bums me out when I see the state of St. John's, GT and DePaul. Such awesome programs once upon a time, a time that gets farther away every year.
Wizard of Westroads wrote:History is on Anderson's side, he'll at least have StJ in the middle of the pack. Probably would have happened this year if Figueroa hadn't left.
I hope Patrick gets plenty of time at Georgetown. His teams play hard and look well-coached, but the roster has been a disaster so far. They would have been pretty good last year, even with behavior issues/dismissals/transfers, if McClung and Yurt hadn't gotten hurt. You'd think GT wouldn't be trigger happy with a legend.
MullinMayhem wrote:Haven't been posting much as I just haven't really had the drive with Johnnies being irrelevant so regularly now. Just some thoughts for fans of teams who regularly make tourney or are at least in conversation for it on a regular basis....those mid pack type teams. Be careful what you wish for pushing coaching changes. I was on board with running Lavin out of town at the time he was let go. I thought that we could do better than barely making the tourney with loaded rosters. I thought we could do better than 20 win seasons and 10-8 conference records. I was wrong. We went from being right in the thick of things when realignment started (far from great, but not easily dismissed) to being a complete nonfactor thus far under Mullin and now Anderson. The last handful of years we are way below .500 in conference play and it feels like it's a race to the bottom between us and DePaul every yr now for past 5.
Why do I bring this up? A lot of the time you may not do better by making a switch and it can always get a lot worse. If we could do it again, I would have given Lavin an extension. Our recruiting went from tons of 4 star HS kids and even a 5 star with a few 3 star role players, to 2-3 star players exclusively and the best we can do is roll dice on good JUCO kids. So PC fans, Marquette fans and the like...be careful. Sometimes you simply reach your ceiling for your program and I think Lavin was our high water mark unfortunately. Just wish we realized that then.
MullinMayhem wrote:Seton Hall: Honestly it seems like yesterday that Willard was firmly on hotseat. Then he went all out to get Whitehead and the rest is history. You guys are one example that makes our fans think we should give Anderson a while. I was skeptical especially after Hall lost Powell, but they appear to be a top 4-5 team still even without Aiken. Impressive and will give him his due.
MullinMayhem wrote:I know this prob sounds crazy, but if Anderson doesn't work out within the next 3 yrs or so, no one will want this job. We'd have to roll dice with a hungry, young mid major guy. Honestly I would rather just offer Lavin the job again and let him go for 10 yrs. See what happens. He clearly understood what it took to get real talent here. His development sucks and he is not a good game coach which is why we never really broke out even in solid seasons. But if he surrounded himself with a top notch staff, I think we could at worst get back to 20 win seasons every so often.
MullinMayhem wrote:Did you not see our national disaster of a coaching interview process? We set our sites on Bobby Hurley and he laughed at us. Porter Moser a mid major coach of an irrelevant program that had 1 cinderella year laughed when we offered him the job. Tim Cluess took himself out of the running (didn't want him anyway too old). We had our chance to get a bonafide HOF coach in Rick Pitino for the rest of his career without fear of him leaving. New York guy, knows the area, knows how to recruit to truly win big and be a top 25 team. We got scared of our PR and did not hire him. We settled for CMA, who is by all accounts a gentleman and has great work ethic. Unfortunately, so far he has picked up where we left off before him: a Big East bottom feeder. I still want to see what he can do in 3 yrs or so, but not looking good.
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