St John's- Pitino

[Wizard of Westroads]

"failure to create and support an environment that strongly encourages student-athletes who are in the men's basketball program to meet all university academic requirements,"

lol, what a low-rent move.

[stever20]

Woj Bomb-
ESPN Reporting with @PeteThamel : Iona’s Rick Pitino has agreed on a six-year deal to become St. John’s coach. Pitino’s taken three schools to the Final Four, won NCAA titles at Kentucky and Louisville and now makes move to restore the Red Storm to Big East prominence.

[Jasper67]

Wow St John's is trying to fire Anderson for cause.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... ohn-firing

from the story:
According to the termination letter obtained by ESPN, Anderson was fired for "failure to create and support an environment that strongly encourages student-athletes who are in the men's basketball program to meet all university academic requirements," "failure to perform your duties and responsibilities in a manner that reflected positively on St. John's University ... in actions [that] brought serious discredit" to the school and "failure to appropriately supervise and communicate with your assistant coaches."

Seems bush league from all accounts Anderson is a stand up guy.

Yes, it does, but it shows that financial resources are an issue at the schools which employ these tactics. They can’t afford to simply by out a coach’s contract after firing him. They have to scrap & fight for every dollar they can. Texas and Notre Dame wouldn’t do this, not because they’re any less bush league but because they have the dollars to simply buy out the coach and be done with it.

[hoops22]

Woj Bomb-
ESPN Reporting with @PeteThamel : Iona’s Rick Pitino has agreed on a six-year deal to become St. John’s coach. Pitino’s taken three schools to the Final Four, won NCAA titles at Kentucky and Louisville and now makes move to restore the Red Storm to Big East prominence.

Hope those numbers listed above have an additional entry added within the next few years.

[stever20]

Current Big East Coaches:
Rick Pitino
Ed Cooley
Dan Hurley
Greg McDermott
Sean Miller
Shaka Smart
Shaheen Holloway
Thad Matta
Kyle Neptune
Tony Stubblefield

Uh, wow.

[GoldenWarrior11]

Current Big East Coaches:
Rick Pitino
Ed Cooley
Dan Hurley
Greg McDermott
Sean Miller
Shaka Smart
Shaheen Holloway
Thad Matta
Kyle Neptune
Tony Stubblefield

Uh, wow.

Man, what if Wright had just stayed another year or two. What could have been.

[jfan]

The BE is in the argument for the best lineup of coaches. A tough league already, the league is now tougher with the two hires. It will be interesting to see what happens at PC!

[Jasper67]

The BE is in the argument for the best lineup of coaches. A tough league already, the league is now tougher with the two hires. It will be interesting to see what happens at PC!

How is the league tougher with the TWO new hires. One of those hires was done at the expense of another league member. That move improved one program but hurt another, so it didn’t do anything to make the league better.

[stever20]

The BE is in the argument for the best lineup of coaches. A tough league already, the league is now tougher with the two hires. It will be interesting to see what happens at PC!

How is the league tougher with the TWO new hires. One of those hires was done at the expense of another league member. That move improved one program but hurt another, so it didn’t do anything to make the league better.

Whoever PC hires will be a huge upgrade over Ewing. So yeah, the league will be tougher now.

[XUFan09]

The BE is in the argument for the best lineup of coaches. A tough league already, the league is now tougher with the two hires. It will be interesting to see what happens at PC!

How is the league tougher with the TWO new hires. One of those hires was done at the expense of another league member. That move improved one program but hurt another, so it didn’t do anything to make the league better.

Whoever PC hires will be a huge upgrade over Ewing. So yeah, the league will be tougher now.

Exactly what I was thinking. The Cooley move sucks for Providence, no doubt, but it's a net positive for the league. I'm also going on faith that Providence will do a better job hiring a coach than Georgetown would have if they missed on Cooley.