Yes, he arrives with baggage, though he avoided NCAA punishment for the way things ended for him at Louisville, and you would suspect the three years he served in the employ of the Christian Brothers will offer a necessary penance for the other sordid stories that stained his time there. Thursday’s loss is likely the ned of Mike Anderson’s St. Yes, Pitino will be 71 years old by the time practice opens next October, but if you’ve seen him on the sidelines in New Rochelle you know he still coaches with the fire - and the fury - of a man half his age, with a quarter of the 832 college victories Pitino has piled up at Boston U., Providence, Kentucky, Louisville and Iona. It is a move that makes too much sense not to happen. It’s time to make the call, a simple one, 718 to 914. His present office sits 18 miles from where his future office should be. Rick Pitino needs to the first call made by SJU AD Mike Cragg this offseason. It is a university that has one choice to make, and it is as clear and as obvious as the pinwheel ceiling at the Garden. It is an erstwhile elite program craving someone to drag it back to where it used to be. It is a sleeping giant in desperate need of a wake-up call. From 1936-92, just five men coached the Johnnies they will soon be hiring their fifth since 2005, their ninth since Looie Carnesecca rode off into the sunset.
At one time, this was the most stable of all college basketball machines. John’s is about to look itself in the mirror and try to identify what it is as a basketball program, and where it wants to go.
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“Proud of our guys, proud of our effort,” Anderson said, earnest and dignified and professional right to the end. They seemed primed for something special …Īnd at the end, they lost, 72-70, in overtime to Marquette.Īt what presumably will be the end of Anderson’s 124-game tenure at St. They endured a few too many extended periods of offensive ineptitude. John’s managed to perfectly mirror the entirety of the Mike Anderson era. Across 45 minutes inside Madison Square Garden, St. If they had planned it out ahead of time, scripted it the way some of those football coaches do with the first 15 offensive plays of every game, they couldn’t have done it any better. Jim Boeheim's Big East impact felt all the way to his Syracuse end Dayton a must-see event for New York fans It's 50th anniversary of Yankees' most insane swap everįordham vs. Aaron Rodgers can shut up Woody Johnson's Jets criticsįairleigh Dickinson embracing First Four challenge amid unusual March Madness bid
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