An hour ago,Wusu,Posh Alexander and Storr entered the portal. They are all seriously good. Pitino clearly is going to start from scratch.Cant imagine Curbelo will be back. He is literally going to build a team around Soriano and the portal $$$.He is all over Ledlum and Timberlake,but UNC is still strongly pursuing Timberlake. If he pulls this off and Dances with a brand new roster,it would be at a minimum revolutionary. And a game with them still could happen.He did it his way.
Crazy at St John's
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Yeah I have no desire to play a revitalized St. Johns at the Garden.
Hope he crashes and burns. Terrible look to run off that many players capable of playing at this level.
If msg is not considered a road game..hard pass
Iām sure the vitamin water guy is helping him out with a lot of this.
Rooting hard against him if heās running off an entire team, hopefully its ends in disaster.
Rooting hard against him if heās running off an entire team, hopefully its ends in disaster.
Pitino arranged hookers for players and recruits. He had his 2017 National Championship vacated.
It's a joke the NCAA lets him coach - nothing should be surprising
He's also great at winning college basketball games.
It's a joke the NCAA lets him coach - nothing should be surprising
He's also great at winning college basketball games.
It isn't that easy. If i were a betting man I'd take the NO if it was even money.
Have no desire to play st johns or any big east team, period.
I would take Posh Alexander in a heartbeat. Love how he competes on both ends.
It isn't that easy, but I do know that Pitino is one of the greatest coaches of all-time.(You can talk about his off the court indiscretions, but no one can argue that he is not a great basketball mind and coach).
Many other schools have used the Portal to either add many pieces(Baylor, Texas Tech(last few years), Kansas St, Xavier, etc) or almost start from scratch and make an NCAA team.
The Big East will be the strongest conference in the country next year with Pitino at St. John's and Cooley at Georgetown. Add them to UConn, Marquette, Xavier, Creighton, Villanova(coming off down year), and Providence(might be down now).
Add in the Vitamin Water money + Pitino = NCAA tourney team
Best of Luck,
Groz
"indiscretions" ???
Is that what we call providing hookers to players and recruits now ?
How are other schools supposed to compete with that ?
Didn't David Wright make a lot of money from Vitamin Water? I thought it was sold to pepsi.
Does he really like 0 of the kids on the current roster or is part of this clearing house for the sake of clearing house?
hope he gets caught with more violations and crimes,then again in NYC ,they dont prosecute crimes,and the NCAA could care less,so everyone should just cheat.Cheating pays off as does buying players,look at Miami.
Pitino plays to win, not serve as a moral compass. We need to get over it. We need to clear out all the Chip Hilton books from our closets. Itās 2023.
Pitino is building around Soriano, who he already anointed as captain. He will bring in Walter Clayton of Iona and some Big 12 kids from NYC are instantly interested in St John's.The top of the Big East will be a bear,but he can exceed Seton Hall and Providence early on. Thad Matta should get it going at Butler,so only DePaul will be soft. Watch out for Creighton as they are as well funded and profitable as any team in the country,have large NIL and sellout a 16000 seat building always. Sometimes less is more without football and being the only game in town.
A few years ago I predicted the big east would very very slowly slide Down to something like AAC level. This was based on Nova being the only thing keeping them up, and Wright eventually retiring
Add in that the power five conferences would not give them a square deal in tournament, favoring the football conferences, the ugly step child
It looked right for a while with the slide down of St. Johnās, Georgetown and also Syracuse a bit
Now, other teams rose up, add in the probable rise of St Johns, maybe Georgetown. The addition of UConn not expected
Itās seems they have it going
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Didnāt Pitino make it very clear there were many attitude problems with ST Johnās? Should be no shock the several ānameā players left. Did St Johnās win with them ? No
Pitino knows who he can win with.
Pitino knows who he can win with.
You weren't the only one Weezer, a lot of people on this site have been predicting the same thing for the past decade. In some cases I think it was based on wishful thinking as much as rational analysis. Despite the naysayers, it's pretty clear the Big East will continue to be a strong basketball conference. They're homogeneous, have tradition, brands, major media markets in the northeast and midwest, and the Garden. The return of UConn really solidified things as well. I'm not sure they're going to be the "best" conference next year, as someone posted above, but the reports of their demise are greatly exaggerated.
I would argue this applies to 99% of the "projections" on this board. From professional draft opportunities, to incoming recruits, to current players "taking the next step" in the off season.
Just wait until the "Clif WILL shoot and make 3s. No doubt" threads start popping up in September.
Same as Calipari left each program before Kentucky on probation yet he just moves on to make millions amd leaves the previous college in tatters
Wait till he leaves Kentucky you will see their team GPA all these years is on a par with the Delta House in Animal House!!
I'm intrigued to see how this goes. Pretty Ricky is a lights out coach and his teams are fun to watch. St John's is about to elevate. Only thing we need to be concerned about - is continuing to grow our program
Cliff Notes version of this thread.
You are showing your age with the Chip Hilton reference. I loved those books.
Youāre saying rutgers would recruit kids that would be into that stuff ???
Re Pitino coaching.
He was an early user of the 3 pointer.
But in typical fashion he took it too far and was influential on wiping out the midrange game that is just being rediscovered today.
I'm not a big fan.
Although I can't argue he hasn't been successful.
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That Providence team was fun to watch. Made them one of the top-scoring teams in the country and took them to a FF in his second year. They shot 42% from 3 as a team in 86-87, why would you take any 2's?
First thought it there is nothin really crazy about this. This is the best way to rebuild a program. High profile coach clearing the roster and bringing in very talented players.
We sit in the hooker capital of North America, this is one area where we should be able to compete and win!!