St. Johns SMH

[mr.hockey4242]

Ugly night; St. John's loses to D-II St. Thomas Aquinas by... well, you won't believe it.

WOW.

 

[jonvi]

Wow is right. They needed to stick with lavin several more years.

 

[ericd7633]

This first year was destined to be a huge failure for St. John's. Lavin left absolutely nothing to work with.

St John's only has 2 kids remaining from their 2012 class, 0 kids remaining from their 2013 class and 2 kids remaining from their 2014 class. They are going to be extremely young and inexperienced this year. The administration is going to have to give him at least 3 years to try and get this turned around.

 

[UKnation87]

 

[douggie]

Chris Mullins' debut.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

You canNOT go home.

Ever.

 

[huskers1217]

If they were Redman..they would have won.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

I mean its just exhibition and Cuse lost one year to a D2 team and won the BE....but 32 pts is a shit ton to lose to any team much less a d2 team.

And it was a 16 pt game at half time so even worse. Means it was always a blow out and they couldn't even adjust at HT.

 

[Cincyfan78]

This first year was destined to be a huge failure for St. John's. Lavin left absolutely nothing to work with.

St John's only has 2 kids remaining from their 2012 class, 0 kids remaining from their 2013 class and 2 kids remaining from their 2014 class. They are going to be extremely young and inexperienced this year. The administration is going to have to give him at least 3 years to try and get this turned around.

More likely they'll need 5 years.

You have to figure someone one (or a few) will red-shirt plus injuries. From the time you really get a full chance to recruit you've already coached one season, because you have to get in the door with some of these kids by the time they are juniors in HS (if not sooner in some cases). That means, coming in like Mullin did, even as early as he did, he lost about a year to a year and a half off recruiting. Add in the minimal returning players/production and you have a complete overhaul that is easily going to take 4-5 years to get back into a normal cycle.

I watched it at Cincinnati after Huggins was booted. Ugly. Not to sound homer-ish, but what Cronin has been able to do at Cincinnati after Huggin's/Zimpher fiasco tore that program apart is nothing short of amazing. And he did it at a time where the BE was THE BEST conference in the nation, and was putting historically high number of teams in the NCAA's for 2-3 years.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

More likely they'll need 5 years.

You have to figure someone one (or a few) will red-shirt plus injuries. From the time you really get a full chance to recruit you've already coached one season, because you have to get in the door with some of these kids by the time they are juniors in HS (if not sooner in some cases). That means, coming in like Mullin did, even as early as he did, he lost about a year to a year and a half off recruiting. Add in the minimal returning players/production and you have a complete overhaul that is easily going to take 4-5 years to get back into a normal cycle.

I watched it at Cincinnati after Huggins was booted. Ugly. Not to sound homer-ish, but what Cronin has been able to do at Cincinnati after Huggin's/Zimpher fiasco tore that program apart is nothing short of amazing. And he did it at a time where the BE was THE BEST conference in the nation, and was putting historically high number of teams in the NCAA's for 2-3 years.

Cronin butt buddy Buzz did wonders too. Hopefully Wojo proves he can coaching wise, already golden on the recruiting front.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Cronin butt buddy Buzz did wonders too. Hopefully Wojo proves he can coaching wise, already golden on the recruiting front.

Yeah, he's off to a nice start there.

We'll see. I still keep my eyes on some of the old BE teams.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

Iowa didn't want to feel left out.

Lost on a buzzer beater to D2 Augustana.

 

[rmilia1]

Iowa didn't want to feel left out.

Lost on a buzzer beater to D2 Augustana.

Lol. I just saw this. At least it was close...

 

[jontaejones]

It's a new year. The Big East homers are back!