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I think Holloway is coaching UNC or Cuse next year. Maaaaybe St. John's or Georgetown if they move quick and provide a giant bag, but I doubt it.

Either way, I'm thinking there's less than a 25% chance he's staying. Ceiling with Hall is just too low and the open jobs are going to be too $$$.
 
Matrim55 said:
I think Holloway is coaching UNC or Cuse next year. Maaaaybe St. John's or Georgetown if they move quick and provide a giant bag, but I doubt it.

Either way, I'm thinking there's less than a 25% chance he's staying. Ceiling with Hall is just too low and the open jobs are going to be too $$$.
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Syracuse is an interesting one. That could be the sweet spot.
 
Marquette has a passionate and large fan base. They have donors willing to spend money on players. I believe Smart is a good coach but if he doesn’t want to play by the new rules(lol) of the recruiting game he will be fired. My Marquette buddies are out of their minds that they are 20 point dogs today.
 
Matrim55 said:
I think Holloway is coaching UNC or Cuse next year. Maaaaybe St. John's or Georgetown if they move quick and provide a giant bag, but I doubt it.

Either way, I'm thinking there's less than a 25% chance he's staying. Ceiling with Hall is just too low and the open jobs are going to be too $$$.
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I was just thinking Cuse before I read your post, but I hope he doesn’t go there. He could actually make them relevant. I can’t see UNC taking a guy like him without better pedigree
 
Matrim55 said:
I think Holloway is coaching UNC or Cuse next year. Maaaaybe St. John's or Georgetown if they move quick and provide a giant bag, but I doubt it.

Either way, I'm thinking there's less than a 25% chance he's staying. Ceiling with Hall is just too low and the open jobs are going to be too $$$.
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I think Syracuse is toast. The school is from a different era when the NY Metro was 1/3 of the nation's economy and Rochester was one of the technology centers of the country. Back then, there were a ton of middle class and upper middle class NYC and upstate suburban kids looking for options if they didn't get into an Ivy or prestige private. Now Syracuse is just an OK, expensive school in a wasteland of a city in central New York whose financials and long term outlook look weak, before anyone gets to the athletic program. I think Syracuse is perfectly happy to cash the ACC checks and let other schools worry about earning the next TV contract.

I don't see Holloway leaving Seton Hall for Syracuse.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
I think Syracuse is toast. The school is from a different era when the NY Metro was 1/3 of the nation's economy and Rochester was one of the technology centers of the country. Back then, there were a ton of middle class and upper middle class NYC and upstate suburban kids looking for options if they didn't get into an Ivy or prestige private. Now Syracuse is just an OK, expensive school in a wasteland of a city in central New York whose financials and long term outlook look weak, before anyone gets to the athletic program. I think Syracuse is perfectly happy to cash the ACC checks and let other schools worry about earning the next TV contract.

I don't see Holloway leaving Seton Hall for Syracuse.
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I hope you're right, because I think Holloway is a very good-to-excellent college coach, one who's maybe good enough to resurrect a dying program. And I do not want that to happen.

Best-case scenario for Big East purposes is, I truly believe, Georgetown. Getting them consistently back into the top 15 with real aura would be killer for the league.
 
I think Sha is a good coach, but the idea UNC can’t do better, when programs like Nova just poached a proven power conference coach, is crazy to me. You would think Sha is doing charity the way people talk about Seton Hall.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I think Sha is a good coach, but the idea UNC can’t do better, when programs like Nova just poached a proven power conference coach, is crazy to me. You would think Sha is doing charity the way people talk about Seton Hall.
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It's bull cr@p, Seton Hall isn't a poverty school like folks around here say it is.
 
superjohn said:
It's bull cr@p, Seton Hall isn't a poverty school like folks around here say it is.
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Yeah it is. Holloway has been frustrated by the NIL for years. Not sure why he is still there TBH.
 
Napoleon Dynamite Fighting GIF
 
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Matrim55 said:
Best-case scenario for Big East purposes is, I truly believe, Georgetown. Getting them consistently back into the top 15 with real aura would be killer for the league.
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But What about PC’s aura?? lol

Agree about Gtown but how about SJ if Pitino retires before Cooley gets fired? That would be my next preference.
 
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auror said:
Syracuse is an interesting one. That could be the sweet spot.
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The Northeastern ACC schools seem to be a black hole. I think he is better positioned to succeed in the BE whether at Hall or another school. Hope he sticks around
 
Boost'ED said:
It was a bad hire by Georgetown, at a juncture where they really needed to get a good coach. Sadly, their program continues their descent into irrelevance. Hard to believe they've made the tournament just once in the past ten years, with the lone instance on a miracle BE tourney run.
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Who else was interested, and not a liability? The only other name in the hopper was Micah Shrewsbury and he's spinning off his axis at ND. Georgetown University is in a cash crunch right now and would not entertain eating another contract.

Oh, and if things didn't get worse, DePaul (4,088 per game) has surpassed Georgetown in average attendance. Hoyas now at 4,048.
 
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Shaheen is not leaving for another Big East job. I think it is 50/50 whether he leaves at all as it is his alma mater. If he does leave, I actually think it would be for the NBA.
 
shizzle787 said:
Shaheen is not leaving for another Big East job. I think it is 50/50 whether he leaves at all as it is his alma mater. If he does leave, I actually think it would be for the NBA.
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Can't see Shaheen in the NBA. I think you're right about staying in the BE, but I could see him at an ACC school.
 
freescooter said:
I liked Cooley at Fairfield but I think he is at best a Sweet 16 limit and he isn’t doing that at Georgetown. But again Z Georgetown is not anywhere near the Georgetown of Ewing the player and nobody really cares.least of all the Administration.

Willard never got near the Final Four at Seton Hall and was on the verge of being fired by Maryland so I’m sure he’ll be hoisting trophies in Philly before long. Another guy who has been around a long time. Good not great coach. Sweet 16 ceiling guy.


Agee on Holloway. Johnnie’s should grad him but they’ll more likely look for someone who will make the back page rather than win basketball game
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I never liked Cooley and my feelings were solidified when I watched the documentary done on him shortly before he announced he was leaving for Georgetown.
Syrupy sweet drivel about his love for PC and Providence, how an elderly black man and his wife took him into their home in Providence when he was in middle school or high school and guided him through his early life, including convincing him to stay in college when he thought about quitting in his freshman year.
The frosting on the cake was when they showed his pretentious home in Providence and juxtaposed it with video of him visiting the elderly black man and his wife in their very modest home while mentioning they were losing it or almost lost it due to finances yet there was no mention of Cooley helping them in any way. He seemed to only stop by for the video of Ed's success to include showing the man who helped shape his life and kept him focused on the right thing to do.............stay in school and make something of himself.
 
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DFW HOYA said:
Oh, and if things didn't get worse, DePaul (4,088 per game) has surpassed Georgetown in average attendance. Hoyas now at 4,048.
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Better than a few years prior when it was 1,200 but man what a bummer IMO. Nothing I would love more is to see GT and SH back near the top.
 
Icehawk said:
Better than a few years prior when it was 1,200 but man what a bummer IMO. Nothing I would love more is to see GT and SH back near the top.
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Which season was that? The attendance has never been that low.
 
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Palatine said:
Cooley is spoiled and arrogant : )
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Butt it's not justified, regardless of what our little sister wannabes think
 
Cooley stopped being successful the second UConn joined.
 
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