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Bryan Hodgson Hired as New Providence Head Coach

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Fantastic hire for Providence and smart move for Hodgson. I'd freakin' loathe living in the Syracuse area while Providence is a vibrant sports team city. Say what you want about our hatred towards Providence, but they do have a dedicated, rabid fanbase. Good news for the Big East.
 
I thought the AAC was a better conference than the Big East?

As for the NIL, I bet they spent a lot this year, which was one of many reasons to throw English out. PC basketball is the only show in town in Rhode Island. They should have cash.
 
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Inyatkin said:
Maybe he’s great but Providence treats every new coach like it’s the next John Wooden so I’ll hold my judgment
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True. I prefer waiting until he succeeds or fails before I will view him as a success or failure.

I still remember when the belief was that Keno Davis was going to dominate the northeast for a quarter century.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
True. I prefer waiting until he succeeds or fails before I will view him as a success or failure.

I still remember when the belief was that Keno Davis was going to dominate the northeast for a quarter century.
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I think we all get this is how determining success or failure works, but thanks for clarifying.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Fantastic hire for Providence and smart move for Hodgson. I'd freakin' loathe living in the Syracuse area while Providence is a vibrant sports team city. Say what you want about our hatred towards Providence, but they do have a dedicated, rabid fanbase. Good news for the Big East.
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That's my quick take. He turned USF around in just a couple of years. USF! And why do people continue to use irrelevant factoids from the past to justify a current opinion? A prime recent example was all the people lamenting the fact that Liam McNeeley was drafted by Charlotte. Didn't matter to them that there was an ownership change and a complete overhaul of the front office. And whadda ya know?
They're not a joke anymore.
 
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I actually really like this hire. When you are a middle of the pack power conference program, if you can’t poach from a similar program, you grab a guy who excelled one level below (as opposed to someone who was average one level below like English and Neptune).
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Fantastic hire for Providence and smart move for Hodgson. I'd freakin' loathe living in the Syracuse area while Providence is a vibrant sports team city. Say what you want about our hatred towards Providence, but they do have a dedicated, rabid fanbase. Good news for the Big East.
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I hate Syracuse way more than Providence and always will. Love this hire!
 
Waquoit said:
That's my quick take. He turned USF around in just a couple of years. USF! And why do people continue to use irrelevant factoids from the past to justify a current opinion? A prime recent example was all the people lamenting the fact that Liam McNeeley was drafted by Charlotte. Didn't matter to them that there was an ownership change and a complete overhaul of the front office. And whadda ya know?
They're not a joke anymore.
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Not even a couple of years, he was only at USF for 1 year. This is a great hire for Providence
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Fantastic hire for Providence and smart move for Hodgson. I'd freakin' loathe living in the Syracuse area while Providence is a vibrant sports team city. Say what you want about our hatred towards Providence, but they do have a dedicated, rabid fanbase. Good news for the Big East.
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My immediate visceral reaction is this is a great hire for PC. Like you said, they have a dedicated fan base that is starving for any kind of success or relevancy in the college basketball landscape. In addition to that, the Friars are the only game in town and they some good local businesses that can load up the NIL $. This year they had a lot of NIL allocated to the team and they got a talented roster that under performed.
FfldCntyFan said:
True. I prefer waiting until he succeeds or fails before I will view him as a success or failure.

I still remember when the belief was that Keno Davis was going to dominate the northeast for a quarter century.
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LOL. I couldn't help but laugh reading his name. He was terrible for Providence and pushed them further into irrelevancy after Tim Welsh. You should read what they say about him on Friar Talk. Of course all of this was said in hindsight because even Keno Davis was 28-5 with a NCAAT first round exit in his lone season at Drake before getting hired by Providence.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
I thought the AAC was a better conference than the Big East?

As for the NIL, I bet they spent a lot this year, which was one of many reasons to throw English out. PC basketball is the only show in town in Rhode Island. They should have cash.
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I hope we are also flush with NIL $ because we will need it this year. Are we?
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I thought the AAC was a better conference than the Big East?

As for the NIL, I bet they spent a lot this year, which was one of many reasons to throw English out. PC basketball is the only show in town in Rhode Island. They should have cash.
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FfldCntyFan said:
True. I prefer waiting until he succeeds or fails before I will view him as a success or failure.

I still remember when the belief was that Keno Davis was going to dominate the northeast for a quarter century.
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And Pete Gillen. And Tim Welsh. And Ed Cooley. And Kim English.
 
The hire is fine. What I’d say is this.

If he left USF after just one season, why would he stay at PC once he gets them good enough to get a bigger offer? I set the over/under of his PC tenure at 3 years.
 
Deepster said:
The hire is fine. What I’d say is this.

If he left USF after just one season, why would he stay at PC once he gets them good enough to get a bigger offer? I set the over/under of his PC tenure at 3 years.
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All could be true, but other than a few blue blood spots or places with alumni ties, I don’t think there’s any schools that can hire for the long term anymore. If he goes to PC, makes them really good, then bounces to a SEC school after 3-4 years, then PC is in a much better position than when he was hired.
 
gsmooth said:
My immediate visceral reaction is this is a great hire for PC. Like you said, they have a dedicated fan base that is starving for any kind of success or relevancy in the college basketball landscape. In addition to that, the Friars are the only game in town and they some good local businesses that can load up the NIL $. This year they had a lot of NIL allocated to the team and they got a talented roster that under performed.

LOL. I couldn't help but laugh reading his name. He was terrible for Providence and pushed them further into irrelevancy after Tim Welsh. You should read what they say about him on Friar Talk. Of course all of this was said in hindsight because even Keno Davis was 28-5 with a NCAAT first round exit in his lone season at Drake before getting hired by Providence.
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When they hired Keno Big East Boards was still around and I was a moderator there. It was setup with a general football forum, and subforums for each of the football members, and a general basketball forum, and subforums for each of the basketball members. The only subforms that required any moderating were St John's (a bunch of obnoxious animals) and Providence (a mix of posters who were too polite, posters who felt any new recruit or hire would propel them to the top of college hoops, posters who expected any move to fail and a couple obnoxious animals. For some reason, once Keno was hired, the posters as a whole felt he was going to be the next John Wooden and spent a couple years spilling over to the UConn forum telling us we were done and they would dominate us until Keno decided to hang it up (they did have one guy who was objective and he caught a lot of hell for it). Once it became obvious Keno wasn't the answer they turned on him (claimed he stole the school's money, lied about his abilities, etc.) with nearly the vitriol they have for Cooley today.

A couple of things I was never able to figure out: they kept throwing around the term KREW as what would make them a power program and there were stories about an stationary bike that somehow gave them a massive conditioning advantage.
 
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