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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3601756, member: 833"] I always liked Mike Anderson. I think he is a good coach that made a big career mistake in going to Arkansas. Nolan Richardson got to Arkansas at the intersection of the beginning Prop 48 and colleges not recruiting JUCOs. Tarkanian and Richardson cleaned up the JUCO ranks for about 8 years, and had a ton of success doing so, then colleges got better at getting their recruits eligible, and more coaches started looking at JUCOs. When other schools figure out how to manage around Prop 48, UNLV and Arkansas went into a pretty rapid decline. Neither school has been better than mediocre since the mid 90's. At Arkansas, Anderson had no geographic advantage in recruiting since Arkansas does not produce that much top tier basketball talent, played in a conference that wasn't that interesting to city kids from Texas and the north, but had a fanbase with high expectations. I think Anderson will be successful at St. Johns. He plays a fun style and has a great recruiting region to work with. Steve Lavin was a terrible game coach and he had some success at St. Johns. Mullin struggled, but then being a high level, D1 basketball Head Coach is not a 20 hours a week job. Anderson doesn't need to get the top kids out of New York to win with his system. He needs a couple of scorers and athletic street ballers that are willing to hustle. New York metro has plenty of those. [/QUOTE]