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CL82 said:
Does Pitino take another P4 job? The biggest attraction of the St. John's job was that it didn't require him to move. I'm not convinced that he'll be up for the disruption again for a new start up.

I said the same thing in the chat. Pitino is a scummy human, but a very good basketball coach. This last run at St. John's confirms that and rehabilitate his reputation, somewhat.
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They also are in the top tier of NIL spending, over $10M a year. We obviously pay a lot too but Pitino’s job has been made easier when Repole & co. can top most offers for stud transfers. Something @RuffRuff also doesn’t mention when comparing the rosters and coaches

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CL82 said:
Does Pitino take another P4 job? The biggest attraction of the St. John's job was that it didn't require him to move. I'm not convinced that he'll be up for the disruption again for a new start up.

I said the same thing in the chat. Pitino is a scummy human, but a very good basketball coach. This last run at St. John's confirms that and rehabilitate his reputation, somewhat.
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I'm not sure many schools would consider hiring someone his age (73, will be 74 before the next college basketball season starts).

A school that wants to legitimately build something that can be sustained would want someone considerably younger, one looking to find a quick solution likely wouldn't be attractive enough for him to leave St John's.

Look at it this way, he's already two years older than Roy Williams was when he retired and only about half a year younger than Jim Larranaga was when he retired. His window is closing.
 
Repole money isn’t that relevant when comparing Hurley and Pitino’s recruiting, they simply have different philosophies.

I still think UConn is the better team, one game doesn’t change that, but Pitino recruits guys that happen to play to Hurley’s recruiting weaknesses
 
FightOnCT said:
Repole money isn’t that relevant when comparing Hurley and Pitino’s recruiting, they simply have different philosophies.

I still think UConn is the better team, one game doesn’t change that, but Pitino recruits guys that happen to play to Hurley’s recruiting weaknesses
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It is relevant though. They likely spent millions for Jackson and Sanon, 2 guys who don’t even play that much anymore. Do you see us doing that for role players? Again, not saying they shouldn’t, but it’s a completely different approach to roster construction and Pitino does not care anymore about building organically (and organic is harder)
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I'm not sure many schools would consider hiring someone his age (73, will be 74 before the next college basketball season starts).

A school that wants to legitimately build something that can be sustained would want someone considerably younger, one looking to find a quick solution likely wouldn't be attractive enough for him to leave St John's.

Look at it this way, he's already two years older than Roy Williams was when he retired and only about half a year younger than Jim Larranaga was when he retired. His window is closing.
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It’ll be interesting to see what level of coach St. John’s can pull for its next hire. They’re arguably the second best job in the league right now. Blows my mind that STJs was able to figure it before Georgetown who is close to being an afterthought for eternity.
 
Georgetown from what I remember had a shot at Pitino but didn’t go for him. Fail.

Honestly blows my mind St. John’s itself has sucked for so long considering NYC and Repole lurking behind
 
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BugsyCT said:
When Pitino retires or gets a better P4 job those seats will open up again. Once every quarter century the Jawnnies are contenders and their fans awaken from their dormant state and fill MSG. Pitino's a slimeball but he's a great basketball coach who knows how to build teams that neutralize our strengths and expose our weaknesses.
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St John’s will be good as long as Mike Repole wants them to be.
 
FightOnCT said:
Repole money isn’t that relevant when comparing Hurley and Pitino’s recruiting, they simply have different philosophies.

I still think UConn is the better team, one game doesn’t change that, but Pitino recruits guys that happen to play to Hurley’s recruiting weaknesses
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I think UConn may be the better team in March - but StJ may be the better team in the BE head to head. They're just a tough matchup. That said, if StJ goes up against anyone who relies on one offensive catalyst, Mitchell will be an issue. It's been really clear that Hurley's phillosophy works best in March. We'll see if Pitino can change his narrative.
mike012 said:
There was even a game chat for this game on rupp rafters. Its good to see a BE game get attention
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They love them some Ricky.
 
huskdogs said:
If we can only fill the building on Saturdays is it really Storrs south? Think the fan base has had a bad showing all year except for the Arizona game
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St John’s resurgence has hurt our showing and ability to get cheap tickets. Neutral site games we still show up down there.
 
CL82 said:
Said differently, it's easier for Connecticut fans to get tickets when opposing teams fans are staying home
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Paraphrasing LL Cool J in the Ripper Strikes Back... "Cause ninety-nine percent of your fans don't exist"

I think that was probably the bigger hurdle for SJU in previous years.
 
Marat said:
Agree.
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CL82 said:
Does Pitino take another P4 job? The biggest attraction of the St. John's job was that it didn't require him to move. I'm not convinced that he'll be up for the disruption again for a new start up.

I said the same thing in the chat. Pitino is a scummy human, but a very good basketball coach. This last run at St. John's confirms that and rehabilitate his reputation, somewhat.
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Biggest attraction is Repole. And, Pitino’s coaching ability has never been questioned other than by Celtics fans which was somewhat legitomate.
 
Mike Honcho said:
Paraphrasing LL Cool J in the Ripper Strikes Back... "Cause ninety-nine percent of your fans don't exist"

I think that was probably the bigger hurdle for SJU in previous years.
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They existed but from 2000 - 2024 largely comatose
 
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Kemba15 said:
It is relevant though. They likely spent millions for Jackson and Sanon, 2 guys who don’t even play that much anymore. Do you see us doing that for role players? Again, not saying they shouldn’t, but it’s a completely different approach to roster construction and Pitino does not care anymore about building organically (and organic is harder)
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Is organic harder?

Lots of varying approaches to top teams.

UM - all portal
AZ - freshmen
Illinois - Europe
Duke - freshmen
ISU - organic
 
You guys must be crazy. That was the lowest I’ve seen the Uconn crowd at MSG in years - maybe because it was Friday night and the game was later - it was easily easily 75-25% Johnny’s -maybe there wasn’t much to cheer about, but it sure did seem like way more Johnny fans than normal.
 
JB75 said:
You guys must be crazy. That was the lowest I’ve seen the Uconn crowd at MSG in years - maybe because it was Friday night and the game was later - it was easily easily 75-25% Johnny’s -maybe there wasn’t much to cheer about, but it sure did seem like way more Johnny fans than normal.
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Uh? Who is saying otherwise.

We all agree here that it was 80-20 at best.

No biggie though.

(1) They made it a friday night game
(2) St. John's sold more season tickets this year thus locking up more seats
(3) they have their own SJU Ticketmaster app to sell to their own fans and made it difficult to buy tickets (at face-value) in the open market

I, myself, had a SJU friend get me a ticket through their market place.

But no need to panic. We don't have to own MSG every time. It's their home after all... and the fans wasn't the reason UConn lost anyway.

Time to move on. Get 'em back at Hartford in two weeks!!!
 
huskdogs said:
It’ll be interesting to see what level of coach St. John’s can pull for its next hire. They’re arguably the second best job in the league right now. Blows my mind that STJs was able to figure it before Georgetown who is close to being an afterthought for eternity.
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Rick has said he'd like to keep the seat warm for his son. We'll see if he can make it happen.
 
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Mike Honcho said:
Paraphrasing LL Cool J in the Ripper Strikes Back... "Cause ninety-nine percent of your fans don't exist"

I think that was probably the bigger hurdle for SJU in previous years.
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LOL. That was when LL Cool J and Cannibis were having their feud.
 
Class of 09 said:
When I say lower bowl I mean all the100 sections, I don’t think those are all season ticket holders but idk.
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I was in 114 and the SJU fans around me said they were ticket holders. The family in front of me said they were not missing this game after stinking for so many years.

I'm curious, are the 100s at PBA all season ticket holders?
 
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ecasadoSBU said:
Uh? Who is saying otherwise.

We all agree here that it was 80-20 at best.

No biggie though.

(1) They made it a friday night game
(2) St. John's sold more season tickets this year thus locking up more seats
(3) they have their own SJU Ticketmaster app to sell to their own fans and made it difficult to buy tickets (at face-value) in the open market

I, myself, had a SJU friend get me a ticket through their market place.

But no need to panic. We don't have to own MSG every time. It's their home after all... and the fans wasn't the reason UConn lost anyway.

Time to move on. Get 'em back at Hartford in two weeks!!!
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Yer prolly right. I’m still in a cloudy haze after getting back from msg bus trip at 3:30 am. lol. I thought a couple people were saying it was the usual UConn representation at msg. All points well taken , just a little weird considering in all the games at msg over the years , that was the smallest I saw the UConn crowd. Just kinda surprised cuz it was a monster game, Friday night. NYC , Super Bowl weekend etc… thought we wud rep at least a Little better St johns fans were real punks after the game tho.
 
Mike Honcho said:
Fully disagree on both counts. Also it was LL's thin skin which led to the beef in the first place.
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Cannabis definitely crushed him on the diss track. Not as bad a when nas killed jay Z on ethyr tho. That was best ever. Miss 90s /early 2000s hip hop. Ahhhh. The good ole days.
 
superjohn said:
Canibus dropping verses at proms.
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He was a battle rapper. He never had an acclaimed album so to say he ended his career is inaccurate. He never had a career. And yet he still destroyed LL in this battle.

Also I could name 5 diss tracks off the top of the head that are better than Jack the Ripper. You're showing your age.
 
Mike Honcho said:
He was a battle rapper. He never had an acclaimed album so to say he ended his career is inaccurate. He never had a career. And yet he still destroyed LL in this battle.

Also I could name 5 diss tracks off the top of the head that are better than Jack the Ripper. You're showing your age.
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I'm showing my age? Yeah, it happened over 25 years ago.

Canibus the battle rapper who can't battle. Dude is a disaster and LL bodied him.

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