Stop Worrying About Pitino

[goldsaint17]

I wanted Rick. I made that clear. It would have been fun.

It was always a long shot and should have always been treated as such.

He has made it clear that it isn’t happening. We had our fun, our people seen to have talked to their people. He said it’s not happening, his friend that started this rumor even said it wasn’t happening. He obviously didn’t want the job that much if he was willing to turn one down for money as HJ has said.

Let’s move on to the realistic candidates. Search firm should be in today. Then, time to work and work fast. I have been told of several candidates (high-major assistants and a few Lower level coaches) who want the job, as well as the possibility of guys like John Becker, Bashir Mason, or Jamion Christian.

If you all spend the entire search complaining it’s not Rick, you will all be disappointed and more importantly will put the new coach in a tougher spot expectation-wise than he already would have been.

Let’s move on to the real candidates and go fast.

[greenblood]

Can I like this 1K times??

[ltf]

The dream has ended! Small time basketball lives on. Goodbye Rick, Hello mediocrity!

[goldsaint17]

Apr 18, 2018 10:40:02 GMT -5 ltf said:

The dream has ended! Small time basketball lives on. Goodbye Rick, Hello mediocrity!

Siena won 2 NCAA Tournament games in 3 years without Rick Pitino. Iona has made 5 NCAA Tournaments in 7 years without Rick Pitino. Hell, Albany 3-peated with Willie Wooden at the helm.

Siena can and will make NCAA Tournaments with typical mid-major coaches. Just hire the right one.

[indian82]

Apr 18, 2018 10:40:02 GMT -5 ltf said:

The dream has ended! Small time basketball lives on. Goodbye Rick, Hello mediocrity!

I am assuming that was dripping with sarcasm. Were we mediocre under Fran, Hewitt & Deane?

We are a small college. We should certainly aspire past mediocre, but a HOF coach with many, many warts (putting it nicely - we all know what they are) is not the way we should go.
Would it be great basketball-wise?  Absolutely. But it could easily be a big flameout, when he left. That’s ALL I will say on that.

We should get back to the top of the MAAC by the slower, old-fashioned way with a very good coach who will set the tone with pride, good principles and hard work.

To paraphrase an old commercial let’s get to the point where we can say…”We win MAAC championships the old-fashioned way… We Earn Them.”   

[OneIndian]

Apr 18, 2018 10:40:02 GMT -5 ltf said:

The dream has ended! Small time basketball lives on. Goodbye Rick, Hello mediocrity!

Please! Get over it. More wishfull thinking than a deam. All 48 hours of it!

[hoopjunkie]

It was a nice thought, but it's over. Time to concentrate on guys that want this job!

[SaintsFan]

Obviously I prefer Pitino but it looks like Siena has indicated something to Pitino as his statement to Singelais said he wanted to coach "where they believe in me. Siena is not one of them."

my concern is not Pitino. My concern is that these people find ways to screw this up. I have zero faith in anyone involved in the process.

Looks like its back to the tried and true process

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[saints22]

Some of you may remember that Siena's first Division I basketball game (Nov. 27, 1976) was at Boston University, coached by Rick Pitino. Terriers won 100-88.

Albany High's Johnny Ray Wall played for Pitino in the early-1980s.

[hoopdad]

Siena had 0% room for error on this hire, now that they flirted with Pitino and have decided to go in a different direction, they have even less room for error. Anything less than a home run with their next HC will be seen as a failure and people will question and wonder what if?....

[indian82]

Apr 18, 2018 15:56:51 GMT -5 saints22 said:

Some of you may remember that Siena's first Division I basketball game (Nov. 27, 1976) was at Boston University, coached by Rick Pitino. Terriers won 100-88.

Albany High's Johnny Ray Wall played for Pitino in the early-1980s.

You got me doing looking around on this. Itb Doesn't appear that Pitino coached that team. He joined BU in '78.

www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/boston-university/1977-schedule.html

[saints22]

Apr 18, 2018 20:26:18 GMT -5 indian82 said:

Apr 18, 2018 15:56:51 GMT -5 saints22 said:

Some of you may remember that Siena's first Division I basketball game (Nov. 27, 1976) was at Boston University, coached by Rick Pitino. Terriers won 100-88.

Albany High's Johnny Ray Wall played for Pitino in the early-1980s.

You got me doing looking around on this. Itb Doesn't appear that Pitino coached that team. He joined BU in '78.

www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/boston-university/1977-schedule.html

I thought for sure that Pitino was the coach at that game, but looks like I was wrong. I was at that game, too. Guess the mind plays tricks over time. Thanks for the correction.

[indian82]

Sure. Whenever I see interesting tidbits like that I usually go googling to see more about it. In this case, who was on our team, etc. And I just saw a post by 'richiefurr'. I think he, Catino and Jeff Dowdye were frosh on that team. Joined later by Rod Owens, Tim Sise, Vernon Asquith, etc. I remember watching those guys on TV. And then met them when I went to Siena. I lived in Lakeshore 79-80.


Correction: Richie Furr was NOT on that team.

www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/siena/1977.html

[indian82]

Speaking of minds doing strange things...this will go way off topic. Can anyone remember the kid from Schuylerville who was really good in mid-70s? Think he went on to play at Bonaventure?

[warden99]

Eric Stover played for Saint Bona.

I also remember a early season upset of Seton Hall and Bill Rafftery