EtomicB
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 11, 2024 11:33:33 GMT -5
A very good hire for St. John's The job of a Big East athletic director is not getting any easier, particularly at St. John's. The next AD wil be the sixth different leader there since Jack Kaiser retired in 1995. Where once the AD only had to answer to the St. John's president, the new AD has three people to keep happy: Rev. Shanley, Rick Pitino, and Vitamin Water founder Mike Repole. It's likely Pitno and Repole signed off on this hire. For a school which dropped a number of men's sports 20 years ago, basketball is the only real egg left in its basket. St. John's has no football, no track and field, no swimming, no women's lacrosse, no rowing. The pressure on a new hire is whether to put even more funding into men's basketball, likely at the expense of those programs which are still there. We can guess what Pitino wants, and as Maryland fans can attest, having a wealthy alumnus with influence in an athletic department has its ups and its downs. A more interesting search is underway at Villanova, where Mark Jackson, the highest paid AD in the conference, quit to take the AD role at Northwestern. When Pitino joked last year that if Cragg was upset with him for all the money he's spending, then they'd have to find a new AD, the writing was on the wall for Cragg. nypost.com/2024/09/11/sports/st-johns-lands-ed-kull-from-fordham-to-be-new-athletic-director/There was significant interest in the job. But Kull was really a no-brainer, when you consider his familiarity with the Queens school, his strong relationship with top athletic booster Mike Repole and his strength in fundraising.
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Post by kghoya on Sept 11, 2024 11:57:25 GMT -5
A very good hire for St. John's The job of a Big East athletic director is not getting any easier, particularly at St. John's. The next AD wil be the sixth different leader there since Jack Kaiser retired in 1995. Where once the AD only had to answer to the St. John's president, the new AD has three people to keep happy: Rev. Shanley, Rick Pitino, and Vitamin Water founder Mike Repole. It's likely Pitno and Repole signed off on this hire. For a school which dropped a number of men's sports 20 years ago, basketball is the only real egg left in its basket. St. John's has no football, no track and field, no swimming, no women's lacrosse, no rowing. The pressure on a new hire is whether to put even more funding into men's basketball, likely at the expense of those programs which are still there. We can guess what Pitino wants, and as Maryland fans can attest, having a wealthy alumnus with influence in an athletic department has its ups and its downs. A more interesting search is underway at Villanova, where Mark Jackson, the highest paid AD in the conference, quit to take the AD role at Northwestern. When Lee Reed was hired, how many people do we think he was hired to keep happy? I'm thinking just one.
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 11, 2024 12:09:22 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 11, 2024 12:51:51 GMT -5
When Lee Reed was hired, how many people do we think he was hired to keep happy? I'm thinking just one. Frank Rienzo built a firewall between the athletic director's role and the basketball office so that neither side had an inordinate say in the other's business. Thus, John Thompson had no particular say in Joe Lang being promoted, JT III didn't sign off on Bernard Muir, etc. In this sense, the AD needs to be aligned with the president (whom he reports to) but less so other coaches as what happens at some schools. Lee Reed's hire was unusual in that role was vacant for a year. For reasons visible and opaque, Georgetown is not an easy hire once a candidate peeks behind the curtain, and that can lead some candidates to start looking elsewhere. Reed had no ties to the Big East, to la familglia, or even Washington DC, having played at Cleveland State and getting a degree from the University of New Mexico. In many respects he was a decided change in course from Bernard Muir. From what I recall, there were no candidates for the position from what we know today as P4 schools. Excepting interim appointments, no Georgetown alumnus has served as its athletic director since 1968.
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 13, 2024 12:16:11 GMT -5
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Post by blueandgray on Sept 14, 2024 9:20:34 GMT -5
This kid is a big time get for Creighton. I was almost Sure he was Duke bound. Watched him play many times for JL3….he can do it all.
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 14, 2024 12:33:57 GMT -5
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 15, 2024 10:44:54 GMT -5
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 16, 2024 8:24:50 GMT -5
Kalkbrenner, Kam Jones, Richmond, and Karaban are on the teams..
It's a good look for the BE to have 4 players on the list.
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 17, 2024 16:41:03 GMT -5
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 17, 2024 18:10:03 GMT -5
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