SGreenwell wrote: ↑1 year ago
ramster wrote: ↑1 year ago
Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago
I mean, they did just beat us.
Their newly hired coach is very accomplished as well. Not like they hired some scrub off the street.
I was going to say the same thing R15, in fact had already typed it and cancelled just before you said it.
Frustrating when we try to act like we are so far above LaSalle, Fordham and Duquesne. We are now in the same tier with them, unfortunately.
I mean, no? I realize five or six years without an NCAA berth seems like forever ago for us, but we've won 20 games as recently as 2019-20. La Salle has managed that twice in the past 20 years with one NCAA berth, Duquesne has done it twice with zero NCAA berths, and Fordham has topped out at 18 wins once. It's OK to acknowledge that we've kind of sucked recently, but there's still a layer of crap between us and the bottom three, and probably another layer between Fordham and the other two.
Greenwell,
This was my question to RF1:
Does it surprise you, RF1, that Johnson is here considering fellow A10 member LaSalle dismissed him for his involvement? It’s one thing to dismiss Johnson, but what must LaSalle think when an A10 team then goes out and hires him?
Then you respond with:
I think you've made the false assumption that La Salle is "thinking" when it comes to basketball operations. There isn't much evidence that that is going on.
Personally I think it is wrong to quickly discount the quality of another school's Athletic Director, President, Lawyers, High Ranking Alumni, etc in deciding 1st to Hire Kenny Johnson even in the wake of the NCAA Investigation and then 2nd to fire Kenny Johnson later on when further details of the NCAA Investigation are brought forth. You discounted LaSalle's decision on Kenny Johnson because of their poor record of Basketball Performance in the A10. Yet the same Organization hired him and then fired him.
So if the bottom teams in the A10 should not have their decisions taken seriously then it's the top performing teams that we should trust?
I simply disagree that the performance of a team whether it be short, medium or long term has much, if anything, to do with legality decisions involving the NCAA.
Maybe even the opposite is true if you want to go there: North Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona, LSU........
Interesting to me is that a fellow A10 Team (whether it be LaSalle or any other team) hired Kenny Johnson who was involved in the NCAA Investigation at Louisville, then LaSalle fired Kenny Johnson 2 years later when details of the investigation surfaced (involving $1300 to be given by Kenny Johnson to Bowen's father). Then with NCAA Investigation complete URI hires Kenny Johnson.
Personally I am fine with hiring Kenny Johnson. No problem for me. Kids are all legally getting paid now anyway. Let the money fly. I don't like paying the players but it's the world today.
Personally I was always good with hiring Pitino when Hurley departed. 2 consecutive Round of 32 NCAA appearances warranted hiring a higher caliber guy than an Assistant with no HC experience. Talk was Thorr and Ryan wanted Pitino - Dr Dooley didn't - end of story.
Most here despise Pitino. Can't stand him. Would never in a million years hire him, make that a trillion.
Yet, is there not at least a bit of hypocrisy at play when nobody remotely objects or questions the hiring of Kenny Johnson who was Pitino's AC at Louisville who allegedly got caught?
Again,
I'd hire both guy - Pitino AND Johnson. Just seems odd how we defend URI's hiring decisions without any question.
I'd say if Dr Parlange was in place 5 years ago Hurley would still be HC because we could have gotten the money and the infrastructure improvements desired by Hurley somehow, someway. If Hurley still left despite the pay and infrastructure provisions, then we would have hired Pitino or someone else with HC experience - not an Assistant. I also don't think Johnson would have gotten hired had Dr Dooley been here this year.