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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 5, 2020 15:36:30 GMT -5
So, after revamping the Iona roster with seven verbal commitments for the class of 2020, Rick Pitino has already gotten commitments from six players in the class of 2021. They are all coming in from high school, and they include a point guard, two shooting guards, a small forward, a power forward, and a center. The center, Trey James of Kentucky, is ranked a 3 star recruit by 24/7 Sports. They're actually two over the scholarship limit for 2021-22, but I am sure Pitino will run off who he wants to run off. At any rate, looks like a solid class for the MAAC. verbalcommits.com/schools/iona
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Post by Commissioner on Oct 5, 2020 17:51:25 GMT -5
Do you wish the Titans had hired Pitino?
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Post by upbasketballfan on Oct 6, 2020 1:48:36 GMT -5
Do you wish the Titans had hired Pitino? Yes, then and now! He does get er done, no excuses. He must still have a little left in the tank besides Vitalis.
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 6, 2020 5:29:39 GMT -5
Do you wish the Titans had hired Pitino? It's a good question. I'd probably hold off on a final answer until I see what kind of win/loss record he puts together there, but my initial answer is no. Pitino is about as dirty as they come. He's had NCAA issues going back to his time as an assistant at Hawaii, and basically ran a brothel for players and recruits at Louisville. I imagine if the NCAA cared enough to look, they could find new violations at Iona right now. Could he get players and win here without running afoul of the NCAA? Maybe. If not, could the program survive a major scandal? I don't think I want to risk it.
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 13, 2020 12:22:25 GMT -5
Niagra head coach Greg Paulus received a contract extension through 2024-25.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 13:00:59 GMT -5
Niagra head coach Greg Paulus received a contract extension through 2024-25. Niagara is fortunate to have him. Paulus will be at a high - mid or a high major sooner than later
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2020 17:20:42 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Dec 6, 2020 10:09:40 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Mar 13, 2021 7:51:54 GMT -5
Iona meets Fairfield today for the MAAC title. Things fell into place nicely for Pitino, as they beat top seed Siena and will avoid any other MAAC team with a winning record during the tourney. Fairfield, who finished 9th in the conference, upset St. Peter's last night. Iona will be in the NCAA tournament with a win. Say what you want about Pitino (and there's a lot to say), but the man can coach.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 9:25:06 GMT -5
Iona meets Fairfield today for the MAAC title. Things fell into place nicely for Pitino, as they beat top seed Siena and will avoid any other MAAC team with a winning record during the tourney. Fairfield, who finished 9th in the conference, upset St. Peter's last night. Iona will be in the NCAA tournament with a win. Say what you want about Pitino (and there's a lot to say), but the man can coach. Iona was actually the #9 "seed". The MAAC seeded by conference wins, instead of using winning % or some patented super advanced top secret formula. Iona was on pause for 51 total days and only got in 9 League games finishing 6-3, thus getting a much lower seed than they deserved (they were a top 3 team). Yesterday, they were up by 24 with 16 minutes left before Niagara closed it to 3 and had a chance to tie in the last minute. Iona did not score from the field into the last 9+ minutes of the game and made numerous mistakes/couldn't handle the press - which was surprising for a Pitino coached team.
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Post by Commissioner on Mar 13, 2021 10:39:15 GMT -5
Iona meets Fairfield today for the MAAC title. Things fell into place nicely for Pitino, as they beat top seed Siena and will avoid any other MAAC team with a winning record during the tourney. Fairfield, who finished 9th in the conference, upset St. Peter's last night. Iona will be in the NCAA tournament with a win. Say what you want about Pitino (and there's a lot to say), but the man can coach. Iona was actually the #9 "seed". The MAAC seeded by conference wins, instead of using winning % or some patented super advanced top secret formula. Iona was on pause for 51 total days and only got in 9 League games finishing 6-3, thus getting a much lower seed than they deserved (they were a top 3 team). Yesterday, they were up by 24 with 16 minutes left before Niagara closed it to 3 and had a chance to tie in the last minute. Iona did not score from the field into the last 9+ minutes of the game and made numerous mistakes/couldn't handle the press - which was surprising for a Pitino coached team. Yup, like the Horizon, the MAAC didn't trust their standings. If Iona wins, they'll come out OK--Iona beat top-seed and regular season champ Siena in the tournament, just not in the final--but like the HL, I've no reason to think the re-seeding was more "fair," and they may yet get totally burned with Fairfield. Plus it's unfair to Siena, which had to start the tournament with the third place team (and what is likely the 2d best team in the conference). A touch of social commentary here--our society has developed this mania for "fairness," increasingly leading to results that aren't "fair." A fundamental aspect of fairness is having rules, known in advance, being able to conduct yourself according to those rules, and being properly rewarded. Unfair rules should be changed, but unless they are so grossly unfair as to constitute a massive injustice, gradually and at the appropriate pause. And we need to realize that nothing is ever completely "fair" for everybody. Like a lot of schools, mine made a mid-semester change to "pass/fail" last spring, in order to be "fair" to those affected by Corona, includnig, it was argued, those who might have trouble with child care, or otherwise had a home environment not conducive to study. The result, of course, was "unfair" to those who had worked harder, studied more, and done better on mid-terms, and likely would have done better on finals, but now had that all tossed aside. It was unfair to the best students, who battle in a highly competitive market for the best jobs against students from more prestigious schools, and now can't even point to their grades to distinguish themselves from the pack. We are teaching future lawyers, people who will have to hold it together and represent their clients in difficult times, and during periods of turmoil in their personal lives. In this way, grading after Covid struck might even have been more "fair" at determining who would be good lawyers. And of course, other terms we made no exception for people with turmoil in their personal lives, or who lost a loved one during the term. Meanwhile, our part-time students face their first cut after their second fall semester. I had 3 or 4 students who had done very poorly their first semester (fall 2019), but reasonably well in their third (fall 2020), but not well enough to overcome their first semester and raise their overall gpa above the cutoff. Would they have been able to get their GPA above the cutoff had they gotten actual grades--i.e. a chance to raise their overall GPA a bit more--in the spring term? I know they thought so. In other words, in many ways, what we ended up with was no more "fair"--it just shifted the unfairness around. And that, I think, made those who lost out on the choice feel even more unfairly treated--it wasn't an act of God (Covid) that penalized them, but conscious choices of their professors and administrators that penalized them. Did the onset of Covid affect our students in different ways, some more than others? Of course it did. Life is like that. When we go overboard on "fairness," we turn people into whiners, and it carries over into all areas of society, and I think accounts for much of the bitterness in our politics, too, where everybody who loses an election complains about the process and becomes bitter toward the other side. Boo MAAC. Boo Horizon. It would serve the MAAC right to have Fairfield pull the upset today.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 17:56:06 GMT -5
Pitino and Iona win the tourney and make it in
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 18:46:53 GMT -5
This quote made me think
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Post by calihanmole on Mar 13, 2021 19:49:18 GMT -5
Remember when The Mole orchestrated that epic Pitino prank on the message board?
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Post by Commissioner on Mar 13, 2021 20:52:19 GMT -5
Remember when The Mole orchestrated that epic Pitino prank on the message board? I was going to ask the mole if he’d heard any rumors of Pitino coming to Detroit after Davis takes that P5 job Tony Paul keeps talking about.
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