Big East fukkkery. Ed Cooley to leave Providence to go to rival Georgetown University. ST John’s University to hire Rick Pitno.

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St. John's has always fascinated me as a basketball fan, and I could never understand the failure to keep it poppin after Carnesecca retired. I remember how crazy those Big East games were at the Garden. I remember reading somewhere that building on-campus dormitories had an indirect effect on recruiting since they couldn't legally pay the student athletes with housing stipends to stay off-campus. It also listed a number of other factors that played into it as well.
 

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Outside of 1996, the Big East was dead in the 90s. UConn began its ascension to blue blood status but the other powers started falling off.

The 80s was its peak, specifically 83-89.


@KBadd talked about Ed Cooley being damn near a done deal on the podcast last week. Pitino to St. John’s is fascinating as fukk.
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John Wallace, Kerry Kittles, I know. That was 1996.

Before that, I don’t think you were hyping up Donyiel Marshall and Terry Dehere with current UConn coach Danny Hurley.

It was a dead conference except for 95-96 season, when it was at the 1980s point.

UConn had great teams. St Johns had that awesome ‘99 team with Eric Barkley, Bootsy Thornton and Ron Artest, and Lawrence Moten was beastly in the early 90s, but aside from them it was dead.

The Big East only had three teams make the final four in the 1990s.

Edit: my bad, only two teams.
 
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I don't watch college basketball like that. I'm a St John's grad. What does this mean for us as a basketball program, for any of you college basketball fans.

Wasn't he in a scandal where he let the players get strippers or something like that back in the day? I know his name so he must be a decent coach. I'm hoping we can restore the feeling. When I was there, we beat Bobby Knight and won the NIT and I was able to run on the court at MSG lol. That was what? 15-18 years ago?
 

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I don't watch college basketball like that. I'm a St John's grad. What does this mean for us as a basketball program, for any of you college basketball fans.

Wasn't he in a scandal where he let the players get strippers or something like that back in the day? I know his name so he must be a decent coach. I'm hoping we can restore the feeling. When I was there, we beat Bobby Knight and won the NIT and I was able to run on the court at MSG lol. That was what? 15-18 years ago?

He's a great coach. As long as they get solid recruits/transfers they'll be very good very quickly.

He's 70 years old now, hopefully he calmed down on the fukkery :pachaha:
 

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John Wallace, Kerry Kittles, I know. That was 1996.

Before that, I don’t think you were hyping up Donyiel Marshall and Terry Dehere with current UConn coach Danny Hurley.

It was a dead conference except for 95-96 season, when it was at the 1980s point.

UConn had great teams. St Johns had that awesome ‘99 team with Eric Barkley, Bootsy Thornton and Ron Artest, and Lawrence Moten was beastly in the early 90s, but aside from them it was dead.

The Big East only had three teams make the final four in the 1990s.

Edit: my bad, only two teams.
Donyell Marshall was an All-American and a top 5 pick
 

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Rick bout to get shyt crackin up there, I’m sure of it.

rick pitino is like nick saban you can put them anywhere and they will win

look at sean miller, xavier didn't make the tourney the past 4 years, miller comes in already sweet 16 his first year back
 

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Nice, I heard people saying they want Pitino to go to GTown but this Cooley dude sounds like a good hire
I don't even watch college bball anymore but one of my uncles is a die hard GTown fan and season ticket holder who flies where ever they play including them random tournaments in Bermuda and Hawaii or where ever
Was getting worried about dude being so committed to a trash ass team during the Ewing era
 
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