Definitely used the SJU interest as leverage even though Mullin is the guy they want...he will be gone though after his first NCAA appearance
Hurley expected to get 6 year deal at URI
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Mullin is a great hire. A loyal son returning home but he has not coached in college basketball since.... forever. A former NBA coach and GM who can transition very nicely to the college game. It may take a few years to get adjusted.
Eddie Jordan Redux.Originally posted by RU-Choppin-Ohio:
Mullin is a great hire. A loyal son returning home but he has not coached in college basketball since.... forever. A former NBA coach and GM who can transition very nicely to the college game. It may take a few years to get adjusted.
If URI gives Danny an extension every year he's being looked at by another school, he'll be signed up for 100 years as the URI HC.
Can't say how Mullins will do, but won't knock the hire.
Chris might bring some quality assistants , helping him adjust to being a College HC.
Can't say how Mullins will do, but won't knock the hire.
Chris might bring some quality assistants , helping him adjust to being a College HC.
Start with support. We could have a program like St. John's but choose not to. Hurley would have crushed there.
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Actually not true. I don't believe Mullin has ever been a HC period, correct?Originally posted by The Jackster:
Eddie Jordan Redux.Originally posted by RU-Choppin-Ohio:
Mullin is a great hire. A loyal son returning home but he has not coached in college basketball since.... forever. A former NBA coach and GM who can transition very nicely to the college game. It may take a few years to get adjusted.
No matter what you think of EJ, his coaching resume' runs circles around Mullin
I think this is a weird hire too.
I love how so many on this board are criticizing the DePaul and SJU hires. We hired a guy who has been a terrible NBA coach and had no college HC experience. I guess we're a bunch of geniuses.
Hiring Eddie Jordan was TERRIBLE! We can blame it on facilities all we want (and it is an issue), but even with talent- Eddie would not going to get it done here.
Hiring Eddie Jordan was TERRIBLE! We can blame it on facilities all we want (and it is an issue), but even with talent- Eddie would not going to get it done here.
Fred Hoiberg isn't doing to bad as Iowa State's HC and he didn't hve coaching experience.
Jordan stepped into a mess and you can panic all you want, his third year should should show
if you're right about him, or he'll prove better than you think.
But remember not to many name brands will come to RU without the facilities up graded and a better salary than Eddie received.
Also the up and comers will want more than RU is willing to give , leaving only canidates not ready for prime time or those who never was.
Eddie was also a PR hire after the Rice fiasco destroyed what little reputation RU MBB had that could attract talent,
after Danny Hurley didn't like what RU was offering.
No matter what some might think, there were very few better choices than Jordan , because most of the decent choices wouldn't touch Rutgers with a ten foot pole.
Rutgers wasn't a destination job after Rice left and it isn't one that someone with a future in coaching will take unless RU meets their demands , salary wise, facility wise and length of contract.
Jordan took the career killer because he is connected to RU .
I could argue Jordan's career was already dead and this is his retirement package. He is making more than twice what he would have made as an NBA asst. and that was no guarantee after Mike Brown was fired.
I love how so many on this board are criticizing the DePaul and SJU hires. We hired a guy who has been a terrible NBA coach and had no college HC experience. I guess we're a bunch of geniuses.
Hiring Eddie Jordan was TERRIBLE! We can blame it on facilities all we want (and it is an issue), but even with talent- Eddie would not going to get it done here.
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I think we are criticizing the hires because they seem similar to what we did.
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Hiring Eddie Jordan was TERRIBLE! We can blame it on facilities all we want (and it is an issue), but even with talent- Eddie would not going to get it done here.
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I think we are criticizing the hires because they seem similar to what we did.
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I thought Mike Hopkins was considered the heir apparent to Boeheim. Hurley hasn't even made the tourney yet or any deep runs in the NIT or NCAA so a job like Syracuse is way off the radar any time soon for him. He's flavor of the month right now and to me hasn't proven worthy of it this far in his career. Maybe down the line but not now. I actually like the coaching prospects of Bobby even though he's has a shorter resume. Both of them need more time to prove themselves.
Hurley's team is loaded and he will be in the tourney next year. I'm of the mind that he will not be a candidate for RU next time it opens because he's no longer gettable. Maybe not for the Hall as well.
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Mullin will succeed if he has dynamic young assistants with college experience.
we could not have a worse set of coaches so the comparison to EJ is more complex. which one of our coaches has the energy, enthusiasm, passion or, frankly, youth to walk into a kid's house and convince him to bet his college careeron a dream which seems unlikely in light of the past 33 years of futility? O'Koren? Our other assistants?
we could not have a worse set of coaches so the comparison to EJ is more complex. which one of our coaches has the energy, enthusiasm, passion or, frankly, youth to walk into a kid's house and convince him to bet his college careeron a dream which seems unlikely in light of the past 33 years of futility? O'Koren? Our other assistants?
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