Quite a turnaround, whatever JC/Carm got going there was rapid and highly effective.

Lunardi has Siena in his bracket again this year, as the Auto Qualifier 

Carm is creating Young Head Coach on the rise brand for himself, nice to see him thriving, and the stench of being associated with ML hasn't impacted him in the long run.  Carm, that is.  ML remains unemployed 6 years later

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Lol ML lives in the dudes head rent free 6 years later. Don't need a job if that rent is that cheap!

Kudos to Carm on such  good job at Siena so far, had missed/ or forgotten he was the Siena HC, and Mt St Mary's is back to the Dance, JC laid some good tracks at both schools

 

Battle, Jack, Nelson, Jr., Paar, Stallings--all transferring this year alone. More than the putrid 17-32 2-year record, this is a sign of a program that has hit rock bottom. The University must eat the three years left on Christian's contract (enough with the five year deals--you think he wouldn't have taken three?!) and move on. The University must find the money to hire an A10-caliber coach or the stands will be half empty next year (4 in my row are definitely gone). No radio, no TV (unless the opponent warrants it), two sentences buried in the Post sports section, little fan or student interest. Sad thing, the school won't do what it needs to do, signaling again that it only wants to talk about success not really do anything about it. We can be the next St. Bonaventure, but only if we all demand that we get there.

Moneybox, don't forget Seymour.

Here is a simplistic discussion.  To be a highly successful coach, you should possess the combination of being a real student of the game (one who understands X's and O's, runs set plays, etc.) and one who knows how to motivate.  Hobbs was a great motivator but his grasp of strategy was limited to the the style of play he ran.  There was little if any adapting to exploit weaknesses in an opponent.  Lonergan could run plays with the best of them but was not a natural motivator.  He spoke the truth which sometimes hurt.

I really believe that TV and whoever else was involved in the interviewing process thought they were getting both in JC.  For a variety of reasons, some understandable ones and some inexcusable ones, this just has not been the case through two seasons.  The way the offense runs is alarming at times.  We continue to be slow on defense which impacts our abilities to stay in front of dribblers and switch men effectively.  We tried some zone but it appeared that we tried it out of frustration  to see what might happen as opposed to really have worked on excelling at this during the off season.

We're left with an entire roster of JC recruits with more talent expected to arrive in the months ahead.  By definition, this has to be the team that JC wants to be coaching.  I don't feel that JC should be fired right now or after next season, nor should his contract be extended right now.  There is pressure on him to have the kind of season, next season, where we'll all be glad to extend his contract after next season.   

True that he may have recruited him.  I'll amend by saying that only Opoku and one other who barely plays ever played for him at MSM.  And in Opoku's case, he was a redshirt freshman so he technically did not play in any games for JC.

Crazy good turn around, first by JC, and then Carm the last 2 years taking it to the next level. 

Siena has been the best team in the league under Carm

 

Carm has the #1 team in the league, 5 years later Mike L still  has no job.

One man is ascending, the other guy is perpetually jobless, cooked forever. I think we have our answer already.
 

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The Dude wrote:

Carm has the #1 team in the league, 5 years later Mike L still  has no job.

One man is ascending, the other guy is perpetually jobless, cooked forever. I think we have our answer already.
 

ML got PAID according to 2 people in the know. Im sure he's doing fine. Carm tried to snake his way to a A10 job and is in a one bid league and has only done well during a pandemic (their league was hit HARD this season). Let's run it back next year and see if we still see it this way