St. Johns hires former UCLA head coach and ESPN analyst Steve Lavin.

[DELdaBull]

Good hire for St. Johns.

[Jamie]

Lavin to me is Seth Greenberg with hair.

[Bruce Blingstein]

Lavin to me is Seth Greenberg with hair.

and the fact he takes his team to the ncaa tournament every year.

in tourney 6 of 7 years with ucla

in sweet 16 5 of 7

elite 8 once. 

had the #1 ranked recruiting class 2 different years

put guys like Baron Davis, Matt Barnes, Earl Watson, Gadzuric, Trevor Ariza, Kapono and more in the NBA

coached one of nations top programs

Does Seth do that? i realize these are just minor differences and accomplishments compared to the hair thing

oh yea and his face has been in front of every high school player on espn the past 5 or so years im sure will hurt, but Seth did recruit BB Waldon, which makes it closer. 

to say you arent worried about St Johns getting Lavin over ex coach Roberts you may not be a USF fan. 

[Jamie]

Good recruiter (although having UCLA to pitch to high schoolers made his job a lot easier). Bad to very bad game coach.

[Bruce Blingstein]

Good recruiter (although having UCLA to pitch to high schoolers made his job a lot easier). Bad to very bad game coach.

You know how easy it is to recruit to St Johns?  You play in New York City.  You play your main games at Madison Square Garden, place has more history than any other place in the country you are going to play at, not even close.  Place gets NBA players excited, see Lebron James and Kobe Bryant.

St. Johns has always been good until those players under Jarvis had that flight attendent situation in Pitt and the AD wanted to go with a cleaner program and hired a bad coach in Norm Roberts.  Boosters got pissed and I wont be surprised to see St Johns a top Big East team again with lavin. 

I know im a NY homer, but its not my imagination when I watch the tournament and its seems half the kids in the NCAA come from the NYC area.  Im sure Lavin can get a lot of them to stay home and a lot of top talent outside the area to come. 

not good for the whole conference, but bottomline and the point def not good for USF.