Sha, I've been a big fan of yours ever since you pulled that Seton Hall hat out of that brown paper bag, announcing your decision to come to Seton Hall. I've followed your career as a player, assistant coach, head coach of St. Peter's and now head coach of our Alma Mater. Please take these words with the love that they are being sent.
You came to the Hall with high expectations and with all the injuries you had to deal with your first year, you game us a respectable season and we were all proud of you. But I've got to tell you, my friend, this season you are losing a lot of us due to your questionable coaching to date.
Why your stubbornness in starting the same five players each game is beyond reason. Last night, it was proven to you that players that have seen little or almost no playing time, should be spending more time on the floor than on the bench. Did you even notice that the bench players gave you an 11-point lead at halftime only to be wasted away by your "starters".
I respectfully submit to you that changing your lineup and benching a starter or two is now most necessary, especially when they just don't click as a unit on offense or defense. Not only changing you starting lineup but giving more playing time to certain bench players who have been proving themselves worthy of such attention.
We all love you, Coach, but you are painting yourself into a corner by not listening to others, not just fans, and continue to try to do your own thing. I hope this note is taken as it was written, with YOU in mind. We all want you to succeed as much as possible, but you won't if you don't begin to pay attention to, what seems to me, are obvious situations.
Respectfully submitted,
James Charles Petrillo
Class of 1968
Hazard Zet Forward
You came to the Hall with high expectations and with all the injuries you had to deal with your first year, you game us a respectable season and we were all proud of you. But I've got to tell you, my friend, this season you are losing a lot of us due to your questionable coaching to date.
Why your stubbornness in starting the same five players each game is beyond reason. Last night, it was proven to you that players that have seen little or almost no playing time, should be spending more time on the floor than on the bench. Did you even notice that the bench players gave you an 11-point lead at halftime only to be wasted away by your "starters".
I respectfully submit to you that changing your lineup and benching a starter or two is now most necessary, especially when they just don't click as a unit on offense or defense. Not only changing you starting lineup but giving more playing time to certain bench players who have been proving themselves worthy of such attention.
We all love you, Coach, but you are painting yourself into a corner by not listening to others, not just fans, and continue to try to do your own thing. I hope this note is taken as it was written, with YOU in mind. We all want you to succeed as much as possible, but you won't if you don't begin to pay attention to, what seems to me, are obvious situations.
Respectfully submitted,
James Charles Petrillo
Class of 1968
Hazard Zet Forward