Holloway
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"I can't mess this up and I'm not going to mess this up."
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This is exactly what came to my mind as well 😂
Guess he figured his options to leave are gone after this abomination.
I don’t put much faith into tweets, but public acknowledgment that he recognizes that he has to change is a good start. We will know soon enough as roster construction/reconstruction begins.
Sha is a fantastic coach and we are lucky to have him. Unfortunately, our administration and fan base do not financially support the program at a level that allows us to be competitive. I have the upmost respect that Sha is taking the blame but he is the least of our problems.
Sha is saying what the fan base wants to hear but for me I would feel more confident if he had someone on his staff who could be a mentor to him ,and help him address his shortcomings.
Very interesting if you listen to D Marshall during the telecast. He is very tight with Sha. Obviously raved about his ability to coach and lead men but last night said that the fans support is there, the new facility is done, great coach, great market , history of consistency and that the Administration needs to step up.
Step up is an understatement…how about wake up?
Some of what you say is true, but it is not like Fordham, Hofstra snd Monmouth are Elite Programs. I would tend to believe that the Coaching staff did not do a good job more than the frugal Hall fans holding back their dollars at every turn.
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And you think the frugal fans holding back their dollars are going to shell out more $ after his year?
He doesn’t want to leave! For Holloway and Bozzella, this is their dream job! Unlike some of those here who believe we should be some sort of stepping stone on the way to whatever you perceive to be better, they don’t! You can get it done here and they will!
I honestly wonder why some of you consider yourselves fans because it seems like you’d rather be somewhere else.
Changes in administration are long overdue. They keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. It doesn’t work like that!
Well fans will all be hitting the bottle if he doesn’t figure it out…
I, too, feel we are lucky to have Shaheen. Would not say he is "a fantastic coach."
Didn't know Marshall and Shaheen are "very tight." Seems that Marshall is tight with everyone. Wonder if part of the touting of the coach by Marshall, Martelli and others is in part not to have viewers turn off lopsided games. Raftery made an on-air pitch for Blaney getting a year four in the late 1990's. That's what TV guys do.
1st sentence. Yes, lucky to have him. Sha is also lucky to have a big salary, big east job, take over a job with studs with Richmond, Samuel and program that has had 10 years of success. Sha is lucky to have SHU as well.
2nd sentence. The school and admin doesnt support as much as they need to for sure. If SHU doesn’t support financialy enough, Sha should have been more aggressive with helping the teams donors and companies or pushed to hirer someone with that can. Much of the blame for this season is on Sha, you cannot put it all on NIL or admin. Evidence… our OOC record every year with Sha at SHU and losing to super low NIL teams. That’s on Sha. The % of blame is 40/60 Sha/NIL or 60/40, much of it is on Sha.
3rd sentence. NIL is a big, prob biggest problem for this past season, Sha is part of fundraising NIl so yes Sha is major part of the big probelm. The amount of NIL $ available doesn’t tell us how to allocate that money, how we sub out or our rotations, our plays and offensive vs defensive focus, our OOC scheduling….how we do against teams with 1/4 amount of NIL we have.
My hope is that Sha has learned this:
1) OOC way more important than he has been taking it. This ain’t St. Peter’s where you just need to win conf tourney. Figure it out earlier. Every year here, coming out of the OOC it’s been rough.
2) setting up team and players to win needs to improve. Sha’s rotations for almost 1/2 of every season here has been so wacky that almost every fan is like why are you subbing that guy out and why is that guy playing so much or why is that guy playing in that position.
3) goes with 2. stop playing 10-12 guys. That way doesn’t usually work. This ain’t St. Peter’s or the Tulane green wave. That’s a low major sub pattern move. Bad for players brand too why would I sign to play half the time I should and hurt my marketability. Doesn’t work even more now with limited NIl
Funds.
4) offensive needs to be more of a focus. Dunks/layups and 3s are the highest % shots. We take so many midrange shots it’s nuts. FT shooting is important, if you practice it enough and still missing, you recruited the wrong players. Less defensive sets that aren’t wining game for us unless we play poor shooting teams. Run more sets for our shooters, run plays that go inside out more just to get the ball moving even if it’s just as a decoy. The offense has been soooo bad with Sha so far at the hall. We lucky last year we had Dre, Dawes and Kooks bc two of the 3 could get shoots whenever they wanted (irrespective to our bad offensive sets) and Dawes the 3rd was a great 3pt shooter that could light it up.
5) goes with #4…PG play is important on offense. We need to lock up a floor general. Not a freshman, not a SG, or wings, or a PG that has had issues at other schools staying on roster. I like Dual on D a lot, next year he might be even better on offense if we keep him but dribbling 5 feet outside the 3pt line for 1/3 of the shot clock doesn’t do anything for the team
6) need to improve being the spokesperson/face for the team. Better with media, fans, get more individual and corp donors. Be more likable on sidelines on nationally televised game by not berated your own players constantly. Looks bad for the ShU brand.
Because history matters. Less than a year ago he interviewed elsewhere…it will be said it was for a raise, but he still interviewed.
Everyone in this program, starting with the head coach, have been abysmal this year. Record says it all. But people here acting like things can’t change and change quickly are wrong.
We can continue to gripe on this lost season or turn the page. I’m not under the illusion that Sha is a HOF coach but it’s one terrible season. He deserves a chance to right the ship. Let’s check back in May and see what the roster looks like or if a veteran assistant has been hired.
We can continue to gripe on this lost season or turn the page. I’m not under the illusion that Sha is a HOF coach but it’s one terrible season. He deserves a chance to right the ship. Let’s check back in May and see what the roster looks like or if a veteran assistant has been hired.
"I'm always juiced up, but I'm even more juiced up than usual."
Wait did Holloway just admit to taking steroids?
Carino said the same thing on his Jersey Jump Shot last week. And he knows SHU about as well as any outsider.
Kurtz is on jim Cramercnbc tonight at 6
Maybe I'll call into show . Lol
Funny because my dream job is also to be the Seton Hall basketball head coach. Sha and I have that in common at least.
👏 We have a coaching issue right now. Plus the always tough attitude doesn’t help. It can be fixed, but he’s under water trying to adjust to the big time and deal with NIL. Look what we just sat through this year, I mean it’s ok to admit.
The caliber of player went from Davis, Bediako, even Dawes types to this year. Need a budget but also adjustments.
The administration chose to get the $55M Basketball Facility built and leave it to whatever the NIL collective could gather from everyone else. Short term, it’s put the program in a hole competitively speaking as evidenced by our worst season since the early 1980s which is really inexcusable.
Long term with revenue sharing? We shall see. The administration of Pay Lyons, Bryan Felt and I guess take your pick of which BoRs you want to put on the list should be held accountable if this results in a termination of Shaheen over the next couple of years and an abysmal stretch for Seton Hall basketball.
Long term with revenue sharing? We shall see. The administration of Pay Lyons, Bryan Felt and I guess take your pick of which BoRs you want to put on the list should be held accountable if this results in a termination of Shaheen over the next couple of years and an abysmal stretch for Seton Hall basketball.
“Even Dawes.” A near 40% three point shooter, 93% from the line, back up ball handling skills, with quickness. We don’t have one guy on this year’s roster as good as he was. $500k+ in the portal for a guy like Dawes.
I don’t want to litigate the Dawes’ sporadic play again bc there is a legit case to be made about the consistency, but on the overall body of work you’re right, he was a legit BE starting player teams had to plan for and important contributor and we have nothing close to him on this team.
Sha chose to spend our small budget on quantity instead of quality. It burned us.
Idk the legalities of shifting those funds but I think the process was too far along to redirect once NIL erupted.
Seton Hall provides no information. We raise that money we can’t raise NIL? The school was also petrified and slowed by fugazy NIL law. My fear is nothing has changed and we think we have a competitive budget from revenue sharing that’s not finalized yet instead of an NIL war chest of $5M ready to roll.
Doesn’t seem like we’re firing anyone for this ineptitude, so I hope they realized months ago they went about this wrong. We lost our two best players to money last year…hello??
Agreed. It wasn’t a slight at Dawes at all. Dawes was a great shooter but struggled to create his own shot or be ball dominate player. The other two players didnt need another penetrator to kick them the ball or an offensive system that got them open. That all. All 3 players helped Sha be able to concentrate on just D .
Without knowing for sure obviously, there had to be ways to “legally” even at that time, redirect funds. Donors paid what? 1/3 of practice faculty? 20 million?
Of those, the big donors didn’t pay all the money in one lump sum, it was probably promised in future installments. While the money was still in the hands of the donors, they admin could have reached out to those donors to say hey can you reduce the amount by this and send the remainder to our NIL fund. Then borrowed a little more money in bonds.
Please correct me if this doesn’t sound conceivable.
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