That was a good team last year that got hosed in march. This is the only year he can be judged poorly on. These guys look like they have zero clue how to play
It’s time for Sha to take some heat
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The inadequacy of the funds to make SH competitive in recruiting is not the fault of Sha or his staff and lies elsewhere within the SH hierarchy and we’re playing catch-up which puts us at a disadvantage in recruiting. there are however coaching decisions which have been responsible for our poor play to date especially offensively and it’s up to Sha and his staff to make those corrections even if it means a change in the staff of assistants.
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I think Sha needs to improve upon his communication skills. He is not reaching his players at all. When they are on offense Sha is constantly yelling them to move around and they literally have no clue what to do. Either the whole team is uncoachable or he’s not finding a way to reach them. He needs to also stop the Willard message of if you play defense I’ll let you do whatever you want on offense. You have to earn that level of trust with good decisions but until then he needs to teach them the basics of offense and how to play together. On several possessions the PG literally pounded the ball the majority of the time waiting for someone to get open and when they didn’t they panicked and usually made a terrible decision. That ball needs to be going inside, outside, side to side to make the defense work
I remember one year the team had trouble shooting free throws and PJ brought in a psychologist.
NIL is changing. Schools can players directly. Allows us access to school funds and not only collective donations.
No bigger marketing dollars for the University than Men's Hoops. Priorities for the success of the program can be made. We are no longer going to be constrained by donor dollars.
No bigger marketing dollars for the University than Men's Hoops. Priorities for the success of the program can be made. We are no longer going to be constrained by donor dollars.
Spot on. It's just so frustrating. His post game comments that he has to figure it out or go back to drawing board. All of this has to be pre planned well in advance. Contingency plan says if Harmon is not ready to go and Dual is hurt then Felton has to play minutes. Does it really matter if Felton is not practicing well? Wusu is struggling in live game action at the point. Kind of like having KC and Femi out there together and they both could not shoot.
I’m obviously not at practice and have no clue how Felton looks, but I’m sure if Sha thinks he’s ready more PT will be in the cards sooner than later.
Wusu has been playing half decently off the ball. He is a fish out of water running the point. The experiment needs to end immediately. If Sha wants to keep throwing Wusu and his team to the wolves then he’s gotta own it. Literally anybody else. Can’t be Wusu. Accept that it didn’t work and move on. BRUTAL!
We do, but they are not obsessed with basketball. Check out CrowdStrike CEO, our alum, net worth 3x that of Vitamin Water Johnnies pal of Pitino.
Seton Hall has many highly successful people out there in the world. It does not seem like they are willing to give like Repole, though. Why, I have no idea. That's what we pay Felt and McBride to manage. Perhaps the whole NIL operation at SHU is under-resourced, I have no clue.
They seemed to have done a good job raising funds for the new facility (which was also desperately needed).
He clearly doesn't have a great handle on his team and rotations yet. We treated beating VCU (a good win and probably our best non-con in 2 seasons) as a Super Bowl victory it seemed. Because that effort against Vanderbilt on the defensive end was atrocious. There was no effort. And how many times were they going to let Nickel beat them?
I’m sorry it’s not the SJU AD embracing Repole it’s their head coach. Everyone says Willard saw NIL coming and was ready to bolt. Willard isn’t some out of this world visionary who saw something that nobody else could see coming. We needed a coach who was going be looking for wins off the court more than on the court. Winning our big alums money is the biggest win a coach can get at Seton Hall. The on court stuff is easy compared to off the court. Literally the #1 job search criteria at Seton Hall for the head coaching position needs to be fundraising. I didn’t like Orr getting fired for programmatic details or whatever term they used, but in today’s game it’s an absolute must because every fan is capable of being involved with paying players. It used to be you wanted a few guys in on it and to keep to hush hush.
I find that to be partially untrue. Fans donating small amounts does make a big difference. But the reality is, they can't be the primary source of revenue. Can they/we be the difference between getting that key 6th and 7th man for us in a given year? Yes, absolutely. But can we field a legitimate NCAA team off the backs of families of 4 and retired alums? No chance, imo.
I just feel like can spin and circle with our finger pointing outward, and wherever we stop is a competing program in our tri-state area with significant corporate partners or whales propping them up. To date we still can't seem to lock down either, and it's not exactly looking more promising today than it was yesterday.
Shaheen is not the problem. He's trying his best to make chicken salad out of chicken @!#%, when speaking to the NIL budget. He's a great basketball mind who has winning formulas in his mind, however we are living with players who cannot immediately pick up and run with those formulas. Time is not on his side each season as a result, and it's unfortunate.
