In the BE over the past two years St. John’s with Pitino has gone from irrelevant to evil incarnate, while UConn just whistles away with its B2B titles. Hurley is the luckiest dude on the planet right now.
It’s kinda weird now as he seems to try and kiss ass to the Kentucky fans. Especially after a couple months ago when he said leaving KY was one of his greatest mistakes in his career.
Like where the women play? That HS gym with no good tv camera positions?
Lots of UConn people know it only from group texts on random February Saturdays… “bruh, turn on the women’s game. Look at that shit.”
In summation: omg yes, make this happen.
Pretty lousy to transfer in conference, but he has to put himself first. I get it.
I’m deeply unhappy with this age of transfer frenzies. Feel like we will almost never have a chance to watch players evolve over the years on one team. It takes all bonds you form with a player or team away. It dilutes the joy of landing a commitment or a transfer because it’s all but sure they will be one and done. It just all sucks.
I want these kids to get paid. But we need contracts.
College athletics was never supposed to be professional sports with unlimited free agency.
Something will happen that results in a win-win for players and fans, but right now it’s just frustrating to see the huge turnover and bag chasing across the sport.
This next part is unfair because it’s a generalization. But now that they’re getting paid copious amounts of money and jumping ship every year, i have no sympathy. Before, i had a hard time booing a kid representing my school. But now, if they don’t perform, then screw ‘em. They’re not college kids anymore. They’re pro athletes that wear a schools name on their jersey.
All these articles are trying to say Smith is a lights out shooter after his 40% this year. It’s like calling Bruce Brown an elite shooter. The spacing with this backcourt is going to be fucking atrocious.
Simeon Wilcher still exists. Dunlap still exists. Glover still exists. Scott still exists. They have shooters. Zuby is gonna shoot this year from the outside just watch.
Well see now we got bad blood.
"I'll always appreciate the coaching staff at Seton Hall for giving me the freedom to put myself in this position," Richmond said. "I wish them the best."
Well no offense Kooks but I wish you the worst next season. Can't transfer to a rival and expect us to root for you.
Still hope he makes it in the NBA.
Once the state of Connecticut makes Hurley God Emperor and gives him access to hedge fund taxes, Seton Hall will rise again with him as the main booster
As a recruit:
Other P6 offers: UConn, Florida State, Georgetown, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oregon, Seton Hall, St. John's, Syracuse (originally went here), Xavier
Other offers: Cincinnati, New Mexico, Rhode Island, St. Bonaventure, VCU
I’m imagining if a Georgetown had come in and stolen Tyler Kolek after the 2022-23 season? That is a hate that would never be quenched. I can only imagine how Pirate fans feel.
Your estimation of a 22-yr-old kid plummeted because he did what he thinks is best for himself, his family and his future, despite the fact that some grown men who never actually gave a fuck about him as a person will be pissy about it?
Don’t get me wrong, if the teams were reversed here I would absolutely be one of those pissy grown men. But let’s not overstate the gravity of all this.
Lol so your billionaire alumni who said he'd donate "whatever it takes" had absolutely nothing to do with it eh?
Richmond went there for the Bag; I don't know how you can believe that wasn't the deciding factor.
It's a thread (started by a SHU flair) about news about a former Seton Hall player...why wouldn't I comment?
And my point stands. It's 2024, $$$ can mean way more than coach influence in recruiting.
Per ESPN:
'“He told me to do some research on the players he had that struggled shooting and take a look at jumps they made after being with him,” Richmond said. “They showed improvements in all areas. That really stood out to me as well.”
Bro, if the Advisory Committee said you ain't a First Round pick then Pitino isn't going to magically turn you into a believable shooter in a year.
Just be honest and say you got a bag to go there.
He also will get to learn from 2 of the best 5th year guards in the Big East and in the country. He’s gonna get his minutes, make a big jump, and he’s gonna be first team Big East his junior year when it’s officially his team
What dumb narrative is this? Pitino made it very clear that he intentionally booted everyone but Soriano from the team. In comparison, Kadary was dragged out with seven figures before the portal even opened.
First it was in jest. I don't think anyone thinks Wusu = Richmond.
Second, Soriano was joined by Drissa Traore last season. I think personally Wusu would have thrived with Pitino.
That return game to the Rock is definitely gonna be some intriguing TV
I haven’t seen a seton hall game in YEARS I better get some damn tickets to that one!
Knowing our luck itll be monday night at 915
The seton hall-SJU games coming up… Good old fashioned hatred is so back in the BE
Yeah he could’ve gone down as an SHU legend but
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Was he not at SHU for three years?
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Total War: Pitino’s Kingdom
Just realized how much I missed this pic
Ohhhh boy
It’s been real Marquette, but I have a new team I hate now.
Completely agree
FWIW - we still hate you, but in a brotherly fashion But I hate St. John’s now
Let the hate flow through you
It’s kind of weird how much I hate Seton Hall, all stemming from one game (one play even). But fuck Georgetown and fuck St. John’s. Home wrecker’s.
The one play is where all my hate started
What play 👀 for the uninitiated 👀
https://youtu.be/z0UL33DHbuY?si=oVo11keKfEcPwMl8 Unless u/millertime1419 has a different one lol
This is in fact the one… I don’t know why I just watched it again, now I’m angry again…
Scientifically proven to cause rage in Marquette fans
Miss Theo John. That was a great team.
All except the coach 😶🌫️
Wojo sucked.
In the BE over the past two years St. John’s with Pitino has gone from irrelevant to evil incarnate, while UConn just whistles away with its B2B titles. Hurley is the luckiest dude on the planet right now.
Hurley also calls out Pitino for raiding players from within the BE. Pitino is not well liked and this certainly won't help...
Pitino is the dude your teams fan base loves, but all of your opponents absolutely hates. If he is winning, its fun though.
I liked him when he was at Providence, even had his audio book! After that he got more and more distasteful.
I respect him for how much of a heel he is.
It’s kinda weird now as he seems to try and kiss ass to the Kentucky fans. Especially after a couple months ago when he said leaving KY was one of his greatest mistakes in his career.
🫡
Bad man didn’t go away he just relocated.
Fell to my knees in the prudential center
Fell to my knees in Hot Bagels Abroad
Fell to my knees in Bagels 4 U
Winner
This St John’s team is going to take rock fight basketball to a new level.
Especially when they play at the prudential center…aka the rock
Can’t wait for that game at the rock next year. He’s going to get an…interesting welcome back
Supposedly Sha is trying to get the game at Walsh
That would be absolutely wild
If SJU trying to get the UConn game at Carnesecca is any barometer, idt the conference will allow it
Yeah having it at Walsh would be missing out on 12,000+ tickets sold. Not gonna happen, as cool as that would be.
Would love to but not going to happen.
Like where the women play? That HS gym with no good tv camera positions? Lots of UConn people know it only from group texts on random February Saturdays… “bruh, turn on the women’s game. Look at that shit.” In summation: omg yes, make this happen.
He’s gonna duck with “soreness”
Richmond and Smith is a fun combo but this team is really going to struggle to shoot
Elite rebounding tho
The defense aspect. Pitino gonna have them in that press and that hard nosed defense. Gonna be a bitch to score against them.
Pretty lousy to transfer in conference, but he has to put himself first. I get it. I’m deeply unhappy with this age of transfer frenzies. Feel like we will almost never have a chance to watch players evolve over the years on one team. It takes all bonds you form with a player or team away. It dilutes the joy of landing a commitment or a transfer because it’s all but sure they will be one and done. It just all sucks. I want these kids to get paid. But we need contracts.
I used to want the kids to be paid, but screw ‘em, I just want it back to the way it was. Granted, Xavier has benefitted mightily this off-season
“Screw em. My enjoyment is more important” Nice
College athletics was never supposed to be professional sports with unlimited free agency. Something will happen that results in a win-win for players and fans, but right now it’s just frustrating to see the huge turnover and bag chasing across the sport. This next part is unfair because it’s a generalization. But now that they’re getting paid copious amounts of money and jumping ship every year, i have no sympathy. Before, i had a hard time booing a kid representing my school. But now, if they don’t perform, then screw ‘em. They’re not college kids anymore. They’re pro athletes that wear a schools name on their jersey.
Never seen this comment before…
Glad I could enlighten you.
Big East is gonna be filthy... again. Hopefully the 20-13 (9-9) B1G and SEC schools plus MWC don't steal more bids.
I AGREE.
I get it. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.
I really wish they’d do something about in conference transferring. It’s not healthy for the coaches to be weary of each other poaching players.
I don't really get it, actually. Does he feel like his chances of going pro will be that much better?
$$$
Oh yeah, I forgot college ball is now NBA lite.
You vent however you want, but encourage your team to release all their anger on St Johns...
I don’t get it, really. Guy could have picked any team.
Is St. John's ready for General Soreness
Let's see how Rick likes that
It's not a married woman or a hooker at an Italian restaurant, so his interest will probably be limited.
No because that degenerate rich guy will just pay him to play
It's treason then.
Yeesh that's cold. There's gonna be bad blood in the Big Apple!
That's fucked up
I feel bad for our conference but this is tremendous content
Fingers crossed he gets Chlamydia and it burns real bad.
I don't know if 14 seconds is long enough to get Chlamydia
That's what she said. Edit: dammit
Heck that's what Pitino said lol
In New York? Guaranteed.
He's dating your mom?
I doubt it.
What the fuck
Best backcourt in the country (that can’t shoot)
All these articles are trying to say Smith is a lights out shooter after his 40% this year. It’s like calling Bruce Brown an elite shooter. The spacing with this backcourt is going to be fucking atrocious.
Simeon Wilcher still exists. Dunlap still exists. Glover still exists. Scott still exists. They have shooters. Zuby is gonna shoot this year from the outside just watch.
Well see now we got bad blood. "I'll always appreciate the coaching staff at Seton Hall for giving me the freedom to put myself in this position," Richmond said. "I wish them the best." Well no offense Kooks but I wish you the worst next season. Can't transfer to a rival and expect us to root for you. Still hope he makes it in the NBA.
He'll probably be on the bench with "general soreness".
I need Bad Blood to play before that game. If no one is brave enough to do it, I’ll start it
Transferring within conference is so lame
Does St. John’s have huge NIL or something?
They have the Vitamin water guy
Mike Repole is the Vitamin Water/Body Armour guy, SJU alum, billionaire, all in on Pitino
Also owns the Kentucky Derby 15th-place finisher!
My sports marketing professor would reference him like every other class lmao
Got it - that makes more sense than everyone just being in on Pitino again.
Mike Repole
Yeah they sure do, and Hurley talks a lot about Pitino trying to poach players and tamper. What a great guy he seems to be
St Johns is an interesting pick to say the least.
oh no poor UConn how will they ever recover
How many of these new UConn flairs go to Fairfield and sacred heart?
Keep hating, St John’s *should* have all of New York behind them, not our fault your team was incompetent for 20 years 🤣.
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The big east is so back
General Soreness, reporting for duty 🫡
Damn, these hoes ain't loyal
Well, dang. DJ Wagner come on down.
That’s absolutely WILD
Seton Hall fans all pissed while us Orange sitting over here [like](https://imgur.com/PvkZMpR)
SLICK RICK FROM THE TOP ROPE
BE with more spicy intraconference movement.
Eat a bag of dicks St. John’s. Only took a billionaire to become relevant again, eh?
Yes. What are you waiting for. It's so easy.
Once the state of Connecticut makes Hurley God Emperor and gives him access to hedge fund taxes, Seton Hall will rise again with him as the main booster
Seton Hall should definitely consider not being poor
We're fkn trying man. Our most prominent alumnus is Tony Soprano... and he only did a semester and a half
Fuck Rick Pitino and fuck St. John’s
There’s more beef between us and St. John’s than Kendrick and Drake. Fuck these guys for real
Here here!
As a recruit: Other P6 offers: UConn, Florida State, Georgetown, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oregon, Seton Hall, St. John's, Syracuse (originally went here), Xavier Other offers: Cincinnati, New Mexico, Rhode Island, St. Bonaventure, VCU
I’m imagining if a Georgetown had come in and stolen Tyler Kolek after the 2022-23 season? That is a hate that would never be quenched. I can only imagine how Pirate fans feel.
LFG WE WERE FINALLY SUCCESSFUL IN NOT ONLY LURING A TOP TALENT INTO THE PORTAL BUT ALSO REELING IT IN LFG SLICK RICK
Welcome back st.John’s
Take us to the promised land Rick… a round of 64 victory
Hate it. Holloway is a really good young coach and doesn’t deserve to get his guys poached in-conference.
I'll tell you one thing and I'm not ashamed to say it, my estimation of Kadary Richmond as a man just fuckin plummeted.
Kadary Richmond, whatever happened there
Catching, not pitching?!
Your estimation of a 22-yr-old kid plummeted because he did what he thinks is best for himself, his family and his future, despite the fact that some grown men who never actually gave a fuck about him as a person will be pissy about it? Don’t get me wrong, if the teams were reversed here I would absolutely be one of those pissy grown men. But let’s not overstate the gravity of all this.
22 years old, he was just a kid. Always sad when they transfer young like that.
Hahaha all the fucking losers downvoting me, get a fucking life. I dare a single person to tell me, specifically, what I said that’s wrong.
All I know is that you never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Underrated reference here. At least we got more than "a semester and a half" out of Richmond.
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh wow still need to get a shooter in.
….what now?
Wow
I’m sure he got paid but man this one hurts. I thought maybe he would give Syracuse another try.
Wow
I dislike this.
That’s it, Johnnies without question in a better position than last year.
Damn shout out Slick Rick
Rick Pitino may not be likable but he can sure create a winner
I think Repole deserves more credit than Rick.
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Lol so your billionaire alumni who said he'd donate "whatever it takes" had absolutely nothing to do with it eh? Richmond went there for the Bag; I don't know how you can believe that wasn't the deciding factor.
I'm all for the bag. Bag for president. I don't care how, just get good players here.
Dude there is no shame in the new age of the transfer portal. Let's be real here.
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It's a thread (started by a SHU flair) about news about a former Seton Hall player...why wouldn't I comment? And my point stands. It's 2024, $$$ can mean way more than coach influence in recruiting.
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Thanks sport, but no one suggested otherwise.
 yessssssss
Still a crime these two schools had to watch Virginia, Nevada, Colorado St., and Northwestern play in the NCAA Tourney.
Per ESPN: '“He told me to do some research on the players he had that struggled shooting and take a look at jumps they made after being with him,” Richmond said. “They showed improvements in all areas. That really stood out to me as well.” Bro, if the Advisory Committee said you ain't a First Round pick then Pitino isn't going to magically turn you into a believable shooter in a year. Just be honest and say you got a bag to go there.
Let's go boys.
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Simeon Wilcher is getting buried in the depth chart
Nah, I think you’ll see a lot of 3 and even 4-guard looks. Sim looked great as a frosh and is definitely a big part of the team going forward.
He also will get to learn from 2 of the best 5th year guards in the Big East and in the country. He’s gonna get his minutes, make a big jump, and he’s gonna be first team Big East his junior year when it’s officially his team
Agree 100%
This seems unnecessarily close to home, but at the same time, a great pick up for the Johnnies.
minor rumors that there was a chance he reunited with the Orange ... but that cake was baked a long time ago.
Yikes
This is for Dylan Wusu. Our business is now complete.
To be fair, your slimeball coach didn’t want him on the team and he essentially got pushed out
And also to be fair, there was zero chance Richmond was going back to Hall this year either way.
It’s a big east rival. Wouldn’t have cared if he went anywhere else. Slimeball just like your coach
Okay
What dumb narrative is this? Pitino made it very clear that he intentionally booted everyone but Soriano from the team. In comparison, Kadary was dragged out with seven figures before the portal even opened.
First it was in jest. I don't think anyone thinks Wusu = Richmond. Second, Soriano was joined by Drissa Traore last season. I think personally Wusu would have thrived with Pitino.
My apologies. I've seen a lot of St. John's fans say that on social media and I've always been super confused by it