innocentbystander {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:So the geniuses at ESPN say it will likely be Eisley or Schmidt, which makes absolutely no sense on its face. You don’t pull the trigger mid-season if you are going to hire an alum who isn’t a candidate for another big job. Besides which, having spoken to some Bonnies very close to Schmidt, because of the comedic disaster Bates made of Schmidt’s last interview, Schmidt would only take the BC job at this point if he was the only candidate and his interview was a perfunctory formality.
Hmmmmm
2007–08 St. Bonaventure 8–22 2–14 14th
2008–09 St. Bonaventure 15–15 6–10 11th
2009–10 St. Bonaventure 15–16 7–9 8th
2010–11 St. Bonaventure 16–15 8–8 7th CBI First Round
2011–12 St. Bonaventure 20–12 10–6 4th NCAA First Round
2012–13 St. Bonaventure 14–15 7–9 11th
2013–14 St. Bonaventure 18–15 6–10 9th
2014–15 St. Bonaventure 18–13 10–8 T–7th
2015–16 St. Bonaventure 22–9 14–4 T–1st NIT First Round
2016–17 St. Bonaventure 20–12 11–7 5th
2017–18 St. Bonaventure 26–8 14–4 2nd NCAA First Round
2018–19 St. Bonaventure 18–16 12–6 4th
2019–20 St. Bonaventure 19–12 11–7 T–5th
2020–21 St. Bonaventure 10-3 8-3
St. Bonaventure: 236–183 (.563) 123–105 (.539)Just 2 conference championships in 14 seasons? Meh. Yeah I don't see ANYTHING there that leads me to believe that what Schmidt did (and is currently doing) at St Bonnie's gives us any evidence that he would be a significant upgrade over Jim Christian. The 2017-2018 season, that seemed to be a whole lot of Jaylen Adams and Matt Mobley.
If he can win now, great, hire him today. If he cant recruit more players like Jaylen Adams, hire him. But one or two in 14 years, meh.
Thanks for being you. You never disappoint. He took over a program that won a grand total of 24 games against 88 loses at a school that outside of a three year run in the late 90s under Jim Barron had been a perpetual bottom dweller since Jim O'Brien crushed the program and jumped ship for BC in the early 80s. On top of that, the school was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and his roster was CAA-level terrible. It also happens to be a school in Olean, NY with an enrollment of less than 2000.
Let me put this in terms you can understand. Bill Coen would win zero conference titles at Bonnies. Bill Coen isn't as good a coach or in the same league as a recruiter. And, no, it wasn't just Jaylen Adams or Matt Mobely, it was Andrew Nicholson, it was Youssou Ndoye--a guy the Spurs would very much like back but who is making north of $8 million in Spain, and it is a dozen other diamonds in the rough that he has found who had CAA and below level offers but who he has turned into good A10 players. Now, because it takes time to climb out of the crater that Bonaventure left itself in, he is landing guys like Osun Osunniyi who selected Bonaventure over Syracuse (you think Coen could talk a 6'11 kid who is a likely NBA player to select Northeasy over Syracuse or even BC). Every school in his conference has more money, a bigger market ands more modern facilities (although the Riley Center is a great basketball venue), and yet they are a top 4 program at this point with Dayton, VCU and Davidson. In relative terms it is the same of BC Basketball becoming a top 4 ACC program alongside Duke, UNC and Virginia and sustaining it for a decade.
Anyway, I don't think Schmidt is right for what we need now, but to look at what he has done at Bonaventure and say meh is IB-level stupid, so at least you didn't undershoot your mark.