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Earl Grant
Boston College has hired CoC's Earl Grant as it's next HC per John Rothstein.
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RE: Earl Grant
ACC loves to take CAA coaches
I'm surprised they didn't go for Northeastern's coach though since he is more familiar with the Northeast
CoC have a replacement in mind?
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 12:17 PM)bricksnivy Wrote: Boston College has hired CoC's Earl Grant as it's next HC per John Rothstein.
Wow, surprising given really only 3 of his 8 years were good, and the last 2 not at all.
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RE: Earl Grant
If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2021 12:56 PM by solohawks.)
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RE: Earl Grant
Earl was not looking good for next year and split. His teams lately didn’t score that well imho so they were always beatable. Cougars will be fine in time and may get upgrade-who knows? You would think that a great beach location with some winning tradition would always be at the top. On second thought, never mind.
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 01:39 PM)billthebighawksfan Wrote: Earl was not looking good for next year and split. His teams lately didn’t score that well imho so they were always beatable. Cougars will be fine in time and may get upgrade-who knows? You would think that a great beach location with some winning tradition would always be at the top. On second thought, never mind.
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RE: Earl Grant
Big get at a complete black hole for Grant. He could do better, but his charm was wearing off so I completely understand grabbing that job. BC is a bad job. They always want younger coaches. Past BC coaches dont get hired there. Always seems to be bad blood leaving BC. Best of luck to Grant.
Between the loss of players and coaches, the CAA cant catch a break to attempt to get better. Its a tough world out there
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 12:55 PM)solohawks Wrote: If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
How do you know they didn't?
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 02:19 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 12:55 PM)solohawks Wrote: If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
How do you know they didn't?
Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 02:26 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:19 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 12:55 PM)solohawks Wrote: If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
How do you know they didn't?
Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
That means they didn't reach out to gauge interest? LMAO. C'mon.
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 02:26 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:19 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 12:55 PM)solohawks Wrote: If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
How do you know they didn't?
Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
I would turn down the BC job to stay at St. Bonaventure's, and wait on a better P6 to come along. 100 %, easy decision.
And alma mater doesn't always mean a whole lot. For instance, if I was a D-I assistant or HC at a low major when Kelly Mehrtens was the AD, I wouldn't have come back to coach UNCW until she was gone.
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 01:39 PM)billthebighawksfan Wrote: Earl was not looking good for next year and split. His teams lately didn’t score that well imho so they were always beatable. Cougars will be fine in time and may get upgrade-who knows? You would think that a great beach location with some winning tradition would always be at the top. On second thought, never mind.
As we know all too well, one bad hire can destroy any momentum built by the previous coach!
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2021 03:08 PM by Seahawk2010.)
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 02:52 PM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:26 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:19 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 12:55 PM)solohawks Wrote: If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
How do you know they didn't?
Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
I would turn down the BC job to stay at St. Bonaventure's, and wait on a better P6 to come along. 100 %, easy decision.
And alma mater doesn't always mean a whole lot. For instance, if I was a D-I assistant or HC at a low major when Kelly Mehrtens was the AD, I wouldn't have come back to coach UNCW until she was gone.
Mehrtens wasn't the real problem. She was just a pawn. Rosemary got rid of one of the best Mid Major AD's in the country because she stood up to her. Kelly wasn't strong enough to do that.
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(03-15-2021 02:28 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:26 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:19 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 12:55 PM)solohawks Wrote: If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
How do you know they didn't?
Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
That means they didn't reach out to gauge interest? LMAO. C'mon.
https://www.si.com/college/tmg/mark-blau...ch-schmidt
There was interest on both sides.
They went a different way because, according to the article, having an African American Coach was very important to BC. Nothing wrong with that and Earl Grant will do a great job.
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(03-15-2021 02:52 PM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:26 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:19 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 12:55 PM)solohawks Wrote: If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
How do you know they didn't?
Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
I would turn down the BC job to stay at St. Bonaventure's, and wait on a better P6 to come along. 100 %, easy decision.
And alma mater doesn't always mean a whole lot. For instance, if I was a D-I assistant or HC at a low major when Kelly Mehrtens was the AD, I wouldn't have come back to coach UNCW until she was gone.
It is incredibly difficult to turn down P5 money, especially when its your alma matter.
If he was offered BC job and P5 money, he would have taken it, there was interest.
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RE: Earl Grant
Bill Coen worked for Al Skinner at BC and they fired Skinner so maybe that is part of the reason that Coen has no interest in the BC head coaching job. It's a really hard job but Skinner won there and they screwed up by firing him IMO. Good luck to a guy going from COC to Boston College-virtually nothing in common other than they both have basketball teams.
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(03-15-2021 03:34 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:28 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:26 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:19 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 12:55 PM)solohawks Wrote: If I were BC, I would have gone after the St. Bony coach first. He is a BC alum and knows how to recruit at a difficult location in a tough conference.
Earl Grant is a great hire though and I wish him good luck!
How do you know they didn't?
Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
That means they didn't reach out to gauge interest? LMAO. C'mon.
https://www.si.com/college/tmg/mark-blau...ch-schmidt
There was interest on both sides.
Soooo what you’re saying is they likely DID talk to him first before ultimately deciding for whatever reason they saw in their best interest to go with Earl Grant.
Lol
See. Told you I was right.
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(03-15-2021 07:17 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 03:34 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:28 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:26 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:19 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: How do you know they didn't?
Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
That means they didn't reach out to gauge interest? LMAO. C'mon.
https://www.si.com/college/tmg/mark-blau...ch-schmidt
There was interest on both sides.
Soooo what you’re saying is they likely DID talk to him first before ultimately deciding for whatever reason they saw in their best interest to go with Earl Grant.
Lol
See. Told you I was right.
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You're not making any sense.
They chose Grant over the St. Bony coach.
I said they should have gone with the St Bony cosch
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-15-2021 08:18 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 07:17 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 03:34 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:28 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:26 PM)solohawks Wrote: Because he is still the coach at St. Bony's
That means they didn't reach out to gauge interest? LMAO. C'mon.
https://www.si.com/college/tmg/mark-blau...ch-schmidt
There was interest on both sides.
Soooo what you’re saying is they likely DID talk to him first before ultimately deciding for whatever reason they saw in their best interest to go with Earl Grant.
Lol
See. Told you I was right.
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You're not making any sense.
They chose Grant over the St. Bony coach.
I said they should have gone with the St Bony cosch
Incorrect. You said they should have gone after the St. Bony coach first. I'm saying that was possible and even seemed to have happened based on your own information provided.
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RE: Earl Grant
(03-16-2021 10:31 AM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 08:18 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 07:17 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (03-15-2021 03:34 PM)solohawks Wrote: (03-15-2021 02:28 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: That means they didn't reach out to gauge interest? LMAO. C'mon.
https://www.si.com/college/tmg/mark-blau...ch-schmidt
There was interest on both sides.
Soooo what you’re saying is they likely DID talk to him first before ultimately deciding for whatever reason they saw in their best interest to go with Earl Grant.
Lol
See. Told you I was right.
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You're not making any sense.
They chose Grant over the St. Bony coach.
I said they should have gone with the St Bony cosch
Incorrect. You said they should have gone after the St. Bony coach first. I'm saying that was possible and even seemed to have happened based on your own information provided.
You guys are starting to sound like me and 82
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