Steve Donahue & BC basketball

[phillysportsfan]

And Donahue somehow manages to lose to Harvard which makes Harvard's 3rd straight win over BC
This has one really has to hurt Donahue and sort of ends the honeymoon for him there already with BC fans who are tired of losing to Harvard 3 straight years in a row
Funny to see Donahue go 0-2 vs the Ivies

[Cornell95]

I have a couple friends who are professional musicians here in Boston
They make a solid living at it (50K?) but certainly are not selling out venues muc less full blown stadium tours

They have a tax person that specializes in dealing with all the hurdles, multistate returns, lots of reimbursements, per diems, etc
Sounds like a total nigmare

[billhoward]

I have a couple friends who are professional musicians here in Boston
They make a solid living at it (50K?) but certainly are not selling out venues muc less full blown stadium tours

They have a tax person that specializes in dealing with all the hurdles, multistate returns, lots of reimbursements, per diems, etc
Sounds like a total nigmare

Take the money in cash. Even the drummer could figure that one out.

[French Rage]

And Donahue somehow manages to lose to Harvard which makes Harvard's 3rd straight win over BC

It's like a reverse-Beanpot!

[phillysportsfan]

Donahue and the whole BC assistant staff are at the game vs Harvard tonight

[ithacat]

Donahue and the whole BC assistant staff are at the game vs Harvard tonight

Talk about leaving the cupboards empty... Donahue cleaned out the whole damn kitchen.

[Ken711]

Not totally unexpected.  Graduating for starters and a 6th man from last year that accounted for 72% of the scoring I knew they would be bad, but not this bad.  Hopefully Courtney has a good recruiting class coming in.

[phillysportsfan]

Not totally unexpected.  Graduating for starters and a 6th man from last year that accounted for 72% of the scoring I knew they would be bad, but not this bad.  Hopefully Courtney has a good recruiting class coming in.

Next year's recruiting class is probably the best we have had on paper for many years but we will see how it ends up, pretty impressive considering that Courtney only had a few months to put it together

[ithacat]

Not totally unexpected.  Graduating for starters and a 6th man from last year that accounted for 72% of the scoring I knew they would be bad, but not this bad.  Hopefully Courtney has a good recruiting class coming in.

Doesn't that imply that Steve didn't capitalize on the team's success in terms of recruiting?

[phillysportsfan]

Not totally unexpected.  Graduating for starters and a 6th man from last year that accounted for 72% of the scoring I knew they would be bad, but not this bad.  Hopefully Courtney has a good recruiting class coming in.

Doesn't that imply that Steve didn't capitalize on the team's success in terms of recruiting?

Yeah sort of, he did kind of leave the cupboard bare, although he did bring in Peck, a sophomore, and Wrobo, a junior. Donahue was never known to be a great recruiter, Dale and Wittman were not really highly recruited by anyone, Dale recruited himself here. Donahue spotted the talent from the guys no one else wanted and never really brought in classes full of guys who were ranked good on paper. Then again you cant really blame Donahue who knows what he would have done with this team this year or how he would have developed the current freshman and sophomore classes over 4 years

slopetv interviewed Donahue at the Harvard game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu2o7fM4_Gs&feature=player_embedded

[Swampy]

Not totally unexpected.  Graduating for starters and a 6th man from last year that accounted for 72% of the scoring I knew they would be bad, but not this bad.  Hopefully Courtney has a good recruiting class coming in.

Next year's recruiting class is probably the best we have had on paper for many years but we will see how it ends up, pretty impressive considering that Courtney only had a few months to put it together

I thought several of these guys had been recruited by Coach D.

[phillysportsfan]

Not totally unexpected.  Graduating for starters and a 6th man from last year that accounted for 72% of the scoring I knew they would be bad, but not this bad.  Hopefully Courtney has a good recruiting class coming in.

Next year's recruiting class is probably the best we have had on paper for many years but we will see how it ends up, pretty impressive considering that Courtney only had a few months to put it together

I thought several of these guys had been recruited by Coach D.

Some of them possibly, I think Lamore briefly talked to one of the assistants, dont think Donahue had really recruited Devin Cherry much who was someone Penn really wanted, I'll ask the basketball blog guy he will know

Although when there is a coaching change you kind of have to rerecruit them

[ugarte]

Not totally unexpected.  Graduating for starters and a 6th man from last year that accounted for 72% of the scoring I knew they would be bad, but not this bad.  Hopefully Courtney has a good recruiting class coming in.

Next year's recruiting class is probably the best we have had on paper for many years but we will see how it ends up, pretty impressive considering that Courtney only had a few months to put it together

I thought several of these guys had been recruited by Coach D.

Even if Donahue initiated contact (and I don't know if he did or didn't), Courtney would have had to convince them to stick with the program after Donahue bolted. I'm pretty sure that the Ivies don't have letters of intent.

[phillysportsfan]

Not totally unexpected.  Graduating for starters and a 6th man from last year that accounted for 72% of the scoring I knew they would be bad, but not this bad.  Hopefully Courtney has a good recruiting class coming in.

Next year's recruiting class is probably the best we have had on paper for many years but we will see how it ends up, pretty impressive considering that Courtney only had a few months to put it together

I thought several of these guys had been recruited by Coach D.

Even if Donahue initiated contact (and I don't know if he did or didn't), Courtney would have had to convince them to stick with the program after Donahue bolted. I'm pretty sure that the Ivies don't have letters of intent.

yeah no letters of intent, only verbals

[phillysportsfan]

http://cornellbball.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=633&page=3

The basketball blog guy says that next year's recruiting class was almost entirely put together by Courtney, Donahue had little to do with it