Mike Porter
Postdoc
Posts: 3618
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
Reg: 11-21-04
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03-19-19 03:45 PM - Post#282097
In response to SteveChop
If you ever read the St Joes board, their fans have been ready for Coach Martelli to go for a long time.
He is a great guy and ambassador for Big 5, but the reality is that he never capitalized on that Elite 8 run with Jameer and had only been back to the big dance a few times since then.
A quick survey of their results, and they have lost 20 games in a season 3 times since their Elite 8 run. The same number of times they’ve made the tournament (3) since the Elite 8 run. In those 3 times they only won 1 game. The Elite 8 run was 15 years ago so there have been more ups and downs but more downs than ups it looks like (he seems to be about a .500 coach since then).
Can they do better? Who knows, but they know what they are going to get if they kept him and have ambitions to do more, so time will tell if they made the right choice.
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