What if Pitino brings in more than he makes?

Given the profile Iona has enjoyed since he has been there I believe *I* personally know more about them than what I remembered from reading my Dad's Converse Yearbooks going back to the 1960s. Perhaps younger kids looking for a Catholic education are getting the same benefit that Iona is now on the the Radar. I have no doubt that there is an effect when your University is in the spotlight that is positive for enrollment and numbers. OTOH every time that is pointed out there is someone relating that to be false.

On the subject of Groce....it was interesting how the commentators were playing up that he has "now brought 3 programs to the dance". First thing I thought of was how this keeps him back in the spotlight and relevant to the basketball world.

I dont know the answer to the question but I think I can name a few off the top of my ead that have taken three without much effort

Krueger
Self
Groce
Shaka
Pitino
Cal
McCaffrey
Holtmann
Beilien
Sendeck
Alford
Frank Haith
Mike Anderson
Bruce Pearl

That's about 6 minutes of thinking

EDIT Got up to pee and remembered Majerus, Ben Howland and Mick Cronin

That’s a stretch. So, kids are going to pay double to go to a Catholic university over others because Pitino is the coach?

I won’t argue with you.

Just how would you go about measuring his worth? He didn't make the dance this year. I guess besides tarnishing your school's reputation with all of his baggage, much of it pretty sordid. It appears that there are some at Iona that wish to win at any cost. It would be in the eye of the beholder.

Thank you for channelling Vern "The Fern" Alden, even from the grave. Just get the name out there. That's all that counts.

It's actually a rephrasing of the famous quote attributed to another con man, P.T. Barnum: "There's no such thing as bad publicity." Just removed the double negative. Also not political, just fact, as Trump has been known for decades as "Don the Con."

I agree, Mike. There really is such a thing as bad publicity. I never subscribed to the Alden approach. One example: When some of our physicians were charged (falsely) in screaming headlines in the Athens Messenger of subjecting patients to unnecessary and dangerous levels of X-rays by a crusading but ignorant reporter in several stories stretching over several weeks, it was not good publicity. When we finally invited the reporter to talk with a panel of expert radiologists that we put together he had an epiphany when one of the doctors explained to him the difference in dosage and potential harmful effects between diagnostic and therapeutic X-rays. The reporter then realized that he had written a number of alarmist, ill-informed stories. Did we get retractions and coverage of his contrition equal to his blaring headlines? No, he just simply ceased his ignorant reporting with very little in the way of a retraction. This left a lot of folks, I'm sure, thinking worse of our medical school, its physicians and of osteopathic medicine. This was publicity, but it was not good.