Say It Ain’t So, Joe! Wait, No, That’s Backwards
Who's the happiest team in college basketball right now? UNLV, thrilled to be the lowest seed still alive in March Madness? Ohio State, still giddy from their improbable last-second comeback against Xavier?
Not a chance. It is good to be a Princeton Tiger tonight, as coach Joe Scott will announce at 5 p.m. tomorrow that he's leaving the flaming wreckage of his program to take the top spot at Denver. What'd he accomplish while in town? As the Princetonian explained last week in a piece about widespread demands for his head on a pike:
Against Monmouth on Dec. 14, 2006 the Tigers scored just 21 points -- tying the Division I record low for a game since the inception of the three-point shot. Just two weeks later, Princeton fell to Carnegie Mellon, the first defeat at the hands of a Division III program in school history. And this season, Princeton did the unthinkable, falling to last in the Ivy League for the first time ever.
You may remember Scott from our January post about the teensy li'l issue of his players hating him so much they left the team -- eight of them over three years. (And you may have noticed we don't have any Princeton ads up in this piece anymore, butthat'sallwe'regonnasayaboutthat.) We have to admit, part of us is sad to see Scott go; we were hoping to dine out on him and Harvard's Tim Murphy as a kind of batshit coaching duet for years to come. Alas, alack, we'll have to find another clipboard-wielder to hate on. Goodnight, Joe Scott. You were too beautiful for this world.
(Princeton's on spring break right now, but we'll update with reactions when we get 'em.)
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March 21st, 2007 at 2:06 am
I’d just like to point out that the Daily Pennsylvanian is 2 for 2…
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/01/23/Sports/Matt-Meltzer.Sullivan.Has.Had.Too.Long.At.Harvard-2668471.shtml
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/02/15/Sports/Zachary.Levine.Newsflash.Joe.Scott.Its.About.Winning.Too-2721697.shtml
Heh…
March 21st, 2007 at 3:21 am
You might want to look at some of the men’s swim coaches in the Ivy League right now. the Harvard coach, Tim Murpy, is widely referred to as the “swim nazi,” although his 59-3 record speaks for itself. but it’s amazing that some of the other coaches out there still have a job. Dartmouth’s swim coach is 26-108 in the last 12 years, with only 12 wins coming against Ivy League rivals. And Columbia’s Jim Bolster isn’t much better with a 64-121 career record in Ivy League competition.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Calling for Sullivan’s ouster is not new (the Crimson had a column about it years ago). Also, Joe Scott quite obviously sucked and everyone hated him. So, yeah.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:49 am
ivy swimmer… you must not know ivy swimming very well… while Tim Murphy (harvard) may be a “swim nazi,” all of his swimmers love him (as I did when I swam for him in high school before he went to harvard). Jim Bolster (columbia), has done amazing things with that team in recent years, and he’s helped bring columbia to the top of the league. I can’t say many good things about the dartmouth coach though. However, no one in Ivy League swimming has chased out swimmers like Joe Scott has chased out basketball players. Perhaps because no one in Ivy League swimming expected anything to come out of their swimming after college… in my opinion, Ivy League swimmers are one of the true and dedicated group of STUDENT-ATHLETES left in NCAA athletics.