100,000 + Reasons why Boyle Left!

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At that salary, he'd take a pay cut to come back to Alma Mater!

The D 1 coaches they refer to as less than him, are of course only the disclosed salaries... Many private colleges do not disclose salaries.... SPC, St Johns, etc etc

rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Florida-school-to-pay-hoops-head-man-more-than-4?urn=highschool-wp985

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Being an alumni of St. Patrick's, I have mixed emotions about seeing Boyle leave the program. I'm very active in supporting St. Patrick's and know that Boyle has done a lot to help keep the school open. Small Catholic schools are a dying breed. When I played basketball for St. Patrick's we competed for the State Championship in the Parochial C Division. That Division no longer exists because their aren't enough small Catholic schools to make up a C Division. St. Patrick's is the oldest Catholic high school in the state of NJ and I hope it can remain open and continue to be a basketball powerhouse.
I spoke with Boyle, and his deal is real. I can't blame him for leaving. St. Patrick's could never match his compensation package and he was fed up with NJ Athletic politics.
He got a bad rap from NJ for his so called infraction. It was not a practice. It was an informal shoot around to showcase his players, so that they could get college scholarships.

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Another nice article about St. Peter's College by JCHoops via (NJO SPC Blog). I hope our administration reads it carefully and takes the hint.

[bergenbird]

Excellent article on head coaching opportunities for mid majors coaches-by Butler assistant Coach Shrewsbury, who is taking an assistant job at Purdue:

"If you look at the jobs that were open this year, I think the guy at Stetson, who was an assistant at Belmont, was the only one who got a head-coaching job from being at a mid-major school," Shrewsberry said. "For me personally, that's my ultimate goal and the options are limited. I didn't think I should stay and wait for Brad to go somewhere and then fight it out with [Butler assistant] Matt Graves. I thought I would try to reach out and go to a bigger, larger conference and get one that way."

Shrewsberry's point is correct. Of all the moves so far this spring, only two head coaches were hired from assistant jobs outside of the top nine conferences (power six plus A-10, C-USA and MWC): Casey Alexander went from Belmont to Stetson and Roman Banks went from Southeastern Louisiana to Southern. Stetson and Southern are also incredibly difficult jobs.

Look at the rest of the assistant-to-head coach hires and Shrewsberry's point is made even stronger:

Temple assistant Matt Langel -- Colgate
Arizona assistant Archie Miller -- Dayton
Syracuse assistant Rob Murphy -- Eastern Michigan
Florida State assistant Andy Enfield -- Florida Gulf Coast
Texas assistant Rodney Terry -- Fresno State
Penn State assistant Lewis Preston -- Kennesaw State
Ole Miss assistant Michael White -- Louisiana Tech
Saint Louis assistant Porter Moser -- Loyola-Chicago
Louisville assistant Steve Masiello -- Manhattan
Purdue assistant Paul Lusk -- Missouri State
Vanderbilt assistant King Rice -- Monmouth
Michigan State assistant Mark Montgomery -- Northern Illinois
Northwestern assistant Mitch Henderson -- Princeton
Memphis assistant Willis Wilson -- Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Pitt assistant Pat Skerry -- Towson
BYU assistant Dave Rice -- UNLV
Florida assistant Larry Shyatt -- Wyoming


There were also a number of promotions of assistants to head coaches at the same school at the lower/mid-levels (IUPUI, IPFW, Kent State, Pepperdine and Tennessee Tech).