'Bobby Gonzalez is the Basketball Coach at Seton Hall'

Seton Hall University President Monsignor Robert Sheeran and athletic director Joe Quinlan both reaffirmed that head coach Bobby Gonzalez will not be fired at Wednesday's Board of Regents meeting and that he will continue to be the school's head coach.

A published report had surfaced saying Gonzalez could be fired, and SportsCenter picked that up in the morning editions.

"I can assure you that Coach Gonzalez will continue to strengthen our men's basketball program and will be successful in those areas that matter to the University, the student-athletes and the fans," Monsignor Sheeran said in a statement. "He has the full support of my administration in doing this. Know that I am committed to both Coach Gonzalez and Mr. Quinlan in their leadership efforts to build up this great University basketball program."

Quinlan added this in a phone conversation from the Final Four.

"Bobby Gonzalez is the basketball coach at Seton Hall," Quinlan said. "The meeting is a regularly scheduled board meeting. This topic (Gonzalez) is not on the agenda and there is no information included on this topic on the meeting materials."

As to the rumors that Monsignor Sheeran had had discussions with former Providence coach Tim Welsh about possibly replacing Gonzalez, Quinlan flatly denied those as well.

"The university has not had any discussions with Tim Welsh," Quinlan said. "Bobby Gonzalez is the basketball coach. We would not be having conversations with another coach."

Comments

[TripleRLtd]

EXCELLENT news.

...as posted earlier:

"Let's be honest here: Gonzo is the best thing that's happened for SHU in like forever...IF you're a Rutgers or SJU fan. ;)
I mean, the debacle which has become SHU has even taken the pressure, and the spotlight off of Norm Roberts. Now THAT is saying something."

[1oldshu]

Still seems like a lot of wordsmithing going on here: "Topic not on the agenda", "no information on this topic on the meeting materials", "(he) will not be fired at the Wednesday meeting...". yada, yada-and what does "ON" the meeting materials mean? Very Clintonesque, like it depends on what the definition of is, is.

These public statements sound more like making sure that there's no paper trail for any future litigation with a firing that may officially occur down the road-like AFTER this Wednesday meeting, not AT the meeting.

(Tim Welsh as SHU head coach sounds great to me by the way.)

[RUrising]

NO WAY OLDSHU. I'm with TripleR--Bobby Gonzalez is an awesome coach and should be appointed Head Coach, A.D. and Chancellor for life at Seton Hall.

[SHUtin]

Hey RU guys-knock it off. Just because your coach is building a recruiting Great Wall of China around NJ/NY area top talent doesn't mean we at SHU need to sit still. I vote for Bobby Knight to un-retire and come here to the SHU.

[TripleRLtd]

Hey Tin: I hear TE will follow Calipari to SHU after the 'ship. After all, he knows that would be the only way he gets into the BE.
;)
Dreams R a good thing...