PHILADELPHIA — Shaheen Holloway wasn’t able to look forward but.
Following Cinderella Saint Peter’s NCAA Match exit in a one-sided, 69-49 Elite Eight loss to No. 8 North Carolina on Sunday, he declined to deal with rumors about his personal future.
When Kevin Willard left Seton Corridor for Maryland final Monday, stories circulated that Holloway would take over the Pirates — for whom he was a star participant and finally an assistant coach underneath Willard — after Saint Peter’s run got here to an in depth. In response to sources, the expectation is that Holloway will go away for the Huge East college. Seton Corridor hasn’t spoken to some other candidates.
“I’m not apprehensive about that proper now. I’m apprehensive about these 15 younger males whose hearts are damaged and actually down,” Holloway mentioned. “It’s my job as their chief to cheer them up, make sure that they perceive what they did the final two weeks. And like I mentioned, we’re going to stroll out of right here the identical approach we walked in right here, with our head up.”
Approached by The Submit after the press convention, Holloway declined additional remark, saying he was nonetheless Saint Peter’s coach. He has side-stepped the matter all through the event.
The 2 New Jersey applications are linked. Seton Corridor athletic director Bryan Felt employed Holloway at Saint Peter’s in 2018 when he held the identical place. Present Saint Peter’s athletic director Rachelle Paul got here from Seton Corridor, the place she was a senior affiliate athletics director, senior lady administrator and deputy Title IX coordinator.
If Holloway, a 45-year-old Queens native, does take the job, he can be in line for a significant elevate. In response to sources, he not too long ago took a pay minimize, attributable to monetary constraints at Saint Peter’s introduced on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that got here after he was making roughly $300,000 per season. Willard earned a base wage of $2.4 million this previous season at Seton Corridor, sources mentioned.
High Saint Peter’s assistant Ryan Whalen, who got here to the Jersey Metropolis college with Holloway from Seton Corridor, may very well be his substitute there, sources consider. Seton Corridor assistant coach Grant Billmeier and Rutgers assistant Brandin Knight are possible candidates as properly.
Holloway can be a house run rent at Seton Corridor. His star has risen considerably in current weeks, as he led Saint Peter’s to the Elite Eight, and he was already a universally revered determine in New York Metropolis and New Jersey. The Peacocks grew to become the primary fifteenth seed to advance this far, they usually have posted three straight profitable seasons underneath Holloway’s management for the primary time since 2004-06.
As a participant at St. Patrick (now The Patrick Faculty), he was an All-American, and helped Seton Corridor attain the Candy 16 in 2000, the final group from the New York space to advance to the second weekend of March Insanity till Saint Peter’s this month. He helped Willard construct Seton Corridor right into a winner earlier than leaving 4 years in the past. Willard has publicly campaigned for Holloway to switch him.
“If I’m not right here subsequent yr, I’d love if Shaheen Holloway is right here,” Willard mentioned after Seton Corridor first-round NCAA Match loss to TCU. “That may be the happiest factor that ever occurred to me.”
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