{"id":7527,"date":"2022-10-27T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T00:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/27\/manhattan-college-fires-basketball-coach-steve-masiello\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T00:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T00:56:12","slug":"manhattan-college-fires-basketball-coach-steve-masiello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/27\/manhattan-college-fires-basketball-coach-steve-masiello\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan College fires basketball coach Steve Masiello"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Manhattan Jaspers begin the 2022 school basketball season<\/a><\/span> in a dozen days. Sounds like a good time to fireside your head coach. And that\u2019s precisely what occurred in The Bronx (sure, Manhattan College is in The Bronx, recover from it), as Steve Masiello was dismissed from this system simply wanting beginning his twelfth season on the helm of the staff within the closing yr of his contract. In the 24 hours because the firing was introduced, no wrongdoing or private causes have been hooked up to eradicating Masiello. Sounds solely like tone-deaf timing.<\/p>\n

What state of affairs performed out the place this pink slip couldn\u2019t have been given after the season? Or on the finish of final yr? Masiello should\u2019ve recognized his personal private stakes in a contract season, growing his roster to finest make a run at an NCAA Tournament look. All these offseason exercises and preseason tinkering simply to be informed you\u2019re not a part of the rebuild. The New York Post<\/em><\/a><\/span> later reported Masiello needed a contract extension, which was denied by the college, inflicting the overreaction of terminating him. Deadspin has tried to contact Masiello to no avail. <\/p>\n

Masiello\u2019s sudden exit has put the Jaspers\u2019 roster in flux lower than two weeks earlier than its season opener, a street recreation towards VCU. Manhattan was picked to complete second within the MAAC preseason coaches ballot. The staff\u2019s finest participant, Jose Perez, was picked because the preseason participant of the yr. He\u2019ll by no means put on a Jaspers jersey once more as he\u2019s entered the switch portal and has obtained curiosity from a number of big-time applications together with Arkansas, Louisville, Missouri, Kansas State, Oregon and Texas. There\u2019s no probability he modifies course and stays in NYC. Perez informed The Post<\/em> he believes a number of, if not all, of his teammates will be a part of him in exiting the college. <\/p>\n