The biggest media story in 2024 was Adrian Wojnarowski leaving his lucrative job at ESPN to go back to St. Bonaventure as the men’s basketball general manager.
Main St. in Allegany, N.Y., past strip malls and sandwich shops and a never-ending line of steel poles with Buffalo Bills flags dangling from them and you will eventually come upon a piece of local history. The Burton Hotel first opened its doors in the 1930s, a post-prohibition, no-frills bar and grill that suited the blue-collar locals it catered to. Students from nearby St.
But quitting ESPN? Returning to St. Bonaventure? I didn’t know. Few did. Jay Wright was among the first to have an inkling. In 2022, weeks after leading Villanova to the Final Four, Wright resigned as the Wildcats’ coach. NIL was ramping up, the transfer portal was filling up and there was speculation Wright didn’t want any part of it. Last March, Woj called Wright and asked why he had quit. “Jay just said, ‘I felt like I wasn’t present with my family,’ ” Woj recalls.
, you think about it going through your body like Pac-Man,” Woj says. “Prostate cancer, it generally stays confined to your prostate and is typically slow growing.” He has no symptoms and says the cancer is “pretty limited in scope.” Active surveillance is the current treatment, which translates to quarterly checkups and regular monitoring. He’s been instructed to improve his eating habits, exercise more and get better sleep.
Officially, a college GM has wide-ranging responsibilities. Transfer portal management, messaging, alumni relations, at least according to the Bonnies’ job listing. When Woj informed St. Bonaventure athletic director Bob Beretta of his interest, Beretta was thrilled. “I knew he’d make an incredible asset,” Beretta says. He asked Beretta to run it by the team’s coach, Mark Schmidt. “No brainer,” Schmidt says. “Best portal recruit we’ve ever had.
The transfer portal has become college basketball’s free agency. In 2024, more than 1,000 men’s players entered it. Woj keeps thick files on players likely to land there. Major-program players averaging 10 to 12 minutes per game. International players, junior college, Division II. He’s cultivating relationships with NIL agents, just as he did in the NBA. If St. Bonaventure misses on a guy the first time around, his job is to be ready if they get a second crack.
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