04-19-2022, 02:14 PM
Reveno's HC record:
Season One (06-07): 9-23
Season Ten (15-16): 12-20
Best season: 21-11 (09-10)
Worst season: 7-24 (11-12)
Overall record: 140-178
Average wins: 14.0
Average losses: 17.8
Best conference finish: 3rd (2009 and 2010)
Worst conference finish: 8th (2012)
Post-season appearances (4): CIT 2009, 10, 11, and 16. Postseason record: 0-4
As a point of comparison, Terry Porter took the Portland job after Reveno was fired. Porter went 37-92 before getting fired with four games left in his fourth (2020-21) season. The W/L data don't support the argument that Reveno left the cupboard stocked. In Porter's first season, Portland went 11-22. In fact, at the end of the Terry Porter era, incoming coach Shantay Legans released the entire team and basically made a new team out of freshmen recruits and transfers. (Not really attributable to Reveno - by this time, his recruits were mostly gone.) Interestingly, Portland went 19-15 in the 2021-22 season after the total house cleaning, a W/L record that Reveno only beat three times in his ten seasons.
Some of Rev's best accomplishments were off the court and his work as an assistant with post-players. Apparently his Portland teams had a 100% graduation rate (clapping hands). He also led an effort to pass NCAA rules that require teams to give athletes the day off from practices, games, and meetings on election day.
Having watched his Portland teams, I was never convinced that Reveno was a great HC. His teams didn't do the thing that seems critical when you're at a smaller mid-major program in a non-Power conference: they didn't play above talent level or expectations. Maybe the best way to sum up the Portland years was that Rev didn't find a way to win with less.
Season One (06-07): 9-23
Season Ten (15-16): 12-20
Best season: 21-11 (09-10)
Worst season: 7-24 (11-12)
Overall record: 140-178
Average wins: 14.0
Average losses: 17.8
Best conference finish: 3rd (2009 and 2010)
Worst conference finish: 8th (2012)
Post-season appearances (4): CIT 2009, 10, 11, and 16. Postseason record: 0-4
As a point of comparison, Terry Porter took the Portland job after Reveno was fired. Porter went 37-92 before getting fired with four games left in his fourth (2020-21) season. The W/L data don't support the argument that Reveno left the cupboard stocked. In Porter's first season, Portland went 11-22. In fact, at the end of the Terry Porter era, incoming coach Shantay Legans released the entire team and basically made a new team out of freshmen recruits and transfers. (Not really attributable to Reveno - by this time, his recruits were mostly gone.) Interestingly, Portland went 19-15 in the 2021-22 season after the total house cleaning, a W/L record that Reveno only beat three times in his ten seasons.
Some of Rev's best accomplishments were off the court and his work as an assistant with post-players. Apparently his Portland teams had a 100% graduation rate (clapping hands). He also led an effort to pass NCAA rules that require teams to give athletes the day off from practices, games, and meetings on election day.
Having watched his Portland teams, I was never convinced that Reveno was a great HC. His teams didn't do the thing that seems critical when you're at a smaller mid-major program in a non-Power conference: they didn't play above talent level or expectations. Maybe the best way to sum up the Portland years was that Rev didn't find a way to win with less.