Mark Schmidt, St. Bonaventure expected to part ways after legendary coaching career

Mark Schmidt did everything he could at St. Bonaventure.

The Bonnies will soon be looking for a new head coach, though.

Reports emerged Saturday, including from ESPN's Pete Thamel, that Schmidt will retire at the end of the season.

The Olean Star reports that "the relationship between Schmidt and (Adrian) Wojnarowski deteriorated considerably over the past year. According to sources, Woj did not recruit certain players that Schmidt wanted to target and he brought in players that did not fit Schmidt's system. Then as the season wore on, Woj took issue with Schmidt not giving players that he had a big hand in recruiting enough minutes."

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Woj had taken over as the general manager of the men's basketball team at his alma mater, and apparently that made things tough this season.

The four seasons before Schmidt was hired at Bonaventure all featured single-digit wins. 

It took him just one year of rebuilding before he got to 15 wins in his second season.

They haven't won fewer than 14 games in a season in his entire tenure.

That includes three NCAA Tournament appearances and two trips to the Round of 32.

Schmidt is the all-time leader in wins at St. Bonaventure, with 339 and counting.

And this isn't like other jobs. Bonaventure, with an enrollment of less than 3,000 students, is one of the few smallest Division I basketball programs in the country.

In the NIL era and transfer-heavy era, it's hard to get recruits to come to Olean.

Schmidt did it well pretty much every year since he took over for the 2007-08 season, coming aboard from Robert Morris.

Now, Saturday will be his final home game. The Schmidt era is just about done in Olean.

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