Littlebill Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 per EA Jr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLU_Nick Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 on the radio? Google is clueless about this move…(so far) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Good for Brad. That's a great spot for him. Also on former SLU coaches - Whitesell is going to Buffalo as an assistant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 on the radio? Google is clueless about this move(so far) Twitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Good for Brad. That's a great spot for him. Also on former SLU coaches - Whitesell is going to Buffalo as an assistant. We miss Whitsell. And good for Brad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Makes sense with Dick Bennett's son being the coach at UVA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Wow, really interesting. Great to hear, and good for Brad. He was a Dick Bennett disciple, through and through. Was Bennett's assistant at Wisconsin when they made that Final Four run, and replaced him when Bennett unexpectedly retired right after it. He ran Bennett's system for one year there as the interim, but they let him go for Bo Ryan - and obviously he ran the same system here when he was promoted after a season under Romar. It's certainly a seamless fit in terms of game strategy and probably practice philosophy, as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 All it takes is one person to believe in you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Surprising considering his one son is still in HS. Still good for him. I rag on him pretty consistently but he is a good coach. Just can't recruit. His teams usually played above their talent level. Whitesell went to Buffalo? Yikes he's a better coach than that. Why didn't we hire him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billboy1 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 He wouldn't come back here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseAndGrind Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Kramer and Brett Thompson as DOBO and Grad assistants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlebill Posted April 17, 2015 Author Share Posted April 17, 2015 Surprising considering his one son is still in HS. Still good for him. I rag on him pretty consistently but he is a good coach. Just can't recruit. His teams usually played above their talent level. Whitesell went to Buffalo? Yikes he's a better coach than that. Why didn't we hire him. Buffalo is a tournament team next year, and will be hovering around the top25 preseason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieBilliken Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 On other Former Billiken Coaches news..... I heard this on the radio in Jacksonville yesterday morning and was somewhat amused... http://www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=30414 Nothing will break Florida's string of mediocrity more than this move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Actually shimmy was a dynamite personality. She was just not a good practice and floor coach. Sounds Like She Was hired To recruit. She will do fine as a recruiter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Actually shimmy was a dynamite personality. She was just not a good practice and floor coach. Sounds Like She Was hired To recruit. She will do fine as a recruiter. I agree - recruiting was her big thing where ever she worked before us. Sometimes it is best to recognize what you are good at and stick with it otherwise you Peter Principle yourself to the unemployment line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 I agree - recruiting was her big thing where ever she worked before us. Sometimes it is best to recognize what you are good at and stick with it otherwise you Peter Principle yourself to the unemployment line. If you didn't like Jim Crew's substitution pattern last year you would have hated Shimmie's It was like watching a Chineese fire drill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Brad was a good coach, but a terrible recruiter. Shimmy, a good recruiter, but a terrible coach. If we could get those two to procreate, their kid would be a well rounded coach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basketbill Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Brad was a good coach, but a terrible recruiter. Shimmy, a good recruiter, but a terrible coach. If we could get those two to procreate, their kid would be a well rounded coach. Or he or she has her coaching ability, and his recruiting skills, leaving just a world class MBM.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 If you didn't like Jim Crew's substitution pattern last year you would have hated Shimmie's It was like watching a Chineese fire drill.Loved Shimmy but I think she was a little too emotionally driven. I think as she matures as a coach she could be very good. she seemed to have trouble keeping players in the program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Or he or she has her coaching ability, and his recruiting skills, leaving just a world class MBM.... Yeah, that's the doomsday scenario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Brad brought Kevin Lisch, Tommie Liddell, two legit top 100 players, and Marcus Relphorde, a legit swingman, to West Pine. Polk was an explosive top 150 player who could make threes in bunches. He blew out his knee as a junior and never could attack the rim after that. To make matters worse, he developed Steve Sax disease at SLU and couldn't make a perimeter shot. Darren Clarke was an athletic three star who was being recruited by Big 10 schools as a junior. We were lucky to get him. He scored 41 points in one of the biggest AAU events of the summer, injured his ankle as a senior and was an earthbound player at SLU. Dustin Maguire was a three star recruit who could shoot the lights out but got in Brad's doghouse for his poor defense. If we had a deep roster, the team would have been able to withstand the players that didn't pan out. The problem was Brad never had more than 7 solid D1 recruits on the roster at any one time. So you had guys like Anthony Drejaj, who should have been your 10th man, playing 25 min a game. I would have liked to see if Brad could put together a complete roster recruiting to Chaifetz Arena but that wasn't in the cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLU_Nick Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 3star...really interesting thoughts there. I would argue that those recruits that you mentioned did not fit Brad's system even though they were held in high regard by the recruiting sites. I would take Fish as a point guard every year to play the pack defense ala UVA. Polk doesnt fit in that system of tough physical defense bc he stood at about 5'8. Maguire, and Darren Clarke also could not be expected to be tough and play good D. I think that Brad thought that he could just recruit talent and then mold them to play in the style of the pack D. That was his downfall...in addition to only have 7 D1 bodies as 3star already stated. If you look at UVA, they are all physically imposing bodies (Even Perrantes is 6'2 as the PG). Could Brad have brought that kind of player to the shining lights of Chafeitz?...the world will never know. But at least the RM years were fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 I expected Majerus's tenure to be short due to his health. Tragically his health was even worse than we thought. But at some point we had to find out whether Chaifetz had fixed our recruiting problem. We have at least 10 solid D-1 players on the roster. And Crews wasn't known for deep rosters at Evansville. I'd say the Arena has done its job. I really think the meme that Brad couldn't recruit was overblown. Romar is a great recruiter and he couldn't field a complete roster either. Yeah, I know he swung and missed on some top 100-150 recruits on the West Coast but the end result was eerily similar. West Pine was our worst enemy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeSmetBilliken Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Happy for Brad on his new gig. A chance to coach D1 again, in an elite conference, in a cool town too. Shimmy, on the other hand, I couldn't care less. I was done with her once she made her petty comment about Teresa Lisch after Teresa graduated a year early, got married, and moved off to Europe to live with her husband, while also playing some basketball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseAndGrind Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Happy for Brad on his new gig. A chance to coach D1 again, in an elite conference, in a cool town too. Shimmy, on the other hand, I couldn't care less. I was done with her once she made her petty comment about Teresa Lisch after Teresa graduated a year early, got married, and moved off to Europe to live with her husband, while also playing some basketball. Sounds harsh, but I've never liked Shimmy. She was supremely overrated until she was fired and her comments about Lisch turned me off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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