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  1. Reasons I am going to complain about the hire - There is no one from St. Louis on her staff - Stone didn't always have one either, she did have regional people on her staff and when she first got here she did have a local there. No attempt by Tillet here. She's reproduced her staff from Longwood - A HOF coach can bring all their people in to every stop, most don't do this though. A coach at her level really can't. She has though. This also show that maybe she limited connections in the industry as well, not a good thing. She's posted the team doing meditation during practice on social media - We have a set amount of time for player development every week, lets work on basketball skills instead of namaste, JMHO. The one Asst coach she hired is clownish - Not making fun of looks here. Her promotional photo she is wearing a bow tie and a mens suit jacket with the tags still on it. I know the culture is different in womens Bball, but this is the equivalent of a man wearing random baseball hat with the sticker on the bill in his photo. To some who say this is a cool look for young people and I'm too old, its not a cool look and I'm not that old. Another Asst coach is from Chicago St - I know she worked with Tillet before but Chicago St is the worst run AD in D-1. I'm not touching anyone they hire. All the transfers she brought in are from Longwood - Again this shows a lack of connections and a lack of recruiting skill. There are only so many players she can bring in from Longwood. This hire reeks of SLU being cheap - This is out of Tillets control but they are all interconnected and this is my overriding concern. I think MMP put it best, May made this hire because he thinks he can get more out of the program with the same level of commitment. I thought SLU was past this level of thinking. .
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  2. am i overthetop excited about Tillet's hire? no but there is no doubt that stone had plateaued and it sure didnt appear she was the final answer. sure she took us to a higher level than any previous coach. but we sure seemed stuck at a C+ to a B- level of sorts. if ford has the same plateau happen the next couple of years, rest assured the same level of impatience will come out from the fandom. is tillet the answer? who knows. as stated above i am not excited about it. but the change was definitely needed. she'll get the typical 5 year grace period that we all know so well and if she hasnt improved the lady billikens by then, we will start over again. i'm not expecting much this next year, and who knows how much the stupid changes of college sports with the transfer situation and the seemingly corrupt nil b.s. will affect her ability to progress. but i got no problem with where the lady billikens sit right now. never lose sight of the fact that the BoT for saint louis university has shown no over the top want to be a overall sports power. keep the apparent priorities and sensible (by college sports sakes) budgeting in mind. to expect we were going to hire dawn staley is rediculous. we were never going to hire a top notch already high achieving head coach. i figured it would be an unknown reach. it was. give her a chance.
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  3. Absolutely disagree on your whole point. But first we're not pre-judging her moves we are observing and reacting. I can absolutely be skeptical of the moves she makes and still when push comes to shove give her teams a chance on the court. May's whole messaging is that would should be making NCAA Tournaments pretty regularly. The bottom line: We're excusing a cheap solution to a "problem" that didn't exist. If you know you're not going to have extra cash to put into the program's coaching position, why not just ride with Stone?
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  4. torch let's say you got an interview with a program to be a head coach. you just had an very good season at the program you are coming from. you trust and like your staff you have and you have a few select players that got you to that point that you feel made quite a difference and could easily excel at a higher level. the program you are interviewing at tells you how exactly you are going to build your staff and what players you can bring in to start off. both dont include those assistant coaches and players that got you that interview. do you think maybe that might make you pause on taking the job? wouldnt you want to build the program you are taking over if you get the job your way? you know that if you fail you will be out in just a few years regardless of how you have to approach the job. i know i would want to have my start in my own hands and do it my way.
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  5. Criticize away. Seems silly though to criticize decisions of which you have no knowledge of how they’ll turn out. You don’t know if the hires are great or not do you? If I’m wrong and you have some inside info on them, please tell. You weren’t on board with her hire from day 1. At least give her an opportunity to fail first
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  6. As I said to my dad today looks like Olean will be-lean next season.
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  7. It is May 13th and we already have the best roster in the A10. Some of you are depressing.
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  8. There were a lot of younger coaches than Tillett available with longer and more impressive resumes, including assistants.
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  9. I would like to see Conklin join our coaches and recruit for us
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  10. We have a really good group of players but it is definitely not a complete roster. We have gaping holes to fill.
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  11. Question: If you put a hungry young coach with some success at the D-1 level in Chaifetz, will that coach make it to the NIT within 3 years? Answer: Probably. If that is the rationale, I don't think May is wrong here. Yeah, it's a cheap solution but so what?
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  12. You can prejudge every move Coach Tillett makes before she coaches a game. Or you can give her a chance. You can't do both. Would I prefer a high major coach that moved down rather than a low major coach that moved up? Sure. Can it work either way? Sure. VCU hired Beth O'Boyle after a three-season turnaround effort at Stony Brook. Basketball is weird.
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  13. I'm with skip here. Seems like some past relationships with Mrs Stone have soured some on this board initially to Mrs Tillett. She wants to start with her people to build something. Let's see what happens.
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  14. Williams definitely. Wiley, while it's all part of the circumstance, was injured the entirety of his time here. There were a couple games we would've lost if not for him.
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  15. My bigger fear in this situation is that the financial commitment to the program isn't what it needs to be.
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  16. Yes, but time is slidering by and Travis swings and misses a lot.
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  17. He will have to turn into the steel one, and carry the whole team.
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  18. NITs aren't going to cut it. That's not me talking that is Chris May. I heard this all through the 80s and 90s. Again I thought we were past it. We have the finances and resources to significantly upgrade our most prominent womens sport and we don't.
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