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Javon Bess - Tindastoll - Iceland Subway League Javon was one of the best players in the top league in Iceland this past season. Averaging over 19 points, 6 boards, 2 assists & 1.5 steals with a season high of 37 points in the playoffs. Tindastoll lost in the league finals to Valur 3 games to 2. Cody Ellis - Warwick Senators - NBL1 Cody is leading the Warwick Senators to a 6-2 start to the season, good for 2nd in the west division. Ellis is averaging 20 points, 6 boards on a whopping 71% FG and 43% from 3. This is his 4th season playing for Warwick in the Aussie State League Rob Loe - Auckland Tuatara - NBL Loe struggled in the Aussie NBL this season with limited PT with the last place New Zealand Breakers. He fared much better in other competition. In February Loe represented NZ in World Cup action helping lead NZ to 2 victories while averaging 16 points and 10 rebounds. Currently for Tuatara in the NZ league through 6 games Loe is averaging 17 points, 10 boards & 4 assists while shooting 47% from 3 and 68% overall. Dwayne Evans - Ryukyu Kings - Japan B1 League Evans led his team to an historic record in the top Japanese league. Evans put up 16 ppg, 7 boards, 3 assists and a steal with season highs of 30 points & 14 rebounds. Evans shot 37% from 3 and 58% from the field. He currently has Ryukyu in the league finals after leading them to a 48-7 regular season with the best record in the league. Kwamain Mitchell - Fribourg - Swiss Basketball League Mitchell is a champion as Fribourg defended their Swiss title and swept the league finals yesterday. Mitchell has been a steady contributor for his 26-1 Fribourg team. He averaged 10 ppg, 4 assists, 2 steals, while shooting 66% from 2. Willie Reed - Buducnost - ABA & Eurocup Willie’s season was cut short with injuries but he still performed at a high level in upper tier competition. Buducnost competed in the ABA, a league comprised of Baltic State champions, & Eurocup. They went 19-7 in ABA and 10-8 in Eurocup play. In 11 games in Eurocup play Reed averaged 11 & 6. In 19 games in ABA play, Reed averaged 13 & 7. Brian Conklin - Yalova (Turkey) - BSL Conklin left this team in December and did not resign with another team. He played 11 games and averaged 10 points and 5 rebounds while shooting 48%. Conklin recently expressed interest in coaching in the college ranks. Hasahn French - KRKA - Slovenia Liga & ABA French left his team early as well in late February. French also suffered some injuries and was out of action for several weeks. KRKA fared well in Slovenia LIga and French averaged 10 points, 7 boards, 1.5 blocks, & 1.5 steals. In ABA play, a step up in competition, French played sparingly in 12 games averaging 4 points and 5 boards. Tramaine Isabell - Artland Dragons - Germany ProA Isabell signed with the Dragons in late January. Artland plays in German ProA league which is below Bundesliga. Through 9 games Isabell is averaging 13 points, 3 assist for the 12-20 Dragons Reggie Agbeko - Zornotza - Spain LEB Silver Agbeko continues his run in the Silver 3rd tier Spanish Pro League. He is averaging 9 points and 6 rebounds as the starting center for 17-9 Zornotza. D.J. Foreman - Fjolnir - Iceland D1 Foreman is the Shaq of Iceland minor league basketball. Averaged 28 points, 9 boards, 3 assists, 2 steals while shooting over 60% from 2. Season high of 40/20 in one game, Foreman led Fjolnir to a 15-12 record and a berth in the league semifinals. Mike McCall - Kouchin - Iranian Superleague McCall joined Kouchin in December and was able to play 15 games for the team which finished 10-11 in pool play. McCall averaged 13 points & 6 assists and notched his career best game in the final game of the season scoring 26 points and dishing out 9 assists. Ian Vougioukas It appears Ian has ended his pro career. Over 15 years he represented Greece twice in the World Cup, was a Greek league All Star 3 times, A Euroleague Champion, and won championships in Greece, Russian Superleague & Lithuania. He also had a stint as team captain for Panathanaikos. Congrats Ian hope to see you return to SLU soon.

Imho.... Majerus is an all-time great, HOF coach. SLU will very likely never have better. It is no insult to TF to rank him below RM as a coach. Rick's tenure was very short and C*^#s killed all momentum that had been generated. TF has the Bills approaching the same heights as RM with legit hope of sustaining it for a while. (All while dealing with some crazy bad luck.) He deaerves appreciation for where things currently sit. TF likely wouldn't be here without the success RM had. Let's go have a historical season!

I love how you gloss over the etc part.... Ford is the best thing that has happened to this program....

Mix in a water once in awhile. Nothing says self importance like your reactions from a couch in wherever you are diatribes. I explained it, he posts on social media and pasta house cuts a check. Its really not complicated enough to warrant more than a simple sentence. Not every post has to be 5 paragraphs

Other posters have explained this to you before. It is clear you aren’t arguing in good faith.

His career earnings could be in the 8 figure range.

Ian made some money over the years.

We definitely had a program. Coach Ford rebuilt it from the ashes.

I don’t know how we can say Majerus didn’t build a program. The two seasons after his departure we went to the second round of the NCAA. May made an awful hire and the success wasn’t sustained.

Majerus had a .579 winning percentage at SLU Ford has a .593 record. Based on the comments on this board, that should be surprising...

snarky maybe, funny YES

These deals aren't meant to compete with the 200k pay-for-play-masquerading-as-NIL deals. They are local businesses paying student athletes their worth on the free market for a service. The service in this case is posting an ad to a targeted audience, the same as any Instagram influencer. This isn't meant to sound snarky, but ask your grandkids about it.

Funny how you give Majerus a pass when he had to deal with situations, but not Ford...

Again this is why bad post and troll post needs to exist. Pathetic

I agree that we all want better results but calling this past year underachieving, with Perkins going down before the start of the season is not fair. Ford lovers can find all sorts of excuses, things beyond his control, that account for his record. I don't know if I am a Ford lover anymore but I think been dealt a crappy hand often during his tenure. Ultimately he is responsible to get us to the dance and make some noise there. If he can't pull that off this year, with Yuri and Perkins back his seat should warm up a bit....

Good stuff. Only missing Jordan Goodwin. And maybe Ingvi!

Majerus didn’t build a program at SLU, but Ford has... I just don’t understand the continual cheap shots by you...

SLU has a new commitment from 2023 Wing Back/Wing Eva Schreiber. Eva plays club ball for Tennessee Soccer Club (TSC) based out of Nashville. And, she plays high school for Battle Ground Academy. Her high school team fell just short of its 3 straight Tennessee Division II-A State Title, falling in the final. Eva was named Tennessee All State after the season. Eva is a U19 club teammate with 2022 SLU commit Lauren Hiatt. Their team finished one game out of first place in the Southern Division of the very competitive Ohio Valley Conference in ECNL. They will be competing in the National Playoffs in Seattle next month. Eva is originally from San Diego and moved to Nashville before high school. She is a very versatile player that excels making wing flank runs as a wing back defender, or a goal scoring/service attacking player.

MBM logic: If a coach wins 23 games a year by bringing in 3 and 4 star players, we should start looking for a new coach. If a coach wins 23 games a year by bringing in 2 and 3 star players, the coach should get a lifetime appointment.

based on many recent postings, i assume the billikens only won single digit games last year and ford is on the hot seat. What did i miss?

Rammer not available, so Rocchio 'upgraded his cohort' with Earl Austin. Billiken talk up to 13 minutes. Perkins had added 15 pounds of muscle prior to last season. With Perkins gone, it allowed others to elevate their game, particularly Jimerson. He became a three level scorer last season. Thatch went from a 'glue guy' to a reliable scorer. Ford has to mold the new pieces into a solid team. Is the backup PG a spot where Earl thinks will be taken care of with a transfer or will they use internal options? "Ideally you want a veteran backup, but you need to develop some of the others, such as Thatch or Perkins or Thames take over ball handling duties. It is kind of tricky getting a vet to come in." Will some of the new guys, freshmen, get significant minutes? Travis will give minutes if they play themselves into minutes. That will mean those new players have made significant strides. College basketball is tough on most freshmen. There is no pressing need for the freshmen to come in and play right away. But they can play / practice well enough to make a statement that they can play minutes. We have a 1 and a 5, then 10 or so guys who can play 2, 3 or 4. Travis has taken recruiting to a new level for SLU. We have not had to 'start over' once a group leaves.

I believe they are playing the playoffs in one location so the attendance maybe misleading or they may be playing in the Okinawa arena which is about the size of chaifetz. I think Ryukyu only plays a portion of their games in the large arena. There is a smaller one they are in most of the time. Japan's Basketball league is really catching on. Fan attendance has doubled in the last 6 years. They now average over 4k fans per game in a rather large league, 22 teams, each with a 55 game schedule. A much larger league than Australia, which doesn't have half that many teams. Native Japanese players still are not very good and they are of course hard pressed to have big men. Native Japanese players cannot match up to native Australians. But their imports do, Japan has the best imports in Asia, besides the Chinese league. Toe to Toe their imports could be better overall than Australia's. Japan pays really well and attracts a lot of veteran Euro players looking for a change. Evan's team is remarkably good, maybe the best Japanese league team ever. They were 48-7 in the regular season. Only allowed to play 2 imports on the court at once the Kings feature Evans, 16 & 7, Allen Durham 6'6 240 who played for a Bible COllege in the states and became a top Euro player, and Jack Cooley, 6'9 center from Notre Dame. Those 3 split time at the 4 and 5. They also have one of the best Japan native players at guard in Keita Imamura. Evans was screwed out of an all star spot but I think he earned the equivalent of 3rd team all league this season. Next weekend they will play 2 games to determine the Championship against Tochigi. Tochigi is led by NZ native & national team star Isaac Fotu, Former Colorado player Josh Scott, and former member of Dunk City FGCU alum Chase Fieler. Same Ryukyu these guys are all 4s and 5s.