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Loyola H&H confirmed

I strongly recommend this one if you're at all interested in the WBB program (or even if you're not, give it a listen and maybe you will be). I know there have been a lot of different opinions since her hiring was announced about whether she was a good hire, about her staffing decisions, about whether her success at Longwood will translate, and about what it all means for the program and athletic department. I'm curious to see whether those opinions are changed or reinforced by this. She gave us just about an hour. I'm pleased with the questions we asked and how we asked them. We didn't hold back from some of our most pressing concerns, but we weren't confrontational. I hope people enjoy it.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midtown-madness-podcast/id1552953967#episodeGuid=b995b9c1-f1fa-4cc2-aca0-f2bba6a1f81e

Same here. Thatch is the reason I’ve been looking for it. I looked at my local Schnucks. Their website said it was sold there but I couldn’t find it. I’ll try again next week. Lindenwood gives scholarships to beauty queens. I think you’d be better off going with one of them to sponsor your sauce than a basketball player.

A little disingenuous. In the Covid year we probably get 4 and a #1 seed.

Do you ever worry she might be putting just a little bit of antifreeze into the hot sauce?

Head Women's Basketball Coach Rebecca Tillett joins the show to talk about her coach career to this point and vision for the future of Billiken Women's Basketball program. View the full article

Well done, respectful interview. Coach Tillett's success thus far has been based on building relationships and constructing a nucleus of players and coaches who hold themselves accountable. I think that type of approach travels well.

He's looking for his 4th school in 5 years, but that's mostly because he followed his dad. Anthony Beane (former Soderberg assistant) was an assistant at Carbondale before he went to NIU and then the staff got let go last year and he's at a JUCO now - so Darius went to CSUN. Darius was a toddler when he first started coming to SLU practices with his dad. Anthony Jr. is playing overseas, currently in Italy. Whether he'd be a good use of the last scholarship depends on how confident the staff is in our other potential secondary ballhandlers. I think we're highly questionable beyond Collins, which is why I'd like someone more proven if he's in foul trouble or hurt. We saw quite a drop-off last season even when someone like Jones, who set UCA's assist record, was the lead PG for longer stretches.

I did a deep dive on the portal for PGs - a lot of names still out there, but I don't see many decent ones. This well traveled player's dad was a SLU assistant. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4397490/darius-beane Doesn't seem to be a true PG based on his stats. Not a great player, but certainly experienced and maybe willing to be a role player. If not him, maybe a player that fits this profile willing to play a team with NCAA Tourney aspirations to finish out his career. It's very quiet on the recruiting front. International players often sign very late, so perhaps Ford lands a player like that off the radar.

-it is tough for the A10 to get more teams when the Committee includes sub-500 dregs from the P5/6

eberhardt was a rickma signee. first one i believe. there is no question rickma is a superior game coach and player development coach than ford. rickma was nothing special as a recruiter imo. a lot of the rickma roster development came from creaming the roster. he was close to putting slu on probation for the turnover and the departing players being behind academically at the time of their departure. so he would bring in say 5 players, keep 2 and graduate a couple then bring in 4 new, keep one or two and do it again. ford is arguably the best recruiter ever to come to slu. i just wish he would be more focused on what he needs to win big. for example we have a boat load of wings right now. we have one point guard and 3 bigs. seems a little unbalanced. second it seems he is addicted to athletes. rickma on the other hand was all about who he could get to do what he saw as the path to win. rickma wins this as well as how many strong athletes never really reached their potential with ford? but as i have said a million times now, give me the strong roster. we always have a chance with talent. and just maybe in the future ford figures it out and coaches what he has instead of trying to change everyone. i think ford's potential for saint louis university is huge and as frustrated as i get with his handful of under achieved losses each year which collectively is just enough to keep us out of the tourney, i know the next year he will get the talent to give us a chance again. under previous coaches we always had a "rebuilding year" we had to be patient with. seems like those days are over we are that close. but there is no denying by the time he left imo rickma had a dam good roster. i could go on about other deficiencies of both, but the debate here seems centered on players when the rickma left and when soderberg left. i.e. who was handed the best scenario. not worth talking about both had rosters handed to them with glaring flaws.

End of last week I just put in an order for salsa with Two Men and a Garden. Prior to the Thatch ad I never heard of them. So the ad scored with me. Hopefully it arrives soon and the salsa is good