billiken_roy

you must be too young to remember seth coaching. basically a worse ford. absolutely the worst floor coach maybe ever to reach the level he did.

Hey Travis, take a salary of $0. If you make it to the final four, you are back in for 25-26.

imo umass never fit the most common thread of the A10, private schools. i am sure not crying about them being gone.

totally agree. unless the replacement program is of the caliber it can win the A10 immediately, the A10 needs to constrict and let the lesser teams find a different league.

well the deadline might go a couple of weeks later as we have to wait for indiana state's season to be over as well. im all for ford being out 5 minutes after the last billiken game, but we got to wait for the new coach to formally be available after that.

Meadows is worse. Maybe he was playing injured but Meadows was a fail especially since he was a one year stop gap. Meadows was supposed to be eased into the position but ended up being the primary. But no doubt they were both bad and the primary floor reason for the season wasted imo.

not sure what the point of your post was in rebuttal to mine. i said that he and meadows are the worst point guard combo in my fandom (i go back to 1977) so what are you trying to say to rebut my post?

the best news of the day.

i was really rooting for medley and dlarry might be right, but there is no defending his inconsistency and some of his turnovers. and honestly i think he is better than meadows. the two together imo are the worst point guard combo we've had in my fandom. can medley get better? sure. but he sure isnt really contributing this year. thames is a tremendous athlete. unfortunately, as i have said before, this isnt the decathlon. it's basketball and he makes an awful lot of fundamental and boneheaded mistakes. i am pretty sure he leads the team in unforced stepping out of bounds. and some of his fouls are atrocious. as a second year player, one would think a lot of the fundamental and unforced mistakes he still makes would be over. granted he sat out the majority of last year, but he sure didnt learn much sitting and observing. still he could end up being a tremendous player. shame no one is coaching him up.

well that would be the end of my fanship. i thought when that day came i would be more upset. strangely i am pretty indifferent.

You obviously did not read previous replies. Or else you apparently have reading comprehension issues.

If you go back to previous exchanges about the contract I said there should be blame for all. I have only said that the BoT would have had final say and by rubber stamping the contract they share in the problem. Never have I said he is exempt of all blame

You are taking my comment out of context. Go back and read desmet's comment where he insinuates that the board comes to the meeting with no insight on topics to be decisioned. This is why I am saying that the board should have had that information in hand before the meeting. You are something.

A good organization would have the necessary information to the BoT that allows them to be prepared before the meeting happens.

You should be questioning why a registered nurse is on the BoT

ive never been with an organization where a board of directors ONLY concerns themselves with showing up 4x a year to address concerns, ideas, and progress. an effective BOD will be actively involved quite frequently and be instrumental in the development and well being of that particular organization. so i guess i am going to throw that back at you, How do you think "a board of directors works?" maybe you are thinking of giant corporations and organizations where i am thinking a billion dollar or less asset sized organization.

that's hard for me to believe as i have become so disapointed on our point guards on this team. turnovers has been the achilles heel for this season and one has to believe if he approaches his older brother's ability to be a point guard he would fix that problem or at least decrease it. so to say he would be 6th man means he couldnt oust either one of our point guards? i admit i havent seen him play, so i cant comment beyond the above, but i have more confidence in your player takes than anyone on this board.

a bomb, if they are too busy then maybe they shouldnt have accepted the responsibility. not only our athletic department, but the school as a whole deserves more attention and focus than what i am seeing for results.

i couldnt care less about NBA experience. i hate to watch the NBA. i dont even consider it basketball. it is a show. as the long time cliche goes, "the nba is about the name on the back of the jersey, but college is about the name on the front". the only attribute about ahearn that intrigues me is the fact he was/is one hell of a shooter. i would love to have him on the staff to teach shooting. he would even have great worth to lure the portal beings to come and learn to shoot. but beyond that at this point in his career, that is where his worth ends imo. he needs to go run a high school, or juco or a small college team and show the world he can actually run a program. at that point i would be glad to pay him college head coaching money. but for now, he's a shooting coach imo. nothing more.

you think may approved the champion center? he might have been the guy to organize the campaign and find the booster that is paying for it, but ther BoT would have approved a project of that magnitude. what do you do for a living?

while i agree that SLU needs to update their baseball and softball venues, why do you think May is to blame for that? is he supposed to pay for that himself? the athletic department budget and capital improvements are approved by the BoT. go talk to them.

its my opinion with the crazy portal and the NiL scenario, recruiting high schoolers will only break your heart. if they dont live up to the potential that coach saw, they will fail and if they do, the players transfer to bigger and better. might as well get on the portal and NiL train as well rather than recruit as we have forever. those days appear to be over if you ask me.

so you want to penalize the guy who has been shunned by the afraid to play big boys? hell we cant get big schools to play and we are in a major metro area. he has to get schools to want to come to Terre Haute Indiana. plus the MVC does nothing for those wanted opponents. you just know they are preaching "we have nothing to gain playing you."

soderball, slu is without a doubt a weak sister now. but this has not been an annual performance. so i wouldnt put us in that group. the answer to cutting the weak sisters has always been putting minimums on the programs. minimum athletic facilities, minimum athletic budgets with another budget just for basketball since it is pretty much the entire conference's bread and butter. there has to be a way to encourage these snobby "no care about the athletic department" presidents to step up. i do fear our own sheldon is right in line with the rest of them. but maybe if all programs understand they have to start spending some money and bringing the face of their program into the 21st century and try to actually win, maybe the A-10 can turn things around and those that wont comply would seek other alternatives.