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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.

agree. but please no more lesser teams. at least try to match what umass was. they were nothing great but i dont want some of the no doubt one bid conferences that never has and never will get an at large berth. i absolutely do not want to go to the mvc. i would likely turn in my slu affiliation for sure at that point. the conference going downhill has all to do with the worthless leadership of the conference. and honestly our milk toast president hasnt done anything to make it better.

i thought i read somewhere that both the suns and the nets were off the hook and goodwin was not going to get paid the original money for some reason. maybe i dreamt that. hope so. i am not happy about the 2-way deal, but at least he's still in the nba. i got a feeling he is down the bench or they would have given him a regular contract.

There's a reason this team sucks.

wish I been there for Wiz Day. i didnt know and chose to attend two of my Grandson's select games instead. Congratulations Wiz. What a day.

If college sports becomes purely professional im definitely done with the Billikens. If I want to watch pure professional basketball or football I'll go to NFL or NBA games where the best athletes play. Not a disguised minor league.

You see you're only concern is basketball. I care about saving the idea of real student athletes. It sickens me that academics is nearing elimination with athletics. I'm bordering on wishing we go to D3 if the direction of where D1 is headed doesn't excite me in the least.

old guy it isnt enough to give scholarships. there has to be a concerted effort of both the school and the student to excel and succeed in their academic pursuits. supplying a scholarship but then not enforcing actually completing a degree just passing through is a fail. that student shouldnt be in college. head to rankin and learn a trade. i am sure those institutes can provide a basketball and/or football experience but at least they have an outlet for a fallback career in case they do not make it to the detroit pistons roster.

that's not the college ranks problem. college athletics should be primarily for getting an education. if they dont want to go to school, they shouldnt be in college. no exceptions. this is the fix to what college athletics is evolving into. put 100% of the college policing into academics. if they focus on the student athletes legitimately getting into college, taking legit course work and above board graduating in 5 years or less, that successful student will possess the character needed to fix the problem. if the athlete is only there to play basketball and audition for the nba, they are a detriment to the real student athlete and their personal goals. i have no problem with great athletes going to college. but they need to do their job of being a real student first and foremost.

my pick as well. as a father that visited terre haute a lot during my daughter's college days, to have the success he has with the city concerned, and with an mvc school with no sterling success since Larry Bird, this guy is it imo. add to it they play a pretty exciting brand of basketball schertz is the man.