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3 hours ago, Lord Elrond said:
When you get enough injuries to x cancel a season, you should ask the questions. The answer may very well be that there is nothing to be done, but if you figure out there is something you can do, then you need to know that. What exactly is the case against taking a look?
I have no problem with your point but at the same time it’s just wasted effort. People get injured. Especially women. I don’t believe there is some magic approach or training to change this. Why do professional athletes get hurt? They just do. Good years/Bad years. They just happen.
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4 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:
Is there some technique or exercise you can do to lessen or reduce the chances of getting injured? I don’t know, but I really don’t see the harm in looking and asking questions. Worse case, you figure out there’s nothing to be done, best case you may prevent future injuries. And it shouldn’t cost you much to ask questions, so why not take a look?
Do you think they or other schools haven’t done this? Injuries are injuries.
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1 minute ago, billikenfan05 said:
Not JB. I would question Travis and the Strength & Conditioning coach.
Again. What does any of that have to do with broken bones?
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I also have no problem with their cancellation but I don’t think it’s fair to question their strength and conditioning coach. Do we criticize JB for our problems. What do broken feet have to do with anything besides bad luck Injuries happen
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26 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
Bad post.
Why? Can’t you enjoy the victory? God knows they are rare but they overcame a huge amount of adversity.
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21 minutes ago, Cowboy II said:
-these unlucky folks
TV CBS Sports Network (Fran Charles, Pete Gillen Hate Gillen’s voice
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If my memory is correct it was Rick who changed senior night. Once Rick changed it was always after the game and I have always felt it was a mistake.
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Don’t believe anything thing you read on this board. 90% pure speculation. Or opinion.
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Attendance was terrible but it did fill in a little after tipoff. A few more students did show up.
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1 hour ago, JMM28 said:
In fairness to Crean, he won 2 Big Ten championships there and went to 3 S16s. He's done better there than anyone not named Robert Knight.
He still wouldn't be a good fit for what SLU needs now.Not advocating for him but why would he be a bad fit?
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51 minutes ago, billiken_roy said:
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?
The Champion Center was definitely May’s project. 100% funded by private donations . Besides Bob O’s title sponsor there was something like 8 or 9 million dollar plus contributions. Plus probably another 50 contributors. The Board of Trustees had nothing to do with funding except some of them were major contributors.
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2 minutes ago, RiseOfTheBillikens said:
Woww
I hate to see Martin go.
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Congratulations Wiz on being fan of the game
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I agree with your argument and have made it for the last 50 years but would guess that 95 % of our freshman students don’t know we play basketball in the A 10. St Louis students excepted. That said I would sure like to try. I do think it could certainly make a difference locally.
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5 minutes ago, BrettJollyComedyHour said:
Wasn't one of Ford's first community events at Ballpark Village? I remember being there
360 was the first meet and greet
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5 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
Me!? You should talk to those who’ve worked under him. Or student athletes current or former. Weird that not ONE Chris May hire has taken a larger role at another university. Isn’t it?
I’ve said many times I thought May was up sh*t creek with Crews. Tough to sell not hiring the national coach of the year. But again, he has presided over 2 basketball coaches in a row who’ve flirted with historically bad seasons. His replacement for Anne Kordes demolished everything the program had built. I dislike Chris May, that’s no secret. But my posts aren’t just wild claims based in hatred.
My point is not what you say but you have said it 50k times.
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1 hour ago, slu72 said:
How many years are left on this 10 year contract? I was under the belief he got the deal after the ‘19 season. If so it still has 5 years left after this year. So at $2.5mm we would hand him a check for $7.5mm to go coach at ND STATE FARGO? Is this the situation? If so, we’re effed. Unless a whale steps up to pay him to go away. I don’t see the BOT approving that buyout.
This was presented to me and it makes perfect sense. If you fire Ford and hire a young coach for 1 million your buyout is not 2.5 million but 1.5 million. This also does not take into account a lump sum buyout at a reduced number.
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22 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
Chris May has an interesting history of destroying sports programs at SLU: See 2 x Basketball and 1 x Volleyball, some would include 1 x Men's Soccer.
Your hatred od May gets old.
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26 minutes ago, 3star_recruit said:
A Ford-coached team with Davell Roby as his best player, Mike Crawford as his second-best player and Aaron Hines at point had a better record than this one does. That team was average on defense.
It doesn't take a huge NIL budget to bring in a couple of standout defenders to at least bring the defense up to average. I have no doubt that a man looking to save his job can accomplish this. It's just bizarre that a coach who has put some pretty good defensive teams on the floor over the last 20 years, put us in this position.
I've beaten the drum that the Board of Trustees has to be the change we're looking for. I just don't think they have it in them. I'd love to be proven wrong.
90% of the board of trustees probably don’t know we even have a basketball team. Ford’s status will be decided by a very few people. Fortunately or un fortunately the head of the board is fully aware of where we stand. Whatever is decided won’t be done by some academic.
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1 hour ago, TRN said:
He’s a really bad businessman then, $2.5M annually to be a cellar dweller, with a “plan.”
2.5 does seem ridiculous but don’t forget many on this board though he was going to be the next Kentucky coach. There was a lot of lock him up talk.
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I was a fan. Not sure he was a great coach but was sorry he left. Never felt phony to me.
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3 minutes ago, Pistol said:
Collins made up for major deficiencies within our offensive scheme (or lack thereof). A lot of us thought he overdribbled and the offense got bogged down because the ball spent too much time in his hands. This is at least partially true but it's not because of Collins - it's because Collins was expected to improvise within a very loose offense. When you lose a guy with his vision, passing ability, and ball handling, you have to replace him with a similar player or you're asking guys who don't have his skill set to do what he did. We're dealing with the latter.
Medley is a freshman, Hughes is not a PG, and Meadows is done for the season. We knew PG was going to be a problem, but we also assumed the offense would look different and compensate for the fact that we need the ball to spend a lot less time in the PG's hands. We thought that might involve trying to get more in transition, for example. Nope. We still play slow, run that little weave, and hope that something opens up. Not good enough. Luckily, we have good three-point shooting (although attempts remain too low) and a guy like Parker making up for other offensive shortcomings lately.
I always come back to the defense, though. Collins was a good defender. We don't have any good defenders left.
You act like we can't score. Offense is not the problem. We seem to score a lot of points for a team that plays slow.
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24 minutes ago, thetorch said:
Levick extended an offer to Soderberg for an extension which he accepted. Lecick wrote up and end of season proposal and turned it into Biondi. This was sent back, an indication that he approved of Soderberg coming back. Levick turned in the contract for Biondi to sign. Biondi never scheduled a meeting with Levick or Soderberg to discuss him coming back. Soderberg was let go, Levick knew he wasn't coming back after her attempts at communication were rebuffed. She had no idea that someone was being hired for the job without her input, essentially the end of her position. Hopefully this is playing out similarly with May. He has no input in the coaching hire or search and will leave quietly.
I may be wrong and it won’t be the first time but I would be shocked if May is still not driving this bus.
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I do not favor expansion. Don't water down the product. The answer is for the SLU's of the world to elevate their product. As I have been saying for 50 years why can't we be as good as Villinova-Marquette-Creighton or anyone in the Big East.