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Per Randy Karraker: "For SLU, Travis Ford is a good hire. Not a destination job. Steppingstone/rehab job. He needs to rehab, and this is a good place to do it"

http://m.stltoday.com/sports/college/slu/travis-ford-hired-as-new-slu-coach/article_9da65933-6e94-5ee0-907d-398d6b2412d2.html

Beard didn't do anything for me from the get go. Too much jumping around and the success in Little Rock was just in one season. I'm not sure you can track a successful long-term recruiting program which included this many stops in the past 5 years: 2011–2012 South Carolina Warriors 2012–2013 McMurry 2013–2015 Angelo State 2015–2016 Arkansas–Little Rock

I still would like to at least hear that a conversation was had with/about Sendek.

Pat Forde's article: https://sports.yahoo.com/news/college-basketball-coaching-carousel--updates-on-cincinnati--georgia-tech--others-203644885.html "Florida Gulf Coast’s Joe Dooley has emerged as a significant candidate at Saint Louis, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports. There have been media reports that Vanderbilt’s Kevin Stallings, a St. Louis native whose teams have underachieved in recent years, is a candidate, but that remains to be seen. Former Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford is interested in getting involved, according to sources. Other potential names: Arkansas-Little Rock’s Chris Beard and six-year Michigan assistant LaVall Jordan. The problem with Jordan: Saint Louis athletic director Chris May has said his search will focus on established head coaches."

+1. However you have witnessed how this AD handles the details of things... I hope so too. Different situation and different AD, but they hadn't even contacted Majerus (nor did they have his phone number) when they fired Brad.

Herb Sendek met with Santa Clara: http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/ncaab/asu/2016/03/21/former-asu-coach-herb-sendek-meets-santa-clara-officials/82100968/

Well, DeSmet mentioned him earlier: "n 22 seasons as a head coach, from Miami (Ohio) to N.C. State to Arizona State, Sendek won coach of the year awards in three different conferences, won 407 games and eight times appeared in the NCAA Tournament. He had 12 20-win seasons, built N.C. State into an NCAA Tournament regular, lifted Arizona State to Pac-12 respectability and coached such players as Wally Szczerbiak, Julius Hodge and James Harden." http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball-news/4698767-herb-sendek-miami-ohio-north-carolina-state-arizona-state?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

WASHINGTON (AP) — Down the street from teams that play in the Big Ten and Atlantic 10, and inside the arena that hosts Big East basketball for several months a year, the Atlantic Coast Conference is flexing its muscles. The ACC doesn't have a so-called home team for its tournament this week at Verizon Center. In Maryland's backyard, with Virginia and Virginia Tech the closest teams, the conference is ready to put on a show away from its usual home site in North Carolina. The ACC Tournament has been held in North Carolina 51 of the past 62 years. A return to Washington this year before two stops in Brooklyn is a signal that the conference is confident it can succeed on its own merits, without needing a particular host school to drive interest. More Here: http://collegebasketball.ap.org/article/why-washington-acc-flexes-muscles-big-basketball-market N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried prefers the closeness of so many schools to Greensboro and worried about what it'll be like so far away at Barclays Center in a year. "I think D.C. and Brooklyn are going to be a little harder for a lot of our fans," Gottfried said. "I kind of always liked Greensboro, having done it now for a number of years." Verizon Center will be the first arena to host three different conference tournaments in as many years with the Big Ten in town next year and the Atlantic 10 in 2017.

http://m.tucson.com/sports/columnists/hansen/article_8343a7bb-740b-5bf8-82a0-078dad7fb41e.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&id=201408&mobile_touch=true

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/slu/crews-future-at-slu-uncertain/article_9ec0d123-d411-55c2-a554-556d376134e3.html Crews said this week he has not concerned himself with the future. “Why worry about something you can’t worry about?” he said. “You just do your best. It’s all good. Tough times are not bad. I’m not saying they’re pleasant, but they’re not bad. It’s all part of it. “I’m the coach until I hear different. I’ve always said that since the first day. I have no concern.” in the third year of a five-year contract and making more than $850,000. His base salary plus other compensation was $856,455 in the first year, “The most important piece to all of this is what we can do to support these student-athletes and staff, and that’s where we are today,” May said before traveling with the team to George Mason. “We’ll have any longer-term conversation when the season is over.

Rammer and Vernetti are hosting mid-days starting today at 590. JC Corcoran is also on with them. Jeff and Bob are still working on the little league complex as well

Oh, what could have been..... http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2015/11/4/9670364/ben-howland-mississippi-state-basketball-recruiting-malik-newman-schnider-herard

This is a very good analysis from Larry: "It was just about making the decision that was best for him," Hughes said. "He did his homework and figured Duke was the right place to reach his long-term goals. I didn't really try to sell (SLU). It was just understanding that it's more than basketball once you're done with your playing career. What's the message you want to send? Where do you want to come back to? A lot of times guys (from St. Louis) go off to college and don't have the network in St. Louis, so when they're done playing, they have to go live in the area where they went to college." As for whether Tatum was seriously considering SLU along with Duke? "He was definitely considering. It really was his last two. There's no question about it."

Meanwhile down the street, the US Men's Soccer team will be playing in front of a sold-out Busch Stadium at 530 that nite (Nov 13). Oh, and most government entities release bad news on Friday afternoon/early evening. Why are we burying the news? Why not do this at a time without a competing sporting event or at least on a day not leading into a weekend?

Didn't they "borrow" the "Rise of the Billikens" slogan from a player as well? Rob Loe?

This is it?! Seems REALLY generic. The Billiken is unique, why go generic?? This is an odd direction as this "shield" could be pulled out of any clip-art file.

The truly hard decision is to choose SLU. Much tougher hill to climb as a player helping a program improve. Tatum becomes another face within a program that already has a lot of faces. Here he would be THE face, if only for a year.

http://collegebasketball.ap.org/article/ncaa-committee-calls-switch-30-second-shot-clock

+1 Sounds like the girlfriend is just going to give him fits. There are other fish in the pond, my man.

He did not attend the Men's Basketball Banquet last nite.

http://www.rallyhouse.com/shop/slu-billikens-mens-short-sleeve-fashion-tshirt-royal-2881521 This is a shirt that proudly displays SLU as a Sweet 16 team in 2013!! Still for sale for the low price of $3.19

Volleyball. " Bob Ramsey, the voice of the basketball Billikens, will provide the play-by-play action. His wife and former Billiken volleyball standout Jen Ramsey will serve as expert analyst." http://www.slubillikens.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27200&ATCLID=205263214

From the Business Journal today: Saint Louis University's Billikens have the 15th most expensive ticket in college basketball with a median price of $70 per ticket, according to a ranking from secondary ticket marketplace Vivid Seats. Duke has the most expensive ticket, at a median price of $195, followed by the Kentucky Wildcats at $177. http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/morning_call/2014/12/5-things-you-dont-need-to-know-but-might-want-1218.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Bass Pro Shops to Add a Memphis Pyramid to Its Business Empire By RICHARD FAUSSET DEC. 3, 2014 Continue reading the main storySlide Show SLIDE SHOW|6 Photos Future of Memphis Landmark Is a Riddle No More Future of Memphis Landmark Is a Riddle No More CreditBrandon Dill for The New York Times Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main storyShare This Page Continue reading the main story MEMPHIS — For years, Memphis has been haunted by its Riddle of the Pyramid: What do you do with an empty 32-story glass-and-steel monument that was supposed to be this city’s answer to the Eiffel Tower or the Gateway Arch? That riddle has now been solved: The Pyramid, once a troubled arena for basketball and concerts, will be reborn as a hunting and fishing superstore hawking duck calls and tackle boxes. The much-maligned building, which once served as the home of the Memphis Grizzlies of the N.B.A. and the University of Memphis basketball program, is scheduled to officially reopen in late April or early May as an outpost of the Bass Pro Shops empire, the self-described “retail mecca for sportsmen,” whose massive hunting and fishing stores are fixtures on many a heartland feeder road. After months of shifting plans, officials from the Missouri-based Bass Pro Shops recently offered a peek at the ambitious, if thematically incongruent, features they are building inside the site. As for the new theme, think Disneyland in a duck blind. The 535,000 square feet of interior space at the Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid — as the site will be called — will feature shooting and archery ranges, a bowling alley built to seem as though it is underwater, a 100-room hotel with lodging designed to look like cabins in a cypress swamp, and an observation deck patterned after the Grand Canyon skywalk. There will be aquariums stocked with 1,800 fish, a conservation-themed “waterfowling heritage center” and pools slithering with live alligators. More Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/us/bass-pro-shops-to-add-a-memphis-pyramid-to-its-business-empire.html?_r=0