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Even that we stink at. What is Travis 0-2 in his tenure at SLU.

I remember half-time quotes by Romer when we played Washington at home and Pastner when we played Memphis in the NCAAs: Romer: "They played the most perfect half I've ever seen". Pastner: "We dribble down the court, nothing! Saint Louis defense is inpregnable" Those players (Mitchell, Loe, Conklin, Jordair, Evans, McCall Jr, Conklin, etc..) were cerebral.

Another article on Porter Moser's thoughts about Majerus: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-spt-loyola-porter-moser-rick-majerus-20180301-story.html

ABomb kindly reviewed Coach Ford's tenure here SLU in an earlier post. If you consider it a successful record, I love to work for you. By the way, post season appearance and performance is everything in college basketball. Looking at Coach Travis Ford's record at SLU vs P5 (including UH and BYU), our #1 rival UD, VCU, and other select tournament games: 22-23 Memphis W Maryland L Prov W AU L 21-22 Memphis L BC W AU L UD L UD W VCU W A10 Semi vs Davidson L NIT UNI L 20-21 LSU W NCState W MINNL UD L UD L VCU L A10 2nd Round SBU L NIT Miss St. L 19-20 SHU L BC W AU L KState W UD L UD L VCU W A10 CXL 18-19 SHU W PITT L Butler W Oreg St W UH L FSU L UD W UD L VCU L A10 Champion NCAA VTech L 17-18 VTech W Providence L Butler L UH L Oreg St. L VCU L UD W UD L A10 2nd Round L 16-17 Bama L BYU L KState L Wichita St L SIU L VCU L UD L UD L Unofficial count in 30 P5 games record is 11-19 12 games vs UD, 3-9 6 games vs VCU 2-4 NIT 0-2 NCAA 0-1 1 A10 Championship I don't recall any wins vs teams at the time they were ranked in the top 25.

Look at Duquesne football schedule: https://goduquesne.com/sports/football/schedule/2022 Florida State away game and a trip to Hawaii to play the Univ of Hawaii. I am sure the the FL State game being a buy game payed for the travel expenses to Hawaii. Also the recent late Dan Rooney is a Duquesne alum.

They will pack the Barclays for the Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday games. Suggest playing those games at the higher seeded home court.

He's not a Jesuit. Here is his wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._DeGioia

This was 50 years ago, I was directly hired from my clinical internship when I graduated with my masters from SLU. Later, when I was doing the hiring and it was a new grad, grads from certain programs I would not touch.

Bally MW will probably pickup the ESPN+ home games for TV.

Geez Steve, you were either a senior in HS of a freshman in college when you did that. It's a great tee-shirt with a nice design. Thanks for all your efforts in making this a great community.

I still have my Billiken.com tee shirt. About what year did we have that? It has a lot of the old MBM on the back.

What time is the scrimmage tomorrow? And should we just go to the ESPN+ schedule? Thanks..

Seems like a nice pick-up for Dunphy. I expect Dunphy to get LaSalle in the respectable range.

Not a league but a team. Marquette I believe was independent back then. The only one I knew of. https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/sports/2021/03/18/looking-back--when-marquette-turned-down-an-ncaa-bid- I was in HS back then and attended that NIT game.

Numerous SEC schools (Florida, Georgia & Alabama) are far better in academics, most professional school standings and research budgets.

McKillop was kind of a legend on Long Island when he coached at Long Island Lutheran and Holy Trinity. At Holy Trinity he coached Matt Doherty.

When you hit 71, you want to either want to fish in Lake Norman or golf in Pinehurst irregardless of the NIL.

Add Sutton. This maybe different, those all jumped into major P5 schools that expect instant gratification. Also a lot of those coaches had personality traits the sons probably did not relish. Pitino & Sutton were cheats, Thompson and Knight were bullies that could get away with it. Iba, I don't know, he was before my time Davidson maybe a little more less stressful at the beginning. Will see.

Nice ad at the bottom of the newspaper article.

Playing the toughest schedule he could get in a rebuilding year, is so typical Anthony Drejaj. Looking at his resume-he has what it takes for HC job. Just needs some college assistant OTJ experience. Also when he played at SLU, I have not met one person that did not love Drejaj. He had that "Billy Martin" kind of moxie. It would be great to see him on the Bills bench next season.

If you are looking for someone who can recruit out East, here is a long shot who could pay big dividends-Anthony Drejaj. One of my all time favorite Billikens. Anthony has been HC 4A (larger schools) Linden HS now I believe over a decade. He has a very impressive resume. State Champs 2014, 16, & 17. Also prepping at Seton Hall Prep probably very familiar with the very strong No NJ Catholic League- St Anthony's, Bergan Catholic, St Benedicts, etc.. Northern New Jersey is loaded. Plus he has international playing experience.

Yea, but the pay takes a major hit. I doubt Ekker made the real big bucks, he was never a HC. Average NBA coaches pay around $5mil. The super star coaches, Pops, Kerr, Nash make around the 10mil mark. Average asst coach maybe in the $100,000 range. Didn't Bonner and Sloan both work for the Knicks at one time?

NBA is funny: better pay generally than a college job but worse job security. Alex might be one those guys that are survivors, not Steve Kerr, Greg Popovich or Phil Jackson type, more like a Budenholzer or Spoelstra type.

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

Larry, from ATL to Auburn is an easy less then a 2 hour drive. You can make it up and back that same day.