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I will never put a poster on ignore. I like reading all of the comments (time permitting), even the ones I disagree with. Here is the problem as I see it....recently a few posters have turned every single thread/topic into fire Ford. Every.single.thread. We get it. You want to move on. But posting about it a 1000 times on a message board does about as much good as stomping your feet. Don't buy tickets. Send the AD an email with your thoughts. Withhold your donations. Those are going to be more effective than constantly chirping on a message board.

Not advocating for or against the coach, but he would be a great hire for New Mexico State. They need someone to stabilize the program after the mess of this year.

I wasn’t too impressed. Eating my hat now. I wonder if she gets feelers this off season? Pretty impressive 2 year run and obviously she can coach.

L Will be interesting to see if there are changes to the staff.

Pistol Pete Maravich vs George Gervin - HORSE - Bing video There are a few of these out there on YouTube. Fun stuff. Enjoy.

Roy I have been a fan/student/season ticket holder since 1980. I remember the bad coaching hires vividly. Most of those were made under dramatically different circumstances with dramatically different resources. West Pine gym, no charter flights, an unforgiving administartion (hello Craig Upchurch), zero control over our "home court", etc. This is a very good job at this point. Great facilities, a good size budget for mid-major plus basketball, the ability to pay a healthy amount for coaches, the fact that you get to live in a city as opposed to a cow, I mean college town, and an affordable, easy to travel from city at that. The one drawback I see is the league with not a lot of natural rivals and a league that treats SLU as an afterthought or annoying younger sibling. But even there you can sell travel. SLU plays in Philly, Washington DC, New York, Chicago not Manhattan, KS, Ames Iowa, Peoria, IL, or Laramie, WY. My point is, when we decide to hire a new coach (this year, next year, next decade), we can sell a very good job with lots of positives. And RM proved you can win here which is what all of these guys want, a place they can win.We will get great candidates, it is up to the administration to pick the right one.

Wearing his road blues. Nice!

Putting these here.

I would bet that this is for this cycle. For the spring recruiting and existing roster players that will stay

https://www.nwfraiders.com/sports/mbkb/2022-23/bios/pryor_kasean_2o62 Has anyone else heard we are involved with this guy? And that we are the favorite? Sorry if I missed it somewhere in this thread.

Hey Wiz, Thanks for all of the work you put it in on this and I appreciate your efforts, insight, and analysis. I respect that you have a process and remain true to it and aren't just making stuff up to fit a narrative.

Has anyone here seen TF's contract? How many years are left? Buyout? Special clauses? I think there is a lot of misinformation in this thread that we all need to be skeptical of treating as gospel. I am skeptical the buyout is anywhere near $7.5 million, but that is just my opinion. TF came here after a buyout of what was basically a 10 year extension at OSU. Seems like that maybe was a lesson. Hope SLU learned from it. I will add to the mix of gossip here... I have heard several big dollar boosters have expressed fatigue at being asked for $ for NIL. They feel they do a lot already and a small group was hit up for $ for the current recruiting cycle and the players already here. Wondering how they would feel if tapped for a buyout. I have also heard Chris May is very loyal to TF. In terms of the BOT, I don't know if they review and approve the contract for the highest paid employee of the university (I bet they do after weighing the ADs recommendation), but I do know the current Chair is at every home game and has been for over 40 years. I think he is interested, invested, and engaged in the team's success. Chris May is paid a lot of $ to make thse kinds of decisions. Like him or not, he has done some really good things in his time. Ultimatley the success or failure of men's basketball will determine if he gets the P5 jobs all these guys covet. I would bet there are some tough conversations being tee'd up for when the season ends. I will say one last thing. Dr. Chaifetz's tweet after Friday's game to me signifies a sea change in his attitude. I think that is worth watching closely.

That game was going to be trouble with no Pickett. They have size. Same issue we are going to have with Dayton. If we aren’t shooting well size is going to hurt us.

Hoping Pickett is healthy also. He could be a help there.

Thanks Wiz. Great stuff as always. I feel like our FT% is trending down and am wondering how big a concern that is.

I would encourage everyone to go read some of the other A10 message boards. Pretty sure you can find a "fire the head coach" thread on almost all of them. Check out UD Pride and the comments on Coach Grant. I will also point out that we have two pretty good examples of what the first year looks like at our level after making a change right here in our very own league. Arguably Frank Martin and Archie Miller both have better resumes than TF. Both have winning records in the NCAA tournament and Martin has a Final 4 and Archie an Elite 8. Both are really struggling this year in a down year for the league. Yes, there are success stories of first year coaches, but making a change has risks. And the season isn't over. Some of those first year coaching stories will change over the next 6 weeks.

Saw this and had to check twice. 62-52 at 1:09 to 76-69 at the end. Wild

I 100% agree with you, we lost to SIUE with Fred Thatch. But that isn't what you said. Now if your opinion is that Fred Thatch isn't a big injury then I will respectfully disagree and we can move on.

Fred Thatch

Fred Thatch

Putback to beat Iona last year rates high

I agree. And if one of the concerns when our offense stagnates is that the ball "sticks", wouldn't playing our starting and back up PG's together negate some of that?

Well played. Thank you.

I think this board is fairly representative of Billiken fandom. Maybe too hot a take. But a certain % of the natives are restless.