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@billikenfan05 jokingly said that he himself, not Schertz, was holding out for a P5. Nothing to see here. Nobody is saying credibly that Schertz is looking elsewhere .The only comment was a misunderstanding of a joke.

Exactly. You do the job you’re currently doing. Just like Travis Ford spoke with the media, including his “I Have a Plan” interview with Kilcoyne, talking about NIL, recruiting, etc, even after he was informed that he was being fired. Heck, I think he talked about recruiting on his Sunday morning radio hit after he had cleaned out his office.

I may listen later to see if any of the ranting is amusing. I assume that it’s a mix of him still upset that his friend Travis got fired, and that his choice of Ahearn isn’t getting hired. Also, SLU doesn’t like getting scooped, so if he’s on the radio trying to say that Schertz isn’t getting hired, which is what I read that he was doing, there’s a good chance that he’s running interference on Chris May’s behalf. Remember, this is the same operation that when news broke 8 years ago that SLU was hiring Ford, they denied it for 1-2 days and then announced that they were hiring Ford.

Not impressed. Didn’t go to DeSmet. Seriously though, I’m ecstatic. As it became apparent that a coaching change was likely to happen, I started looking into possible new coaches. Schertz went to the front of the group pretty quickly and in the last few weeks became my first choice.

That’s a small price to pay for Frank Cusumano to keep his primo access.

They have to let Jon Rothstein sell these shirts and make gratuitous social media posts about them: https://shop.collegehoopstoday.net/collections/signature/products/owns-march

I can’t see it because I’m blocked, but my understanding is that he deleted the tweet with the “Frankly Speaking “ video. That video may have been removed from the KSDK website as well. Maybe there’s another reason for it, but I speculate that Frank found out that Blake isn’t as interested in the job as he was told by his “source.”

I didn’t have space in the tweet to include that. Probably for the best though. It would be a bit awkward if I was criticizing the Ahearn suggestion because it’s dumb to hire coaches only because they’re from St. Louis, only for him to later start pushing me for the job because I also went to DeSmet and have been to a basketball game before.

The “Exhibit A” was his video pushing Ahearn for SLU. Really vicious stuff.

I don’t think that I’ll be missing out on a bunch of inside information, but Frank Cusumano just blocked me on Twitter for criticizing his suggestion of Ahearn as a candidate for SLU coach.

NMSU is playing in the D2 NCAA tournament. Doubt there would be an announcement until they’re done.

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What are you doing? Now she’s not going to be surprised when it happens.

No thanks

It’s a SLU basketball coaching search tradition. Local media types pushing the names of people with any connection to STL whatsoever…from STL, parents live/grew up there, the guy has eaten at an Imo’s or at a restaurant on The Hill before, knows a member of the local sports media, etc. It’s really annoying, but it always happens. All we can do is hope that those people are not actually influencing anything.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/sports/college/slu/slu-basketball/travis-ford-fired-as-head-coach-of-slu-billikens-basketball-team/63-182f7573-0d74-4765-a8ac-20cf4b494b48 video in the article

Wow. I was sure that he had been notified in advance, but didn’t have 3 weeks on my bingo card.

I agree with this. Frank gives more attention to SLU than anyone else in the market. The over the top Ford cheerleading is ridiculous and annoying, but at the end of the day, I want him talking about SLU.

Here is the link to the segment. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pressbox/id1477633789?i=1000648796755

I’m not sure about what was mentioned above, but the other day, Frank legit said something to this effect : ”If SLU does let Travis go, people should know that he’s a good guy. He’s done a lot of good things around St. Louis. He hasn’t done anything bad for the city. He hasn’t gotten a bunch of DUIs, he doesn’t beat his wife, he doesn’t mistreat his players…”

Has he crossed me directly? Probably not, but I was in a position to witness or know about a steady stream of athletic department nitwittery over a good portion of May’s tenure as AD. Him and his staff have a vision for what they want the athletic department to be, and I think that their vision is largely stupid and a failure .

My guess? Slip up.

Exactly. I’d be interested in hearing the actual audio from May’s quote, as I’ve generally assumed his silence on men’s basketball is related to him being bitter over boosters forcing out what he viewed as his prized hire, so I read that quote as him being angry about having to talk about it.

Until the time comes when Ford is fired, I’m going to be annoyed because I view every hour that Chris May doesn’t have to officially fire Ford as a win for May, who I don’t like. With that said, once it’s done and if we replace Ford with a good coach, I’ll likely quickly forget about the fact that May delayed the announcement for a few days.