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During last season, I broke my foot and was in a boot for about a month . I wouldn’t have been able to walk down or up the steps to and from our normal seats. You can have your tickets converted to handicapped seats. It’s a nice option if you need it.
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Bingo
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It’s because Chris May can’t deal with the look of him not being in control, and he seemingly views the media reporting something before SLU announces it as evidence that he isn’t in control. Examples: 1) when Ford was hired, it was reported by a bunch of basketball reporters. SLU denied it for 1-2 days until they officially announced the hire. Sure, maybe there were final contractual provisions to complete, but this looked to go beyond that. 2) Crews was fired right after his last game ended. I saw something on Twitter with the report, and texted a friend who was in or near the interview room at the game. He ran it by someone at SLU…they denied it. 15-20 minutes later, Crews was talking about his career being over in the post-game press conference.
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Evening news isn’t likely to be the place to have the news first. If SLU is trying to control things and announce it when they want, which according to the Post-Dispatch may be Monday, Frank Cusumano will likely play along and not report anything. It would be a national college basketball reporter who would report the news if anything broke tonight.
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Honestly, that’s kind of what I’ve been thinking. Announcement or leaked to normal media tonight , with formal confirmation tomorrow.
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My vote is for the last 2 of those.
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GDT: SLU v. St. Bonaventure
DeSmetBilliken replied to SluSignGuy's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
So a win on the road over a 1-75 NET team is a Q1 win. Bonnies were #74 going into the game. I’m assuming a loss to us is going to bump them clear out of the top 75. Is the Q1 vs Q2 determination made at the end of the season, or at the time of the win? Either way, our first Q1 or Q2 win this season. -
The part about Holtman assumes that Chris May is being allowed to make decisions in this process. I’m not entirely sure that that is accurate.
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I agree with you, but if the decision has been made that Ford is gone no matter what happens in Brooklyn, no need to put yourself in a position to look silly for canning your coach after he just got you in the NCAA tournament, however minuscule that chance is.
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Exactly. If we got our ducks in a row, it could be a deal where the news officially broke that a coach was coming to the day after their team got eliminated, but that’s the earliest it would be.
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I get that mindset as well. If this timing was Chris May’s decision, I have no real idea what his thought process was. My comments were focused on if the boosters are truly driving this process. If that angry exchange between May and Chaifetz, the one where May was supposedly trying to tell Chaifetz “trust the process, it’s getting better, we could still win the conference tournament, etc”, actually took place, he may have tried to say that to other boosters too. It puts a smile on my face to think of boosters telling May “ we have to pay a bunch of money to get out of this contract you gave Ford, so no…we’re not letting you keep the hope that Ford can get out of this with a good few days in Brooklyn. It’s over.”
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It could just be an attempt to get ahead of things by a few days. Depending on who is driving making the call (boosters vs May/Pestello), it could be a little bit of a repudiation of May. My observation of the SLU athletic department under Chris May is that they view things very optimistically. In the last few years, SLU has salvaged several seasons by winning the A10 Tournament, with women’s team last year, men’s team in 2019, as well as probably a few seasons for men’s and women’s soccer. My theory is that because of these instances, Chris May views winning the tournament as a very real possibility every year now, and therefore won’t consider this season a failure yet, because there was still the chance that they’d catch lightning in a bottle in Brooklyn. Firing Ford before the tournament tells May, “this season was a failure. It’s over now”. Also, don’t forget, I think it was in the lead up to the A10 tournament last year that May got on Cusumano’s radio show and made his idiotic comments in support of Ford. Firing Ford before the A10 tourney would seemingly prevent May from running those comments back.
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Knowing the way SLU operates, it’s probably cheaper to scramble a flight home for Ford from NYC than Olean.
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2024 SLU Men's Basketball Head Coaching Search
DeSmetBilliken replied to thetorch's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
That is impressively bad. -
Isn’t a flagrant 1 what used to be called an intentional foul?
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Not much to say, other than that game really stunk tonight, and the Hargrove family is awesome .
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2024 SLU Men's Basketball Head Coaching Search
DeSmetBilliken replied to thetorch's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
I was going to say that in college basketball, while the Pac12 still exists in its current form for a few more weeks, it’s actually a Power 6. It turns out that the Pac12 is 6th in Conference NET rankings. -
To be fair, I think today Frank suggested a scenario in which Ford , because he is a nice guy, agrees to a significantly lower salary, with the understanding that the difference between the salaries be moved into NIL.
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I apologize for the lack of detail, but I’ll let others provide more details on this if they wish to potentially implicate themselves. Anyway, earlier this season Trilly reported on something SLU related that, as I understand it, may have required his source to be in the building in order for him to know it.
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I get what you’re trying to say, but I don’t think that it’s reasonable to expect the BOT members to have department director level knowledge of every subject they have to consider. I have no doubt that Chris May, or someone on his behalf, puts together a nice summary of the relevant athletics issues before meetings. That still doesn’t put them on anywhere close to the knowledge level of the department director . I may not be a Chris May fan, but with the exception of a couple of BOT members (Chaifetz in particular), May still is in a position to have way more context on athletics issues than almost the entire BOT. That’s why he’s the athletic director. If you’re so focused on removing some “blame” from May to make him look better, the BOT rubber-stamping the contract is worthy of less than 10% of the blame. Not enough to reduce responsibility by May in any meaningful amount.
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Others have responded to this well, so I don’t need to repeat their comments. The bottom line is that Chris May and whoever else was involved in Ford’s last contract extension on SLU’s behalf made by all indications a bad deal. The fact that the BOT approved the deal does not absolve May from responsibility at all. If Chris May or anyone else at SLU is just willingly agreeing to questionable deals and figuring “I’ll just let the BOT decide if it’s good or not”, that’s ridiculous.
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This 100%. I admittedly don’t know what the voting standard to pass the BOT is (unanimous, 3/4, 2/3, majority), but do we really want (insert name of BOT member who isn’t involved in athletics here ) delaying personnel decisions for athletics by going all Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men, or like a city council member holding legislation hostage to get a carve-out for their district? Absolutely not. Just think about it…we have an agreement on a deal with a new coach, but then 3-4 board members slow up the process because someone told them that we should be hiring Bruce Weber or Tom Crean instead. Then the deal with the other coach falls through. That would be a bad deal.
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2024 SLU Men's Basketball Head Coaching Search
DeSmetBilliken replied to thetorch's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
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When I read this article, I had one takeaway: Ford is gone. I already thought Ford was gone, but this strengthened it. Even if it was covered up a bit with some spin, Chris May isn’t being quoted acknowledging that our record is terrible, or talking about lower attendance if he’s preparing to keep Ford around. This is about setting himself up to say that SLU had no choice.