Billiken Law

Creighton (who kept SLU out) is the only one talking about this. Nobody else in the BE is interested. Any Gonzaga talk is all Few. The AD and President are not interested. Imagine baseball and Volleyball flying to Providence and St. John's for games annually. Few needs to start worrying about his repeated Sweet 16 choke jobs.

UW Milwaukee. A major booster reportedly told the school to fire Jeter and get TJ.

Their season just ended after the NIT so I'm not too surprised. Someone stepped up with a big check.

Gregory (ironic timing, eh?). But he said SLU needed to spend money to win so Biondi vetoed the hire.

They did and saw that he put St. Mary's on probation and thus moved on.

Don't blame Woolard for Biondi vetoing him and hiring the guy who begged for the job and promised not to ask for any fancy bells and whistles like an increased recruiting budget, charter flights or decent salaries for assistant coaches.

The biggest barrier to SLU getting an invite is already gone: Biondi. People hated him (a priest who served on a NCAAcommittee with him referred to him as a "prick" in a conversation with me about the Big East) and Creighton was bitter over the A-10/MVC realignment issue.

No, Washpun was not being mugged....and he somehow avoided a 5 second count even though nearly 8 seconds elapsed once he picked up his dribble. Never inbound the ball into the corner when being trapped!

eventually he will. He has a yearly escalator clause.

The PE major stuff is an antiquated excuse. The NCAA has a limit on the number of PE courses a Juco can bring in anywhere. Any Juco that is used to placing guys at 4 year schools puts their kids in legitimate majors. I've even seen Bio majors coming from Juco schools, though most are communications, criminal justice or business.Where SLU has a disadvantage is the core course requirements, particulatly theology and philosophy classes, that aren't even offered at Jucos (or public schools if they are a 4-4 transfer). That increases the number of credits needed for graduation and may prevent them from hitting their progress towards degree percentages upon enrollment. Granted it's easier to get a 4-4 to SLU since they have to sit a year anyway and dint need to have PTD to practice do they can load up to get eligible over 2 summers and 2 semesters.

UW Milwaukee fires Rob Jeter. T.J. Otzelberger wants the job

He's been contacted about the HC job. That's not a guy I'd want. Not ready. Was saying that if he did come to SLU it would be as an assistant, not head coach.

SLU only gets a portion of that, the bulk is distributed amongst the conference members. That's why important for A10 teams to get some wins this year and why so many mid majors got screwed on selection Sunday

Yes. Hopefully to be the top assistant, not top dog, IMO.

An assistant with local ties has been contacted. Very local.

No coach is going to leave a power 5 conference that got 7 tourney bids for a non-power 5 that had one of its regular season champions snubbed. Just the reality of the new college sports landscape.

5th youngest roster in the country, on the bubble until late February and a controversial last second shot at Oregon State, 4 years left on his contract, $3.5 million buyout, McDonald's AA signed for next year. He's fine.

Not enough of a hot seat to pay his massive buyout and piss off Mark Cuban.

On Nova, they deliberately scheduled only three games at Comcast Center, or whatever the hell it's called these days, so that they would be eligible to play there. However, the committee made sure Oklahoma City will be packed sending OU, Texas and TAMU there. As for the overall field, the committee sent the message that conference tournaments have consequences....if you're a mid major. If you're a Power 5 team then getting blown out in the first round doesn't mean jack.

I'm fine with Butler. 6 top 100 wins, 8 of their losses to top 40 teams (5 to top 10). Tulsa, Syracuse, Michigan, Vandy, those are a joke. And here's something to chew on: Every eligible Power 5 school with a top-54 RPI made the NCAA Tournament. But eight non-Power 5 schools with top-54 RPIs did not.

Look earlier in this thread. Both were on the "hot seat" along with Matta, Stallings, Romar, and a few others who would then be candidates and potentially come cheap thanks to buyouts.

The worst thing to ever happen to mid majors was George Mason's final four run. After that mid majors started being paired upmagainstvobe another, then Butler and VCU and WSU made it so now we're just left out all together.Just getting into the tournament is worth around $1.6 million then teams and conferences get that for each win. As legislation continues to get passed by the Power 5 that gives them the ability to flex their financial muscles keeping less money out of the hands of the mid majors helps widen the gap and gradually push the non Power 5 schools out.

The only thing I can think of for thee committee's rationale for Syracuse is the time without Boeheim, when the lost to St. John's. But, that still does not justify Cuse getting in over Bona, let alone being a 10 seed. The message is clear: mid majors are screwed. Just another message being sent to push us out.

The names are not being thrown around by SLU but by fans. There is a lot of wishful thinking here, much like the coaches who were going to be fired and come to SLU per this thread (Romar, Crean, Weber, Brad Stevens.....). Having been involved in coaching searches I've found actual candidates are far different then those the media and fans "report."