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Not at all - I bet the 4 million goes back to the big donors who are paying Ford off. Now you have to enter the coaching search again with a smaller pool of viable candidates who now have you over the barrel.

It does matter - fans want to win and getting the buyout money is not that important.

I know people don't like hearing that the longer this goes on the less advantageous this is for SLU. As time goes by and the pickings get slimmer that $4 million buyout becomes less of an issue. I am not saying he isn't coming but time is our enemy.

I know a retired high school basketball coach who is in the Missouri Hall of Fame who went to the Final Four every year. He told me that high school coaches who have traditionally have D1 players get free tickets from coaches. According to him people approach them to recruit/curry favor and look for potential assistant coaches or assistant coaches look for jobs the entire time. So, the networking is non stop according to him. By the way when he retired the seats were much harder to come by.

I am against this Schwarts guy being our coach

I have thought this also - he really hasn't caught the lightning in a bottle that we all expected.

The problem with Schertz leaving ISU being the best kept non secret out there is that the longer this goes on more behind he 8 ball ISU gets, his assistants and players who might want to leave and not come here. Now all this assumes he is coming here.

This is what happens when you let criminals run anything.

SLU supposedly hired a search firm to do the initial list building and to make the first feelers to the names. They may have asked Mack and he said that he was not interested since he thought he could get a P5. When that didn't happen for whatever the reason he then was open to non P5 job but with our MoU we had moved on. C of C was the chair he ended up on when the music stopped.

Not until the season is over apparently

May lives in the Ladue school district they could ride share

Schertz being tight lipped in no way proves he hasn't talked with his players about this or at least implied it.

Interesting point

I would hope

This a problem we have here - we tend to eat our young. It is hard to be successful when you got people in the community looking out for their own situation or want some type of retribution for what you perceive has been a slight to you. Not sure what kind of influence Irons still has but you can bet he will be telling local players not to come here.

The person to have hard feelings with is no longer here.

I know but just because your brother does one thing doesn't mean you will. He has always been on the east coast.

OK

Isn't TJ gone - used his eligibility up?

He is an east coast guy - he will die there

I want to be clear - I was not one of them

Great they can take our place when we move to the BE

I know you were thinking you were being funny but it was poor attempt.

Never a bad time to make money I guess

So, in summary nothing I said is actually wrong - correct.