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I'm still waiting to hear the good news.

How many coaching changes have taken this long? One day you hear the names, the next day you have the news conference. String us along RM. Pull our strings and make us dance. Then tell us you are going back to ESPN like you have all of the others.

I wonder what the players are thinking by now. Tomorrow is day 9 without a coach. Has to be messing with thier minds.

"But at least one source told ESPN.com that Majerus is still deciding if he wants to leave television." Sounds like Majerus is still where he was last Saturday. Even if he says he's coming, would you believe he will be here long if you are a potential recruit? There are those I suppose who believe he still coming and will lead SLU to the promised land. Mis-guided but ok. But how can anyone believe that he has 1 or more recruits ready to come with him. Probably played out like this: Recruit: Coach, it's April 16th, you don't have a job and I don't have a scholarship, should I keep waiting? RM: Certainly, some University out there is just waiting to offer me the head job. Recruit: Any idea where it will be? RM: What now you are going to be picky. Recruit: Gee, coach just wanted to know if it is within 1000 miles of where my mom and girlfriend live. RM: Trust me, I'm sure I will get an offer that I will take if I decide I want to work hard and coach again. RM is not coming to SLU! He has slowed the process down by a week and made SLU's timing of BS's dismissal look almost as bad as letting RM pull strings for a week with no committment.

There is an opening this year as Romar has pulled out and had called Brad to see if SLU was interested.

The first half of today's article tells what we all want, RM will bring attention to SLU, he knows how to win, he will build a program at SLU, etc. When I read the 2nd half of the article I realize that if these things were happening at SLU under any coach, he would be terminated. Yet many of you seem to be so desperate to win that you will overlook all of the potential problems and say hire him. In 5 years if 14% of the players are graduating, and an average of 2 per year have left the program, there is an NCAA investigation, he has no time for the public, there is constant fricton with the administration but we make the Tournament 3 times it seems many will do what I remarked above, "sell SLU's soul, ignore the sins anything to get some wins." Read it again! On the other hand Majerus' health is a major concern. At 59, he has had seven heart bypasses and a medley of other problems. Three times he has left a team in midseason because of his health. After the bypasses his first season at Utah, he coached one game there before taking the rest of the season off, first for knee surgery, then to have stents placed in two coronary arteries and then so he could be with his mother, who was battling breast cancer. In 2004, he left Utah for good because of what he feared was more heart trouble but turned out to be diverticulitis, an intestinal ailment. In December 2004, he took the job at USC but gave it up a few days later, saying he had no specific health problem but wasn't fit enough to give the job his all. Some speculated that his health was fine and he may have quit after realizing how daunting the task at USC would be. Majerus wouldn't come cheap. He had a five-year, $5 million contract at USC and would probably command that much, if not more, from SLU. That would make him the highest-paid coach in the Atlantic 10. The graduation rates for Majerus' Utah teams were not exemplary. For students entering as freshmen in 1992-93, only 14 percent had earned a degree by 1999. (SLU's number for the same period was 27 percent.) Going forward from there, the numbers were 22, 20, 25 and 36 percent. And then there's Majerus' personality. More than 30 players left the program during his time as coach. Majerus is no stranger to off-color language and can be a harsh critic. Future NBA No. 1 draft choice Andrew Bogut was prepared to leave after his freshman season until Majerus left. "He was a tough guy to play for," Bogut told the Milwaukee Bucks website. "He knows the game very well, but the way he brings it across is pretty hard to swallow sometimes. He is brutal." Said Romar: "He's very demanding. He has a certain way he wants things done, and he will not allow any compromise or slippage." Majerus' final seasons at Utah weren't as successful as his earlier ones. He didn't recruit as well, and players like Bogut and Marc Jackson were leaving early. In 2003, Utah was put on three years of probation by the NCAA for rules violations. The violations were minor — in one, Majerus bought breakfast for a player after the player's father died — but it spoke to what the NCAA termed the school's lack of departmental oversight of Majerus. The school's athletics director had his salary frozen for a year, and Majerus' salary would have been frozen for two years had he continued to coach at Utah.

Kind of interesting that Jesus would come up even in jest when talking about the new coach. I mean after all, most have read all of the articles and history on RM including todays Post-Dispatch and are willing to sell SLU's and their own soul to sign RM.

If RM was taking the job don't you think it would be done by now? I would think he would have pushed it along so that he could get started recruiting-if he was taking the job. Course if it was Biondi dragging his feet, I think by now he would have said have a nice day, cya.

Didn't know RM had been hired, thanks for the info!

Burwell's column in the Post.

"Monday, when reached in Milwaukee, Majerus had no comment about the SLU job, and his agent, Sandy Montag, insisted there were no continuing discussions with the school." Amazing how every one contiues to drink the Kool-Aid and believe RM is coming while ignoring comments like those above. Read my lips, "NO RM".

There has been no meeting with the players by RM or any other candidates.

Where will you put another strength coach in our weight room. He would have to go to Hammerbodies with the guys.

Yea, your right. We don't know if they will be broke. Course we do know one of our players has 2 kids for sure and I have heard 3 all from different mothers. No broken homes there!

18 year old kids are not grown men! Yes, some of these kids have kids, doesn't make it right. Would you like to grow up as one of their kids-you know, broken home, broke, etc. Yup they drink. How does any of what you said justify a coach that swears and degrades players? If your kid says my friends are doing it, (whatever it is, drugs alcohol, sex, etc) will that make it right in your eyes.

No argument out of me. RM has given SLU national attention good and bad. Biondi should now understand the financial commitment that it takes to be competitive at the highest level.

I just hope that Biondi has a better Plan B then our coaching staff did when they didn't get the one they wanted.

Why is everyone so excited about RM. Are we that desperate? Facts: We have a link to NCAA violations. We have an admitted health issue. We have an ex-coach who throws his name in repeatedly and then pulls it out, once even after taking the job, USC. We have a coach with a seriously ill mother that he does care about. We have a coach that uses language that doesn't need to be used when addressing his players. Don't tell me other coach's do it. If you feel it is the right thing to do, swear at your kids when they do something wrong, or your wife and see how it builds up your relationship. We have a coach that has been out of the business for 3 years. How many high school kids really know his reputation? We have a man that if he comes back to coach, is probably a short-timer and every other coach will ask recruits one simple question, "Do you want to play for a coach that will probably not be there to see you use up your elegibility?" Again why the excitement over RM. Some must be so desperate that they can't see the forest for the trees.

Anybody else think that there no news today means RM is not coming and the possibility stills exists that we will be able to get an up and comer instead of a has-been with baggage?

As I have constantly stated, "RM will not be the next coach at SLU". The positive though is that maybe in his meeting with Biondi or whomever he met with, he enlightened them on the budget that it takes to run a successful D-1 basketball program. If in fact SLU's budget has been 2.1 million, that's a crying shame. Break it down. Head coach $500,000 with benefits and expenses. Scholarships 13 times $40,000 counting summer school equals $520,000. Travel $30,000 to $50,000 per trip depending on commercial or charter times 12 flying trips this year equals 4-500,000. Asst coach salaries of somewhere around $250,000 puts the total around 1.7 million. Then of course there is a portion of salaries for a trainer, strength coach, AD and Asst. Ads,and SID. Scholarship for a student trainer and a secretary salary and who knows what else.. Easy to see not much left for recruiting. Hopefully Rm open Biondis eyes to what it takes to make it easier for the next coach, whoever that it. My guess, RM says no on Monday and SLU names a new coach on Wednesday.

"The university countered that a Majerus-Chaifetz meeting never existed in the first place and that Chaifetz has nothing to do with a search for a new coach or, for that matter, the firing of Soderberg. "I don't know how categorical I can be,'' SLU spokesman Jeff Fowler said. "Absolutely, categorically not. There has been no involvement from Dr. Chaifetz." Majerus did not return a phone call from the Post-Dispatch." Let's start there. Then lets use common sense. 1. He has been out of coaching since 2004 even though he has had many opportunities with better money, facilities and prestige. 2. Coaches do not review game tapes before deciding to take a job. Do you expect him to say, "The returning players aren't good enough so I don't want the job!" Any coach worth his salt would feel he could recruit a tournament team. They don't expect to inherit on from a terminated coach. 3. He didn't get healthy overnight and neither did his mother. 4. If he were interested which he is not, SLU would never pony up the resources to pay him or the budget he would need to build the program. 5. He gets a kick out of having his name bantered around for every position that comes open.

Your post is all bull********. He does not want nor will he take the job!

And Martin can't be groomed at Purdue while making a lot more money in a higher profile league than he would be can at SLU? He won't come to SLU to be number 2.

"iowa offered him the big bucks to take over their program in earlier this month... in addition to creighton, who was ready to hire him before their head coach decided to reject arkansas' offer.. trust me on this," And you can back-up your comments how............ a) You were on the search committee for Iowa and Creighton You read it on their schools blogs c) You heard from a friend of a friend who knows the AD's Be real and realize that even if what you post is true and he turned down Iowa, Creighton and other D-1 jobs, why would he take the SLU job?

With his poor health, work ethic, and years out of coaching, this would be a terrible hire. What recruit would want to come to SLU with all of the other coaches whispering in their ears that Majerus would only be temporary. From what I have read there is no way he could take the grind of being a HC from a physical point. The ironic thing about this is that the reason BS was fired at Wisconsin is that the boosters thought they had Majerus hired there. I'm really not concerned about SLU hiring him and I would bet a lot of money that he will not be on campus today. Prospective coaches are not interviewed on campus to prevent the embaressment if they are not hired or turn it down and his name comes up every time there is a D-1 opening.