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That's a good point that I hadn't really considered based on the fact that he's still actively coaching this season.

Schertz said he would take "a full day" so I'm not sure when the clock starts on that, but Friday might be too soon. I figured they would avoid Saturday for the Final Four doubleheader, not sure. Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday - it shouldn't be Monday.

The path of totality is pretty close to STL - places like Desloge, Farmington, Bloomsdale, Red Bud, Carlyle, Okawville, and Effingham are right over the line. The closest points to SLU in the path will start to see the eclipse around 12:40 pm and start totality around 2:00, getting over a full minute. Roads will be chaos that day. Terre Haute is fully in the path, will start to see the eclipse around 1:48 and get nearly 3 minutes of totality starting at 3:04. SLU can't do this Monday, for real.

Maybe this is just me being selfish because my kids are off school and we're driving to see it, but I really hope they don't do the big announcement on Monday. The story will be buried by eclipse mania. Terre Haute is within the path of totality and STL is pretty close to it. Then the men's final is that night. It has to be Sunday (well before the women's final) or Tuesday.

Within a small circle (that happens to include a few local media figures), they are. But in a larger, more relevant way, they aren't powerful at all. SLU and its boosters ignored them and pursued the candidate(s) they wanted.

Getting chippy in here. Bottom line is people should be confident. We just have to wait a few more days.

They put themselves in the same category. They share the same bad ideas.

I would rather jump off the Eads Bridge in winter.

Great point. I live in Cincinnati and the internet doesn't exist. Frank and Slaten are different people with different shows pushing for the same bad ideas for SLU.

There are certain local sports media figures - like Frank and Slaten - who want SLU to be run in as small a way as possible. They're the ones who push for SLU to move to the Valley, to hire people they know, and to recruit exclusively regional players. They want easy access to the program, they want influence, and they want it shaped by a small fraternity of like-minded locals who don't think beyond their pocket of the Midwest. They're obsessed with petty high school-level relationships and are stuck in the past. They either complain about or refuse to acknowledge the way the sport exists today. They're small-time people and they want the program to reflect their small-time nature. They are not to be taken seriously. We aspire to national competitiveness, the Big East, deep Tournament runs.

I would not consider him a "serious" media figure.

Jimerson is also raising is price by going into the portal. We've seen 2 lists of interested schools already and there are some big names. That said, if we could get him back for one more year, he would thrive in a Schertz offense. He worth retaining at the same price - I'm just not sure how much that price will have gone up.

Bring on Vermont.

What a steal by Martinez!

Just can't hit a shot.

If you told me a month ago that the most frequent names mentioned in a thread about the SLU coaching search included Blake Ahearn, Floyd Irons, Bruce Weber, Kevin Slaten, and Frank Cusumano:

Two people whose knowledge differs vastly. I would love to see Schertz bring his rotation with him. It's a tall order, though. As soon as their names hit the portal, those guys are going to get offers. SLU probably can't match or beat all of them. Seems like the most common realistic number is 2. Odom brought 2 guys to VCU, Sprinkle brought 2 guys to Utah State, just to use a couple examples we saw this season. Kelsey is bringing 2 to Louisville. Maybe we should hope for 5 or 6, expect 2, and maybe we'll get something in between.

So Moore's injury was caused by the HBPs?

Also, these teams are good. Baseball is 17-6, softball is 16-11, men's tennis is 11-2, women's tennis is 12-1, and women's basketball has a chance to go the deepest they've ever gone in the WNIT.

The individual teams generally do, but days like this make me wonder why no one is like "Hey SLU fans, there's a ton available to stream today..." in a way that isn't one-offs from every program and more like something making a bigger deal of a busy SLU athletic program.

This thread seemed like the best catch-all for the fact that we have 5 teams playing today: -WBB is at Fort Wayne in the WNIT Super 16 tonight at 6:00 -Baseball hosts Rhody again at 2:00 -Softball has a doubleheader at GW at 11:00 and 1:00 -Men's Tennis hosts Butler at 1:00 -And the Track & Field team is spread out among 5 different events this weekend - at Wash U, Stanford, San Francisco State, Texas, and Texas State. Streams are available for WBB, baseball, softball, and the Texas Relays - ESPN+ for the first three, Longhorn Network for the last one. Would be nice to see the award-winning athletic department promote such a big day. That's a ton of stuff for your fans to stream on a slow Friday afternoon at work.

He looks like the racist, abusive, alcoholic father from a movie set in 1960. Again, like you said, he might be a decent enough guy. He just looks like that.

These are the main reasons he won't be returning to ISU, no matter what. And that's before the salary difference, facilities, etc.

Nothing yet. It is worth noting that he had an offer from Indiana State, though, as I think @billikenfan05 pointed out the other day.

If that's where you got your picks, you deserve to lose.