brianstl

Every AD in the country wouldn't have hired him. The smart ones would have seen it for what it was. Hell, a good sized percentage of the posters on here at the time saw it for what it was. Who cares if he would have got lit up by the local press? It was and is his job to make the tough decisions. Now would have May have hired someone better to replace him? That is really questionable because when it came time for him to hire Crews replacement he hired a guy that had won less NCAA tournament games than Crews despite a ton of resources at his disposal in a top conference. There was a guy at the time then at a smaller program that wanted the SLU job, had an important booster (but not one of the two huge whales at the time) pushing for him and has been pretty successful since. May should have listened to that booster.

Yes and it isn't close.

Not sure what my first game was. The first one I have any distinct memory of was when I was a really little kid. It was at the Arena with both Billy Lou and some guy dressed as Bud Man there. No idea who it was against or what year it was exactly. My guess was one of the first couple seasons with Ekker. I think those might have been the only two seasons with Billy Lou.

This is a kid that donors would pony up for because of who his dad is.

The best style for me all depends on what you are eating. Pork steaks are St. Louis all day. Brisket is Texas. Ribs are Memphis. Chopped pork is Carolina.

If you aren't willing to invest enough money into a particular sport's facilities to match the athletic program's peers, drop the sport. If you are going to field a team in any sport you owe it the whole athletic program not to allow it to operate at self-inflicted competitive disadvantage for decades.

SLU definitely overestimated what kind of player they would be able to land in the transfer market. One of the players that I understand they thought they were going to land never even entered the transfer portal.

Those Memphis teams Becton played on were really good.

I don't think there is any possibility if this happens with private equity that they don't absorb basketball, too. There is just too much money sitting on the table short term for them with their own version of March Madness. Long term I think this is a fail for the programs that do it. Over the next decade private equity will make their money and then some off it, but in ten years when the programs that make the move are looked at as minor league pro programs by the public the big bucks will dry up for those programs. There has been an amazing lack of long term thinking involved by almost everyone involved in this process.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/with-college-sports-in-limbo-and-key-issues-coming-to-a-head-the-spotlight-is-on-the-sec-its-going-to-get-heated-130018106.html?

It is done. Project Rudy or something similar backed by private equity is going to happen for the football schools. A 70 or so school super league. There is just too much money on the table.

The only real solution if you want true student athletes is go D3 or form a new organization with like minded schools. Everything else is just going to be minor league sports and will eventually collapse when people start viewing it as minor league sports. I love college sports, but it is already losing some luster in my eyes.

College football and basketball are professional sports now. Minor league sports, but professional none the less.

No locations have been announced for A-10 Men's tournament locations beyond this coming season's in Pittsburgh.

I am really excited that the 2027 local class includes Leon Powell Jr.. IYKYK.