brianstl

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Chris Mack thing

McCollum hits me as the kind of guy that won't officially accept a gig until he team is done playing.

I want Indiana St to make the NCAA tournament. I then want the ISU AD to hold a press conference where he has to state, "An Indiana St. man will coach Indiana St!" as he announces Matt Graves will coach the team in the tournament.

A big name leaving a big name school for a big name job opening still just means there is one big name job opening. It doesn’t change the number of spots to be filled. The thing we don’t need is someone like an Indiana changing their mind on retaining their coach or a bunch of surprise retirements.

Bracket Matrix still has them in as an 11 seed appearing on 79 of the 105 brackets they track.

Schertz did meet with the Louisville AD and others from Louisville. He isn't in their top three candidates, but falls in the next group with guys like Kelsey.

Fair enough. He wouldn’t be at the top of my list, but he wouldn’t be someone I would rule out either if stuff doesn’t work out with the top guys. I think the best time for him to have got the SLU job would have been the last cycle. I think it would have definitely worked then, but it seems at least from Stu’s tweet earlier today he wasn’t good enough for May.

What would those be? I don’t have those misgivings, but I can be swayed Drew should have got the job last time.

I’m still not nearly as high on DeVries as some of the other guys mentioned so far. It might be more of a fit at SLU thing. I think he would win here and make tournaments, I just think he has a lower ceiling at SLU than some other guys would.

May could of had Drew.

I think there is definitely going to be mutual interest between Okie St. and Darian DeVries.

I think Gibby is definitely back. I think that Parker is 100% gone. Out of the rest of the guys the ones I would most like to see return are Medley, SVB and Djordje. I include SVB and Djordje in this group because I think they offer things valuable off the bench and they will have no issue with accepting a bench role next season. I think the most likely to return are Hughes and to a lesser extent Thames. If the next coach retains Harry, then SVB and Djordje will be back.

For Kilcoyne to run with it as strongly as he did his source was either inside the building or a few select others who wanted him to tweet it exactly when he did.

Don’t know if the interest is there from DeVries. He might be content to stay at Drake until the right P5 job opens.

There are multiple members of D1 coaching staffs listening

I think we will be happy. I feel good about it for now.

SVB is listening

Trilly in the Spaces

The best color commentary on a Billiken game this year was the woman who did commentary on the women’s loss in the conference tournament. She was really good.

Emails too, some from people he doesn’t know. I hope his buyout money doesn’t go to a Nigerian prince.

Ford presser has started