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The AD at GW was was bad news. Giving the basketball players keys to his house, paying basketball players, getting blackout drunk at basketball team events and filming video of himself straddling basketball players.

Lonergran got screwed by a nut job AD that later had to be forced out himself for inappropriate relations with athletes. The most serious allegations against Lonergran all turned out to be false. Deadspin did a deep dive into the whole Lonegran story around three or four years ago. All the homophobe accusations were complete BS. Even the founder of Outsports became Lonergran defender.

Let's check in on how things are going at GW.

The game is too much of blow out for it to happen

Sweet.

Can you get Deathtöngue back together to play the national anthem before a ballgame this year?

Conk is backing Holtmann

Nothing to see here except the Dayton AD out there updating what is going on, explaining and selling the importance of Dayton's NIL to the whole Dayton Flyers' fanbase. SLU isn't broke when it comes to NIL, but it just continues to miss chance after chance to be the top NIL in the A10. It seems it is now intentional and not just incompetency that keeps the BVF an insular group of people who were already part of their club before NIL. https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/dayton-ad-alerts-flyer-faithful-about-big-change-in-nil-landscape/V42PFLZX2JE43H3W2H2NNKGOTI/

Lee will probably have either their VCU or Richmond beat writers from the Richmond Times-Dispatch cover the Billikens, too. It is a pretty easy call on their part. Why waste money for airline tickets and a hotel for Stu when SLU sucks and most readers won't care about the game? It is what Lee does for their Illini coverage in the Post. The beat writer whose articles appear in the Post for the Illini actually is a Decatur Herald & Review writer a different paper Lee owns.

Rice baseball really fell apart after Wayne Graham left. 164th.

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Can I interest you in a SLU big baller Telegram channel?

Rough

This is a deep cut.

My top two would be McCollum and Schertz. I favor McCollum slightly over Schertz, but I can convince myself Schertz is the better hire. Then Mack and Moser, either would be great hire. Because of the pieces he would potentially bring with him, Schertz would be the guy that would offer you the best guarantee of having a tournament team next season out of any of the candidates. I think it is probably tougher for any other candidate to build a tourney roster that could gel that quick. I think there is just a huge advantage to being able to bring 4 or more guys along with the coach. They all don't even have to be stars or all even starters, but it just helps so much in setting the culture and helps everyone else understand what the coach wants. It paid off for Mizzou with Gates and the Cleveland St. guys last season. Schertz has a better and younger roster at ISU that you can build from than Gates. Robbie Avila alone is worth the price of admission and is a future All-American, IMO. McCollum is my top choice because in the new world of NIL, you hire the best basketball mind to coach your team and worry far less about the coach's ability to recruit at a high level. I think McCollum is the best basketball mind we can hire. We aren't talking about Kim Anderson and we shouldn't be worried if he can recruit at this level. Give me the guy that has had the best run of any coach at any level of NCAA basketball since John Wooden. Give me the guy that can spot the talent in Justin Pitts, Ryan Hawkins and Trevor Hudgins that every D1 coached missed. Give me the guy that keeps losing talent like that to graduation or transferring Creighton, but just keeps piling up the victories year after year.

Mack would be a great hire, probably third or fourth on my list. Would be the top guy if the college basketball world was the same as it was three years ago. I somewhat worry about how a guy with an established track record at the top level is willing to adjust to a completely different way you have to run a program now, especially when he has been out of the game in the time while the biggest changes happened.

He delivered more than his fair share of highlight video moments.

Maybe two people on the board were worried about losing Travis. Most people realized Travis had to win games in multiple NCAA tournaments before he was going to get offered a lower P5 job, much less Kentucky. Travis had a stench of NCAA tournament failure on him when he was fired at OSU. Just making the NCAA tournament wasn't going to get rid of that stench for big budget athletic departments.

The NET rankings would tell you the MVC has a better chance to get three than the A10 getting two.

The big problem for them splitting off wont be arrangements with athletes, it will be all the schools left behind filing ant-trust suits against them. And that is before you get the 40-42 senators in states with no program in either conference deciding their number one priority will be to target the federal funding for those schools. The real power the SEC and Big 10 have is the threat to leave. They can gain big concessions with that. Actually leaving is way too risky legally. That means they probably will leave and get their ass handed to them.

They hold all the cards until they try to form something on their own and they are slapped with an anti trust case.

Make that 4 points. They ruled the last shot didn’t beat the halftime buzzer.