brianstl

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.

People want to complain about the officiating in Billiken games, the women’s Iowa-OSU game just had one of the weakest technicals ever called. It directly led to six Iowa points. Awful way for Clark to break the record.

The truth is, unless you have one of two last names, we all are probably on the outside looking in. You are right money talks and at a time like this with a huge buyout, real massive money talks. I am truly thankful we have donors that care enough and have the means to follow the program across the country and to help fund all of the improvements the program has had facilities wise. We wouldn’t have anything worth complaining about without them. I am really thankful that we have some donors that are willing to and have the massive means to buy the program out of the mess it is currently in so the rest of us don’t have to suffer another year of this. That is the kind of financial commitment and true Billiken fandom few will ever be able to display.

How do you do, fellow Billikens? Can I interest you in a group text?

Hurt

Gibson has gone full werewolf today.

We all want the Billikens to succeed. You are just witnessing the deserved frustration of fans during an awful season that was preceded by multiple disappointing seasons. Be glad we still have a bunch of fans that still care enough to be frustrated

Damn

Nice run for Thames

Second time he has done that today

Not a good stretch for TJ at all as he passes the ball to no one

LHJ!

No coach high enough on SLU’s list to have an offer at this point is going to take the job at this point. They are going to wait to see what actually opens up around the country. Still a lot of big time jobs that may open up. It isn’t even a SLU isn’t good enough thing. You wait it out and you get more leverage for more money and other things you believe you need even if SLU is the job you want.

Honestly, he was one of the few enjoyable reasons to watch the last few games.

Josh Schertz interview segment 3. https://590thefan.com/radio-shows/press-box/

This season has given me CTE

Jimerson has only played 10 more career games than Clagget.