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  1. Your post sent me down a rabbit whole of searching Otzelberberg on the board and reading through the coaching search threads from 2016....and holy this post you made almost 8 years ago! It should be noted that Otzelberger has now coached at 3 different schools during Ford's tenure. I highly doubt he'd still be at SLU, but that's fine. Use us a stepping stone & then we just keep making good coaching hires. That route has been successful for a lot more programs we consider our peers than a route of trying to get a coach who will stay forever.
  2. If I'm making a college head coaching hire, I'd honestly be more inclined to hire a guy who is recommended by a bunch of high level AAU coaches, international youth level coaches, and/or high level Juco coaches than a guy recommended by NBA head coaches and blue blood college head coaches. I'm not saying the first guys exists, just that recommendations from the latter group shouldn't carry a ton of weight just because of their celebrity status.
  3. If SLU does indeed hire Schertz for the job, we 100% need to get Nickelodeon on the line to do a "Salute Your Schertz" night / Nickelodeon kids TV broadcast from Chaifetz Arena. Bring in Michael Bower aka Donkeylips to do color commentary. You're welcome fellow 90s Nick kids / Billiken fans.
  4. Reminder: 2023 Salaries per some quick Google research: Kelsey - $1.1 million May - $1.25 million Sprinkle - $900k DeVries - $630k Travis Ford - $2.34 million All these guys would be adding at least a million to their salaries. If they don't get P6 jobs, they'd be crazy to think that SLU is not a step up & jump at the chance for a million dollar+ raise.
  5. Oh man. That sucks. MBM prayers for the 4 year old (and for the rest of the family's sanity). As a parent, kids getting sick is a nightmare. You do what you can, but the kid still feels miserable, so you feel miserable.
  6. His interview Podcasts are cringey & awkward as hell which goes right along with what you are saying. Honestly, why TF is May even the ones doing those interviews?
  7. I'd disagree with this. Rick brought in some guys who weren't total gym rats / not "ready to absorb his coaching". Those guys (mostly) just transferred out. If you didn't execute the way Rick demanded, you'd probably sit & he'd make things not very fun for you in practice. Guys like Cody Ellis & Mike McCall I think are examples who stuck it out despite tough love. I'm assuming guys like Ruben Cotto, Brett Thompson, Justin Jordan, etc. all left because they weren't "ready to absorb his coaching".
  8. Others have already pointed out some massive differences, but to add to those: Kim Anderson was 58 when he was hired at Mizzou and Ben McCollum is 42 right now. That's a fairly significant gap. The jump from DII to SEC is bigger than DII to A10. I think Mizzou had some restrictions / was under probation from Frank Haith stuff during Kim Anderson's tenure. That not to say that there wouldn't be some risk in hiring McCollum, but Anderson's failure at Mizzou does not count at all as a negative for McCollum.
  9. It seems like the issue isn't necessarily a lack of NIL funds. It is just a misuse / squandering of them. We've seen this story over and over again under May & Ford with regards to the men's basketball program. Less with more. Don't worry though Ford has a plan now.
  10. My biggest beef with Ford going into this season was basically that he was overpaid for the results he was getting. He'd arguably been a more successful coach compared to others (excluding Spoon & Majerus) at SLU historically. It was just that we were paying him the highest salary in the A10 for upper-middle of the A10 results. This would never happen, but...If you told me going into the year that Ford had 4 year / $10 million left on his deal, it was going to be renegotiated to a 10 year / $10 million deal with the annual savings funneled to NIL via boosters. I'd think that was great & give Ford a few years of runway to see how it works. Now - this season has been a total dumpster fire & I'm not sure any level of pay cut with extra going to NIL would make me okay with keeping Ford.
  11. I'm almost positive this is NOT the case in the US (and Missouri). Employers aren't required to offer paid maternity leave. The only requirement is Family Medical Leave (FMLA) which is limited to 12 weeks and unpaid. No idea what is typical for colleges. If SLU went above & beyond that in Shields case, good on them. It doesn't necessarily mean the AD isn't a dumpster fire in other respects.
  12. With similarly untalented rosters: 2015-16 season under Crews - final KenPom rating 226 2016-17 season under Ford - final KenPom rating 273 I think you can argue about which roster is "better", but they both sucked. It doesn't matter, but I'd say on pure Xs & Os Crews is marginally better. Ford is a better overall coach because he's light years ahead in the Jimmys & Joes category.
  13. It seems like Jimerson setting screens is a new wrinkle in our offense. I don't recall him setting many screens in previous years or even earlier this year. I really like a guy who is an excellent 3pt shooter setting screens because it has potential to throw the defense into chaos. It reverses what the defense is normally focused on (help on drives to the basket). Instead they're worried about the guy setting the screen popping out to the 3pt line. This is part of what makes Steph Curry so good in the NBA is that he sets a lot of screens that either free him up or free up teammates going to the basket.
  14. Grandy showed some massive onions with the steal & layup vs NC State. You'd have to check with @billikenfan05 to see if Grandy is still showing massive onions.
  15. They don't directly use scoring margin, but they use net offensive & defensive efficiency which are heavily influenced by the scoring margin. Regardless, the SIUC game is a massive anchor dragging our NET down because we got our asses handed to us (Wichita State and Vermont were also bad, but not as bad).
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