Clock_Tower

Agreed. I admit that I haven’t been a big fan of Porter. And in my own defense, he wasn’t much of a coach when he arrived here at SLU.  Young guy. Tried hard. Recruiting accolades. Not an x’s and o’s guy.  Complement to RM. 
IMO, and from a distance and without inside information other than being a MBM, Porter had a true conversion and really did learn alot from RM.  Sure, recruiting is the lifeline of college sports, and sure you cannot teach height or athletic ability but Porter is winning bc he has implemented RM’s fundamentals and has demanded /recruited kids who are willing implement these fundamentals. 
Personally, I have not seen screens set and used like they do since RM - and that includes Jett, McCall etc on auto pilot under Jim Crews. 
JGood, Perkins, French, Yuri don’t set, wait for or even use a real screen. 
 
Not lightning in a bottle, luck... just fundamentals, attention to details and kids who can shoot.  Fundamentals are timeless. 

Wrong.  Jim Crews should never have been hired, and if so, should have had a minimal buy out. Our AD who hired him is still here cashing his paychecks. Our program stupidly hired him and stuck with him too long to allow the program to sink to new depths.  And BTW, Crews underperformed with a stacked team - the best I have seen assembled here at SLU, so I choose not to think back and at Jum Crews positively. Crews added no help and then left an empty cupboard - which is relevant for our current status of the program. 
Nonetheless, Ford quickly rebuilt this program from scratch only to be set back by a dishonest and uncontrolled campus department in S2 only to again rebuild and have COVID take away last post season and then to come back this year only to have its own campus COVID “police” and City of St Louis ignore science to ruin this season causing basketball neophytes on this Board to unfairly take shots at our head coach. 

Wrong.  Jim Crews should never have been hired, and if so, should have had a minimal buy out. Our AD who hired him is still here cashing his paychecks. Our program stupidly hired him and stuck with him too long to allow the program to sink to new depths.  And BTW, Crews underperformed with a stacked team - the best I have seen assembled here at SLU, so I choose not to think back and at Jum Crews positively. Crews added no help and then left an empty cupboard - which is relevant for our current status of the program. 
Nonetheless, Ford quickly rebuilt this program from scratch only to be set back by a dishonest and uncontrolled campus department in S2 only to again rebuild and have COVID take away last post season and then to come back this year only to have its own campus COVID “police” and City of St Louis ignore science to ruin this season causing basketball neophytes on this Board to unfairly take shots at our head coach. 

It wasn’t a game plan.  It was relentless implementation of fundamentals in practice which allowed them to execute their game plan and beat a team with far superior athletic ability 

Sorry. I am likely in the small minority here but PG remains a huge problem for us. Goodwin’s unique skills and leadership helped at PG this year when Yuri needed a break or was injured, but JGood is/was not a PG. And while the offense flows better with Yuri, and while Yuri is an asset to this team, we will have similar issues and again struggle against better teams next year if Yuri plays more than 20 mpg. Perkins yes. Okoro I assume.  Not only does Yuri need to improve offensively (I give him the benefit of the doubt) but his decision making has been poor these past few weeks (not sure that can improve) and his  height will not improve (easy to shoot over). Again,  MIss State did not even guard him in the second half but doubled on Perkins. And Yuri bothers the other PG dribbling but otherwise plays little defense. This team has other issues too (not all blame on Yuri) but perimeter defense will not improve with Yuri who even got posted up and burned bad by their equally small PG, Iverson Molinar, yesterday.  And poor defense and turnovers place even more pressure on the offense. 

It wasn’t a game plan.  It was relentless implementation of fundamentals in practice which allowed them to execute their game plan and beat a team with far superior athletic ability 

Sorry. I am likely in the small minority here but PG remains a huge problem for us. Goodwin’s unique skills and leadership helped at PG this year when Yuri needed a break or was injured, but JGood is/was not a PG. And while the offense flows better with Yuri, and while Yuri is an asset to this team, we will have similar issues and again struggle against better teams next year if Yuri plays more than 20 mpg. Perkins yes. Okoro I assume.  Not only does Yuri need to improve offensively (I give him the benefit of the doubt) but his decision making has been poor these past few weeks (not sure that can improve) and his  height will not improve (easy to shoot over). Again,  MIss State did not even guard him in the second half but doubled on Perkins. And Yuri bothers the other PG dribbling but otherwise plays little defense. This team has other issues too (not all blame on Yuri) but perimeter defense will not improve with Yuri who even got posted up and burned bad by their equally small PG, Iverson Molinar, yesterday.  And poor defense and turnovers place even more pressure on the offense. 

Sorry. I am likely in the small minority here but PG remains a huge problem for us. Goodwin’s unique skills and leadership helped at PG this year when Yuri needed a break or was injured, but JGood is/was not a PG. And while the offense flows better with Yuri, and while Yuri is an asset to this team, we will have similar issues and again struggle against better teams next year if Yuri plays more than 20 mpg. Perkins yes. Okoro I assume.  Not only does Yuri need to improve offensively (I give him the benefit of the doubt) but his decision making has been poor these past few weeks (not sure that can improve) and his  height will not improve (easy to shoot over). Again,  MIss State did not even guard him in the second half but doubled on Perkins. And Yuri bothers the other PG dribbling but otherwise plays little defense. This team has other issues too (not all blame on Yuri) but perimeter defense will not improve with Yuri who even got posted up and burned bad by their equally small PG, Iverson Molinar, yesterday.  And poor defense and turnovers place even more pressure on the offense. 

Yes. That’s what I meant by protect their name. 

Yep. 
Just waiting for 1st round games to pay less. Shift the money to weight the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 games even more than they already do. 

Troll or not - he is wrong.
First, what changed with SLU basketball in 1986?  Saint Rich was already at work. Roland Grey and Monroe Douglass were already here in ‘85. Huge amount of fanfare. Bonner graduated high school in ‘86 but no one knew what he would become. Little fanfare comparatively, and yes the ‘88 and ‘90 NIT years but Craig Upchurch came after 1986 as did Grawer’s last year in ’91 - another low point. 
Spoonhour came in 1992 and Biondi promised Top 50 but did not deliver. At the same time, we played in brand new NBA quality facilities - state of the art and common in the Big East like he references. I prefer Chafeitz, but the days at Kiel/Savvis/Scottrade were not bad, were actually a selling point along with Great Midwest and Conf USA and were not the reason we did not do better. Not winning enough but the lack of a state of the art practice facility also hurt long after 1986. And as great as Chaifetz Arena was in 2008 and helped us attract RM, let’s face it, RM would have won playing games in West Pine Gym. After 2008, we won bc of RM ... not bc of Chaifetz Arena. 
And if unsure,  just look at the Jim Crews years, after 2008, which did more to hurt the program than the good brought by Chaifetz Arena.
 

Yes.  All good arguments... but 4 of our 6 losses were blowouts.  And were down the stretch.   Our good wins which made up the 43 NET were pre-COVID pause.  The Committee was likely unsure as to why the losses and why blowouts.  And, coupled with a smaller body of work, the lack of a name school and our conference affiliation -- the Committee clearly did not follow their own system.   I suspect the Committee would say, as with all systems, there is always human over-ride if the system produces an outlier result.

Agree about the blowout losses.   And think you are being kind as to the LaSalle loss which also was a blowout loss.   No real argument from me either as to the selection committee.  We failed on the basketball court and our leadership at SLU and the A10 also failed the kids.  Tough to survive both - but we nearly did.
The handling of the entire season, IMO, was shameful.  French and Goodwin (and Perkins and the others) deserved better. And I, like most, will be watching and pulling for them.
I have questions about Coach Ford and his son's 21st Birthday party -- not good.  I question why we missed 30 days and did not practice.  If the entire league shut down, then fine, but when the others are playing, strict COVID protocols greatly hurt - and how effective they really were is another story.   They were greatly effective, though, in killing our team's chances this year.  And I would like to really know what happened in Richmond.   Had SLU handled the other aspects better, I would be more inclined to believe SLU.   I want to believe SLU but right now, I don't.  I am from Missouri:  show me.   Yes, a practice game would be fine.   But how about some help  from the A10 as well.   Again, the Valley stepped in and changed their whole format.   The SEC in football changed opponents each weeks for the whole league depending upon COVID outbreaks.   The A10?  crickets... until it shut the season down a week prior, we missed 2 important games and made us sit and wait along with the lesser conferences while the better conferences had their day in the sun.   The rest of the country thinks we are no different then the Valley - and our A10 Commish made us look that way too.  Again, why could we not play our 2 games AFTER losing to St. Bona?  All teams other than VCU and St. Bona had a week off and could have played each other.  
Who said to Coach Ford, yeah, renting out a bar for your 21 year old son during a pandemic when you are the high profile coach and employee of the University?  Who said the odds of playing one (1) more game - the A10 final a week later - would increase the risk of COVID so much that the loss of 2 games would be worth it?  Who said to the A10 Commish, yeah, playing less games and the optics of playing when the lesser conferences do is a good idea as well?  This is not rocket science.  Grab 10 random people off the street and you would get better advice.

Agree about the blowout losses.   And think you are being kind as to the LaSalle loss which also was a blowout loss.   No real argument from me either as to the selection committee.  We failed on the basketball court and our leadership at SLU and the A10 also failed the kids.  Tough to survive both - but we nearly did.
The handling of the entire season, IMO, was shameful.  French and Goodwin (and Perkins and the others) deserved better. And I, like most, will be watching and pulling for them.
I have questions about Coach Ford and his son's 21st Birthday party -- not good.  I question why we missed 30 days and did not practice.  If the entire league shut down, then fine, but when the others are playing, strict COVID protocols greatly hurt - and how effective they really were is another story.   They were greatly effective, though, in killing our team's chances this year.  And I would like to really know what happened in Richmond.   Had SLU handled the other aspects better, I would be more inclined to believe SLU.   I want to believe SLU but right now, I don't.  I am from Missouri:  show me.   Yes, a practice game would be fine.   But how about some help  from the A10 as well.   Again, the Valley stepped in and changed their whole format.   The SEC in football changed opponents each weeks for the whole league depending upon COVID outbreaks.   The A10?  crickets... until it shut the season down a week prior, we missed 2 important games and made us sit and wait along with the lesser conferences while the better conferences had their day in the sun.   The rest of the country thinks we are no different then the Valley - and our A10 Commish made us look that way too.  Again, why could we not play our 2 games AFTER losing to St. Bona?  All teams other than VCU and St. Bona had a week off and could have played each other.  
Who said to Coach Ford, yeah, renting out a bar for your 21 year old son during a pandemic when you are the high profile coach and employee of the University?  Who said the odds of playing one (1) more game - the A10 final a week later - would increase the risk of COVID so much that the loss of 2 games would be worth it?  Who said to the A10 Commish, yeah, playing less games and the optics of playing when the lesser conferences do is a good idea as well?  This is not rocket science.  Grab 10 random people off the street and you would get better advice.

Yes.  All good arguments... but 4 of our 6 losses were blowouts.  And were down the stretch.   Our good wins which made up the 43 NET were pre-COVID pause.  The Committee was likely unsure as to why the losses and why blowouts.  And, coupled with a smaller body of work, the lack of a name school and our conference affiliation -- the Committee clearly did not follow their own system.   I suspect the Committee would say, as with all systems, there is always human over-ride if the system produces an outlier result.

Agree about the blowout losses.   And think you are being kind as to the LaSalle loss which also was a blowout loss.   No real argument from me either as to the selection committee.  We failed on the basketball court and our leadership at SLU and the A10 also failed the kids.  Tough to survive both - but we nearly did.
The handling of the entire season, IMO, was shameful.  French and Goodwin (and Perkins and the others) deserved better. And I, like most, will be watching and pulling for them.
I have questions about Coach Ford and his son's 21st Birthday party -- not good.  I question why we missed 30 days and did not practice.  If the entire league shut down, then fine, but when the others are playing, strict COVID protocols greatly hurt - and how effective they really were is another story.   They were greatly effective, though, in killing our team's chances this year.  And I would like to really know what happened in Richmond.   Had SLU handled the other aspects better, I would be more inclined to believe SLU.   I want to believe SLU but right now, I don't.  I am from Missouri:  show me.   Yes, a practice game would be fine.   But how about some help  from the A10 as well.   Again, the Valley stepped in and changed their whole format.   The SEC in football changed opponents each weeks for the whole league depending upon COVID outbreaks.   The A10?  crickets... until it shut the season down a week prior, we missed 2 important games and made us sit and wait along with the lesser conferences while the better conferences had their day in the sun.   The rest of the country thinks we are no different then the Valley - and our A10 Commish made us look that way too.  Again, why could we not play our 2 games AFTER losing to St. Bona?  All teams other than VCU and St. Bona had a week off and could have played each other.  
Who said to Coach Ford, yeah, renting out a bar for your 21 year old son during a pandemic when you are the high profile coach and employee of the University?  Who said the odds of playing one (1) more game - the A10 final a week later - would increase the risk of COVID so much that the loss of 2 games would be worth it?  Who said to the A10 Commish, yeah, playing less games and the optics of playing when the lesser conferences do is a good idea as well?  This is not rocket science.  Grab 10 random people off the street and you would get better advice.

Agree about the blowout losses.   And think you are being kind as to the LaSalle loss which also was a blowout loss.   No real argument from me either as to the selection committee.  We failed on the basketball court and our leadership at SLU and the A10 also failed the kids.  Tough to survive both - but we nearly did.
The handling of the entire season, IMO, was shameful.  French and Goodwin (and Perkins and the others) deserved better. And I, like most, will be watching and pulling for them.
I have questions about Coach Ford and his son's 21st Birthday party -- not good.  I question why we missed 30 days and did not practice.  If the entire league shut down, then fine, but when the others are playing, strict COVID protocols greatly hurt - and how effective they really were is another story.   They were greatly effective, though, in killing our team's chances this year.  And I would like to really know what happened in Richmond.   Had SLU handled the other aspects better, I would be more inclined to believe SLU.   I want to believe SLU but right now, I don't.  I am from Missouri:  show me.   Yes, a practice game would be fine.   But how about some help  from the A10 as well.   Again, the Valley stepped in and changed their whole format.   The SEC in football changed opponents each weeks for the whole league depending upon COVID outbreaks.   The A10?  crickets... until it shut the season down a week prior, we missed 2 important games and made us sit and wait along with the lesser conferences while the better conferences had their day in the sun.   The rest of the country thinks we are no different then the Valley - and our A10 Commish made us look that way too.  Again, why could we not play our 2 games AFTER losing to St. Bona?  All teams other than VCU and St. Bona had a week off and could have played each other.  
Who said to Coach Ford, yeah, renting out a bar for your 21 year old son during a pandemic when you are the high profile coach and employee of the University?  Who said the odds of playing one (1) more game - the A10 final a week later - would increase the risk of COVID so much that the loss of 2 games would be worth it?  Who said to the A10 Commish, yeah, playing less games and the optics of playing when the lesser conferences do is a good idea as well?  This is not rocket science.  Grab 10 random people off the street and you would get better advice.

Funny.  Would be nice to read a positive comment or two from you about our team's players rather than the glowing ones you post of the other A10 teams.  I respect your knowledge of the other teams and such info is appreciated, but not sure you realize how negative you have been about our own team.
You said you were done with JGood.   Nothing good from you about French.  Alot of blame upon Coach Ford.  Blame due to not making the NCAA but 1 time during their careers.
Will just agree to disagree.   We were an NCAA Tourney last year and this year too, but for the COVID.  St. Bona is not a better team than us and I would much prefer Coach Ford over Mark Schmidt.  We don't need a new coach or a program overhaul of talent - just good health this year and some new pieces to the puzzle next year.  Maybe you and others call COVID an excuse this year.  So be it.   Again, agree to disagree.   My 19 year old son was in perfect physical shape before getting COVID last Fall.   He lost taste and smell, had normal sore throat and cough, slept 22 hours two (2) days in a row and soon otherwise recovered.  Young kids recover quickly -- and thankfully he did too - though he continued to be winded going up stairs for 2 months afterwards.   No big deal for him -- but I suspect it was/is a big deal for French and the others.  Thankfully, I have no first had knowledge - though several in my office and friends and family tested positive and all have talked about both the short term recovery and the longer term recovery. 
Bad luck, possibly self-inflicted as per the other thread ...  but the effects of COVID are real -- and I suggest are not an excuse.

I named only Terry Cummings. Forgot Aquire was still there. 
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/depaul/1981.html

Yes and a good coach and recruiter can turn DePaul into a powerhouse. A Top 20 program

Why should we expect "real" old school journalism, proper sourcing, etc. when our major news outlets don't do this either?  Journalism is dead.
Gardner sent out a nasty, unverified hit piece -- which as many have pointed out may or may not be true.
Why does Coach Ford need to respond with a proper journalistic response to such a nasty attack?   
And why is the source of the COVID required to state the obvious -- our team was greatly and negatively affected by COVID? 
 

St Joe lost 100 - 66 to UMass despite the play/return of Daly and his 7 points...

Two points:
1.  Agreed.  The A10 did no favors to help SLU this year.  In fact, it's policies worked against SLU.   When COVID negatively affected Ohio State's football team which did not have enough games to qualify for the postseason as per Big 10 rules, the Big 10 Conference stepped in and changed the rules to help  its preseason favorite.  SLU basketball is not on par with Ohio State Football - I get it - but SLU was a preseason favorite to win or contend for the A10 Championship, was loaded with 3 quality Seniors who each succeeded individually as Juniors before their team had its season abruptly end like all other team, was successful this year in their return against P5 schools before its COVID pause and clearly was hammered hard by COVID.  And while I get the thought of "building in" a week gap in the middle of the A10 Tourney, this decision clearly hurt SLU and other programs by denying them what they needed -- to play games.   And while I make no apology for or intend to defend the Committee for "not following its rules" regarding NET as it relates to the SLU, I would argue that SLU playing far less games than many programs helped make SLU's NET rating more suspect.   And while SLU lost only 6 games, its losses to LaSalle, second loss to UD and loss to St. Bona were not just bad losses but were embarrassing blow outs.  2 extra games would have certainly helped SLU.  Then, again, why did the A10 not arrange for SLU to make up more games prior to the final season?  The baseball Cardinals played double header after double header and damn near played as many games as the others.  The STL Blues and and the NHL are playing multiple games against the same opponents and even moved to this season only to a realigned Western Conference.   Loyola and Drake played a full schedule in part by the "home and away" games in the Valley.  Not the A10 -- it made no changes other than to shorten its season.  And don't forget that SLU lost a key game against Richmond where we flew out to the Richmond only to leave with no game?  Richmond didn't properly interpret the league COVID rules?  Wasn't that the case claimed also by the team to play Richmond after us?   And for this "leadership", Richmond was made a host of the A10 Tourney?  And as much as I believe the Committee is still conference slotting, why would the A10 get more bids than the other mid majors or worse?  Optics are important.   When we play our Championship game in Madison Square Garden the same weekend as the P5 guys, we look more like them.  But when we play our Tourney the week prior, the same weekend as the lesser conferences, the A10 looks lesser and gets treated as a lesser conference.  For that decision alone, the A10 Commissioner should summarily be fired for setting the conference back for years.
2.  Chris May, by many accounts, is a nice guy, returns emails, warmly greets posters at away games, displays his his passion while yelling at the refs during home games and now has both soccer programs playing good as well... but where was he when our program needed to make up games?  When rules could have been changed to help SLU but which were changed to hurt SLU?  And where was  Dr. P ?  Dayton got the championship game and not SLU?  And with longevity, should there not also be power?  How many more senior AD's are there in the A10 than Chris May?  And why can SLU never get anyone with connections with the A10? with the NCAA and/or Tournament Committee?  Debbie Yow had these connections but I don't believe anyone has come close since her.   Yes, we are long overdue for someone at SLU (AD May, the Board of Trustees, Coach Ford) to put its foot down and demand better -- and if not, then we leave.  

Two points:
1.  Agreed.  The A10 did no favors to help SLU this year.  In fact, it's policies worked against SLU.   When COVID negatively affected Ohio State's football team which did not have enough games to qualify for the postseason as per Big 10 rules, the Big 10 Conference stepped in and changed the rules to help  its preseason favorite.  SLU basketball is not on par with Ohio State Football - I get it - but SLU was a preseason favorite to win or contend for the A10 Championship, was loaded with 3 quality Seniors who each succeeded individually as Juniors before their team had its season abruptly end like all other team, was successful this year in their return against P5 schools before its COVID pause and clearly was hammered hard by COVID.  And while I get the thought of "building in" a week gap in the middle of the A10 Tourney, this decision clearly hurt SLU and other programs by denying them what they needed -- to play games.   And while I make no apology for or intend to defend the Committee for "not following its rules" regarding NET as it relates to the SLU, I would argue that SLU playing far less games than many programs helped make SLU's NET rating more suspect.   And while SLU lost only 6 games, its losses to LaSalle, second loss to UD and loss to St. Bona were not just bad losses but were embarrassing blow outs.  2 extra games would have certainly helped SLU.  Then, again, why did the A10 not arrange for SLU to make up more games prior to the final season?  The baseball Cardinals played double header after double header and damn near played as many games as the others.  The STL Blues and and the NHL are playing multiple games against the same opponents and even moved to this season only to a realigned Western Conference.   Loyola and Drake played a full schedule in part by the "home and away" games in the Valley.  Not the A10 -- it made no changes other than to shorten its season.  And don't forget that SLU lost a key game against Richmond where we flew out to the Richmond only to leave with no game?  Richmond didn't properly interpret the league COVID rules?  Wasn't that the case claimed also by the team to play Richmond after us?   And for this "leadership", Richmond was made a host of the A10 Tourney?  And as much as I believe the Committee is still conference slotting, why would the A10 get more bids than the other mid majors or worse?  Optics are important.   When we play our Championship game in Madison Square Garden the same weekend as the P5 guys, we look more like them.  But when we play our Tourney the week prior, the same weekend as the lesser conferences, the A10 looks lesser and gets treated as a lesser conference.  For that decision alone, the A10 Commissioner should summarily be fired for setting the conference back for years.
2.  Chris May, by many accounts, is a nice guy, returns emails, warmly greets posters at away games, displays his his passion while yelling at the refs during home games and now has both soccer programs playing good as well... but where was he when our program needed to make up games?  When rules could have been changed to help SLU but which were changed to hurt SLU?  And where was  Dr. P ?  Dayton got the championship game and not SLU?  And with longevity, should there not also be power?  How many more senior AD's are there in the A10 than Chris May?  And why can SLU never get anyone with connections with the A10? with the NCAA and/or Tournament Committee?  Debbie Yow had these connections but I don't believe anyone has come close since her.   Yes, we are long overdue for someone at SLU (AD May, the Board of Trustees, Coach Ford) to put its foot down and demand better -- and if not, then we leave.  

Two points:
1.  Agreed.  The A10 did no favors to help SLU this year.  In fact, it's policies worked against SLU.   When COVID negatively affected Ohio State's football team which did not have enough games to qualify for the postseason as per Big 10 rules, the Big 10 Conference stepped in and changed the rules to help  its preseason favorite.  SLU basketball is not on par with Ohio State Football - I get it - but SLU was a preseason favorite to win or contend for the A10 Championship, was loaded with 3 quality Seniors who each succeeded individually as Juniors before their team had its season abruptly end like all other team, was successful this year in their return against P5 schools before its COVID pause and clearly was hammered hard by COVID.  And while I get the thought of "building in" a week gap in the middle of the A10 Tourney, this decision clearly hurt SLU and other programs by denying them what they needed -- to play games.   And while I make no apology for or intend to defend the Committee for "not following its rules" regarding NET as it relates to the SLU, I would argue that SLU playing far less games than many programs helped make SLU's NET rating more suspect.   And while SLU lost only 6 games, its losses to LaSalle, second loss to UD and loss to St. Bona were not just bad losses but were embarrassing blow outs.  2 extra games would have certainly helped SLU.  Then, again, why did the A10 not arrange for SLU to make up more games prior to the final season?  The baseball Cardinals played double header after double header and damn near played as many games as the others.  The STL Blues and and the NHL are playing multiple games against the same opponents and even moved to this season only to a realigned Western Conference.   Loyola and Drake played a full schedule in part by the "home and away" games in the Valley.  Not the A10 -- it made no changes other than to shorten its season.  And don't forget that SLU lost a key game against Richmond where we flew out to the Richmond only to leave with no game?  Richmond didn't properly interpret the league COVID rules?  Wasn't that the case claimed also by the team to play Richmond after us?   And for this "leadership", Richmond was made a host of the A10 Tourney?  And as much as I believe the Committee is still conference slotting, why would the A10 get more bids than the other mid majors or worse?  Optics are important.   When we play our Championship game in Madison Square Garden the same weekend as the P5 guys, we look more like them.  But when we play our Tourney the week prior, the same weekend as the lesser conferences, the A10 looks lesser and gets treated as a lesser conference.  For that decision alone, the A10 Commissioner should summarily be fired for setting the conference back for years.
2.  Chris May, by many accounts, is a nice guy, returns emails, warmly greets posters at away games, displays his his passion while yelling at the refs during home games and now has both soccer programs playing good as well... but where was he when our program needed to make up games?  When rules could have been changed to help SLU but which were changed to hurt SLU?  And where was  Dr. P ?  Dayton got the championship game and not SLU?  And with longevity, should there not also be power?  How many more senior AD's are there in the A10 than Chris May?  And why can SLU never get anyone with connections with the A10? with the NCAA and/or Tournament Committee?  Debbie Yow had these connections but I don't believe anyone has come close since her.   Yes, we are long overdue for someone at SLU (AD May, the Board of Trustees, Coach Ford) to put its foot down and demand better -- and if not, then we leave.