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Posted 15 seconds after the season ended.

Chris May walking onto the court at Enterprise as the net is getting cut down.

Travis will still probably coach the team at the A10 tourney. It will be announced that he "not returning" not that he is fired with immediate effect.

Keep in mind two of the best years of RM's teams are in the record books as JC's first two seasons.

Hopefully it has more to do with the Post Dispatch's budget than SLU's plans.

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but I thought it had been communicated that Crews wouldn't be back before they even played the tournament games. Perhaps it was just that it had communicated internally to the team.

I'll be concerned if it is not announced that Ford won't be back before Tuesday's game.

Lisch is/was a better athlete than he gets credit for. And let's be honest that's really just a matter of the way US sports fans view athleticism through their preconceived notions re: skin tone. That being said, whether or not one group of guys is more athletic is not the point. It is the difference between recruiting athletes and recruiting basketball players. Ford has throughout his time at SLU recruited athletes first and foremost. Now that can work if you and your staff can coach guys up, especially if you make a point of recruiting athletes that have that desire to learn and grow. But Ford and his staff have shown they are not that group. Guys gets a bit better under them, unlike Crews where players would finish a season the exact same as they started, but not significantly so. And without calling anyone out, it's clear that some of the athletes they recruited had no desire to be coached or improve themselves. At the risk of preparing to fight the last war....at this point SLU is better off hiring someone that can coach up a bunch of 2*s they've recruited/NILed versus someone who can recruit the big names. With the NIL era, the game is moving in the exact opposite direction of Ford's strengths.

Makes me wistful for peak A10 (2012/13)

Gibson would be great if he was our third option and not our only option.

Given how raw he was out of the "talent factory" I question if he's ever had a proper coach.

Bruce's play is Dayton's secret weapon tonight.

I was wondering why it looked like a ref was scolding Stu coming out of that last timeout.

90/10 SLU.

I think they announced it before they even played the tournament games.

Things are happening. If the choice to move on from Ford is made (assuming it hasn't already) it will be made before the team leaves for the A10 tourney.

Attendance. Not paid attendance.

Anyone else notice that after that no-call on Parker's drive, Ford ran across court and almost looked like he was pleading his case directly to Chaifetz?

I'll certainly think twice.

Actually the upper seats are more full than most other games this year. Lots of freebies and little kids today. So May will at least be able to point to nachos sales as a win.

Crews would solve this by having the other four players hang back when we shoot free throws.

This year's team playing zone is up there with the more embarrassing things I've seen ever out of this program.

Let me check the standings…yup DePaul is listed under the Big East. SLU is listed under the A10. Another place DePaul is listed is the list of institutions getting payouts from the Big East’s media contracts. And SLU is listed under programming that will be begging KPLR to put them on if BSMW collapses.

For all the deserved derision that DePaul gets, a lot of people take the DePaul job over the SLU job. The O’Loughlin Center is cute but a footnote compared to a Big East program located in Chicago. If the big-checkbook guys can get him then bless them. Because hiring him is one of the few things I can think of that would actually excite me about the future of the program. Can anyone remind me of another time a coach with a ranked team has left to put out some smaller program’s dumpster fire?