gobillsgo

If you’re a big time donor, are you going to give money to a BVF under Ford’s control? I have absolutely no inside info, but I imagine the pocketbooks would open up a little bit more under Mack, Bryce Drew, or basically anyone else. Ford has shown he doesn’t know how to recruit in the NIL era. Would be a terrible investment.

Fan pressure/opinion is one of the main drivers of decision making in college athletics. I doubt Texas A&M was thrilled about paying jimbo fisher $70mil+ to buy him out, but their fans would’ve rioted had they kept him any longer. To stay silent on Ford is to be complicit in this program’s slow painful death. Seems to be exactly what Chris May wants…. So no, we wont and shouldn’t keep quiet. Ford’s repeated failures should be the predominant talking point of this board until he is fired or shows he can fix them (he hasn’t fixed them in 8 years here, don’t imagine that’s coming any time soon). We are all here because we love SLU hoops, to sit on our hands and act like this program isn’t in disastrous shape with Ford at the helm is outrageous. I won’t do it.

It’s a gameday thread… for yet another game where we were unprepared and non competitive (until the last five minutes, by which point it was too late). If we can’t discuss our coach’s deficiencies here, we can’t discuss them anywhere. Maybe every thread can stop being hijacked with excuses for why we are totally non-competitive. “if only Parker played we would’ve won” First, I don’t believe that and I’d argue anyone who isn’t wearing Blue tinted glasses would agree he wouldn’t have prevented wide open shots and a total lack of inside presence. Second, ENOUGH of the excuses for why we lose. Parker isn’t available. Injuries happen to every team. They have a new coach and 11 new players and they wiped the floor with us for 35 minutes.

People saying we win that with Parker are delusional. Our trouble was not on offense, it was that they could get a wide open shot literally whenever they wanted. We had to double the post almost every possession, and they did a phenomenal job of kicking out to open shooters. And if we didn’t double, their bigs feasted. Parker doesn’t change any of that.

I wouldn’t count on it.

Dalger has no business telling anyone anything

On a positive, Jimerson played his a$$ off. Man was getting mauled all game with zero help from the zebras. He has really evolved his game, seeing him fill it up at the rim, and efficiently at that, was really impressive. On the other hand, I’d love to see what he would’ve been capable of as a 3rd or 4th scoring option on a top 25 team. Glad he’s a Billiken though, and hope he’s collecting a much deserved NIL bag as a result.

imagine being so bad that you outscore the other team by 15 in the last 8 minutes and still lose the game…. Team Blue ladies and gentlemen!

You think Vermont had a bigger NIL than us? How about Liberty?

Ford’s “Angry Elf” routine is so tired

We are down 18 at home with 11 minutes left. With our (lack of) defense it may as well be 38. What’s not laughable?

Parker doesn’t fix this. We lose by 20+ instead of 15+. Woohoo

This season was over before it even started lol. If you can’t see that you’re part of the problem. #FireFord

No . This is the least hopeful I’ve been for this program since Soderberg. All ford could do was recruit and now he can’t even do that. At least with crews we knew his days were numbered. Seems as though we are stuck with Ford.

Non competitive yet again. Laughing stock. Sad.

What does little travvy actually do at halftime?

Gibby came to play. Zhang can play ball if given the chance.

Down 11 but may as well be 31. We don’t stand a chance.

It must’ve had pictures

You lose all credibility with this statement. They get wide open shots and layups whenever they want. That is the definition of playing bad.

8 minutes in and zero fouls against USU. Which really bodes poorly with their size advantage. Crowd as always refuses to get on the refs. meanwhile Bruce comes in, stems the bleeding on defense, makes a nice turnaround, and gets yanked by ford

This is gonna get ugly fast. Can’t play D1 basketball with a 6’4” Center

He’s been due the last 20 important/momentum games and hasn’t won one of them.

Depends how quickly we get down 20.

https://www.usufans.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=69320 their fans certainly do not fear us, which is fair. Every single one predicting a USU win, most by double digits.