AnkielBreakers
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Somebody, please call Popovich and tell him there is a better FA PG than his starter. That the player can average 10 RPG to help his team.
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I think this is the most points we have scored in an A10 game. 102.
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What is the all-time highest score for the Bills in an A10 game? 95 has to be close.
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47 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens. Obviously Dartmouth takes it to court, which means we are years away from a final determination. The interesting thing is how does this not apply to every sport? Dartmouth fields teams in sports I didn’t know were sports, including such gems as Men’s Heavyweight Rowing and Men’s Lightweight Rowing (There’s a difference? Really???) and Women’s Rugby 15’s and 7’s (WTF is that? I get the Rugby part, but 15’s and 7’s???). Some of these don’t look cheap to run, like Men’s and Women’s Sailing and Women’s Equestrian. Never heard that those were cheap hobbies, so I can’t imagine running them as a sport with coaches is cheap. Are they all going to unionize now? Even if you paid the athletes only minimum wage, the money involved in that many athletes seems huge, and remember, they are on the clock for practice time and travel time (yes, you have to pay employees for travel related to work) in addition to game time. And you fund all this with ticket sales and TV revenue derived from an Ivy League school?
Maybe I should enroll at a CC and walk onto the golf team. And there, as a member of the proletariat, I will begin my life as a social justice warrior!!!
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Double it!
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Travis Ford’s winning percentage (.578) just dipped below Jim Crews (.579). Should drop below Spoonhour soon (.575). It was the one stat that really justified him as the head coach and it is falling fast.
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46 minutes ago, thetorch said:
Terrible idea.
Really really hard to recruit athletes when guys get raped in your program.
I had to do a double take on this one. What?!?
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1 hour ago, slu72 said:
So, Torch is saying Chris has no problem with playing an AC for life. I would think the objective of anyone who gets into the coaching biz is to one day run their own SHOW. I don’t know Carawell so really can’t say what his goals are. But, if he’s content to sit behind Scheyer, who’s young, for the next 20 or so years then we wouldn’t want him anyways. We want someone whose ambition is to be recognized as a top flight HC. Whether he uses SLU as a stepping stone is not that important because he’s not going to achieve a better job unless he achieves success here. Look at X as a model for successful coaches who move up the food chain. Yeah, we would prefer a Mark Few type who’s content to stay for life, but they are like rare jewels, hard to find.
In fairness, SLU hasn’t tried in the modern age. The only exception is Romar. We have had 3/4 coaches with substantial experience who wanted to ride out the end of their careers here, because they have seen other programs. Who is to say that a solid up and comer wouldn’t plan to settle in? Good recruiting playground, decent amount of money, and solid facilities. That said, you have to hire an up and comer, and then that person have success, to test the theory.
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2 minutes ago, slu72 said:
TO score SLU 10 Fham 2. Story of the game.
Well, at least we are good at something.
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Suggesting a win? Really sticking your neck out there.
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25 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
A poster of known credibility and a history of providing accurate information indicated that the buyout was more than $10mil and the contract at 10 years.
Right, but he said that was at the end of last year. Ford has been paid 2.5 million over the last year. It should be closer to 7.5 million. All we are talking about is the remaining money on Ford’s contract. It is not a static number.
If someone else wanted to steal Ford from us, the buyout in that instance could be a static number, like 1-2 million. It is a different concept.
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1 hour ago, Slu let the dogs out? said:
That, or the fact that someone still has to come up with $10M+ to kick Ford to the curb. Fire May now it's not nearly as expensive.
Has anyone said the buyout is still 10 M? Normally, a buyout drops as you get closer to the end of an agreement. So, it probably dropped at least 2.5 M. If we had 7 M last year to pay a buyout, probably still do this year.
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Just now, slu72 said:
11 more days of pain. Thanks for the reminder.
11 more days for these Billikens to reach for the sky! I hope they cherish these minutes.
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19 minutes ago, slu92 said:
Heard Chris May might have tried selling Dr. C too much bs after last home game, team is just now getting healthy, don’t overreact, just wait until A10 tourney, trust the process, that type of stuff….and it set Chaifetz off. Anyone else hear something similar?
IF mbb is main driver and flagship program at slu you’d think gross negligence of your main sport is grounds for removal, if not, I don’t know what it is. If that May/Chaifetz interaction is half true god help us all, it’s a bigger cluster than we think down there.
This board is the best, because everything sounds true. I am going to pop some popcorn, keep it coming!!!
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23 hours ago, SLU-Geo said:
Interesting thought experiment, take Ford's $2.5 million annually and spend it on an NIL strategy annually:
Three 4-star recruits @ $500,000 per = $1.5 million
Three 3-star recruits @ $200,000 per = $600,000
A few $30,000 - $50,000 guys to fill in.
Coach = $500,000 - $800,00 (Darian DeVries type)
What is more important now, coaches who can recruit or NIL?
What is so infuriating is that the writing was on the wall about this potential reality before Ford’s last contract. If it really was done as an evergreen with a large buyout remaining, then it should have been done with knowledge that we could be in this exact situation.
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It is weird that the team has been this dysfunctional since Dalger left the team. If he was a team cancer, then things should look better. Instead, they look apathetic. Parker looks scared or confused.
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48 minutes ago, thunderdan said:
Wonder is Jayson would pay the CTF buyout, so we can get his dad to coach?
I am never disappointed by the thought experiments I find on this board.
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1 hour ago, billiken_roy said:
we are fast approaching the inevitable split of D1 sports into the haves and have nots. division 1A coming up. what would be cool if it indeed happens is if the have nots create their own tourney, playoffs etc and America decides that they would prefer the have not amateurs over the masked minor league professionals. let's not forget at one time the favored post season tourney was the NIT and the NCAA tourney wasnt taken near as seriously. so it could flip again. who knows.
Don’t let it stress you out. We can always transition this board into a WashU Bears fan club.
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10 minutes ago, TheChosenOne said:
While I tend to agree that was likely validation of the number, I would note the account that referenced the $10 million was the account that then went into real troll mode and not Shane's account if I remember correctly. I assume it had to be tied to Shane or someone tied to the family, but I don't think we know that as fact. It would seem like the $10 million is logical based on what folks have posted with regards to his annual compensation and knowing there is no chance he has a contract beyond 5 years.
If that is the amount, then they can’t fire him. Just give notice that his evergreen is termed and start the clock. They can fire May, unless he gave himself an evergreen contract…
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1 hour ago, ACE said:
Some of the comments from last year that we would be better off without Yuri were ridiculous. I pointed out that life would be much more difficult this year for Gibby, who was heavily reliant on Yuri.
Also odd that Yuri caught so much crap, yet Gibby largely escapes criticism for poor performances.
He doesn’t turn the ball over and he didn’t have a very public NIL scandal.
If Gibby was the weak link on defense, like he should be on almost any able bodied team, then he would receive it.
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So, if we ask for anything, will you try to do it? For example, compare this team to all of Soderberg’s teams? Or, how about Soderberg vs Ford statistically, based on teams and outcomes!?
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I don’t know how much we write about this, but Hargrove’s defense on switches is horrendous. He should be benched until he proves that he can cover the person he is supposed to switch to.
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2 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said:
So you agree that May should be fired so he can't hire the next coach?
May may be, maybe, one of the hardest calls; May may yet survive, may that happen, this board maybe won’t.
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I can only imagine what ‘butting heads’ means. My theory:
”Hey coach, I think we should cover the 3 point shooter when we are switching.”
”Shut up Dalger!!! Just stand there and stare at the man you were guarding! I’m the coach!!!”
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