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Avila with the nickname of Cream Abdul-Jabbar is one of the greatest nicknames ever.

It was a joke. FFS.

A coach that can’t close out a victory? Welcome home.

4 years at SLU would set him up nicely to move to Creighton when McDermott's contract expires (and he retires) in 2028. DeVries would only be 52 in 2028. I still can't believe McDermott still made less than Ford.

Until this year, he was only making $335,000. This year it went up to $628,000. That's $1.8M less than Ford. That's a lot of reasons. Add to that if he thinks he can get SLU to the Big East, his value skyrockets. He also has the same amount of NCAA wins Ford has. DeVries has only been a head coach for 6 years of a minnow. Ford was head coach for 27 years with some heavily underperforming teams.

Darian DeVries is the answer

Because he’s just a kid with a Coach who also doesn’t know what to do in pressure situations.

15 years and 1, yes 1 NCAA Tournament win. He has won one game in the tournament. Great recruiting but he has no idea how to coach on game day. Zero strategy, zero adjustment.

What type of game plan is "run at them full speed and throw the ball in the air"? Ford is not a legit coach especially at his pay level. But the players were playing scared and couldn't execute. They just blew any chance at an outright bid.

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In his "Way-Too-Early Top 25 college basketball rankings for 2022-23", Jeff Borzello has us at #25 https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/page/earlytop25040422/arkansas-razorbacks-no-1-way-too-early-top-25-college-basketball-rankings-2022-23

I am assuming the Big East is still the goal. If it is, Ford is not the guy to get us there. if it is not, get out of the A10. The travel wears on these kids. The Big East wants the St. Louis Market. They don’t want a crap team however. If SLU can get three straight tournament appearances, I think SLU and Dayton will get an invite. Regardless, Ford is not the future.

In those 24 years. 1 - OVC Tournament Champions 1- A10 Tournament Champions 1 - A10 conference champions That’s it in 24 years

But we still have no idea what the terms are. I would think the extension was for 2-3 years. If it’s 5, Chris May should be fired.

Ford gives some Jack Black looks sometime.

They won’t release the terms publicly.

I would change our offense. Forget the three for a bit. crash the boards until they stop you crashing the boards. But defensively, Ford has got to get our players to defend their 3’s 62 points. 36 from the 3.

We go on a mini run crashing the basket and then we have to kill it by taking a senseless 3

Changes don’t have to always come in form of personnel.

That’s his biggest weakness- zero ability to adjust.

This is ugly

Huge effort by Nesbit. ----- now Ford will sit him.

Over the back, hit the arm .... jump ball. WTF?

That was a ridiculous foul call

How did this LaSalle team beat Dayton?