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10 hours ago, slufan13 said:
It's most likely just giving students a heads up who could be headed home early for Easter
It would truly be amazing to welcome our new basketball messiah, Schertz, during Holy Week.
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On 3/21/2024 at 8:56 PM, almaman said:
HOPE SMU DIDN'T C COACH THEY LIKED
Dusty May to Ann Arbor. Wow.
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Duquesne playing their hearts out, but you can tell the tank is on E. But, as we all know, you can still get some extra miles…
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14 minutes ago, TaLBErt said:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C41T_6yOxH7/?igsh=MTFzZmdhdjB0OWRxYQ==
The basketball team is important to the university. It’s the front porch of the school. Look what 1 win has done for Oakland.
Louisville was also a paltry 8-24 this season and Kentucky boosters that sit near the U of L bench at Rupp Arena nosh on piping hot Pizza Hut pizza during their rivalry games.
one of those “scoreboard” scenarios for Louisville fans. I hate Kentucky just as much as I do U of L, but they ain’t had much to boast about at the Yum! center these days.
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49 minutes ago, OkieBilliken said:
I love our offense but the bullpen makes me cry
Sounds like an old Hootie song…
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17 minutes ago, thetorch said:
Sorry to tell you but our board of directors has been indicted, myself included and we are prohibited from doing business...and your car is being towed.
You, sir, are Penske material.
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1 minute ago, OkieBilliken said:
I notice you didn't put a cover page on your TPS report
Can’t catch a break with you, Lumbergh. Will be up in OKC and Tulsa end of April. Will have to send you a DM in a few weeks. First timer to both cities.
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1 minute ago, BrettJollyComedyHour said:
Reporting you to HR
You should see the guys down the hall. This is child’s play compared to the C-Suite.
also: Boss Button.
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Curious as to how everyone handles the desk setup for today’s games. Sitting pretty with the multiple monitors + iPad this afternoon. Productively working on the Penske File, boys.
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1 hour ago, NYBilliken said:
Good crowd at the Hulman Center in Terre Haute
It’s like the crowd at an Irish wake. They have to know it’s an end of an era if they lose.
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4 minutes ago, Bay Area Billiken said:
You have to love it, an SMU @ ISU-Blue NIT Thread here at Billikens.com.
Pony Up!
-Josh Schertz to Chaifetz after the game.
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5 hours ago, sludevil said:
Based on my borderline-obsessive following of conference realignment over the last few years, I'd rank the ACC schools as follows:
1. Definitely safe (i.e., bound for the B10/SEC): UNC, UVA, FSU, Clemson
2. On the bubble: Miami, VT, GT, NCSU
3. Not looking good, but unlikely to drop below the B12-level: Duke, Louisville
4. Definitely screwed: Wake, Syracuse, BC
The info on Pitt has been all over the place, but my best guess is that they're in group 3. However, groups 2 and 3 are far more fluid/interchangeable than groups 1 and 4, both of which are more or less carved in stone.
(And just for completeness: if we're counting ND as an ACC member, then they get their own group 1A.)
EDIT: And for further completeness, the new additions (Cal, Stanford, SMU) are probably somewhere between groups 3 and 4. (Group 3.5?) Still very strange to to me that California schools will be playing in the ACC.
I’m shaking my head at UNC leaving the ACC without their hated Tobacco Road dance partner, though. I know precedent was set when the Aggies broke ranks with the teasippers up in Austin, but a conference with UNC that doesn’t have Duke in it doesn’t seem right. Will the Dookies let this happen?
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2 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
I listened to the Opening Drive and the last two segments of today's show, and I don't know what you are upset about, unless it is the other two segments.
Frank stated he talked on the phone to several people actively involved with the search. He stated Schertz has talked directly (not through his agent) to Dr. Chaifetz, Fred P, Chris May and Joe Conran. Apparently Schertz won't accept any job until his team is out of the NIT. He is still in the running for other jobs.
Frank asked Dr. Chaifetz if he 'was your guy'. Chaifetz reportedly said, "We are talking to other coaches, some who are coaching in the NCAA Tourney."
Corey Tate, as current Interim Coach, goes to the office each day. So does Harriman. Jimerson is interested in staying, but hasn't committed. (He apparently likes Coach Tate.)
Parker has heard from quite a few P6 schools.
Outside of the SLU talk, the story on the Iowa lineman was interesting. This football player originally committed to Iowa but flipped to Alabama on signing day. At the beginning of the Jan portal, he transferred to Iowa. Now, 3 months later, he is transferring back to Alabama.
The Kayden Proctor thing is mind-boggling, but somebody at Alabama opened the purse strings. Proctor being from Iowa, just probably looked around IC and thought life was just a bit more to his liking in Tuscaloosa. It’s a toss-up who has the better O-line heritage (or O-line U as the kids say), but Iowa couldn’t move the ball with a D9 bulldozer last season under Brian Ferentz, so it makes sense.
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1 hour ago, SLU-Geo said:
Just for fun (I know he is not the guy) here are some fun numbers for this NBA season.
Ahern is 1 of 6 assitant coaches on an NBA team with a 23-46 record..
Ahearn was hired as a Grizzlies' assitant to help with "shooting development" ... the Grizzlies are last in the NBA in shooting percentage.
But number one for outside the arena shooting percentage.
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1 hour ago, billikenfan05 said:
Maybe we’re going about this wrong. We should prop him up to be hired away!
Bold game theory strategy… I’m not opposed to this move at all… this is good!
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32 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:
Maybe it gets him in the AD office over in Columbia? They do have a vacancy…
The AD U of Wash hired away from Tulane a few months ago just left Seattle for Lincoln, Nebraska. Maybe Chris May should pack a slicker and an umbrella and head out west?
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5 minutes ago, RUBillsFan said:
You can do this same analysis with Xavier, but over a longer period of time as @Pistol did on a recent MMP episode. Bob Staak 1985, Pete Gillen 1994, Skip Prosser 2001, Thad Matta 2004, Sean Miller 2009, Chris Mack 2018 were all hired away by high major programs. It wasn't until Travis Steele that they fired a coach. 6 coaches in a 34 year window moving on to a higher profile (at the time) job.
You can also go back further with VCU to Jeff Capel being hired by Oklahoma in 2006. 5 coaches in an 18 year window moving on to a higher profile job.
Butler is another example, but a little different because they usually hired from within. Barry Collier 2000, Matta 2001, Todd Lickliter 2007, Brad Stevens 2013, Brandon Miller (dud), and Chris Holtmann (2017). 5 out of 6 coaches in an 18 year window moving on to a higher profile job.
Heck Creighton an example over a longer stretch of time. Eddie Sutton 1974, Tom Apke 1981, Willis Reed (sort of), Tony Barone, Rick Johnson (dud), Dana Altman 2010. 5 of 6 coaches in 37 years moving on to a higher profile job.
You can point out that not all those guys worked out when they moved up a level, but who cares from the perspective of the lower profile school. They got some success out of the guy, got paid for him to be hired elsewhere, and moved on.
That is the formula. Put non-coach resources in place to be successful / attract a good, young, up & coming coach, make a good hire of a good, young up & coming coach, don't worry about that coach moving on, re-invest in the program when it has success and that coach gets bought out, rinse, repeat.
Eventually you hope to be in a position where the coach is happy enough & your program is big enough that they decide to stay (Gonzaga). That's the dream, but it happens organically & could take a few cycles of hiring good young coaches for it to happen or it may never happen & that's okay too.
Drake, too, since the day Dr. Tom came back to campus. Keno, Ray Giacoletti, Niko Medved, possibly DeVries.
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11 minutes ago, brianstl said:
Someone needs to have a health check called in on SycamoreBlue3209. Young man is at the end of his proverbial rope.
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25 minutes ago, Slu let the dogs out? said:
Sycamore board Recap of the Schertz interview on Dakich this morning:
I heard it. Most of the interview was about the committee and missing the tournament and preparing for the NIT. At the very end DD asked him about the SLU rumors and he sort of fumbled a bit and they went into the typical "there are always rumors" "I'm focused on now" but did say that at the end of the season he would sit down and review offers and make a decision that is best for him and his family.
Love where this poster’s head is at. Although if players plan on following Schertz to SLU I don’t see him leaving them behind to play in the NIT:
So there is a school of thought that it would be best for all involved if HCJS would announce his departure today and leave for SLU tomorrow and not coach the NIT. That way he can start working the portal for SLU immediately and Angie can name Graves interim and he can start working the portal for ISU. Everything I've heard is that Graves is a really good recruiter so tag him interim with a whisper campaign that he is the HC in waiting and get to work.....just a thought.
Wouldn’t HHCJS (hypothetical head coach Josh Schertz) push May to bring his own staff and give Graves the opportunity to stay on as an assistant for more money at SLU than he’d make as an interim HC at ISU?? Just curious.
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14 hours ago, stmdragons said:
As awesome as this is, I can’t help but feel awful for ISU fans. This has got to be an absolutely terrible day for them.
True. But at the same time, this is a business and decisions need to be made sans emotions.
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12 hours ago, slu72 said:
I look at Will Wade and see Pearl and Sampson. McNeese St was 30-3 this year. He may not be an altar boy, but that’s not what we need. A winner is needed.
The word of the lord… thanks be to God. This right here is what we need in the NIL world, and we’ve had too many acolytes who dropped the candles on the processional and lit the whole friggin church on fire. 72 nails it.
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13 minutes ago, thetorch said:
I prefer Milk Chamberlain.
+ 100
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3 minutes ago, wgstl said:
Pistol needs to be editing it by the minute.
I think Brey is an assistant for Quinn Snyder in Atlanta. Teacher becomes the student kinda deal. He could bring that DeMatha / DMV pipeline directly westbound I-70.
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1 minute ago, slufan13 said:
. It's just a failure.
Par for the course, right?
Schertz
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Oh you are good. Like the old Jesuit in the theology department who would conclude his lectures by saying “class: tomorrow’s lecture on prophecy has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.”