thatskablamo

If the SLU Athletic Department was akin to a publicly shared company, the management has absolutely railroaded its shareholders. Yet the majority of the shareholders (MBMs) don’t have a seat at the table or even know the phone number to dial in for the investor relations proxy meetings. The PTSD left behind in the wake of the Ford era will be felt by this program for years. That is not hyperbole. Chris May has to be removed by the end of the academic year.

Agree. An additional anecdote, but in 01, my Mom and I were at the Galleria and Romar was doing a promotional thing there with some players, the Billiken, cheerleaders - I was doing a federal work study program that put me in the SID kind of like an internship program with Terry Elmore - Romar tosses me a t shirt and a plastic basketball and says “quit letting Terry ride you like a prize pony” haha I about died laughing. It was so cool to have the head basketball coach at SLU not only say hello to you, but act as if he knew you. That’s a whole other level of professionalism and said a lot about his character. Cameron Dollar was like that, too. A great guy you could clown around with at the rec during a pickup game. That whole staff was great. I’m a ride-or-die Romar guy.

The BoT needs to clean the house that Fred currently resides in, too. The changing of the guard needs to start in DuBourg Hall.

I like your take on this. Maybe I did give him too much credit, but a lot of good employees cut bait on a bad manager. That bad manager was Phil Forte’s former college coach. That’s kind of eye opening, but what opens my eyes may not open the eyes of others and that’s fine, too!

Let’s take the Time Machine back to last April. Phil Forte leaving and the wake that left behind should have been the massive warning alarm that the program was internally hemorrhaging. The “closer to home” narrative was May pulling the wool over our eyes. Forte was smart enough to see the writing on the wall. Good for you, Phil.

And that was all CIA-funded A/V equipment!

If that is the case, you have to stage some sort of bloodless coup. An en-masse revocation of season tickets, barren seats at Chaifetz, etc. Vote with your wallet, they say. Same philosophy can be applied to sports.

Creighton still has true Jesuit leadership; not a scrub who came to us from LeMoyne, home of the “I wanna die” Dolphins, in another rare twist of irony. Marquette has just been lucky enough to have all the breaks go their way since 2003.

The Andre Dawson Classic.

Yeah, calling an audible for a Gillooly-level shenanigan isn’t a good look. I mean, it would be fun, but let’s not stoop to that level.

Thank you, Box I knew you were a good man.

That’s a 220, right?

When did we lose the lights in the first place? We were regularly playing CUSA Friday night tilts under the lights twenty something years ago. What constituted the change?

What the hell did I just watch? Damn, switching over to Missouri Valley hoops for a dose of reality.

lol thanks for the early morning chuckle! I can just imagine a house full of repurposed pallets and the “live laugh love” signs made out of chicken wire and Amway products strewn about the May household, a real proving ground for the multi-level marketing schemes.

Just like coaches at the state schools. I believe Kirk Ferentz is the highest paid state employee in Iowa. And it’s not even close.

A move to lure the WCWS out of OKC and down the road to Norman, perhaps? I mean, if Creighton can play all their baseball home games at the site of the CWS, I guess Boomer Softball Sooner should be able to.

+1000. And with his past experience with the Pro Bull Riders tour, he could lasso up and corral the absolute shi+show of a rodeo Chris May left behind. I second the Kosha overture. Come home, Kosha!

A couple of my Charlotte-based colleagues and I have made an annual golf run in mid-April up to Boone, NC. We play Olde Beau up in Roaring Gap, NC on Friday and Boone Golf Club on Saturday. Last April, our trip coincided with an App State home slate against ODU, and let me tell you - this is a ball field. Absolutely amazing setting for baseball. Fire pits and Adirondack chairs down the foul lines, pretty cheap ticket prices and a ridiculous lineup of craft beers on hand. It’s a huge student event - they come out to support the Mountaineers and even Yosef, the mascot, shows up. This is good collegiate baseball from a facilities and environment standpoint. Boone is also a diamond in the rough town foodie-wise, too. The Dan’l Boone for brunch is a can’t-miss!

Does that come with or without the detachable towel?

This. It has to be a scorched earth policy. It’s a liquidation. Everything must go.

Mike Bray is a turtleneck shopping trip at Dillard’s away from being a candidate, too.

Are we in any position to have that conversation as it stands on this, the third of February anno domini two thousand and twenty four? All this talk of Big East, I’d take a .500 team first.

Is there anyone in that space who has any ties to SLU at all? Not that it matters, but it might be nice to find someone who cares about the University as a whole; its past, present and future.

Like an inmate calling the Governor at 11:59 pm, it’s too late for clemency, son.