majerus mojo
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8 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
Anywhere from top of the a10 to legit P5 numbers
Well yea I'd hope top of the A10 would be the floor, but he said the "low number" was among P5 elite
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14 hours ago, brianstl said:
I don't know what to tell you. I don't think you really understand how much some of SLU"s boosters are really worth. These aren't the type of people that will be making NIL spends through a collective website. This isn't just Chaifetz that has stepped up. I have heard two different numbers for what will be available for SLU to spend on NIL this season. The lower of those two numbers would have put SLU among the very elite of P5 basketball NIL spending last season. Will Texas spend more this coming season than SLU will? Sure they could, I am sure they have the means to and they probably will. Also just because the money is available that doesn't mean SLU will spend every last penny of it. That still doesn't mean SLU won't be able spend just as much or more than Texas when it comes to what they are willing to spend on a specific player both programs are targeting. Being willing to spend that money doesn't even mean that SLU would land that player. There are many kids that would rather play for Texas at the end of the day.
Surely the whole point of this board is to humor MBMs with numbers like these?
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18 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
Coach Schertz visit today.
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Do we think #Billikens isn’t specific enough
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53 minutes ago, 3star_recruit said:
System coaches need the right personnel to run their system. That's why Majerus couldn't win here until he had his guys in place. Schertz runs his offense through the 5. Not only did we not have a 5 that is a high level shooter and passer, the rest of the team was the worst collection of passers in decades.
Yea give Schertz a raise already if he would’ve gotten this team to 1st in the A-10
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43 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
Holt McCallany lookin a$$
A little Nick Nolte in Blue Chips too
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4 hours ago, billikenfan05 said:
Check my history man, I’ve said it was always Schertz from the beginning and I’ve stuck by that. It’s the external forces ie Louisville, ISU and any other schools that have popped up. I believe it’s been done for awhile and as of 5:43am I still think that’s the case. Doesn’t mean the rumors haven’t worn me down.
Haha. Next HC is kind of a big deal so I get it
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On 3/18/2024 at 11:11 PM, majerus mojo said:
BUMP. March 17 is when the (ESPN, Trilly) rumors started and I started doing any Schertz homework. Was hard not to be a fan immediately, from a person standpoint at least.
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4 hours ago, billikenfan05 said:
If you told me how mentally taxing this search was going to be, I would have assumed we were where Louisville was 24-48 hours ago. I am so effing exhausted. But I can't stop checking social media.
Gotta disagree. Almost no actual searching once the ball got rolling.
Seems like we’ve had Schertz locked up along the Trilly timeline for over a week. There hasn’t really been any drama/we haven’t been linked to anyone else as someone noted. The Cusumano-Ahearn thing was more people piling on Frank vs. substance. Stu’s Twitter has been pathetic quote tweets/half-assed trolling that Schertz might stay at ISU or go elsewhere. No real reporting. Sad! Bills are back.
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On 3/15/2024 at 1:44 AM, TRN said:
Trilly Donovan says it’s a good job, and underrated. I’ll take that over majerusmojo, no offense.
Yea everyone says that. Was kind of my point, TRN. It has literally taken a HOF coach to do anything of note with said job this century, though.
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11 hours ago, RiseOfTheBillikens said:
I mean I don't think he's necessarily way off. We kind of suck and we are pretty irrelevant nationally. A10 is meh. I want Schertz but I definitely think he could go p5 if he wanted. Just depends what he is looking for.
We shall see.
Yea I’m pretty over hearing about what a “good job” this is. We’re in a big city and have great facilities (some good boosters too, though some prefer to dump on them), but isn’t the elephant in the room that our athletic department is terrible/has never done the men’s basketball program any favors? Seems like an important piece of the picture.
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I am kind of confused how the Ford being fired before the end of the season rumors started? That is the biggest “Hey look at me, I really screwed this up” move an AD could make. Would Chris May ever put the spotlight on himself like that? He’d then have to explain to his higher ups why the situation is so bad/dire that it cannot wait until the end of the season.
The consensus is that we have one of the worst athletic departments in the country, I tend to doubt we’ve been super proactive on any of the this and the new coach is already under wraps, but hope springs eternal.
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28 minutes ago, ARon said:
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but I thought it had been communicated that Crews wouldn't be back before they even played the tournament games.
Perhaps it was just that it had communicated internally to the team.I remember walking out of Barclays and another fan comforted me with the info that the Crews era was over. I don't think it was public knowledge, but folks close to the program knew
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P.s. Ford stinks/terrible game, hate to lose sight of that
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2 minutes ago, TRN said:
Other schools manage to do both. You know, since half the fans will leave at 10:00 to go home.
It just seems like such a “Twitter” thing to be upset about. If you really cared about giving a standing ovation at the end of the game you would just stick around for the ceremony…?
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The not taking a TO to get Hargrove a standing ovation seems bad, but also they had a whole ceremony planned in order to celebrate him so let’s not get carried away
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Goodwin triple-double his freshman year
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If that’s the number why wouldn’t Jimerson want ~$250K to play another season of college basketball? Yeesh
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1 hour ago, Taj79 said:
In all seriousness, how many institutions or similar entities were built way back when and could be argued in today's legal wasteland along these same lines? If the Jesuits owned slaves, didn't all the Jesuits somewhere along the line? Georgetown for example? What about places in the deep South like Duke and Tulane? Did Chinese slaves build the Trans Continetal Railroad? Pendleton, Oregon, has a whole "underground" museum devoted to the plight of the Chinese when they were building. Seems they couldn't walk the streets and actually had to go literally 'underground' after hours. It's a tourist item now. Maybe the Golden Gate Bridge? Or the Empire State Building. Better yet, how about the New York Stock Exchange.
Git yerself a little sumthin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_at_American_colleges_and_universities
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On 3/29/2016 at 9:37 PM, RiseAndGrind said:
To recap:
- SLU unofficially fires Jim Crews 7-10 days before season
- SLU actually fires Jim Crews 3 minutes after season is over
- SLU says it wants a head coach with a high level of success
- SLU hires a "search firm"
- SLU waits 18 days
- SLU hires a coach that is roundly disliked and was just fired from his last job.
Good job. Good effort.
Good recap
On 3/29/2016 at 10:25 PM, JMM28 said:Obligatory bump
On 3/29/2016 at 10:48 PM, RiseAndGrind said:3-15 in conference last year.
This guy buyouts
On 3/29/2016 at 10:53 PM, okstatefan said:Oklahoma State fan dropping by, was curious to see how the hire of Travis Ford would be received. I'll be interested to see how he does. I hope he does well for your sake. I think the consensus among our fans is that he is a nice guy, but we were ready for him to move on. I see a lot of comments about him being an ###### or a bad guy, but I'm not sure it's accurate.
He works very hard, a tireless recruiter, and he did have some recruiting success for us. He won on some big time recruits. What he failed to do as far as recruiting goes, is recruit a complete roster. He always had major holes at the 4 and 5 position and he'd have a plethora of thin, 6'5-6'7 "athletes" who would be forced to play in the post, and ride the bench, while we lacked true big men. Most of our fans did not appreciate his style of play. (disclaimer: this may have had something to do with most of us being accustomed to Eddie Sutton grind out, tough defense, high iq, half court ball). In fact, we sometimes questioned if he had a style of play. He promised uptempo basketball, and it seemed he recruited athletes to play this way, but it never really translated on the court. Not only did he fail to recruit true big men, he also failed to develop the few we did have. It did not seem to be an emphasis for him. It seemed his assistant coaches were pretty useless, and he didn't make as many changes as he should have, in my opinion.
I'll also mention Travis had some awful luck with injuries to some of our better players, and also lost a difference maker to a questionable off the court issue. This year for example, we lost our two best players for a good portion of the season, one for the entire season.
I was skeptical when we hired him. He came in and took over after Sean Sutton was fired, and took over a team with some highly rated players who had failed to perform under Sean, and took them to the second round of the NCAA tournament. He came in and multiple players really improved in his first year. I started to become a believer at that point. I was impressed by the turnaround and thought maybe we really had something. Unfortunately it was mostly downhill from there with some occasional brief moments of hope.
I'll note some of his weaknesses from my perspective: NOT LEARNING FROM HIS MISTAKES. Almost every year we had one dominant player, Eaton his senior year, James Anderson, Marcus Smart. He rode some of these guys into the ground, and I think they would tire out by seasons end.
We had a terrible conference road record during Ford's tenure. My impression: he did not emphasize high percentage shots. Time and again it seemed we'd either jack up a shot without running an offense, or we'd waste the shot clock then ended up settling for a low percentage shot. His offense just did not work. It did not go inside out through most of his time with us. It was very rare for us to have a post presence (which again goes back to lack of recruiting them, lack of developing them). Hell one year, our roster was so depleted we had play a walk on a few times at the end of the season, and he actually brought some life to our team rebounding, playing interior d, two things we severely lacked even before injuries. That was a small, but significant event resulting in myself questioning Coach Ford's awareness. We had decent transition D, but part of the reason was because we did not attempt to get offensive rebounds. Low percentage shots, getting dominated on the boards= terrible road record, pretty simple equation. We also had multiple end of game management/decision blunders under Ford: not remembering how many timeouts we had, missed a scoreboard error, poor player decisions.
Here's his final career road record at OSU pulled from our message board:
Combined: 23-62
Non-Conference: 8-7
Ws: Texas A&M CC, Stanford, LaSalle, Tulsa, Missouri St., S. Florida, Memphis, Auburn
Ls: Washington, Tulsa, Gonzaga, Wash St., Alabama, Virginia Tech, South Carolina
Conference: 15-55
Baylor: 1-7
Colorado: 1-1
Iowa State: 1-5
Kansas: 1-6
Kansas State: 1-5
Missouri: 0-2
Nebraska: 1-1
Oklahoma: 0-8
TCU: 2-2
Texas: 2-6
Texas A&M: 0-5
Texas Tech: 3-5
West Virginia: 2-2I think he has some soul searching to do. Looking back, I felt we had a couple teams who could I thought could legitimately compete. His very first season we developed a guy who could score in the paint, and this gave us a fighting chance for post season success. Beyond that, we were much too reliant on a single perimeter player. I think what you need to be hopeful for is hiring an assistant who knows how to recruit/develop post players, and Ford needs to give big men a chance. You need Ford to do a better job of piecing together a complete roster instead of 1-2 studs, but gaping holes elsewhere. Ford needs to establish an identity. If he's going to recruit a bunch of "athletes", he needs to run a system best suited for them. We did have a pretty strong defense this year with Ford. One thing that was interesting with Ford teams (other than this year), his teams always seemed to fight the hardest when their back was against the wall, when you were ready to give up on them, or thought their season was done. His players always played hard for him.
Anyway, sorry if that was too much rambling...too tired to proofread. I'll be happy to answer any questions.
Incredible. Dart after dart
On 3/29/2016 at 11:06 PM, ARon said:SLU sent this statement tonight "Saint Louis University has not hired a men's basketball coach. The process is ongoing."
-Rene Knott on twitter
On 3/29/2016 at 11:37 PM, BigMouthBilliken said:ESPN article says he was hired per St. Louis PD but university denies claims Lol
Of course the AD/PR side was a mess
On 3/30/2016 at 5:30 AM, slufan13 said:Ford will bring talent. He will underachieve. Both of those are certain. Let's just see what underachieving will be at this stop
On 3/30/2016 at 6:54 AM, slufan13 said:Ford will bring back SLU to a respectable state after Crews tanked the program. SLU will be one of the most talented teams in the conference in 5 years, yet Ford will underachieve year after year.
On 3/30/2016 at 8:05 AM, kwyjibo said:I want to be optimistic (Ford is a proven recruiter) but I watched first hand at UMass how poorly coached his teams are. SLU benefitted from his incompetence and Soderberg beat him with lesser talent. The issues are obvious to anyone who knows anything about basketball and college basketball in particular. I think a hire like this brings into relief the importance of recruiting in college basketball and how easy it is to fail upward.
The more important thing though is that Ford may recruit well enough to be OK that there was easily identifiable better options available.
Among many who were pretty dang spot-on.
On 8/17/2016 at 11:45 AM, majerus mojo said:Joe Dooley.. Lol.
Looks like the media was really down on the hire, which fueled some of the reservations here. (Especially Meyer, geez.) Hard to be thrilled at the time when everyone is just piling on... Ford can prove a lot of folks wrong.
(He did not)
The capitulating stretch of posts 4-XX months later are hilarious. Probably started right when he landed Goodwin. We were star-struck
It is kind of impressive how universally panned the hiring was both on the the board and nationally
On 7/5/2018 at 10:48 AM, NH said:TBD whether Bryce’s recruiting is sustainable. Darius Garland is a hometown kid that has know Bryce since he was little. Simi was down to UNC, Vandy and Arizona before Zona got in trouble and UNC recruited another McAA at his position. Obviously very positive developments, but I’m still a little antsy about whether Bryce can bring in high level players consistently.
Garland was injured and Vandy lost their last 20 games that season (0-18 SEC) before Drew was fired.
Was def in the Drew camp at the time (with most?) He went to Vandy about a week after the Ford news
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Midtown Madness: S4E36 Schertz Hits Ground Running: Visits Scheduled, Recruit Commitment, Media Appearances
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Good post. Actually kind of crazy that we haven’t had a great player poached by a P5 that I can recall recently?
Did a double-take on this one but another good post! Isn’t Schertz’s whole deal that he’s a great coach and can, as someone noted in another thread, take an 80K NIL roster and turn them into a $2M team? The days of worrying about recruits and transfers is over*
*definitely not over