majerus mojo

Well it started in Fairfax, VA  (vb) then to Richmond (ws) on to Myrtle Beach (mbb).  Then it was baseball in Port Charlotte, FL, Millington, TN, Hammond and New Orleans, LA.  On to Edwardsville, IL (wbb).  Now at the A10 Tennis Championships in Orlando.  Amazing complex.   #4 seed men playing in the quarterfinals this morning against Mason.  The ladies play tonight in the semis.   They are the #2 seed and #1 VCU was upset last night.  I don’t think either SLU team has ever made a regional.  That would be really cool.  

Welcome Josiah! Best NE player his recruiting class on a very good HS team. I follow Creighton closely (med alum). His family is very involved in serving the Omaha community and brother played there. Surprised he transferred given his ties, but I think he saw playing time limited. They have the best BEast recruiting class/one of the best in the country and will be active in the transfer portal. I think he will fit in just fine here!

Why was everyone so hyped for Turnbull? His Butler numbers were super underwhelming 

According to The Athletics rankings, Avila is 3, Jimerson is 28 and Swope is 31. From what I can tell, they would join Indiana as being the only schools to get 3 players in the top 35 so far.

Trilly: Josiah Dotzler to SLU

Hugely overlooked prospect.
Big guard with real PG skills.  Can fill it up, is a big time scorer.  Like Kwamain give this kid the keys to the car on day 1.
 
 

We need wins - is this a guarantee - no but given our current roster condition and our need to show immediate improvement we should be happy that anybody is willing to invite us to anything.  Lets not get ahead of our skis.

Flying the flag in case Avila and scope end up driving down my street

The Tate discourse is kind of dumb because there were hardly any posts about the other assistants upon hire. We just assume they are all fine/good because go Schertz. Same with Tate 

Tate in a reduced role is an asset to the program.

Crews only won 11 games each of last two seasons. And while it was before you were born Ekker was worse than both crews and the end of Ford.

I'm fine with it. It will look good in locals eyes that Schertz cares about Tate and St. louisans. 

I stated elsewhere that hiring Corey Tate was the best decision Coach Ford made during his tenure.  Tate has good relationships with the top local high school players and top juco players in the region.  I'm pleased that Coach Schertz recognized his value and retained him.

Majerus kept Thorpe on staff for the transition. It happens. I think Schertz has given us a sense that he knows what he's doing. If it's good enough for him, LFG. Sign some transfers. Get McCottry. Roll the balls out and let's get to work.

With last night's performance, Jordan Goodwin passed Willie Reed on the SLU alumni NBA all-time scoring list...a rather short list but an interesting one nonetheless
Ed Macauley  11234
Larry Hughes  10242
Bob Ferry      5780
Anthony Bonner 5594
Jordan Goodwin  767
Willie Reed     751
Bevo Nordmann   571
Robin Jones     370
Barry Orms      181
Marv Schatzman  115
Rich Nieman     113
DC Wilcutt       77
David Burns      23
NOTE: these are strictly NBA regular season numbers, no playoffs, no ABA, no BAA

Why are you comparing us to Indiana State? We were paying our coach more than they spent on their entire basketball program. We are not the same. 
Our soon to be all-time leading scorer is going to start his SIXTH year in a row at SLU. He isn't playing for free. We kept the nation's leader in assists on our roster for four years - he wasn't playing for free either.
 
We won't keep everyone, but no one is keeping everyone. College sports are different now, but we're a lot higher on the totem pole (and spend like it) than some people are making it seem

I was there. About what I expected. 

Probably 60-70 people in total, wide age range. I'm 28 and was older than ~15% of the room. 

Schertz accidentally went to the downtown MAC and didn't get to the Des Peres location until about 6. Troy spoke a bit, Chris May spoke a bit, then Schertz took the wheel. Good speech, dude is very funny, then he took a Q&A. Most of the questions were pretty worthless but he did drop a couple of noteworthy things:

1) Last year's ISU team was paid a combined 80k in NIL. Their market value today is as much as 2 mill. 
2) One of the recent recruits on campus brought their 12YO sister who made a fat joke towards Schertz - he found it very funny (as did I).
3) Gibby was scheduled for a visit to UConn this coming weekend before recommitting to SLU. We beat the two-time reigning national champion out for a transfer portal player, and arguably more importantly the two-time reigning national champion was interested in our shooting guard. Think about that next time anyone wants to talk down on Gibby. 
4) Coach is still VERY confident that we get commitments from RA and IS this week. I'm very confident that those commitments will open the floodgates. 
5) I asked coach 1 on 1 afterwards what he thought of the Billiken vs. "Team Blue" and it sounds like we can finally but that bullshite boring @$$ moniker to rest.  
6) Charlie Gitto's is his favorite restaurant so far. Had it during the MVC tournament. 

Jesus Christ.  It's an event at MAC West.  Quit complaining about everything, grab your checkbook and f'ing go.  I bet they let you in and take your money.  It's not rocket science.

If you are interested in the BVF, listen to Frank's interview yesterday with Troy.  He came out and stated that Caleb Love's agent called last year and said he wanted to come to SLU for $XYZ.  He was out of the budget.  But he would have been the Billiken's 2 Guard if the funds had been there.
He also said that there are only 4 people, the BVF Board, that knows exactly how much is in the BVF.  He also pointed out that any booster can go through the Billiken Exchange and pinpoint your money to a specific athlete.  The BVF isn't involved with that.  So the BVF isn't the whole NIL pot.
Billiken Loyalty Program was explained.  It is for Graduating Seniors that have been with the school for 2 years.  TJ Hargrove is getting a nice check from the Loyalty Program this year.  You can go to BVF and direct your funds to BVF Loyalty Program for TJ.
Segment 5 from 4/15.  https://590thefan.com/radio-shows/press-box/

I feel like there is maybe a little creative over-emphasizing on the uncertainty he had regarding SLU at the beginning and the value that he got out of him and May talking every day for the next few weeks. It's a smart thing to do because it makes him look like there was a larger chance he was going back to ISU and it makes Chris May look good. It's a win/win for him to cast it this way and all coaches are good salesmen.
I'm more inclined to believe that when Trilly and all the national media guys said it was close to a done deal shortly after they didn't make the dance, it was really done at that point.

Asking for a friend…....how do you change your screen name??

FWIW, on Frank’s radio show today, he was pretty confident Avila, Swope and Kent were coming. Plus, Turnbull and the 6’10 recruit from Canada. He also mentioned he thinks Jimerson is coming back and Schertz told him that his goal was to have a team of players 6’4”-6’10”.

I didn't throw the specific number amount out there because I'm not sure what those dollar amounts actually include. For instance I don't believe the higher number (it was crazy) has any chance of being accurate if we are just talking about what the guys will get this coming season, but it could very well be accurate if we are talking about the combined value of all the seasons included in the deals they sign.  I have a feeling the second number might be right when it comes to the total value of the compensation of what the guys might get next season, but I don't know how much of that is actual cash and how much of it includes the value of other stuff included in the deal for things like car leases.  So if you throw an actual dollar amount out there people might take it for something it actually isn't supposed to be without the proper context of what it all includes.  
 

It is amazing how smooth the last month has gone.  I'm not his biggest fan, but I have to give credit where it is due. 

-listening to the radio yesterday and the host was going through what some cultures believe about an eclipse and the one I thought best fits SLU is one of them believes it is the dawning of a new era, let's hope this era introduced on eclipse day  is very successful
-glad CJS mentioned defense and noted that in conf play this past season they were #1 in the MVC
-sounded like CMay started watching CJS in the 2022-23 season
-CJS listed the positives the SLU job has and I hope the donors start getting a much better return on their investment and a big THANKS to the big donors for making it all happen