SLUMedBilliken15

That's wild.

Semi-troll question: Which coaching job was worse? Stone's last season with SLU or Ford last year?

I cant seem to find the score of the exhibition game anywhere. Did it happen or was it rained out?

Go team!

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I think constantly complaining about the university and basketball program is definitely going to help the rankings!

If Tatum came here, I believe it would have changed our trajectory(which at the time Tatum would have been here, our trajectory was sharply downward). Seriously, no SLU fan should honestly be happy he didn't come to SLU.

If he chooses slu, fans will treat him like they did Yuri after he left then came back. Half of the fandom with like him no matter what for coming and half the fandom will dislike him no matter what.

I honestly disagree. I would take a preseason #1 team any year without question. (Having said that, I would prefer a team that overperforms to one that underperforms expectations.)

Maybe we should switch to threads.

Didnt chaz williams light us up a few times?

I really wish bad post still existed...

Im not sure what universe im living in then...

Majerus was a genius truly capable of developing players who bought into his system. It is impressive where this group started vs where they ended.

True, but replacing those schools with schools like VCU and Loyola Chicago was honestly the best McGlade could have done considering the landscape. The A-10 schools just need to win. And outside VCU and Dayton (and maybe us and the Bonnies), no one has been able to do that.

Good point. To be fair, SLU descent from the 2012-2014 glory days has correllated with the A-10's descent from 6 bids to 1 bid. We are a part of the problem...

So we just need to win one of our next 2 games?

I think Ford may already have one foot in... Hope I'm wrong.

The way it looks talent may be an issue for this upcoming season.

Are you really going to complain about the direction of the ENTIRE athletic department???? I'd rethink your position here... #1) Men's soccer has the number 1 recruiting class in the nation and recently made a run in the NCAA tournament. #2) Women's soccer has won the A-10 and made the tournament 4 straight years and has been playing their best soccer ever. #3) Women's basketball made their FIRST ever NCAA tournament appearance due to what seems to be a genius hire by the athletic director. #4) Even baseball is currently in first place in the A-10. #5) Men's basketball did not meet expectations last season, but they were by no means bad. They beat Memphis and Providence. [#5 is the only one you could even argue with] Come on people!!!! Use your brains!

Who would turn down a national coach of the year????

I don't know if this is accurate. SLU as an institution spends more on basketball than almost all the mid majors and spends more on coaching than half of the Big East schools. Money is more important than talk, and SLU is willing to pull out all the stops when it comes to basketball spending. One can argue that the spending hasn't been in the right places or on the right coach, etc. May's approach is to try to stay positive (Likely as a way to try to get more donations and keep people interested)vs Dayton's AD's approach which is to accept fault. The words ADs say and how they say them are less important than 1.) raising money and continuing to keep athletics a University spending priority (AKA increasing the basketball budget) and 2.) finding and ensuring we have the right coach. I understand arguing about May on point #2, but there are many examples of schools spending big on coaches who go on to have worse outcomes than Ford's. There is a good chance that even if Ford was fired that a new coach would have even worse results. I also understand that we all want results, but you better believe May wants results even more than we do.

When has a "stretch 4" or a big who can shoot the 3 ever made it off the bench during Ford's tenure? Not meant as an insult to Pryor or Ford, I just don't think that is Ford's style of play. Or maybe the bigs who could shoot under Ford's tenure were just not that great? i.e. Lorrentson, Hankton I personally really like the idea. They can be every hard to defend against and open up the lane. I think the bigs who could shoot the 3 (Ellis & Loe) were a huge part of our success during the "Majerus years" (2011-2014). It just helped a decent offensive team be much harder to defend. But unfortunately, Majerus and Ford have very different styles.

Troll post... There is not a single coach who would be able to get every local recruit to commit here. Travis had been 1000 times better than any previous coach at getting local talent to commit. I get complaining about the performance of this past year's team. I understand those that argue he is not a good X's and O's or in game coach. I even can understand those that claim Ford is not good at developing talent (although I disagree about this one). But it is a little ludicrous to imply that he is bad at recruiting and even more ludicrous to imply he is bad at local recruiting.

You have to at least count 2014 NCAA trip and win against NC State in the last decade. Some would argue you should count the 2013 NCAA trip and win against New Mexico state in the past decade as well.