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How can you work for someone who offers you no movement forward? Confronted with a boss in that situation, lots of people just start planning to move elsewhere.

Stats for Al Mattin here: https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/abdurrahim-almattin-1.html

Goodwin will most likely get a firm contract somewhere. He is playing like Rodman did and that is a very good thing.

This is very interesting, generally Texas and Harvard do not agree in anything.

You may not believe it but a number of teams played two big men during the recent NIT and NCAA MBB games. I do not think they played them both under the basket but they had them playing at the same time.

I think that, at least to some degree, the high margin of victory depended upon the fact that the Cavaliers considered the opposition totally inferior to them and so they were not ready to fight them. Besides the roundheads really believed that their God was a mighty fortress as they sang as they fought.

He also created the New Style Army that went to battle chanting hymns. This was something that the Union Armies also did with the Battle Hymn of the Republic during the Civil War.

I am very happy that Jimerson is coming back for next season. I am sure that we finally have a coach that can coach and develop players. I feel confident that Jimerson will do just fine under Schertz's guidance.

Schertz, at least judging by his brief biography posted by Pakapablo in this board, is not a man that rates money above everything else. He is a man that has been through a lot and probably judges people not by the NIL money they get but by their effectiveness and ability. At least that is my opinion. If Avila is just after money there is no doubt in my mind that he can get a larger NIL elsewhere. If what Avila wants is further development of his ability as a basketball player and believes that Schertz is the coach that will provide it, then he will be at SLU even if he is offered a larger NIL elsewhere. If you (plural) judge things and people by NIL money alone you are not going to get what you need to radically change SLU MBB. This is my opinion, not fact.

Ford still has plans for coaching and for the NILs.

@A-Bomb May has no vision and likely is not interested in keeping SLU at the front of the current changes in the collegiate sports landscape as you correctly said about 5 hours ago. What May is good at, like Ford was, is in selling himself and obtaining support for himself at high levels.

When you first watch Avila play, he looks like a chubby kid, not very fast wearing coke bottle bottom glasses, most certainly he does not look like a great player. When you see him playing and beating power teams, as ISU did in the NIT, you realize that he is good even if he does not look like it.

I trust Schertz and think he will lead us much higher than Ford did, but that is really not much to say. I think with NIL money, a good number of the ISU 23-24 season's players, hopefully plus Jimerson, and whoever else the new staff recruits we will really have at least a chance to go to the Dance next season. This is what I want to believe, that we will have a chance to go to the Dance next season. It is too early to be sure of anything at this time except that we will do better than we did under Ford.

You may well be correct about May talking a lot about the donors in the Schertz conference. However, with Pestello getting ready to leave the presidency at SLU, there may well be other reasons for May to mention big donors by name. He may well have been trying to gain favor among the donors to maintain his post after the new president is hired. Of course this possibility is my opinion, not an established fact. You are probably absolutely correct that the big donors took a much more active role in the Schertz hiring decision than before. Frankly I think the big donors filled a vacuum produced by Pestello's coming retirement, and we all should be grateful for what they did in the selection of this basketball coach.

Boisvert's resume appears very good. Frankly I do not care if he moves his whole staff from ISU to SLU, even if this means that Ford's staff will be out of SLU soon, including Tate. I think the secret to a winning new coach is his coaching staff, and It looks that this may be Schertz way of looking at it as well. I look at Tate as a sort of a father figure for the team with local contacts and I am not sure what role he would have in a rebuilt team. I do hope to see a deep change for the better in our results for next year.

Pestello is leaving, he was not about to clash with absolutely anyone in this occasion. May used all his ability to come out of this meeting looking way better than he really is. I am absolutely delighted that Jimerson was present and appears to be considering to come back to SLU. But above and beyond all else I am happy to see Schertz joining the Bills. I really do not care who wanted to make himself look like a giant in the field, or whose rear end he intended to kiss. What I really care about this morning is Schertz and Jimerson, may they work together next year.

Schertz has to put together a team before next season, we are currently depleted. If the team he puts together is based upon NILs we cannot be sure it will be here the following season, and so on and so forth. May will still be around at least until the next president comes in. Fortunately whatever happens with SLU men's basketball team will depend upon Schertz, let's hope that he is everything we have been hoping for and succeeds where so many others did not. After reading his brief biography I think he has what it takes to get us there. SLU has no control over A10 or over Big East or UConn and most certainly no influence over the NCAA or the lawyers and courts dealing with unionization of the players. However Schertz will certainly have control over our MBB team and can get us closer to an upgrade.

Happy to see Schertz has arrived at SLU, and was rubbing the Billiken belly.

I think May finally fired Ford not because of fear or revenue loss but to protect his position and standing. Anyway that is my opinion.

@Pakapablo. That brief biography of Josh Schertz was a wonderful reading, Thank you very much for posting it like you did. It gave me a level of understanding and liking of this man that I would not have ever reached if I had looked at him just as a coach of the basketball team. Again, much appreciated.

With the announcement coming from May, I hope it is confirmed soon by Schertz, otherwise it may become May's mayhem.

Don't worry about that TRN. Most of the people in this board know that I really do not know basketball. I admit freely that I know a lot about some things and very little about other things. Basketball is one of those things I do not much about. My wife is the true SLU basketball fan in the family and has 3 degrees from SLU.

TRN who is the Shaner?

Sure he was a great salesman, but he item he really excelled at selling was himself. Travis was very good selling Travis, the rest was empty promises.

That is correct, but every injury is unique in its own way, the way the injured person uses his/her body is also unique, and the way they recover is also not the same. Another factor that is involved is the psych factor. When you recover from a bad injury it stays in your mind and you become cautious about doing things that might re injure your body in a similar way. Never believe when you read that someone is fully recovered and think they are back to the way they were before. Medically speaking "fully recovered" after something like a hip replacement does not mean you can do yoga, or climb mountains, of play championship basketball. It means you can walk, drive a car, and climb stairs (not fast or multiple floors at a time). I knew a woman that did yoga who had a hip replacement (the whole show with the steel acetabulum socket liner). On being discharged she asked the Dr. what she could do. The orthopod said you can do what you do normally. She did yoga and popped the steel hip out of the steel socket. They put her together again but that hip was never fully right afterwards. If you ever go through a hip or knee replacement and want to know what you can do, be specific when you ask. Mention yoga or basketball by name and go into details if the Dr asks.