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    Join A Grassroots Movement for Change of AD and MBB Coach

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    5 hours ago, thetorch said:

    The online campaign to dump Ford and hire Schertz/not hire Ahearn had a definite effect on the decisions made in the last few weeks.  

    How can you not see this?

    Burnergate doesn't happen without the online pressure.  That embarrassment was the tipping point in Ford's tenure.  There was no coming back after that.

    The AD's office is still talking about the box of clown noses.  It was a big black eye for them.  May might still have them, he did for several weeks after.

    The silly multi year flirtation with Blake Ahearn was put down completely by online pressure.

    Schertz as a a candidate was enhanced exponentially by the support of him online.

    But yeah the grassroots thing was stupid.

    The AD, Board of Trustees, and big boosters all read this board and Billikens Twitter.  What we say does influence and shape their decisions.

    Great post

    WELCOME HEAD COACH JOSH SCHERTZ!!

    in Billikens.com Main Board

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    35 minutes ago, TRN said:

    One thing they need to do is set it up so people can make recurring donations (monthly, quarterly, annually, or whatever).  Right now it appears to be one time.  

    Yep I have so many tv subscriptions what's one more. Let me subscribe to the bills. 

    Schertz

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    3 hours ago, thetorch said:

    First quoting yourself is a ****** move.

    Your timeline in both posts is way off and your info is just completely inaccurate. 

    You cribbed this off a couple pay boards that I am on too and you copy and pasted specifically from two posts on another pay site.

    Oh the irony...

    Guy didn't even watch the games...

    ISU and Utah EVEN

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    24 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

    https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2024/04/02/indiana-state-into-nit-final-as-coach-josh-schertz-considers-saint-louis-job-basketball/73178991007/

    After NIT, Josh Schertz to Saint Louis. Right?

    Nobody was asking Josh Schertz after this game about the Saint Louis Billikens. No idea what a Billiken is, but I’m calling it an elephant — you know, the one nobody’s talking about.

    Schertz or his agent — a distinction that matters more to Schertz and his agent than it should to you and me — has been in talks with Saint Louis about its coaching vacancy since shortly after Indiana State’s loss to Drake in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament March 10. That was almost a month ago, and I'm told Schertz has indicated to Saint Louis he’s coming. It’s an open secret in the Sycamores’ locker room that four of their five starters would most likely follow him to Saint Louis. The one player not going? Julian Larry.

    After his news conference I followed Schertz into the hall to ask him privately about Saint Louis, and don’t even think about getting mad at me for that. You want to get mad? Get mad at the coach who’s halfway out the door — not the reporter who asked him about it. My advice: Don’t get mad at anyone. Saint Louis would more than quadruple Schertz’s salary, from less than $500,000 to $2 million or more, and how can you get mad at him for that? Meantime, he hasn’t left yet, didn’t abandon his team. He’s still coaching the Sycamores, and deflecting questions about Saint Louis.

     

    Here’s what he told me late Tuesday night.

    “I never, ever talk about a job other than the one I have,” he said, “but I know that’s on everybody’s mind. The reality is, I’m going to take a day when the season’s over, make a decision, and everybody we’ve communicated with knows that’s kind of the plan of it. I know everybody’s speculating, but at the end of the day we’ll finish the season and obviously play to Thursday — which I’m looking forward to — and then take a day. I don’t want to make an emotional decision. I’m going to take a day and lock in on what I want to do and then decide what’s best.”

    Coaches everywhere, print that out. Because that’s how you handle a situation as delicate as this. Schertz made no promises and told no lies, and said nothing to alienate either school.

    This is so awkward. I hate this

    Schertz

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    3 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

    So clicks on this board counts?  Wow. 
    I trust two less clicks wouldn’t mean Stu loses his job  

    Bad assumptions by you. 

    Ya thanks for editing that post cause that didn't make any sense.

    Again I wouldn't expect you to understand. I look forward to your post on a SLU message board celebrating the trees win tonight. 

     

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    Schertz

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    3 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

    Then why do you read him?  Simply pass over his stuff and remove some stress from your life. 

    Because he needs the clicks. He annoys me as well but if the entire SLU fanbase ignores him than the post gives us less attention than they already do. 

    But I guess when you aren't a SLU fan stuff like that probably isn't important to you I suppose. But ya that's why it's important  for everyone to read everything he does.

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    Schertz

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    20 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:

    Tree fans are hurt that a program of SLU's stature, promising but yet to fulfill that promise, can roll in and Big Time them.  That's a tough pill to swallow.  It's a wake up call on where ISU is in the landscape of college basketball.

    Hence their non-stop whining that they'd understand a P5 move but not SLU.

    Sorry not sorry.  If Schertz works here I expect him to be hired away with the team in 3 years by a P5 school. But I reside in reality.

    Hire well Trees so we can Deebo your next coach too. 

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    Schertz

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    Just now, billikenfan05 said:

    if we're going down that train of thought, and I think you're correct. You're also leaving them, if you leave them with an NIT championship, they are going to remember you fondly regardless of whether you left right after. Again, he's a pro and this is the right way to treat your fans. Do your best until the end, and that includes treating your fans to the best possible experience until the end.

    Yes that has crossed my mind. I think at this point them losing the next game is worst case scenario.

    Can you sign a more legally binding document while you're under contract at another school? That just doesn't seem like a thing you can do but I know very little about how contractual obligations work.

    But I'm sure old guy can tell me. 

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