johnbj14
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5 minutes ago, billiken_roy said:
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’ll contend pretty adamantly that last year was worse than both of the final 2 Crews years. When you look at the increase in coaching salary and financial investment in the program, Travis’ final year was objectively a disaster.
That’s all in the past though. New coach, new era, new Billikens.
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23 minutes ago, Young Charles said:
Did anyone else catch that they played Pitbull after the Band stopped playing...
Yeah the new-ish Pitbull-Zac Brown song. Nice touch by the stadium DJ.
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I can’t wait for 48 hours from now when we can actually look forward to SLU’s new coach and all the possibilities he brings, and not debate AM radio hosts and their feelings towards the Billikens. The last 3 weeks have felt like an eternity.
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3 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
I think you nailed it in your last sentence. That and more opportunity. Getting snubbed this year might not have only saved us money and trouble with other suitors, but also made a move more imperative in his mind.
Something really important to keep in mind is that the AD who hired him is gone, with an interim in place. The president is on the way out as well. There’s a lot of uncertainty regarding the future leadership of ISU, with those two spots as an unknown. My hunch is that his plan has been to get out for several months now, regardless of what type of raise Indiana State can come up with.
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6 minutes ago, TaLBErt said:
I'm certainly not trying to defend Hooserpal, but it's the G-Leage championship for me. I don't think coaching the G-Leage is far off from coaching in college. Especially with the NIL changes in college basketball.
Jerry Stackhouse also had a G-League title. Never danced at Vandy.
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9 minutes ago, cheeseman said:
I am really confused by the Ahern talk. Is just that he is from StL? I would think as some have suggested that he would be interested in MSU if he really wanted to coach in college. He had wanted to come here but Sodie axed that - big mistake as it turns out but being a player and coaching are two different things. I would think he would not want anything to do with us after his first treatment here.
It’s primarily local media who want access to the program that would be furthered due to a personal relationship. At least in the case of Frank that’s what it is. Other media pushing it just don’t have a high view of the program, and think it’s a nice place to have a local guy because it’s a nice story and they don’t have a concept of what SLU spends on the program.
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11 minutes ago, slufan13 said:
I think as long as we have a coach working the portal and NIL within the next 2 weeks, we are good. Anything beyond that is our administration not understanding the current environment. But the ideal situation is to fire Ford today. Hire Schertz Sunday evening when ISU gets snubbed and then start selling the Avila SLU jerseys a week from today.
Ford needs to be gone before midnight on Sunday. The portal opens on Monday, and any illusion that he will be here next season will only hurt SLU’s efforts to attract players here. The new coach might still be working, but a handshake deal needs to be in place sooner rather than later.
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I think it’s way more likely Porter uses SLU for leverage than actually ending up here.
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On 12/26/2023 at 9:33 PM, slu72 said:
3rd from the bottom means a 5-13 record in a weak conference? Boy, if that comes to pass this board will implode.
Record was spot on, but the place was actually one spot worse. What an absolute mess of a season.
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10 minutes ago, FromDaEastSide said:
Stu posted in his X Thread w/ his Credential that he is not going to Brooklyn next week. That would lead me to believe there will be no announcement of a coaching change after our exit from the tournament.
Wouldn’t look into this. The PD has had budget issues, and it seems they’re just not sending their best writer to save on some expenses.
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If I was getting paid 2.5 million dollars, I’d be pretty desperate to save my job too.
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13 minutes ago, slufan13 said:
How many players will we have hit the portal?
With the NCAA being pretty toothless against multi-time transfers now, I wouldn’t be surprised to have most of the roster enter every off-season from here on out, just to gauge what their markets are.
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35 minutes ago, NextYearBill said:
we had the all STL team of all STL teams..... Thatch, Goodwin, Perkins, Collins, Hargrove.... what happened
This might be a bit controversial, but more often than not, local players have inflated reputations. The program isn’t going to advance forward without recruiting other locations well. There has to be a mix.
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3 minutes ago, slu92 said:
Get a new AD, let that person hire new coach.
It is way too late for that. May realistically needed to be gone January 1st in order to have a new person in place to make this hire.
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4 minutes ago, cgeldmacher said:
I want to provide some clarity on my thoughts on Schertz vs Mack. Schertz has been coaching a D1 program for two and a half season and has been successful in the last year and a half. He has no wins over any team of consequence during that time. This doesn't mean he wouldn't be successful at SLU. It just means he doesn't really have a track record to rely on.
Chris Mack coached Xavier for 9 seasons. During that time, they went to the NCAA tournament 8 times, to the Sweet 16 four times, and to the Elite 8 once. In his first two years at Louisville, they should have gone to the tournament twice, but one year got messed up due to Covid. He went 13-7 in the next weird 20/21 Covid season. Then got fired halfway through the next season.
Given the above, I don't think it's a close call by any means. That being said, I do understand the idea that guys want to look to someone they feel we have a reasonable chance of getting. However, if we had a chance to get both, Mack is the clear winner.
This is very reasonable, and if there is a choice between both, I’m honestly not sure which guy I’d hire.
That being said, I’m not sure if Mack legitimately will be on the table. There are some jobs that inevitably will open that he’d be in heavy consideration for.
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7 minutes ago, cgeldmacher said:
We could also be a year too early on realizing he can’t beat anyone better than Drake. I’m not saying the Schertz guys are wrong. I’m just saying there’s no evidence their right, and all they are basing things on is really, really hoping he does well.
Can’t you say that about every candidate at the end of the day?
There’s evidence the guy can coach. Yes, it’s at a lower level, but the mentality that guys need P5 experience to be a good coach are antiquated.
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The way I view it is this: I’d rather be a year early on Schertz than a year late on a P5 guy dropping down.
He’s got a wildly successful track record at the D2 level, and it’s showing that it translates to D1. Has he lost to bigger opponents on their schedule? Yes. But he’s doing something at Indiana State that hasn’t been done since Larry Bird. His coaching plus the jump in resources would be a lethal combination.
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UMass is leaving the A-10 for the MAC after next season.
https://theathletic.com/5301023/2024/02/26/mid-american-conference-umass-expansion/
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5 minutes ago, David King said:
With continued improvement from Curcic and Thames, and a healthy Parker, this team could make a deep run in the A10 tournament!
This team stinks on the road and on neutral courts. This is a fun game, but let’s not get our hopes up.
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When Hurley landed UConn I thought it was a tremendous reach on the part of the Huskies. As much as I hated him at Rhody, he’s continuously evolved as a coach and turned out to be pretty dang good in the process. While SLU isn’t UConn, it shows what hiring a guy on the upswing of their career, instead of the downward trajectory, can turn into.
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Schertz also could conceivably bring a good chunk of that roster with him.
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I truly don’t know what Chris May has done to earn such a fervent defense argument as, “well actually, it’s the BoT who are to blame.”
The way I see it, he’s had two major impactful decisions in his tenure.
1. The extension for Ford. On its own, it wouldn’t be a disaster if it was not such an inflated amount, but it is, and he was played for a fool.
2. The Champions Center. A nice facility upgrade, but not the game changer it was marketed as.
His overall tenure is pretty uninspiring in the context of where SLU Basketball has gone under his watch. I don’t trust him in the slightest to make a good hire, and disagree entirely with the notion the BoT should have ignored the contract he negotiated. That’s not the function they serve, and a competent AD wouldn’t have agreed to the terms Chris May did.
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2 hours ago, Slowry said:
Wonder who would be better Ahearn or Carrawell?
Just let Wiz’s computer program create the game plan if those are the options
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Hundreds of thousand of dimes, in the case of the 3 guys who landed elsewhere!