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12 minutes ago, slu72 said:
It goes w/o saying if we travelled better we would improve our chances at MTE tournaments in NOV and DEC. Look at Dayton they always land in a biggie because the SVU’s travel en masse. Last year at Myrtle Beach, a popular vacay destination, we really didn’t have a big following.
Bingo. Traveling and winning are the only ways to get into these events if you’re not a power conference program. The program and us fans have not done enough of either to become a mainstay at the better events.
The event at Chaifetz is a necessary evil this year with all the games on the schedule away from home, but I hope SLU is somewhere warm next November, and that this isn’t an annual thing.
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27 minutes ago, billiken_roy said:
That's an insult to the BoT to insinuate they don't pay attention or do any due diligence for a high level hire and just rubber stamp whatever is put in front of them
Did I say that they don’t do any due diligence? No. My point is that they aren’t a hiring committee. That responsibility falls on Chris May and whoever else was involved in the search directly. They present their candidate to the board, as well as the reasons for hire and the contract. If the logic is sound and the money works out, the BOT approves it. At the end of the day, Chris May leads the Athletic Department, and the BOT isn’t there to do a deep dive on every single department of the university.
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1 hour ago, billiken_roy said:
So you think Chris May alone has complete authority to hire the highest paid employee at all Saint Louis University and probably one of the highest paid employees in the state of Missouri?
Right. Again, there is no point discussing anything with you.
He is the hiring manager for the Athletic Department in his role as Director. Yes, the BOT has to approve the contract, but the decision to hire a head coach ultimately lies with Chris May. If he tells the board he thinks a coach is a good hire, they’re going to approve it.
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This assertion that the Athletic Director at SLU has effectively zero decision making power is mildly amusing to think about. Improving baseball’s setup would be a very nice win for the athletics complex, and eliminate one of the last real eye sores on campus, especially in a high foot traffic area on basketball game days.
May does some good, does some bad. I generally think his tenure has been fine, but that we’re no closer to the goal of the Big East than when he started.
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1 hour ago, brianstl said:
If something is happening, it will happen in the next month. If nothing happens by the end of July, it isn't ever going to happen.
Count me in the camp of it’s never going to happen. It’s just really difficult to look at the results over the history of the program and see SLU moving the needle at all for the Big East.
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52 minutes ago, OkieBilliken said:
Wow. Dont have to read too much in to this one.
If there was ever a time to actually make some investment in the program, it seems like that time is now…
It would be a tremendous shame to lose Darin Hendrickson.
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7 minutes ago, MusicCityBilliken said:
Recall earlier posts saying we have Butler & Depaul on the schedule. Is that still a go?
Doing a quick search of the board for both teams, not seeing any posts claiming they’re on the schedule.
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Too many John Stamos moments to even begin to narrow it down…
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2 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6PEnI3xdDY/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
weird, Mike Sharavjamts apparently interested in SLU. Hadn't heard him connected.
Between Max Pikaar, whose dad played for Dayton, and Mongolian Mike, we could potentially get two family betrayals for the Arch Baron Cup on this roster!
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Just now, billikenfan05 said:
We're dealing with 18-21 year olds making decisions in the presence of yearly dollar signs that I don't know if I'll end up reach in my life. Things change on a dime.
Hundreds of thousand of dimes, in the case of the 3 guys who landed elsewhere!
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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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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.
Billikens Open Practice: July 22
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As a fanbase, we just sat through a season where SLU was a bottom 150 team in the sport. If Josh Schertz has a good enough season where he can bolt for an elite job after one year, that means things were probably pretty good!