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3 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
At worst, Chris May HAD to have enacted the out clause after last season.
Considering how confidently Chris spoke about him publicly on radio appearances this off-season, I wouldn’t be so sure of that.
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33 minutes ago, stmdragons said:
He had a pretty messy scandal a couple of years back involving an alleged cover-up of sexual assault allegations against one of his players. I would imagine he’d have been poached by someone already if not for that.
UMass kicked the tires on him before hiring Martin. A few articles came out from the Amherst newspapers and he was allegedly removed from consideration after negative backlash.
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50 minutes ago, ARon said:
Public university with twice as many alumni as SLU.
NIL isn’t the problem. Recruiting fell off long before NIL came into effect. It’s the guy in charge, period.
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47 minutes ago, Soderball said:
Hargrove and Thames will put up a few baskets.
What you're seeing here is exactly right and is the right analysis of this team: we are undersized. We can't defend and we cannot rebound and we cannot score in the paint.
Mostly we throw an undersized body at them and hope they are slow enough to commit a foul. Works with Dartmouth, won't work with more skilled bigs who have studied and know our game more(when we get into conference play)
This roster has the makings of a Crewsplatt nightmare IMO. Even during the darkest years of Crewsplatt fiasco i watched guys like Jordan Nesbitt and thought they had some ability. You saw the same with Parker and Hargrove. When we get into it we will be really exposed and it won't be good. Ford knows it.
Nesbitt was a Ford player, not associated with He Who Shall Not Be Named.
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4 minutes ago, slu72 said:
This is all on Ford we make no sense on O. And D is a mess. Jees this guy has coached BB for 25 years has he learned nothing other than to recruit?
Crazy that a guy has 27 years of track record and people expect anything differently to happen in year 28. This old dog ain’t learning new tricks.
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5 minutes ago, Dr Bird said:
Agree with this. What you call "assets", I call "goodwill".
I think another nutshell is as follows:
SLU basketball is the revenue driver for the entire program. Admin must make basketball decisions based on the impact to revenue. With the unknowns of CF's contract (self-renewing?, buyout amount? who is funding it?), it is almost certain that Admin decided that the best financial decision was to keep CF for this year.
This decision will be made after each season, so I'm not going to worry about it until then.
One thing is for sure, no one worries about CF leaving on his own accord.
That last sentence is important, and a double edged sword. Sure, there’s security of who the head coach will be. However, if you’re a mid-major program and your coach is never a candidate for bigger jobs, that isn’t necessarily a good thing.
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2 minutes ago, Billiken Rich said:
No but they are senior and junior led team. It's part of the (hate the term) mid-major cycle of life. Last year was so depressing because we were in that position and we were a tournament team with Perkins and maybe should've been without him. This year we are back to more of a rebuild. Cycle of life, even the Great Majerus was subject to it.....
So what you’re saying is… Travis built up a team of juniors and seniors. He didn’t get it done, so we have to wait 2 years to get to that point. But next time it will be different?
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Just now, willie said:
How about lets see him play a little bit before we pronounce him the next Legend.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m advocating for. Hence the “might”
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1 minute ago, Soderball said:
If Jayson Tatum came here, Justin could have been the head coach right then and there.
Does he have any more kids? Wake me up when he's got some more high school sophs ready to make a pit stop on the way to the NBA.
Snore. Boring. Chris Mack for SLU.
I agree with your last sentence. SLU should aim higher. Mack would be a dream come true.
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2 minutes ago, Soderball said:
Then why'd he play for Duke?
Because we had a clown at the helm of our program.
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28 minutes ago, SLUMS81 said:
Even the bluebloods can have difficult years when they are in rebuilding mode.
A couple of questions as we contemplate blowing up the program:
Is TF responsible for the BVF recruiting /signing budget? Is Chris May?
What % of D1 coaches do we think could take our current roster into the NCAA tournament?The greater point is we really shouldn’t be rebuilding in year 8 of a coach’s tenure who is paid this well. Especially when the years that have had high expectations have ended short of them. I don’t think a coaching change would blow things up. Rather, it would jumpstart things.
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4th quarter collapses aren’t becoming a thing for Ford teams. They’ve been a thing for 5 years now. He switches to an extremely conservative approach the last 10 minutes and it simply doesn’t work. I get slowing down a bit and only taking good shots, but his offensive sets don’t generate those in large quantities.
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SLU pays the highest head coaching salary in the conference. Maybe I have unrealistic expectations, but if this job opens up, May should be able to attract more proven, and likely better, options. All this is pretty pointless in the near term though, since I severely doubt Ford will be somewhere else next season.
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8 minutes ago, Box and Won said:
That just means he'll have four years of eligibility when he comes back to SLU. Win for us.
More likely to end up at North Texas than here. Thanks Phil Forte.
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15 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
Centene Outdoor rink
Would somehow be less slippery than the Chaifetz court surface
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6 minutes ago, JMM28 said:
No goalposts to be moved.
Would you rather be at a top 15 program in the country with a plan for development, an all-american level center, and a coach with a proven history of getting teams to the big dance or a 100-150 program, with a coach on the hot seat, with apparently no other bigs to practice against, and no history of big guy development? Just the facts.
Great post. My only objection is Travis being on the hot seat. He should be feeling the heat, and held to high expectations, but there’s pretty much no indication he actually is. Based on how many international frosh they took on, he’s operating like a guy who knows he has job security.
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We shot 36.4% from the field against a bad defense. Probably a little early for Warriors of the A-10 talk.
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34 minutes ago, slu72 said:
This all comes down to Travis. He’s gonna have to coach his arse off this season. I read an article about Pitino. Iona beat a P5 school by about 15. The opposing coach said we could have swapped players and I would have lost by 30. Pitino can coach. Can Travis is the question? After last season I have my doubts. I hope he can, but it’s time to prove it.
Travis has 25 years of a resume to prove he can’t. Not holding my breath for a minute.
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3 hours ago, Compton said:
SLU is perennially among the top teams in the A10 for attendance. Although Dayton definitely has the top spot locked up.
Raw numbers, sure. But we have the second or third largest arena in the league by seats, and are in a major metro area with access to 2 million people. A more fair comparison would be % of seats filled. Last year we averaged 6,694 fans per game, which equates to 63% of what Chaifetz can hold. Sure, we put up good raw attendance numbers, but our fanbase is far from rabid, and Chaifetz feels like a morgue for a lot of games.
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9 minutes ago, BrettJollyComedyHour said:
Lol we're constantly the unluckiest team in the conference.
Some of it over the years is luck, but a degree of it is self-inflicted. Hopeful the international issue is resolved, with many other schools going through the same process right now. Not confident on Brad though.
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10 hours ago, TheChosenOne said:
Absent the contract, did folks actually think Ford was deserving of being fired? I was disappointed with last season and questioned the future of the team, but would not have supported firing Ford without some exciting candidate essentially lined up that would not be around down the line. I don’t know his contract, but think asking folks to buy him out in the spring wouldn’t get much support. Six months from now that might be a different discussion.
Trying not to beat a dead horse, but yes. There were legitimate talks of top 25 last preseason, and they missed the postseason entirely. That alone isn’t enough, but combined with other seasons where expectations were fallen short of, it is a pattern.
As for the exciting candidate you’re hoping for, it’s not a guarantee one will be lined up whenever SLU does pull the plug. Coaching searches at this level will always have a leap of faith element to them. I’d personally take that leap, because for all of the negatives that have been acknowledged on this board about the changing NCAA, I still feel SLU has potential that can be unlocked with a new voice at the head of the program.
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6 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
I know nothing more than you do, but from written reports, UNC didn't initially disclose all the necessary information on this case in their waiver request. True or not, I don't know, but it is always good to listen/read both sides of the story.
A key thing for these waiver decisions is having things filed early, and filed in a complete fashion. Stories about denials that get reversed in appeals usually involve information being incomplete, like in UNC’s case. Additionally, the NCAA has a deadline for waiver applications by sport. If you file after that deadline, it’s usually an automatic decline.
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I’ll never understand the reluctance to appeal to more than a small group of donors. Eventually the core group they tap on now won’t be around. Future versions of this BVF event should be 75 dollars, and open it up to try and draw a big crowd. You can still work the big fish for more money once they’re there.