johnbj14

So there is no place I can find it in writing, but it is being heavily rumored that Humphrey's is closing. Heard today from someone in the know that it is "definitely closing mid summer."

Jones injured his elbow in HS I believe and that hindered his shooting form. He basically never had a chance to become an outside shooter. Goodwin doesn't have that problem, and I would bed he becomes a serviceable shooter.

He recruits very well, which is his biggest draw. He has connections all over the country. His game coaching is decent enough. If he could recruit here like he did at Cal, we would be near the top of the A-10 every year.

As a big fan of the Bulls here are my two cents on Skiles. He is a fantastic coach, very defensive minded and would have the Bills defending like a top 25 team fairly quickly. The downside to him is that players do eventually lose their love of playing for him. Now, that was the nba. In college where players are here 4 years, it may not be as big of an issue. It would be an outside the box hire for sure, but Skiles could do a pretty good job based imo.

My point wasn't to blame students, what the man did was wrong. My point was more so that if SLU went ahead and hired Martin, there would be an outrage from many groups on SLU's campus based on his association with a coach who did that. Not trying to downplay the severity of the situation in any way.

Baylor is always overrated come tourney time. Really feels like Drew underachieves every single ncaa.

Obviously we don't know everything that went down at Cal, but I promise you that the current students at SLU are huge PC police. Trust me on that.Edit: my point is that a lot of undergrads who know nothing about basketball would read a blurb of something happening at Cal under Martin's watch and berate the administration through anonymous complaints

For context though, UNCW fouled at one of the worst rates in the country. Butler and TTech was a good game. Baylor and Yale is interesting. Really excited for WSU and Arizona. Think the shockers pull it out.

Before he went to Cal he said he believes SLU can be a destination job. However, I read Cal is working on extending him. He certainly can recruit, but I don't see him coming here with how talented his team is going forward.

Is this tweet him announcing he is leaving, or just thanking the staff?

FGCU and FDU are two of the youngest teams in the country (FDU 3rd youngest in NCAA) FGCU looks good so far.

Sometimes a buyout can be nearly the full amount or even more for breaking a contract. I understand Frank isn't always right or even close to it, but I'm not entirely surprised. If it is true, that is some smart negotiating on Crews part.

I sincerely hope if this bit about former coaches is true it only pertains to Romar and Bennett. Harriman as well. But absolutely not porter, brad, or any of the current assistants.

I don't think Bay Area is coming off as obsessive over Butler. Merely listing facts.

Butler is located a mere 15 minutes from where the game was held. Students were given transportation from the campus according to my friends there, and a ton of students and many local alumni attended. While Purdue is larger, I severely doubt they had more fans there. Even if they did, watching on TV didn't make it seem like they impacted the game at all. It was very loosely a neutral site game for butler.

He would fit a good bit of the mold that has been outlined. Someone who is here to develop players both on the court and off the court in the ideals laid out by the university. Coming from Notre Dame, he has experience at a major program based at a Catholic university. Throw in the fact that he also played for ND, and you have someone who has a good idea of what environment his bosses are looking for. His work with Demetrius Jackson, Jerian Grant, and Pat Connaughton in recent years is a huge plus as well. I could get behind him being looked at.

Butler making this field is a joke. Bona, as well as others should be in over them. Rewarding a team who schedules weak OOC and then finished only 10-8 in a top heavy conference is absurd. Tulsa is another one. Absolutely ridiculous how this field and seeding was done.

Where did this fan voting occur? I just saw all of those awards on Twitter and confused as to where they came from. Edit: Nvm found it.

According to some people on Twitter, the choices were made up largely before this weekend and didn't factor in KenPom. Mainly RPI and some other factors.

Valpo didn't make the tourney, time for Drew to start talking to SLU.

I just think it would be a cool thing to happen, considering we would be in the tourney and all. That is the thing I want to see more than anything else. SLU dancing again, quickly, is the primary goal with whoever comes in.

Re-watched Crews' presser again today and it led to me to a conclusion. While the entirety of the sophomore class will not be at SLU next year (not here to advocate for them to leave/stay), I would like to see them be successful in a twist of irony to Crews career here. Just as the players Rick left to Crews grew into the best stretch of SLU basketball we have seen, I would love to see the men Crews left behind do similar things for the next coach. These last two years have been rough, but what a fitting end to the Crews era it would be to see him sitting in the crowd at an NCAA game in two years, watching his guys prove him right. That would be a beautiful twist (since Rick never got to see the product live) on history repeating itself.

This could turn the program around faster than it fell off. Make it happen, future Billiken basketball coach.

Godwin Boahen is a 2016 out of Canada. Smaller guard similar in stature to bishop. Not a ton on him aside from a couple videos I posted over in the 2016 thread.

While there is a good chance the stats are off because of the general unreliability of high school statistics, Moore is an elite shooter or appears to be. I think he will be a good local find and a real under the radar addition to the program. This is based on the limited film of him but he has decent form. I'd love for him to be a surprise, kind of like Bishop ended up being. I remember liking what I saw of JB when he signed and for some reason Zeke gives me the same optimism.