NoCoBillsFan

Honest question, do you think we’ve seen Ford’s ceiling then? If not, what do you think is his ceiling?

100%. Rebuild years are a part of college sports. But fourth place should not be your ceiling.

We can rack up as many wins as we want against La Salle and St Joes but we ain’t getting many at larges losing to UMass and SIUE.

Number of wins doesn’t really matter when you play against weak competition. I think the context that’s missing from this discussion is how much Ford gets paid. If you’re the highest paid coach in the A10, how come you’ve never finished higher than fourth in six seasons (and most likely to finish fourth in your seventh season)? Fourth place should not be celebrated in this conference. Besides Dayton, SLU has the most money invested into basketball in a weak A10. There’s no reason we can’t be like VCU or Dayton with regular top 3 finishes and in serious bubble conversations almost every season.

There was a brawl at the Camden game last night. Cian can be seen holding back 5 star recruit DJ Wagner at the beginning of the video. The more I see of Cian, the more I like him. He seems like a great teammate.

https://bustingbrackets.com/2023/02/15/ncaa-basketball-10-coaches-may-get-fired-leave-2022-23-season/

*same thing every year

Had it on for a bit while I was out. Ford sounded sick to the point that I didn’t even think it was him at first.

Fordham is already in 4th place. If they win and we lose, they’ll be in 3rd and we’ll be in 4th. VCU, Dayton, Fordham, then us. And we hold the tiebreaker over 5th place St. Bs. I agree with the sentiment that we’re not in as strong of a position as some would lead you believe (because of a backloaded schedule) but we’re not a game away from being out of the double bye.

Yeah he got hit by a car. But then again he didn’t really play much before that either

Nesbitt’s best qualities are what this team is missing the most. Fire, athleticism, ball handling, shot creation, defense, etc.

It certainly wasn’t a majority but there were enough for it to catch my attention. I could see that but I took it to be directed at Yuri because he took a really bad shot after a couple bad possessions. Especially after what happened at the end of Fridays game.

I heard the boos as well, after he bricked a heavily contested long 2. You know it’s bad when the usually tame SLU fans are booing the guy that just broke the A10 record for assists.

Glad to see that there are still some members of the Nesbitt fan club left on the board. His skillset and fire is dearly missed from this years team.

This is clearly their championship game.

Both are using us as a placeholder for the A10 autobid. Still have a long way to go before we make any at-large appearances in bracketology

We got screwed by Wichita State making the tourney in 2021. We were 52nd in the NET and they were 70th, which is personally the lowest I remember getting in. Thanks for that one TV Ted.

I like this idea. End of year superlatives.

My only fear about letting Ford go is the thought that the AD could likely mess up the next hire. Then again, SLU has a knack for replacing coaches that can’t get over the hump with all time greats. Grawer to Spoon, Soderberg to Majerus for example.

NIT with the occasional lucky A10 tourney run is Ford’s ceiling. Are you okay with that? I’m not a Joe Labs or Bonner89 or BC…. I was a ford defender until the SIUE loss and I hope he pulls out a conference tourney run this year. But I just want better for SLU than the status quo.

We aren’t having this conversation if we stayed within 10-15 points of Iona, actually make some shots in crunch time against Boise St, and maintained an 18 point lead at home against SIUE. I don’t think any of those things are big asks and would change our season drastically. Going 6-1 against bottom half A10 teams doesn’t change that. This team was receiving T25 votes before the year! By the way we had a 6 game win streak with 3 road wins against A10 bottom feeders last season and you see where we ended up?

UD also had a win over Kansas. SLU has the only Q1 win in the conference this season and it’s nowhere near the same level.

Our at-large chances arguably died with the home loss to Boise St and definitely died with the loss to SIUE. Since Fred was there for both of those, his injury can’t be used as an excuse for us not getting an at-large this season.

We lost to SIUE at home with Fred Thatch

PA Announcer messing his last name up? He’ll feel right at home with Gus.