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It’s pretty cool we beat out Louisville
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3 hours ago, NextYearBill said:
A dark cloud has been lifted.
Yes. Last season was the lowest in my fandom. We are exciting again!
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This confirmed?
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Haven’t watched in months. So tuned out. Looks like we had high school attendance tonight.
Only thing I’m remotely interested in at this point is the head coaching search. Very little matters outside of getting that right
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11 hours ago, billiken_roy said:
Recruiting is now a very distant second priority now with the b.s. pay to play NiL. The first question all new recruits and transfer candidates ask now is, "how much will I get paid.". Thus Ford's strongest attribute (maybe only attribute) has been diminished and virtually made him a non D1 coach imo. He has to go.
Yes that’s fine and I agree re NIL. We have 0 reason to believe he can navigate NIL and transform a roster in an off-season
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On 2/20/2024 at 9:56 AM, Pistol said:
I'm going to take Ford at face value for a moment regarding his "We have a plan in place to turn this thing around" line that he repeated a few times.
Recruiting is bone dry. We've offered a few juco guys this season but otherwise have virtually no discernible recruiting activity.
We have one player - Ja'Quavis Williford - committed for next season.
Meadows and Hargrove are out of eligibility after this season. Jimerson may or may not return for a sixth season.
International players are hard to predict but can be difficult to retain. Regarding the others, we'd be crazy not to expect transfers given the current landscape and the nature of the season we're having. In short, retention is going to be a real problem.
So if the recruiting pipeline is a trickle at most, if we have one incoming commitment so far, and if we're going to struggle to retain a bunch of players who are visibly upset at how this season has gone (assuming you want to retain all of them), does the plan involve a completely new set of players? Is Ford assuming he'll have enough of an NIL bag to put together a roster as if he's a new coach, and hope for those guys to come together like Utah State (or VCU or George Mason, arguably)?
I would just love to hear more about what the plan is, because I don't think it's real.
This is the biggest thing for me. Nothing in the pipeline. Where is the talent? He’s brought in loaded classes before. He needs one now more than ever.
How do you have a coach whose strength is recruiting, not recruit? We banking on his understanding of NIL and the portal he’s gained over the “last month” to bail out his skeleton crew of a roster for next season?
Hell I might even be willing to give him an extra year if there was talent coming in. See Coach Gates at Mizzou- easily on the hot seat with 0 SEC wins but nothing else matters w a top 5 class coming in
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He skip post-game commentary again? No video/audio at all?
S*** is so weak
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The A10 championship was a success. However long ago or short-lived it was.
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1 minute ago, JettFlight5 said:
Get your excuse Bingo card ready.
“Guys were tired”
”They shot well”
”We’re a little banged up”
”On the road in this league..”
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Good thing CTF now has a hold on NIL and the portal!
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Turning this off
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I work in wealth management. In my industry, regulations are always changing (especially on the tax front). For example, the Required Minimum Distribution age just changed for a ton of Americans. This is something we have to be in front of in order to best return value for our clients.
How, in the biggest change in collegiate sports ever, is his team JUST IN THE LAST MONTH getting a hold on transfer portal and NIL?
It’s the dumbest thing he said all interview. No pre-planning, no vision, and no edge. It shows
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4 hours ago, White Pelican said:
The women play tonight. Come on out!
I rarely miss a home game but decided I didn't want to go out last night. Watched it on my pirate. About the only thing worth watching for right now is Parker's offense. He's just deadly right now. The rest is just turnovers, stupid fouls and losses.
Parker’s shot making is crazy. His development can be considered a massive bright spot-
Main objective outside of nailing the HC hire is keeping him at SLU
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Has to be the most pathetic Billiken blizzard in the history of the arena
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Time is truly a flat circle
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2 hours ago, billikenbill said:
Actually, a turnover, a Jimerson 3, two more turnovers, then a Hargrove 3. Three turnovers in 5 possessions, bad, 6 points in 5 possessions, excellent. Statistics can be weird like that.
Our only 2 makes from deep.
Proceeded to miss 12 straight
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1 hour ago, slu92 said:
Why would Moser want to come here? Chris May could’ve hired him over Crews and didn’t. Plus from what I’ve heard over the years May doesn’t like Moser and vice versa. Which makes sense because people that are successful (Moser) don’t like to associate with losers (May). I’d love it otherwise! Porter Moser is a great guy and a great coach.
This is an awesome sentence
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Thoughts from the game (my 1st game of the season):
My fiancé and I showed up an hour early. Let me tell you this- if you think Midtown is dead, Rogers park has it beat. The garage attendant genuinely had no idea where to get a drink pregame. “The Bulldog” closed (where we went last year). Astounding. Not a Loyola bar in sight. Pretty crazy.
Stayed around for warmups. Interestingly, CTF wasn’t out there for early warm-ups. Maybe this is normal idk. I know he wasn’t game planning in the locker room though.
Loyola student section brings in. Duke style where they take up the whole sideline. Engaged and loud- unlike ours.
Chaifetz was courtside with May. Larry legend in attendance as well. Chaifetz and Ford were friendly pre-game, exchanging pleasantries. Who knows how many handshakes are left.
We started out with 3 straight turnovers I believe (all bad). Got back into it and held a lead for a decent portion of the half. I thought defense was a little better than it has been in 1H. Ezewiro has no touch around the rim - it’s amazing.
They took over 2H. Des Watson is a player. Their veteran guards played well. They had enough inside for us too.
Pretty much what I expected. Loyola -10 one of the easier bets I’ve made. Decent SLU turnout fan-wise, nothing like last year. Last year we dominated the building with S-A-I-N-T chants. Not this year.
Hope it’s one of the last games I see CTF on the sidelines. At a certain point you just know/believe you aren’t a very good team. I think our guys know this
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I mean there’s nothing. You’d think a Loyola bar would have to be somewhere
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Apparently The Bulldog is closed which served as a great pre-game spot last year.
Anywhere to call an audible?
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12 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said:
It sounded like he was about to cry right? Then Earl and Rammer step in and say 'yeah we've seen a lot of ball and....." to save him
I mean I’m sure this is really hard for him. His heart is definitely in it, so when you get results that are so off course it’s hard.
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11 hours ago, Slu let the dogs out? said:
All I can think about is how much better those Goodwin teams would’ve been with an actual coach.
A fair thought, but the hypothetical coach would’ve had to land him on the recruiting trail in the 1st place.
Ford was punching above his weight class with that commitment and does deserve some credit. Not every day we beat out the likes of Texas, Michigan State, Purdue, Bama whether it’s a local kid or not
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On 1/25/2024 at 10:26 AM, ACE said:
Some of the comments from last year that we would be better off without Yuri were ridiculous. I pointed out that life would be much more difficult this year for Gibby, who was heavily reliant on Yuri.
Also odd that Yuri caught so much crap, yet Gibby largely escapes criticism for poor performances.
I was happy to see Yuri leave at the time because I believed we had reached our ceiling with him.
In reality, it was Ford’s ceiling we had reached
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8 hours ago, The Wiz said:
Yes, ...the fact that someone would ask about comparing one of the worst teams in recent history shows we are not in a good place. Up until the Crews era, I had the regular grading system and at the bottom was just the letter F. It was during Crew's tenure that I had to come up the F+ and F- to micro manage the bad numbers. We need to turn the ship around. The good news is that in this new age of NIL and transfers it can be done quickly.
Conversely, it can unravel just as quickly too
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