billfan4life Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 nm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I really never expected this thread to get little attention.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidnark Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 It was a foregone conclusion. Everyone knew Alexander and Peterson--the only two impact players available--weren't going to committ to SLU. That is why the timing of the decision isn't as bad as everyone is stating. With the exception of Griskenas(sp?), who had his chance to committ two weeks ago, all of the other recruits with offers from SLU were role players, not impact players. Brad lost this job when he went 0-6 on recruits last fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satrap Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Good. This firing was a friggin' fiasco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 " It was a foregone conclusion. Everyone knew Alexander and Peterson--the only two impact players available--weren't going to committ to SLU." Gee, I'm sure glad everone knew that. I guess Brad should checked with you before all those meet and greets.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I wouldn't quite say they were not necessarily going to committ. They held out this long. With Alexander, it was down to us and the Illini. He had dropped Tennessee from his list. Brad may have had his power forward finally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidnark Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Peterson went on record repeatedly saying he was waiting to see if the new Iowa coach would still offer him a job. It was being reported Monday night that Alexander was signing with Illinois. These are facts, not fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidnark Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Steve, it was being reported Monday night that he had committed to Illinois. He signed with Illinois Tuesday morning before the Brad firing was even public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Alexander committed to Illinois BEFORE brad was fired and Peterson said many times he was ging to Iowa if they offered...which they did. Brad's firing had nothing to do with either of those players going elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satrap Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Are we speculating now that Father Biondi was following the events on Billikens.com or Illiniboard and concluded that Brad wasn't going to get Alexander? Are we? For God's sake, please don't try to feed us that shite.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I honestly thought Alexander still had not committed as of before the firing. I will believe you and David, but I don't think I saw (or just missed it in the swarm of yesterday) something saying that he committed before 9am yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I am not going to say Biondi reads, but I think you would be surprised at who does read this board nowadays. Let's say I was even shocked when I learned of a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Agreed. Brian was the only one who mentioned a Monday firing and he later retracted that. We were up against mid-majors for Griskenas, Eberhardt, Pettigrew and Johnnie Harris though. I think we would have signed at least one of those guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Alexander notified the Illini on Monday night. Brad was not notified until Tuesday morning. http://www.news-gazette.com/blogs/basketbl...lands_alexander SATRAP, nobody is saying Biondi was following Alexander's recruiting. What Nark and I are saying is we don't want any revisionist history stating that Brad would have landed the mother load of Spring recruits when every FACT is that these guys were going elsewhere regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidnark Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I wan't suggesting that Biondi or any of the powers-to-be based any decisions on this board or the Internet. I was merely pointing out that before Brad was fired it was apparent that he wasn't going to sign his top point guard or forward targets this spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidnark Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 We probably would have signed at least one of those guys, but these guys were not difference-makers. Each was likely to fall into the Adam Knollmeyer/Horace Dixon mold. Griskenas was probably the best hope for an impact player, but he was probably a 3/4 tweener at the D1 level. He sounded a little like Izik. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Good deal. Stand corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satrap Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 > >SATRAP, nobody is saying Biondi was following Alexander's >recruiting. What Nark and I are saying is we don't want any >revisionist history stating that Brad would have landed the >mother load of Spring recruits when every FACT is that these >guys were going elsewhere regardless. I agree with the above. I hate the theories that speculate that Bard was fired before he could land those guys. I just think it's patently ludicrous to give up on a recruiting class with time left in the signing period. It doesn't make sense to think that a couple of other recruits couldn't have at least provided depth for next year. I don't get it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satrap Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Nark, I like your style even though I despise this firing and loved Brad. But seriously, how many guys in the spring signing period are difference makers anyway? We would love a difference maker, or many of them, no doubt, but it would have been great to have gotten a couple of guys to at least provide some decent minutes against the non-difference makers that URI or Temple puts on the court. Guys who are good but not very good or great. That's what we needed desperately and I think we would have gotten one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Being recruited by mid-majors doesn't mean you're not a difference maker. No one on this board thought Reggie Larry would have been a difference maker. He most certainly would have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I would agree that Biondi probably does not read the board but I do think he knew that Brad's recruiting woes were continuing and recognized that the sooner he got a different coach the sooner something might be salvaged for the fall. I really do think that the University might not let the two players that signed already out of their letters. They can hold them to the letters and hope the new coach can win them over eventually. Generally that is what happens anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I think Biondi was following his recruiting very closely. When it appeared he wasn't going to land his primary targets, Biondi showed him the door. Absolutely feel Alexander's signing was the final straw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTIME Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 nm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlee Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 The Lobos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesman Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 There are many JUCO kids in the spring period who can and will be difference makers. Harris, Eberhardt, Alexander all fall in that category. Do you think Alford would have recruited Harris to New Mexico if he didn't think he would be a difference maker? Or Alexander to Illinois if he couldn't contribute positive minutes right away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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