RM on KFNS

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SLU72, Saint Louis U has ALWAYS tried to do basketball on the cheap. Ludicrous marketing budget, low head coach salaries, asst. coaching salaries even lower, no weight rooms, poor practice facilities, low level of booster financial support all conspired with little University president support to run a complete DI basketball program. This showed in the makeup of the team, with the last complete team probably being the 1971 team, which could reasonable go seven deep. Every coach in modern Billiken history has been forced to make do with fairly limited resources.

We finally have a coach that would command a million dollar salary anywhere, and we see a corresponding increase in the important sections of the infrastructure. As any astute business person would point out, we should expect and see improvement in metrics popping up in the short term, and broad based, sustainable improvement in overall performance at some point next season. At this point, all our Sagarin metrics are DOWN from last season. We have two very ugly losses that will ensure all NCAA dreams are for naught.

As much as it would be nice to present a positive image, my assessment is that RM is doing a very good job teaching his players how to implement his offense and defense, and he has done a rather lackluster job of coaching the team. If we were a freshmen/sophomore dominated team, and we were coming off a 10 to 15 win season, this ranking would be different. Instead we start three seniors and two juniors, with our first two subs being a juco junior and a freshmen. Can't ask for more experience then that!

Two retired DI bball coaches who live in town -neither having anything in the past to do with SLU- both note that RM could coach this team to the Dance before the season started. They have also said he is past the point of wanting to change how he coaches for two years to maximize the talent he does have.

who cares what two ex D1 coaches say Dave. I'm 100% in agreement with RM implementing his plan full force.