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On 5/14/2022 at 9:42 AM, thetorch said:

Reasons I am going to complain about the hire - 

There is no one from St. Louis on her staff - Stone didn't always have one either, she did have regional people on her staff and when she first got here she did have a local there.  No attempt by Tillet here.

She's reproduced her staff from Longwood - A HOF coach can bring all their people in to every stop, most don't do this though.  A coach at her level really can't.  She has though.  This also show that maybe she limited connections in the industry as well, not a good thing.

She's posted the team doing meditation during practice on social media - We have a set amount of time for player development every week, lets work on basketball skills instead of namaste, JMHO.

The one Asst coach she hired is clownish - Not making fun of looks here.  Her promotional photo she is wearing a bow tie and a mens suit jacket with the tags still on it.  I know the culture is different in womens Bball, but this is the equivalent of a man wearing random baseball hat with the sticker on the bill in his photo.  To some who say this is a cool look for young people and I'm too old, its not a cool look and I'm not that old.

Another Asst coach is from Chicago St - I know she worked with Tillet before but Chicago St is the worst run AD in D-1.  I'm not touching anyone they hire.

All the transfers she brought in are from Longwood - Again this shows a lack of connections and a lack of recruiting skill.  There are only so many players she can bring in from Longwood.

This hire reeks of SLU being cheap - This is out of Tillets control but they are all interconnected and this is my overriding concern.  I think MMP put it best, May made this hire because he thinks he can get more out of the program with the same level of commitment.  I thought SLU was past this level of thinking.  

 

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Saint Louis is a top academic school.  Women's basketball is WAY different from Men's basketball.  Getting to the right school for a quality education is likely a very high top want for women ..... much more so than for the men IMO.  So local recruiting may be less of a priority or need.

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6 hours ago, WVBilliken said:

Saint Louis is a top academic school.  Women's basketball is WAY different from Men's basketball.  Getting to the right school for a quality education is likely a very high top want for women ..... much more so than for the men IMO.  So local recruiting may be less of a priority or need.

Is it really?

Its not top 100.

Just like the men SLU women have had the most success being led by locals.

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21 hours ago, WVBilliken said:

Saint Louis is a top academic school.  Women's basketball is WAY different from Men's basketball.  Getting to the right school for a quality education is likely a very high top want for women ..... much more so than for the men IMO.  So local recruiting may be less of a priority or need.

SLU isn't Harvard. I also think womens basketball isn't much different than men's basketball when it comes to recruiting. I think you see a lot more of the "I want to major in ____ so I am looking exclusively at ___ schools" in the non-full-scholarship sports. 

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