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On 1/10/2025 at 12:44 PM, billikenfan05 said:

That doesn't mean the people running the nutrition center know what the hell they are doing. Just like others May has hired didn't know what the hell they were doing aka the compliance director who was asked to resign after not filing Ezewiro's paperwork on time among other errors.

Don't forget that May sold the entire athletics department on being able to access the nutrition center, only to re-neg on that promise.

So weird that a factually correct post top to bottom was given thumbs down by posters who seem to only exist to downvote posts critical of the athletics director. 

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44 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:

So weird that a factually correct post top to bottom was given thumbs down by posters who seem to only exist to downvote posts critical of the athletics director. 

When a person blames the AD for injuries and supposed nutritional deficiencies and yet refuses to give this individual credit for anything, including the hiring of our new beloved head coach, they lose all credibility. Now if you want to talk about stupidity, I would suggest that you look at a certain individual who is trying to attract listeners to his podcast, who goes out of his way to alienate everyone in the athletic department as well as any poster who may have a different view than his own. 

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2 hours ago, BIG BILL FAN said:

When a person blames the AD for injuries and supposed nutritional deficiencies and yet refuses to give this individual credit for anything, including the hiring of our new beloved head coach, they lose all credibility. Now if you want to talk about stupidity, I would suggest that you look at a certain individual who is trying to attract listeners to his podcast, who goes out of his way to alienate everyone in the athletic department as well as any poster who may have a different view than his own. 

I haven't blamed anyone for injuries, I've only asked why we seem to have at least one season ending injury every year and if we're consistently evaluating strength and conditioning protocols. That seems reasonable. When you continue to have players get injured in practice, I think it's worth rethinking practice intensity or warm up protocol, don't you?

Where did I say Chris May didn't deserve credit for Josh Schertz? Show your work. I've given him flowers on many occasions, including his athletics department being on the forefront of streaming sports quality, for prioritizing experienced and knowledgeable commentators. I've credited his department for playing major catch up on licensing for merchandise. Oh and building an on-campus field hockey facility which is a major life improvement for the Billiken women's FH team.

Everything I've ever shared about Chris May has been told to me independently by at least two different sources or experienced directly.

Finally, and fortunately, that's only your view of things, not reality.

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Every team has injuries every year. Now if you show us numbers where we have more over say the last 5 years you may have a point. Seems like I’ve read several serious A10 injuries the last couple of days. How many medical redshirts have we had? Not that many. 

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1 hour ago, willie said:

Every team has injuries every year. Now if you show us numbers where we have more over say the last 5 years you may have a point. Seems like I’ve read several serious A10 injuries the last couple of days. How many medical redshirts have we had? Not that many. 

See Auburn

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On 1/10/2025 at 12:45 PM, almaman said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbPu6inglr8&t=8s

You think that was a good find, I just found this video called "The Last Night of the ABA." The three key things to me are first, when they discuss Larry Brown and Doug Moe being named coaches of the '72-73 Cougar team. I was a huge Cougar fan as the first four years of their five year history were during my high school years. Not only that but Brown and Moe joined the country club where we were members and I had lunch with them one day and played a few holes of golf with Brown. Seeing them around the pro shop was cool and Brown was really approachable.

Second is that Dr. J played his first pro game with the Virginia Squires against the Cougars in the Greensboro Coliseum and me and my neighbor were at the game. It took about five minutes for us to realize that Julius Erving was something special.

Third is that it ends with a tribute to Wendell Ladner who was on the Nets championship team as Erving's "protector." Though I followed the ABA closely, it was interesting to learn that the Nets players really pushed the owner to trade for Ladner.

I'll just say that the ABA was GREAT!!! We had so much fun at those games and if I wasn't at one the home games, I was glued to the radio to keep up with my Cougars, who of course became the Spirits. One last thing, Steve "Snapper" Jones had several appearances in the video and he was the only Cougar holdover who became a Spirit when the team moved.

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thanks will watch. Seeing Dr J was b4 replays everywhere. In person remember thinking it was hard to process what was being seen. I always think east. could have been if he had gone straight to NBA. Good times were had back then . fun to see stuff like this.

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13 hours ago, willie said:

Every team has injuries every year. Now if you show us numbers where we have more over say the last 5 years you may have a point. Seems like I’ve read several serious A10 injuries the last couple of days. How many medical redshirts have we had? Not that many. 

Agree.
 

Is there a website that easily shows man games lost?  
Compare that to 2-3 teams for 4-5 years and see how close it is.

 

My guess is that most teams will be pretty close. 

 

 

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On 1/11/2025 at 5:41 PM, billikenfan05 said:

I haven't blamed anyone for injuries, I've only asked why we seem to have at least one season ending injury every year and if we're consistently evaluating strength and conditioning protocols. That seems reasonable. When you continue to have players get injured in practice, I think it's worth rethinking practice intensity or warm up protocol, don't you?

Where did I say Chris May didn't deserve credit for Josh Schertz? Show your work. I've given him flowers on many occasions, including his athletics department being on the forefront of streaming sports quality, for prioritizing experienced and knowledgeable commentators. I've credited his department for playing major catch up on licensing for merchandise. Oh and building an on-campus field hockey facility which is a major life improvement for the Billiken women's FH team.

Everything I've ever shared about Chris May has been told to me independently by at least two different sources or experienced directly.

Finally, and fortunately, that's only your view of things, not reality.

Great response....calling out the complete lack of transparency on the ineligibilities last season was much appreciated...and should be appreciated by the athletic department, as it's a good lesson on how avoiding the truth ultimately backfires!

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1 hour ago, VeniceMenace said:

Great response....calling out the complete lack of transparency on the ineligibilities last season was much appreciated...and should be appreciated by the athletic department, as it's a good lesson on how avoiding the truth ultimately backfires!

Down voted by people who think it's good the AD obfuscated the truth for really no good reason?!? To look further incompetent.

Poor communication, trademark Chris May.

Being simps trademark Dennis W & Henry B.

They refer to him as Chris May I have another?

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On 1/11/2025 at 2:58 PM, billikenfan05 said:

So weird that a factually correct post top to bottom was given thumbs down by posters who seem to only exist to downvote posts critical of the athletics director. 

In fairness, it's not all just Chris May, they also gave me a thumbs down for my satirical post critical of the scandal plagued and now defunct trump university 😆

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17 hours ago, ACE said:

In fairness, it's not all just Chris May, they also gave me a thumbs down for my satirical post critical of the scandal plagued and now defunct trump university 😆

Many of us are just tired of the May Derangement Syndrome among other derangement syndromes.  It just gets old, reading the same sh-stuff from the same goofballs day after day.  You know who invented astrotrurf?  The Je.....Chris May!  Chris May invented astroturf!

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2 hours ago, Billiken Rich said:

Many of us are just tired of the May Derangement Syndrome among other derangement syndromes.  It just gets old, reading the same sh-stuff from the same goofballs day after day.  You know who invented astrotrurf?  The Je.....Chris May!  Chris May invented astroturf!

I agree with that. People like theA_Dud get tiresome. Same take over and over, different day. Beating the dead horse doesn't advance their cause. Legit criticisms get lost in the bluster.

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I've said this before but it seems appropriate now, if Chris May is and has done such a horrible job and not performed as expected for so long, why has the Saint Louis University president and BoT continued to allow him to continue in his position?   My guess is he is doing what was expected.   

With the exception of maybe Debbie Yow, I can't think of a better athletic director for Saint Louis University in my 50 years of following the Billikens.   Thanks Chris May.  

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If Coach Schertz repeats his prior successes, we have a chance for long term success.  He's young enough to keep it going, we're paying him a lot of money and there's virtually no media pressure. 

Long term success is what every MBM wants.  We're so close, I can taste it.  It's ironic that this could happen under an AD with so little fan support.  Life is strange.

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3 hours ago, billiken_roy said:

I've said this before but it seems appropriate now, if Chris May is and has done such a horrible job and not performed as expected for so long, why has the Saint Louis University president and BoT continued to allow him to continue in his position?   My guess is he is doing what was expected.   

With the exception of maybe Debbie Yow, I can't think of a better athletic director for Saint Louis University in my 50 years of following the Billikens.   Thanks Chris May.  

indeed & it. is a thankless job

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4 hours ago, billiken_roy said:

I've said this before but it seems appropriate now, if Chris May is and has done such a horrible job and not performed as expected for so long, why has the Saint Louis University president and BoT continued to allow him to continue in his position?   My guess is he is doing what was expected.   

With the exception of maybe Debbie Yow, I can't think of a better athletic director for Saint Louis University in my 50 years of following the Billikens.   Thanks Chris May.  

I don't know that he's great at it but it's silly that everything good is someone else's doing and everything bad is on him.  It is May Derangement Syndrome.... 

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4 hours ago, billiken_roy said:

I've said this before but it seems appropriate now, if Chris May is and has done such a horrible job and not performed as expected for so long, why has the Saint Louis University president and BoT continued to allow him to continue in his position?   My guess is he is doing what was expected.   

With the exception of maybe Debbie Yow, I can't think of a better athletic director for Saint Louis University in my 50 years of following the Billikens.   Thanks Chris May.  

In 50 years what has SLU done in basketball? 

Any Sweet 16s?  

1 NIT Runner up.

1 WBB NIT Championship.

SLU Soccer had a National Championship 50 years ago, and what since?  2 Final Fours.

A lot of mediocrity. Just like May, underachieving. 

Sad. 

3 hours ago, 3star_recruit said:

If Coach Schertz repeats his prior successes, we have a chance for long term success.  He's young enough to keep it going, we're paying him a lot of money and there's virtually no media pressure. 

Long term success is what every MBM wants.  We're so close, I can taste it.  It's ironic that this could happen under an AD with so little fan support.  Life is strange.

How about just success? Has SLU been successful? See above.

Long term success requires the ability to have some vision and the leadership ability to adapt the organization to best take advantage. The landscape has changed rapidly and continues to change. May is a step behind. 

So keep CJS. Fire May, find someone that has some vision, leadership, and communication skills. Maybe then we can achieve success, and possibly long term success.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:

In 50 years what has SLU done in basketball? 

Any Sweet 16s?  

1 NIT Runner up.

1 WBB NIT Championship.

SLU Soccer had a National Championship 50 years ago, and what since?  2 Final Fours.

A lot of mediocrity. Just like May, underachieving. 

Sad. 

How about just success? Has SLU been successful? See above.

Long term success requires the ability to have some vision and the leadership ability to adapt the organization to best take advantage. The landscape has changed rapidly and continues to change. May is a step behind. 

So keep CJS. Fire May, find someone that has some vision, leadership, and communication skills. Maybe then we can achieve success, and possibly long term success.

 

 

Won’t most newly hired Athletic Directors with any level of expertise expect to have a person of their choice in the high profile (Football and Men’s Basketball) jobs? Especially in a school that has no Football team, the MBB coach is the highest profile job there is.  This is how we got Chris May, the MBB coach at the time (Rick Majerus) recommended a guy who had never been an AD before that he knew would let him and the MBB program alone.

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