Midtown Madness: An Interview with Davell Roby

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• Davell Roby joins the show to talk, longform, about his career as a Billiken 

  
  

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[crymdg2]

I've been hoping for this one for a long time. Davell is an absolute first class guy. Great basketball mind, too. Really excited to give this a listen this week! 

[Pistol]

Lots of good stuff in here - playing for Penny Hardaway, what drew him to SLU, McBroom and Glaze, being benched as a sophomore, the last days of Jim Crews, playing in Israel and Ukraine, what got Brett Jolly kicked off the team, learning non-basketball skills from Mike Crawford, Aaron Hines' otherworldly strength, having his senior season derailed, watching Goodwin play with LeBron and Luka, Lassina Traore's dance, and much, much more. 

[Box and Won]

You had me at "What got Brett Jolly kicked off the team."

[TMBilliken2013]

Brett Jolly "calling" his shots adds a whole new level of hilarity to that GIF. 

[Midtown Madness]

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[dlarry]

5 hours ago, Box and Won said:

You had me at "What got Brett Jolly kicked off the team."

Same. I guess I permanently erased the Jolly era because I don’t remember him getting kicked off the team. 

[SluSignGuy]

I think these long form interviews are some of Midtown Madness's best content.

[ACE]

I recently saw an interview with new Utah coach Alex Jensen about a variety of topics. He touched briefly about his time with SLU, but I would be interested in hearing a 15-20 minute interview just about his time at SLU. He clearly has a fondness for Majerus, so perhaps he would be agreeable to do it in the offseason.

 

[SLU_Nick]

27 minutes ago, SluSignGuy said:

I think these long form interviews are some of Midtown Madness's best content.

Co-sign this.  It’s funny listening to Davell because it confirms (mostly) everything that I thought was going on.

My lord Jim Crews was a terrible coach. 

 

[SluSignGuy]

4 minutes ago, SLU_Nick said:

Co-sign this.  It’s funny listening to Davell because it confirms (mostly) everything that I thought was going on.

My lord Jim Crews was a terrible coach. 

 

For older interviews from @billikenfan05's previous podcast, see below:

• Javon Bess
• Tremaine Isabell
• Brian Daly
• Ford Stuen
• Chris Sloan
• Earl Austin Jr.
• Ryan Luechtefeld ~ Part 1
• Ryan Luechtefeld ~ Part 2
• Elliot Welmer ~ Part 1
• Elliot Welmer ~ Part 2
• Jeff Harris
• Bryant Cotton ~ Part 1
• Bryant Cotton ~ Part 2
• Dwayne Evans – Part 1
• Dwayne Evans – Part 2
• Andre Craig
• Anthony Brown
• Kyle Cassity – Part 1
• Kyle Cassity – Part 2
• Cody Ellis – Part 1
• Cody Ellis – Part 2
• Mike Crawford
• Brian Conklin

[MusicCityBilliken]

Outstanding interview! Great to see Davell looking and doing well.

I played it back a few times and didn't understand, what is Davell doing here in St louis?

[Midtown Madness]

55 minutes ago, MusicCityBilliken said:

Outstanding interview! Great to see Davell looking and doing well.

I played it back a few times and didn't understand, what is Davell doing here in St louis?

Sumner Athletics Director. 

[Pistol]

6 hours ago, ACE said:

I recently saw an interview with new Utah coach Alex Jensen about a variety of topics. He touched briefly about his time with SLU, but I would be interested in hearing a 15-20 minute interview just about his time at SLU. He clearly has a fondness for Majerus, so perhaps he would be agreeable to do it in the offseason.

We'd love to chat with him. If anyone has a line, hit us up.

[SLU_Nick]

It really is kind of amazing for the diehard fans.  We spend hours of our time in the moment talking about what is happening and why with the team....and no one on this board who posts knows anything 99.9% of time.  Then 10 years later, podcasts like this unveil the exact truths that were happening.  Brett Jolly calling what shots he was going to try in the game in the lockerroom before hand, Crews punishing Davell because he was Jollys roommate and holding him responsible for Jollys behavior....etc etc.  

Davell's recollection of the roster we were about to put together before Sit 2 was particularly interesting.  I was able to watch practice once where Bess, Henriquez, Foreman, Ty Graves all were playing together....they look GOOD....then they add Jordan Goodwin and French.  That team honestly would have been special.  Honestly, I do not think Ford ever really recovered from that.  We were about to field a team as talented as one of Ford's OK St teams that year.  Brutal.  

 

 

 

[thetorch]

There was zero reporting of Jolly being booted off the team.  He didn't play for all of February, but he did play in the final 3 games of the season, inclduding both games of the A10 tourney.

[dlarry]

11 hours ago, thetorch said:

There was zero reporting of Jolly being booted off the team.  He didn't play for all of February, but he did play in the final 3 games of the season, inclduding both games of the A10 tourney.

Regardless of the infraction you just can’t keep a talent like Jolly off the roster! 

[thetorch]

1 hour ago, dlarry said:

Regardless of the infraction you just can’t keep a talent like Jolly off the roster! 

The only thing worse than Jolly's basketball abilities was Crews' coaching. Makes perfect sense that Crews would kick him off the team than play him 6 weeks later in the most important games of the season.

[Lord Elrond]

16 minutes ago, thetorch said:

The only thing worse than Jolly's basketball abilities was Crews' coaching. Makes perfect sense that Crews would kick him off the team than play him 6 weeks later in the most important games of the season.

Thinking about it, it does make perfect sense.

[Pistol]

I took it more as a soft expulsion. He wasn't thrown out of school or anything like that. It's more that Crews was fed up with him and made it clear he wasn't part of his plans moving forward. Then when it became clear Crews wasn't part of SLU's plans moving forward, it doesn't really matter who plays. By then, I'm sure a lot of other guys were creating headaches for him, too.

[Box and Won]

It cannot be overstated how devastating the hiring of Crews was to this program. 

[SLUMedBilliken15]

33 minutes ago, Box and Won said:

It cannot be overstated how devastating the hiring of Crews was to this program. 

Yet, he may go down in history as the most successful SLU coach of all time...

1.) Made the round of 32 two years in a row

2.) National coach of the year

3.) I think one of his teams had a top ten ranking at one point in time.

Sadly, none of the above will likely ever be repeated at SLU...

I personally still am torn between liking him for his successes or hating him for never allowing SLU to return to that level. 

Honestly if SLU had hired an outside candidate instead of Crews, we may have lost some of the team and they would have played a different style which likely wouldn't have led to as good of results those 2 years... 

[SLU_Lax]

According to the board, Cody Ellis had a hot girlfriend (the ultimate X factor in player retention). He was probably in regardless.
 

Dwayne Evans would be the best litmus test if someone gets his take on how key of a factor retaining Crews would have been to keeping the group together. Moser or Jensen would have probably been as good a choice in the players eyes. 

[thetorch]

There were some decent names angling for the SLU job.  May didn't even do a single interview.  Caved into the pressure to hire Crews.

The team didn't like Crews and they hated his staff.

Majerus' girlfriend could have coached the team just was well as Crews did.  

One overlooked aspect, a new coach would have surely sent Mcbroom packing before he ever stepped foot on the court.

[willie]

There is no way May could not hire Crews after being named Coach of the year. Period. While the popular negative is they coached themselves is bs. Did he run a good program? Hell no. At least for 1 year he kept the team together. Would we have been better with someone else? Sure but probably not that tournament year. 

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