Bryan Mullins is a Saluki Hall of Famer and was a great person and representative of SIU as a PLAYER. He wasn't ready to be a head coach and was not a good head coach at SIU. He also had a poor, inexperienced staff under him. He may eventually become a good head coach down the road in his 2nd go around ala Porter Moser. Nagy is a good head coach and has put together a stellar coaching staff. Unlike Bryan he knows how to delegate and use his experienced coaching staff. This year has been up and down, mostly down after losing our early season best player who was the straw that stirred the drink as Reggie Jackson said. I think we will retain more players than most think and Nagy will get this thing rolling in a year or two with talented players coming in such as Luke Walsh.I will be there but quite honestly it is hard to get excited about a team that decides not to show up for big games, as in yesterday for example.
The tournament is fun regardless of SIU being awful. My boy is obsessed with it so this should be a real treat for him. That’s why we are still going lol
One of these years (or decades) SIU is going to go into an Arch Madness with a chance to win again. Just don't know if that's coming anytime soon.
The had a legit chance under Mullins. Gave Drake their most competitive game of the tournament and were in it at the under 4. We gave up on that to get a whiny coach with one of the worst attitudes toward coaching I have ever seen. His relentless negativity is exhausting.
Bryan Mullins is a Saluki Hall of Famer and was a great person and representative of SIU as a PLAYER. He wasn't ready to be a head coach and was not a good head coach at SIU. He also had a poor, inexperienced staff under him. He may eventually become a good head coach down the road in his 2nd go around ala Porter Moser. Nagy is a good head coach and has put together a stellar coaching staff. Unlike Bryan he knows how to delegate and use his experienced coaching staff. This year has been up and down, mostly down after losing our early season best player who was the straw that stirred the drink as Reggie Jackson said. I think we will retain more players than most think and Nagy will get this thing rolling in a year or two with talented players coming in such as Luke Walsh.I will be there but quite honestly it is hard to get excited about a team that decides not to show up for big games, as in yesterday for example.
The tournament is fun regardless of SIU being awful. My boy is obsessed with it so this should be a real treat for him. That’s why we are still going lol
One of these years (or decades) SIU is going to go into an Arch Madness with a chance to win again. Just don't know if that's coming anytime soon.
The had a legit chance under Mullins. Gave Drake their most competitive game of the tournament and were in it at the under 4. We gave up on that to get a whiny coach with one of the worst attitudes toward coaching I have ever seen. His relentless negativity is exhausting.
With the caveat I don’t know what your definition of rolling is, but in my mind he better have a top half of the Valley finish. With college basketball the way it is now, you don’t have the luxury of patience anymore. You get 1-2 years with your best guys and they are gone and you hope you’ve developed a young guy enough to take their place.
If we are lucky we get KD one more year, unless SIU falls in to a large sum of money. Who knows with Dibba. Those are the guys you have to build around quickly for next year with transfers/impact freshman. If they are still middling team next year with the inconsistency we’ve seen, I have little hope they are all the sudden taking off in year 3, with the difficulties in keeping the players you need around.
I will say this. coach Nagy better adjust on the fly quick. he's won 20 games once in the past 5 years. this is a whole new world. you either do or you don't. so far, there is little evidence we are doing. and let me again say, I support him, like I do all of our saluki coaches, 100%.
until, of course, they don't.
Nagy and staff have recently been recruiting international players and JUCO's so he isn't just relying on high school recruits. He knows they will lose players to the portal. I think the fact they have been actively looking at JUCO's and internationals signals they will also be recruiting players out of the portal as needed depending upon who they lose.I will say this. coach Nagy better adjust on the fly quick. he's won 20 games once in the past 5 years. this is a whole new world. you either do or you don't. so far, there is little evidence we are doing. and let me again say, I support him, like I do all of our saluki coaches, 100%.
until, of course, they don't.
