Sal did all the artwork for the shirts, as well.
RIP cubsn2k. Cubs finally won it for ya, buddy.
I know we've lost at least a couple of others in the past few years. The one I remember the most is Dave, I don't remember his screen name but he lived in Colorado still came to Carbondale for Homecoming and to St. Louis for the Valley Tournament.We had a mutual friend from his Engineering program that was in the Marching Salukis with me. Still think of him during the Valley Tournament. He was a good dude.
Twist? Something with Twist in the name, I think.
Oh man, Ryan Hare. Should have never been on this team 🤣 big time troublemaker.
My dad and I were reminiscing about Gene Teague the other day! LOL
Hare was a tough baller. Could've been really good had he stayed out of trouble. But yeah...probably wouldn't have even been invited to play on a Mullins-coached team 😂
It's amazing how many great players we had who went on to be highly successful elsewhere. Teague, Brandon Wood, Jordan Caroline, Dillard, Booker, Josh Bone. The list goes on. Or the near recruiting misses who went on to be studs such as Courtney Lee and Jeff Teague.
RIP cubsn2k. Cubs finally won it for ya, buddy.
I know we've lost at least a couple of others in the past few years. The one I remember the most is Dave, I don't remember his screen name but he lived in Colorado still came to Carbondale for Homecoming and to St. Louis for the Valley Tournament.We had a mutual friend from his Engineering program that was in the Marching Salukis with me. Still think of him during the Valley Tournament. He was a good dude.
Twist? Something with Twist in the name, I think.
Little Twist???
RIP cubsn2k. Cubs finally won it for ya, buddy.
I know we've lost at least a couple of others in the past few years. The one I remember the most is Dave, I don't remember his screen name but he lived in Colorado still came to Carbondale for Homecoming and to St. Louis for the Valley Tournament.We had a mutual friend from his Engineering program that was in the Marching Salukis with me. Still think of him during the Valley Tournament. He was a good dude.
Twist? Something with Twist in the name, I think.
Little Twist???
I think that's it. It was right on the tip of my tongue but you guys reminded me. Ahh, the good ol' days.
It was great writing all of those Goro's Rants back when worrying about our seed in The Dance was a thing, how a third or fourth Valley team was going to get screwed by the Committee, which voters in the Top 20 polls were insane, etc.
Fast forward to now... seeding's such a long, LONG away for our Salukis, and we might never again see three Valley teams in the same NCAA tourney, much less four.
And worrying about Top 25 polls is useless since we've been so far removed from any of our teams coming close to that. Ranting about which mediocre Power team's pulling votes away from us... well, that's been a dead topic for far too long.
@obd it was little twist. we also lost steve wilson from the 71-72 basketball team that live out in colorado a few years ago
@sportsfreak75 That video was great. Thank you for sharing. The list of the top posters made me chuckle. I recognized almost every name.
I created the animated videos with Lowery and Lance Irvin.
"Doc Knapp let me borrow this stethoscope" and "Kevin know what he did".
I’ve been looking for those for years! Are they on YouTube?
I actually just checked last night. They do still exist. I moved them to private on YouTube years ago. I had some good chuckles rewatching them.
i’d love to be able to watch them again if you are willing to share it to the public. They were such needed humor at a tough time in our program
Those and the Lowery Nazi videos were classic
I would like to take a stab at some stuff here:
First was the OG SalukiTalk - mods were Saluki 96, mvgrad76, and SIUC-FOC (later changed to CCUC Saluki). I’m Facebook friends with CCUC, I saw his wife and daughter on a car dealership commercial years ago.
A little SalukiTalk history. Saluki96 and I met on the old ValleyTalk and we knew there had been some attempts to start an SIU-specific board but none had materialized. Saluki96 was a web designer and I knew enough programming to be dangerous so we decided to give it a shot. Someone will have to help me but I can't remember if we started when Bruce left or when Matt left. But it was right after the end of a basketball season that year. CCUC became a mod because he worked an overnight shift and we wanted to have someone keep an eye on you cretins while we had a chance to sleep. IIRC, Saluki96 had a newborn at the time.
BTW, whoever found the site video. That was SO cool. It remind of some of the things we did with the front page.
The whole news feed was a real pain to put together with all the site scraping and RSS feed building. But I did learn PHP that way. It took a lot of TLC to keep it from breaking. It did, a few times.
I thought it was fun to assign every one with a team based on their number of posts and the team RPI that day.
I thought the penalty box on the front page was pretty ingenious. Adding the timer to see how long before they could log in again was a nice touch.
I still have hockeygoon96 on Facebook. He’s doing well, busy with the kiddos. Of course, you guessed it, his son is lacing up the skates and putting ‘em top shelf.
The old MetroEast crowd (me, Bobber, Ping and Goon) still get together occasionally. I think the other 3 play golf occasionally.
Still have Large Marge on Facebook. Look, I don’t really know what all went down, but can’t we just all be buddies again? Sef4siu would always hook me up with tasty food at the tailgates.
Seems like I run into sef4siu every time I go to Carbondale for a game. I don't think they do the tailgating any more.
Still have Saluki RD on Facebook. Played a round of golf with him once at Red Hawk. He sent me a commemorative 1983 National Champions Pepsi bottle a long time ago. Still have it hanging in the living room. From what I saw, he was not happy with the Mullins firing.
I still have a couple of those bottles too. Unopened.
ive made this analogy before and I’ll do so again: the old SalukiTalk was like late 90’s Attitude Era of WWF/WWE. It was just the right combination of: the internet and social media age not yet being ripe, product demand (basketball) reaching new highs, fresh levels of success never reached before, wit and creativity, and POOF, you put it all together and that’s what you get. Something truly special. Never to be forgotten, never to be repeated.
Loving this thread. Nice injection of good juju on the board!
A little SalukiTalk history. Saluki96 and I met on the old ValleyTalk and we knew there had been some attempts to start an SIU-specific board but none had materialized. Saluki96 was a web designer and I knew enough programming to be dangerous so we decided to give it a shot. Someone will have to help me but I can't remember if we started when Bruce left or when Matt left. But it was right after the end of a basketball season that year. CCUC became a mod because he worked an overnight shift and we wanted to have someone keep an eye on you cretins while we had a chance to sleep. IIRC, Saluki96 had a newborn at the time.
It would've been immediately after Weber left. I joined in 2004 and the board was definitely active during Painter's season.
I'm loving all the reminiscing.
A little SalukiTalk history. Saluki96 and I met on the old ValleyTalk and we knew there had been some attempts to start an SIU-specific board but none had materialized. Saluki96 was a web designer and I knew enough programming to be dangerous so we decided to give it a shot. Someone will have to help me but I can't remember if we started when Bruce left or when Matt left. But it was right after the end of a basketball season that year. CCUC became a mod because he worked an overnight shift and we wanted to have someone keep an eye on you cretins while we had a chance to sleep. IIRC, Saluki96 had a newborn at the time.
It would've been immediately after Weber left. I joined in 2004 and the board was definitely active during Painter's season.
I'm loving all the reminiscing.
Yep. I noticed the date on the video for the front page view count said March 2004.
"...I thought it was fun to assign every one with a team based on their number of posts and the team RPI that day..."
Ah, I'd nearly forgotten I created that! Putting those brackets together was a lot of fun. I knew I'd never win one of those tourneys since my RPI rarely, if ever, cracked the Top 25, but it was a fun diversion.
