Long time follower on saluki boards and first time poster so be gentle.
More importantly...welcome to the board! It's always great to have new voices and perspectives even if you have only followed along in the past.
Poop on Barry Hinson and poop on Greg Cook!!!!! They can both kiss the “people’s ass.”
Yo 69 about that penalty box and language filter 😀
Tommy Bell needed to go. He didn't do a damn thing for Saluki Athletics. That being said, I am extremely concerned about the potential for the status quo to continue not only with men's basketball but with all other athletic programs. I hope Jerry Kill still has the passion and desire to succeed at a high-level. If that's the case it shouldn't take him long to figure out the little huckster and some others are not the right people to lead their respective programs.
There are some extremely pissed off people right now. I don’t even know if there is a way to fix the damage done. Letting the inmates run the asylum is never a good idea. It does not matter how much money they have. Per the text I just. Got. “ weakest leadership in all of college athletics”. This is probably not over. When you piss off people with money they fight back. Sadly I am not in that category .
Tommy Bell needed to go. He didn't do a damn thing for Saluki Athletics. That being said, I am extremely concerned about the potential for the status quo to continue not only with men's basketball but with all other athletic programs. I hope Jerry Kill still has the passion and desire to succeed at a high-level. If that's the case it shouldn't take him long to figure out the little huckster and some others are not the right people to lead their respective programs.
Based on him simply not making enough changes in the athletic department? I am not sure he fired a coach other than Lennon.
That said, I hope Jerry Kill is given autonomy. Otherwise, we're going to continue to circle down the drain.
I look forward to seeing what Kill can do with this. He has succeeded at whatever he has done at a variety of levels. Being a head football coach is an administrative job dealing with all the assistant coaches. He definitely has administrative experience. The football program was a dumpster fire when he came here. This job won't scare him.
Yo 69 about that penalty box and language filter 😀
Oooops! Disabled it to troubleshoot the slowness issue. Who needs a timeout?
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Yo 69 about that penalty box and language filter 😀
Oooops! Disabled it to troubleshoot the slowness issue. Who needs a timeout?
😀
Barry Hinson and his buddy Greg Cook definitely need a timefrickingout.....
Yo 69 about that penalty box and language filter 😀
Oooops! Disabled it to troubleshoot the slowness issue. Who needs a timeout?
😀
So what was it 69--the Russian Bots?
Good riddance to this fartknocker. I dont know how Kill will do but he cant do any worse than this bonehead did in the past 3 years.
Actually, we are seeing Russian bot action. 255 hits from them in April. The Netherlands is now the home to a lot of security issues due to their lax internet laws. 465 hits out of there.
It was probably some of those pesky Edwardsville College fans trying to mess with us. 😋
Is GoSIU88. Russian ?
1. Barkeep 100% accurate and some knob tries to set people on fire because of it.
2. The more I sit here and read about Jerry Kill the more I want to puke. People talking about integrity and being his own man but this whole think stinks more and more of a setup. It doesn't take much of a leap to see that Carlo, Cookie and Kill conspired to put the job in Kill's hands from the beginning. There is no honor in coming in the backdoor and driving the knife in to someone. Could have done this with no stink by not bringing Kill in until you take care of Bell. Regardless of Bell's performance (or lack of) this is a dirty deal. Carlo should be ashamed and unemployed, and Cook obviously has no shame.
3. PT isn't smart enough to shut his mouth and is out there strutting around like he won something. Heff should be shown the door for blind editorializing in his piece. Just another hack in a long line of hacks covering athletics for the Illusion.
4. Who is going to be holding this big burning bag of doo doo when the basketball team exits stage left in the semifinals at Scottrade next year. You've further driven a big spike between a whole lot of people and hope Kill can give the good old boy routine well enough to smooth over the pile. Enjoy mingling with the 800 fans in the Arena for those showdowns with Chicago State and Absorbine Junior College next season Jerry. This is going to reverberate for years - long after Kill abandons us for the next big thing. He comes here, spends a few days and is off to Kansas State. Stays there a few days and is off to Rutgers. Stays a few days and off to Carlo's Clown Car. Oh, and have I mentioned that he sued SIU?
I'm done. Carlo hiring family. Cook treating the university like his personal toy. Kill hiding in the weeds. Maybe Cook can buy up all of those empty seats and replace all the funds that have been flying out of SASF. This is wrong.
Craving a McBride Special!
Tried to post a response and seemed to lose it so hopefully this is not a repeat folks. I agree university antics could run almost anyone off, but Coach Kill may be the one guy who is best situated to deal with the athletic system as a whole (boosters, influential donors, fans, administration, coaches, etc.). Jerry is about building trust and getting everyone pulling in the right direction. Lord knows the university could sure use some of that at this point. I for one am on board and excited about the possibilities for the first time in a long time. Irrespective of Barry's relationship with coach he will have to perform and improve and get results or he will not be there. Jerry is about winning.
I am going to clarify a bit. I don't think Hinson's antics would cause Kill to leave. I think Hinson's antics might, however, cause Kill to get the go ahead from Cook to fire Hinson. That leaves the problem as this - what if Cook still says no? I don't think Greg Cook anticipated his name being out there as much as it has been. Who knows, there's still the off chance that the public pressure could finally flip him to the point that he finally says "enough" of Hucky.
I certainly see the merit of having a former coach as athletic director over a businessman like the last three AD's were. That said, one of the businessmen (PK AD) was very successful. The other two, not so much. I do think that in a different situation that Bell would have got another year to be able to institute his plan. To be judged in a three-year time frame as an AD is harsh, IMO. Usually, I wait until 4-5 years down the road to make a correct judgment. This can certainly be argued as a non-normal situation. Tommy Bell barely got the chance to make his own hires. If you wanted to make the argument that the volleyball hire was bad, that's certainly valid. Kathleen Raske was a good hire. Nick Hill was certainly a good hire.
Otherwise, the department has a lot of carry over from Mario and that's interesting when Bell was brought in to create change after the departure of Mario to New Mexico State.
Fray in 4 or 5 years this once proud institution will be down to 10,000 students. Until these fucking. idots running this shit hole can figure something out nothing is going to improve . SIU is an embarrassment .
