Agreed. Just about every big-time team sports has its fair share of coaches who failed in the top job -- for whatever reason, they just weren't cut ou...

If Howard does for Arizona State what he did for SIU, Bobby Hurley will be out of a job next March.

There was an interview with Leonard in the Daily Egyptian -- it appeared before Nagy was even on SIU's radar screen -- in which he predicted a "transi...

Me too. Granted, I'm an old blast of flatulence, but one of the things that made college basketball fascinating to me was watching players who came in...

It's fun to speculate about all this, but at this point I'm not too worried about "the other guys" because I'm focusing on what has to happen at SIU. ...

April, May and autumn always were my favorite times on campus with the change of seasons. Didn't have a car when I was a student, but I never minded w...

I half expect my wife to tell me she's entering the transfer portal one of these days!

Like Nagy, McCollum has a lot of work to do in assembling next season's roster. There's a 2-year-old interview online in which he seems a bit disdainf...

Doobie Brothers, Heart, Styx, Elton John. Wanted badly to see Springsteen, but couldn't get the night off.

If I'd been in his shoes (or bare feet) at Wright State, I would have been very wary about the AD situation and certainly would have been considering ...

I'm on record as saying Nagy was a pretty good hire -- probably would give it a solid 7 out of 10, with the caveats being the portal and his final two...

SalukiBob still lives in my hometown, as he has done all of his life except for the years he attended SIU. I go all the way back to the 1960s with him...

He mentions the AD's retirement as a reason for his decision, although it seemed like more of a fear of the unknown than anything. It's kind of funny ...

The process was kind of like making sausage -- probably best that we didn't know everything that went into it, but the outcome was more than palatable...

Read a good column today by a columnist for one of the Utah papers about how Utah State has become a pit stop for coaches who take the job, win big an...