AJCSaluki
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Mike Reis Press Box Poster
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RE: Around the Valley 2023-24

As much as I hate to say so (my distaste for Bradley doesn't quite much Barkeep's, but it's up there), the Braves do seem to be the Valley's paragon o...

1 year ago
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RE: Coaching Search

I would have been fine with Mullins staying and receiving a short extension, and I'm not sure I'll be especially pleased about the coaching hire when ...

1 year ago
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RE: Around the Valley 2023-24

Marty Richter, the interim coach, has some support among Drake fans for the permanent job, although McCollum still appears to be the favorite. Assumin...

1 year ago
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RE: Coaching Search

As I write this it's not yet 8 a.m. Central time, so still early in the day. A brief announcement could come at any time, unexpectedly, with an introd...

1 year ago
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RE: Coaching Search

I know of one other occasion when SIU hired someone who had been a head coach at Youngstown State (albeit not in basketball), and it worked out pretty...

1 year ago
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RE: 2024 Transfer Portal

It's worth mentioning that the last two DePaul coaches to leave the school with winning records are Ray Meyer (retired in 1984) and Joey Meyer (fired ...

1 year ago
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RE: 2024 Transfer Portal

I hope for Ebube's sake that he winds up in a program that has either a head coach or an assistant with expertise in working with bigs and helping the...

1 year ago
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RE: Coaching Search

Let's not forget that a team from that "pretty bad conference" (a team that finished just one game ahead of Youngstown in the league race) just defeat...

1 year ago
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RE: Coaching Search

Because we're invested in this situation, there's a tendency to think this hire will make SIU a national laughingstock. Fact is, it won't be much more...

1 year ago
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RE: Coaching Search

I'm fully aware that Spradlin is now most likely a dead end. What I was saying in response to SalukiWorld, and maybe I should've made it clearer, is t...

1 year ago
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RE: 2024 NCAA tournament

We'll see about FAU (by the way, I lived in that area for 31 years). It's now something of a national brand, and never underestimate the lure of B&...

1 year ago
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RE: Coaching Search

I'm not taking anything as the Gospel truth until there's an official announcement, whenever that might happen. My gut feeling is that there still mig...

1 year ago
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RE: 2024 NCAA tournament

One of my former co-workers is a big Michigan fan (and interestingly, while he was not a Michigan alum, he did attend Oakland University) and he calle...

1 year ago
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RE: 2024 NCAA tournament

Not sure this is the right place for this, but I don't see it anywhere else on the board yet. ... Dusty May agrees to a deal with Michigan, according ...

1 year ago
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RE: Coaching Search

Should the hire be Smithpeters or Johnson, Leonard needs to be asked some hard, potentially unpleasant questions at the introductory news conference. ...

1 year ago
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