Noticed the top crowd for SIU's three games there was 613 -- in an 8,000-seat arena. How this tournament will continue to exist with attendance like t...

If there is an upside to this frustrating start, it's that SIU has gotten help from some unexpected sources. Aligbe was coming along nicely before he ...

If our short-handed, injury-decimated football team can come back from a 28-0 deficit, the basketball team certainly recover from this ugly start and ...

As I'm not into "sky-is-falling" scenarios at this early date, I agree with this rational, reasonable, even-handed take -- although wishing a flea-inf...

If not Iowa, then maybe Minnesota, which also seems to make geographic sense. Don't know if the coach is on the hot seat there yet, but they haven't b...

It seems as if our flagship programs have a severe case of snakebite when it comes to injuries. Domask in 2020-21. XJ hurting badly and struggling thr...

At the alumni association event before the Florida game, one of the folks who attended was someone whose name I won't disclose but would describe as w...

I knew a highly successful high school coach back in the day who had the same general philosophy toward timeouts as Nagy. The difference was that when...

Got back from the game late last night. Previous posts pretty much have it covered. I saw a glimmer of hope when we got it to 14-13 with about 11 minu...

I don't know how good La Salle is, but I did think UIC was badly underrated in most of the preseason MVC rankings. As for Drake, seems there's some Mc...

This very well could be the largest and loudest road crowd SIU faces all season. Florida's arena seats about 10,500, and the Gators' first two home ga...

Nagy was asked about this at Wright State and explained that he's a "what's on the front of the uniform is much more important than what's on the back...

When I saw SIU was up 11 at the half against a highly beatable team, I'll admit to having some flashbacks to the blown double-digit halftime leads of ...

When the non-Valley portion of the schedule (including the Florida tournament) was finalized, I figured a 5-6 non conference record as a possible outc...

In my SIU lifetime, which began in 1977 when Paul Lambert was coach, Nagy probably ranks as the best coach in terms of the media, at least so far. He'...