Ocala/The Villages area in Florida. Surprising number of SIU grads here, most of whom are retired (although I'm not quite there yet).

We are trying to organize a local chapter of the alumni association in my area and had a meeting last night. All anyone wanted to talk about was the c...

I wish the article had dug deeper into exactly why things reached the point of no return with Hinson. So many of his issues were self-inflicted. The a...

My prediction is that this goes down as one of SIU's all-time greatest hires, though I do think it's unfair to expect miracles right away. He's a firs...

Very disappointing that the Southern Illinoisan still has a three-day-old story on the coaching search on its website without any updates. I'm well aw...

This site's main "offense" is that it raises points that the local media would be raising if they had some backbone. Don't know what the coverage was ...

Looks at it this way. Mullins knows SIU inside and out. Doesn't need wining and dining and there's no need for a drawn-out interview process. A phone ...

Robinson's main claim to fame is that he's Michelle Obama's brother. Otherwise, that's the type of coaching retread SIU can do without.

Time to move forward. Hinson was a serviceable placeholder in the two or three years after the Lowery debacle, but he is what he is. My hope is that S...