Next Coach for SIU?

[Dawgbit]

Creighton was the biggest underachieving NCAA tourney team ever while in the MVC.

[Wufan]

Creighton was the biggest underachieving NCAA tourney team ever while in the MVC.

Now that they are in the big east they have a lot of competition for that title.

[rlh04d]

What a coach is paid has nothing to do with his abilities. Didn't Lowerey make $750,000 a year?

That's just not true. Name who you think are the best 30 coaches in college basketball and tell me how many are making under $1 million. What a coach is paid doesn't have a PERFECT correlation to his abilities, but it has a very strong correlation.

Obviously a coach doesn't BECOME good just because you pay him more. You could pay me $3 million and I'm not going to be able to do a good job as a college basketball coach.

And my point wasn't about starting salary. But it's very difficult to attract good coaches and borderline impossible to keep them if you aren't willing or able to spend competitive wages. The reason I said you wouldn't be able to win as anything more than an exception is because any coach that wins at a school that isn't able to pay a competitive wage will simply leave as soon as they start winning. Ben Jacobson is a huge exception to the rule.

[Play Angry]

Considering what Creighton has done this year, I don't think we will see McDermott in the Valley for a while.

Yes, that projected final RPI in the high 80s should merit a serious raise and extension.

Considering where you thought they would be.....yes

lol. Please lock him in for a dozen years, nothing would please me more.

[Championz]

Pesky mid-major St. Mary's beats BIG EAST power Creighton today in Omaha.

More incredible things happening this year for McDermott.

[bigdawg]

Frigging brutal loss to New Orleans. NO's first D1 win comes in Carbondale. Cripes.

[PantherSigEp]

Frigging brutal loss to New Orleans. NO's first D1 win comes in Carbondale. Cripes.

But it doesn't count against RPI right?

[pafan]

It does count. New Orleans is a D1 program. They just hadn't beat a D1 program yet this year.

[PantherSigEp]

It does count. New Orleans is a D1 program. They just hadn't beat a D1 program yet this year.

Damn. I'd never heard of them so I was hoping for NAIA or D-II. Then that does indeed suck

[dean_siu]

As interviews are done for a new AD, I truly hope the university asks candidates what their plan would be to fix the basketball program.

After getting our clocks cleaned by a POS Bradley squad, I'm not convinced that this team will win a conference game at all this season.

That's what happens when you ruin relationships with local AAU teams (by firing Lowery), hire a travel agent for coach, and make a non conference schedule that ranks #350 out of 351 in the country.

At least we don't have to worry about players transferring as no other programs in the country would want this worthless talent that Barry has recruited.

Last year, he had Desmar Jackson (who Lowery recruited) to save his ass to some extent.....this year, he's not as fortunate. Our best player is only a Saluki because Barry hired his daddy and would be gone if daddy was a qualified enough assistant to get a job elsewhere.

As I suggested before, the easiest solution is to make amends with Lowery and bring him back as this would have an immediate positive impact on recruiting.

However, if that's not the action.....there better be another plan of drastic action as Mario and Barry have taken this program to a point far lower than I ever thought I'd see Saluki basketball reach in my lifetime.