Press Conferene at 2PM at SIU with announcement regarding Men's Basketball

[tornado]

http://twitter.com/SalukiMedia/status/45880286436798465

[tornado]

Here is the rumor and it's posted on a different MVC team's message board by a guy claiming he talked directly to one of the SIU players..

That Chris Lowery WILL be back next year ...and that a couple of the previously arrested players are GONE

[romar]

Whew, well at least we can remove CLo from our coaching candidates now. LOL

[TheGuy]

Whew, well at least we can remove CLo from our coaching candidates now. LOL

This press release says that the conference is concerning Lowery.

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/ar...cc4c002e0.html

[electricmayhem]

watching press conference now...

http://www.thesouthern.com/sports/college/salukimania/html_ac2c823c-490b-11e0-9630-001cc4c03286.html

Lowery is staying. Good for us...

[BradleyBrave]

Wow. Surprising. Sounds like some assistants are being replaced. Money talks!

[tornado]

summary -- and some commentary & paraphrasing...

-Chris Lowery is staying - no guarantees how long but he is thought to have 3 years left on current contract

-there will be two assistants replaced -- sounds like the admin is forcing these changes and it's not necessarily Lowery's choice..one will be Marcus Belcher

-AD suggests so many players have become unhappy and left and that it was due to the old assistants so we need some new ones

-sorry for all the losses but we recruited players who didn't fit our system -- in other words -- it was the players' fault - and when the best of those mis-fit players left -- the lesser mis-fits did even worse

-GIVEN THAT IT WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE THEY TOOK QUESTIONS -- on one question about one of the incoming recruits - the answer was that the local press had no business calling the recruits.

-we will be better next year

-all the players and also ALL the staff, coaches and admins DO read the comments people make on message boards..
many are hurtful and some may even affect a players motivation to want to play...

-costs figured into the decision not to buy out Lowery