New Head Coach at St. Louis

[tornado]

Rumor.....

St. Louis is apparently really trying to persuade Rick Majerus to return to coaching and take the st. Louis job.
Apparently Dick Versace is somehow involved...and posters on the very active Billiken board report both have been seen on campus.

http://www.billikens.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.pl?az=show_thread&omm=0&om=12185&forum=DCForumID3

http://www.billikens.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.pl?az=show_thread&om=12185&forum=DCForumID3&omm=18&viewmode=threaded

Majerus apparently has delayed in making his decision until he can try to determine if all the present players are staying or leaving.

(ps-- Dick Versace reportedly was an assistant for one year at St. Louis before being hired at Jackson, so he does have connections to SLU)

One other rumor is that the school has been in touch with new Kansas assistant Danny Manning about the job in case Majerus declines.

[Da Coach]

Here is an article by St. Louis Post Dispatch writer Bernie Miklasz about the firing of Brad Soderberg. Miklasz has been calling for the firing of Soderberg for a long time, so you would think he would be happy to see him gone? Come on, what would he complain about, then?
In this article, he goes after the administration of SLU. Incredible! In typical "hit-piece" fashion, he uses "multiple sources", none of which he reveals anything about, to repeatedly rip the SLU president, and blame some mysterious anonymous "booster" who colluded with the president to dump Soderberg. He is outraged that the president is so secretive, but then he doesn't reveal any of his sources, either! A little hypocritical I think.

This is a must-read for anyone to see the sense of entitlement these self-anointed demigods of the media think they have to private information, or maybe even fabricate it if they can't find it. Remember, St. Louis University is a private university, and doesn't owe Bernie anything. Yet he seems to believe it's his right to demand whatever he wants, and use character asassination and other insulting allegations in his tantrum-like article--

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/columnists.nsf/berniemiklasz/story/891A955670288E87862572C10014A6B4?OpenDocument

For the record, I have friends who are SLU boosters, and as far as I can tell, almost no SLU fan is upset by this coaching change. So Bernie, I'd say the same thing I said when the PJ Star went ballistic over Bradley's coaching selection in 2002, get over it!

[Scouter]

I'm sorry, but some posters on here have a sad obsession with the media.

[Da Coach]

If media members want to take rips at people, they have to get used to taking them. But, of course, as we've seen with a series of recent diatribes, they can't take it.
If they had their way, they'd shut down the internet, and allow access only by authorized media members.

Scouter, do you think Miklasz' attck on the president of SLU was fair?

[tornado]

The people on message boards don't "have a sad obsession with the media", we ARE the 21st Century media!

[Beninator]

If media members want to take rips at people, they have to get used to taking them. But, of course, as we've seen with a series of recent diatribes, they can't take it.
If they had their way, they'd shut down the internet, and allow access only by authorized media members.

Scouter, do you think Miklasz' attck on the president of SLU was fair?

DC, I agree with your take on the media. (media people taking rips at people and are not used to taking them) I had a personal experience with the PJS a couple of years ago. I dared to contact local governent officials to get my facts to support my editorial submission which was written in a concise and professional manner. Since my editorial was against the PJS opinion, I encountered an extremely vile form of ridicule and supression form the PJS. I believe that the established media needs this 21st century form of media to balance things out again.
Back to the topic of the thread. The Post Dispatch article is clearly a hit piece. If Rick Majerus is hired as the SLU coach, I would like to see a Bradley-SLU series established.

[Murph]

I'm sorry, but some posters on here have a sad obsession with the media.

Hmmm, wonder who this is, Joe, maybe Wessler or Reynolds....

[tornado]

Getting back on topic.........

Apparently as of Saturday night, the head coaching position was discussed with Rick Majerus, who then left town.
It is being reported
"by Sandy Montag of IMG, who represents Majerus in broadcasting and in coaching opportunities,
said Majerus was asked to meet in St. Louis and did but will spend the next 24 to 48 hours
deciding whether he wants to return to coaching."

So any announcement regarding Majerus will not likely come before Monday.

[Da Coach]

Latest story on Majerus. He was at SLU Saturday--

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/slu/story/73C7649393C220AF862572C500177A40?OpenDocument

And here is something relevant to Bradley and the Valley--
on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch message board, columnist Bernie Miklasz, comments that one of Rick Majerus' demands is that SLU rejoin the Missouri Valley. See the second entry in this thread, and also note his 18:09pm entry on the 3rd page.--

http://www.stltoday.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=450132

PS- also note that someone posted my response to Miklasz' 4/18 "hit-piece" column at the bottom of page 3, and Bernie responded. He accuses me of being negative! Well, if pointing out his inconsistencies and character asassination is being negative, so be it. His column was the most one-sided, negative columns I have seen since some of Phil Theobald's columns back in 2002.
Like I said, some columnists can dish it out, but they can't take it.
(Cardsfan86 wouldn't be one of our posters, would it?)

[BU Bill]

I do not think many of the other MVC schools would be so eager to accept St. Louis back into the Valley. Yes it would be nice to have the media coverage that would come with SLU in the league, but it would give them an overwhelming unfair advantage in the MVC tournament.

Also, many of the current members recall that SLU turned their backs on the MVC when we needed them. And they still had a chance to return to the MVC several times since they left, including a couple years ago when they joined the Atlantic 10.

[Da Coach]

Now that SLU will be moving to their new on-campus arena, I would not be as opposed to them joining as I would have been when the Savvis/Scottrade Center was their home court.

It would benefit the conference to have a school like SLU. And it would bring the balance of State schools/private schools, and Football schools/non-football schools in the MVC back into a little better balance. SLU is also a great soccer school, and with the conference losing SMU and Vanderbilt, it would benefit that and other sports.

But I agree that there would probably be some schools who would oppose it.

[thefish7]

I think it would be good to bring in SLU... but I like our balanced schedule so I think that'd mean someone woudl have to leave, right?

[MacabreMob]

I think it would be good to bring in SLU... but I like our balanced schedule so I think that'd mean someone woudl have to leave, right?

I agree Fish - I like the balanced schedule.