OT - Saint Louis Recruiting

[jeffto]

Majerus has signed 7 new players and hopes to add 2 more, including a kid choosing between SLU and KY. He also snatched Ruben Cotto from Illinois. We might get some college basketball going in Missouri after all. I wish UC still played SLU. A lot of history between the schools.

[loshow22]

I loved watching SLU when they had Scott Highmark, H Walden, and Erwin Claggett. They were a fun group. I always cheered for Cincy, was SLU was a worthy advisary.

[SLMadiCat]

I always hated the SLU game. Talk about stall ball tactics.

[jplog]

The SLU game in St. Louis always seemed bad for the Cats. Don't miss that at all.

[Doss]

Rick would have been a great pick to coach here. A big and big time coach that can turn around a program in a few years.

[jeffto]

Rick would have been a great pick to coach here. A big and big time coach that can turn around a program in a few years.We tried the fat coach approach. He left.

[SLMadiCat]

Rick would have been a great pick to coach here. A big and big time coach that can turn around a program in a few years.

Then we'll see how quickly he'll turn around SLU. I'm sure you'll make excuses for that.

[MDW79]

Wow another gem of a comment made into the General forum. If Rick Majerus was such a good coach he wouldn't be at SLU (no offense). What was their record this year? Did he have two players on scholarship when he arrived and what conference do they play in? Also I think they had a game where they set the record or, close to it, for scoring futility in the first half. Rick Majerus is a big time coach? Hahaha. Roy Williams, Coach K, Calhoun, Pitino, Calapari....Rick Majerus? :rolleyes:

[Doss]

Rick is a lot more big time than what we have. Our prior big coach had us playing post season every year and I do not mean the Crappy Basketball Invitational.

[MDW79]

What "crappy tournament" did SLU play in last year? Rick might be a bigger name b/c of that little run with Utah, being an analyst for a few years but he's not as big time as Cronin now. Our team, the team you supposedly root for, is on TV every game, plays in the toughest conference in basketaball and is a much more prestigious program. Mick's only been a head coach for 5 years how big of name do you think he should be? How big of a name was Bilf Self 6 years ago? It really doesnt matter, the results do and so far Mick has impressed me. Again, I am a Huggins fan too...was rooting for him all tourney, would love to see him win one as long as it's not our expense. The difference is I'm a bigger UC fan than Huggins fan. I'll stop here b/c my post has nothing to with how this thread started.

[Bearcat Cafe]

Rick would have been a great pick to coach here. A big and big time coach that can turn around a program in a few years.

That is the first truely funny thing I've seen you post.

[jeffto]

Rick is a lot more big time than what we have. Our prior big coach had us playing post season every year and I do not mean the Crappy Basketball Invitational.Our coach is plenty big time enough for me.

[shaunsimpson]

Rick is a very good coach and could have gone to many different schools if he didnt' have the USC episode a few years ago His dedication and health questions scare off a lot of schools since no one knows how long he will coach for.

[Bcatfan08]

UC would have never hired Majerus. You can't hire a coach that old and overweight. The bigger schools like to hire coaches that have the possibility of staying long term. I highly doubt Majerus will be at SLU for five years. His health problems will pop up again and he'll be back at ESPN. He may be a good coach, but I never saw Cronin coach a team that scored just 20 points in a game. I think the few that would rather have Majerus instead of Cronin don't really know a lot about how coaching works in major college basketball. He'll be fine at SLU because they don't need him long term. They just need him to get them started.