Interesting....
start with this column from the Southern...
http://www.thesouthern.com/sports/article_4071f31c-00d0-11df-a02b-001cc4c03286.html
it says Chris Lowery states he hasn't been contacted by anyone from DePaul...but this doesn't rule out that either someone else at SIU might have taken the call or that someone acting in the interests of DePaul might have made the call.
Anyway, Lowery is being touted as the Top Choice for the head spot at DePaul.
If he goes to DePaul, and how could you blame him as it is a big step up the ladder no matter what some think, and the finalcial security of $1.5 to $2 million per year would be hard to ignore, who would take over at SIU?
It could be an assistant but I don't see that, as nobody on the SIU staff looks right now to be a leading candidate. Anyway, Lowery might just want to take a couple assistants with him from SIU to DePaul.
But DePaul just cleaned house and hired four new assistants, Booth, Garrett, Webster, Kleinschmidt. I doubt they will want to lose them all, and may require the new incoming coach to accept 1, 2, or 3 of them for a certain period as part of the negotiations.
Anyway, I have also heard from a pretty reliable source that other coaches (head coaches and assistants) in the area also were called. (First - the AD must give approval before anyone can talk to the coaches under contract but that's mostly a formality).
These kinds of early calls are for gauging interest, for asking other potential names, and simply out of courtesy for other respected coaches that might be future options, either now or next time around.
I heard at five other MVC coaches' names mentioned as getting at least some degree of consideration, as well as some of the bigger names like Dayton's Brian Gregory, Jerrance Howard, Craig Robinson, and Isiah Thomas.
it'll be interesting........as Lowery is under fire from some fans in Carbondale and some want him fired!!
Numerous threads on the SIU message boards discuss getting rid of CLo and who they might go after next!
Speaking of Tracy Webster...he is one of the names some have mentioned to go to SIU if Lowery goes to DePaul...that would be odd....a straight up one=for-one trade of head coaches!!
Webster starts his career as head coach going 0-1, with a big loss at home to Keno Davis' Providence, 79-62. Mac Koshwal, who was rushed back from a nagging foot injury to help salvage what DePaul might have left of this season, has now reinjured his foot and was a late scratch just before the game. Now it is being said Koshwal's foot is serious and he could be out 4 more weeks or longer.
P'Allen Stinnett is another Valley player closing in on 1000 career points, as are Andrew Warren and Sam Maniscalco. Stinnett is less than 20 points away but the way he's been playing lately...who knows...
If you haven't seen it - here's the link to the YouTube video of an Osiris Eldridge basket from 1/9/10. It's a 2-pointer in a 15-point losing effort vs. UNI...but it is a 360 degree spinning layup...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBsuX94YHlw&feature=youtube_gdata
US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan seems awfully interested in basketball and the NCAA.
Arne Duncan was chief of the Chicago Public Schools before taking the federal job....
if he's got all the right ideas for colleges..then someone tell me how he left the Chicago Public Schools in such a mess, and was in charge with all the grade changing and academic fraud probelms plagued the league and Simeon (Derrick Rose, etc..) and other scandals...
One site says the Chicago Public schools currently face dozens of various pending lawsuits and other issues that are various degrees of scandals...
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/12302/the-u-s-secretary-of-education-talks-basketball-development
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/01/13/arne-duncan-city-limits
Lastly -- Indiana got a chance to meet in a rematch, the only team they've beaten so far in the Big Ten, Michigan. The game was close for a while then the wheels fell off and Indiana loses by . They were 1-15 from 3-pt, and only one player had more than 7 pts.
Indiana's hopes of finishing high enough in the Big Ten to maybe hope for an NIT bid are slipping badly.
Speaking of Indiana...here's an interesting thought.......
We hear all the time about how well the last round of Molinari recruits would have done if they were allowed to stay and complete their eligibility at Bradley.
I have even seen the stats the BU guys who left then put up at other schools as evidence......guys like Granger, Tucker, etc...
It's all somewhat speculative...but I noted that a lot of the guys who were run out at Indiana after the Kelvin Sampson scandal are putting up pretty good numbers elsewhere........
SO- here are the current tabulations of their current performance, and what a team they'd be if they were all still together!!!
Eric Gordon - is in the NBA but surely if he had stayed at Indiana and were still playing this season, he'd be averaging at least 25ppg
Xavier Keeling is now a starter and a key contributor at Detroit - 13.2ppg, 5rpg, 2.6 apg
Eli Holman is likewise also a starter and a key contributor at Detroit - 12.5ppg, 9rpg, 61% FG accuracy
Ben Allen is finishing up at St. Mary's and is a senior this year....10ppg, 8rpg
Armon Bassett went first to UAB then to Ohio, now averaging - 12.2ppg, 3.4rpg, 3 apg
Joey Shaw is at Nevada - 11.1ppg, 6rpg, 2apg,
Jordan Crawford is at Xavier and is a stud - 19.3ppg, 5rpg, 2.5apg, and a monster dunk over LeBron in his resume
Jamarcus Ellis finished up at D-II Oklahoma City College, one of the top D-II programs around...14ppg, 5rpg, 5.5apg
DeAndre Thomas 10ppg at RMU but he'd be graduated unless he took a RS year
Brandon McGee at Wabash juco 15ppg, 7rpg
so do the math....
If you add all those guys' scoring averages, you'd get about 140 ppg!!!!!
I guess we are left to wonder how good they could have been and how good they could have become...
they could have run up records as good as 30-3 or 16-2 in the Big Ten.....
Instead...over the course of the Tom Crean era...
the Hoosiers are 13-34, 2-20 in Big Ten play.
Gotta wonder what could have been.....maybe someone (some day) still ought to hire Kelvin to help with recruiting!
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