2025-26 College Hoops Thread

[Billy Hoyle]

He's a smart guy. He's very good with people. He carefully chose to go there. Agree or disagree, he thinks long term, that he can make it be a Gonzaga type of place or insert another similar example. He's aware it takes time. He idolized Majerus. One thing they have in common is they both knew/know that their system will win. Very confident people without being off putting.

They have more money and resources than you think they might have, and, from more people than you think too. They aren't going to match the top levels of spending, but they can spend like a top tier Big East program.

I'd be more surprised if he left than if he stayed a while.

I've said it before, the money and resources at SLU blow away nearly all of the A10. The gap between the haves and have nots in the A10 is vast, not unlike the WCC that Gonzaga has owned for 26 years. Why not stay, get paid $3 million and be almost guaranteed to be in the top 3 of the conference every year?

They don't draw well for non-conference games, but are packing the arena for A10 matchups. SLU targeted Scherz early and got him signed before anyone else could get to him - they even had their Deputy AD relocate to Terre Haute to spend time with Schertz's wife to make sure other schools couldn't get to her while negotiations were ongoing. All of this funded by a billionaire who "bought" a college team when he couldn't buy a pro team.

[GoldenEagles03]

https://x.com/i/status/2018800896319291850

[MarquetteMike1977]

Princeton won on the Road.
Cincinnati and Marquette are now the only 2 Teams in TOP 244 NET Rankings without a Road or Neutral Win.

[Scoop Snoop]

Princeton won on the Road.
Cincinnati and Marquette are now the only 2 Teams in TOP 244 NET Rankings without a Road or Neutral Win.

Thanks! I eagerly await your updates on this matter.

[MarquetteMike1977]

https://x.com/i/status/2018800896319291850

No State Tax in Florida either lol

[MarquetteMike1977]

The dude is a parody account (it's hard to tell these days):
https://awfulannouncing.com/college-basketball/new-troll-account-rob-reinhart.html

SLU has the money to keep him - Chaifetz is a billionaire who has lost out on buying pro teams, so he bought a college team.

Agree. Chaifetz is different than Cuban who sold his majority share in the Mavs for Billions and applied much of it to Indiana Football lol.
There are Billionaires at my in-laws country club in Saint Louis who do much for Saint Louis they tell me. Not sure how much goes to Saint Louis Basketball but have heard some of it does.

[WhiteTrash]

So basically Duke, UCONN, Kansas, Saint Louis and a bunch of also rans going forward?   

[Billy Hoyle]

So basically Duke, UCONN, Kansas, Saint Louis and a bunch of also rans going forward?   

BYU has more money than all of those schools.

The argument is Schertz isn't going to look to bolt to a high major at the first opportunity because SLU is providing him the money, facilities, and resources to be a power in the A10. He can choose where he wants to go instead of thinking he has to make a jump to the first P4 school that offers him.

[wadesworld]

BYU has more money than all of those schools.

The argument is Schertz isn't going to look to bolt to a high major at the first opportunity because SLU is providing him the money, facilities, and resources to be a power in the A10. He can choose where he wants to go instead of thinking he has to make a jump to the first P4 school that offers him.

But he's going to get good high majors to offer him, and he'd be a fool not to jump at that.  They can be an A10 power all they want.  The A10 is being left in the dust just like everyone else outside of the football conferences.

[Billy Hoyle]

But he's going to get good high majors to offer him, and he'd be a fool not to jump at that.  They can be an A10 power all they want.  The A10 is being left in the dust just like everyone else outside of the football conferences.

For sure, but it depends on the high major - as you said, "good high majors." He can be choosy, instead of jumping, just to move up. There are high major programs that might open up this season that are probably worse off than SLU is set up to be for the next few years that he'd be better off passing on (BC, Rutgers, Wake, South Carolina, to name a few, maybe even PC and Butler in the Big East, Cincy in the B12, and Pitt in the ACC).

I think of guys who jumped for the money and name and flamed out or found out they weren't a good fit, like Lickliter, Collier, Capel, Shaka, and Grant, and you could say Moser is one of those guys, too. If you're Schertz and you're making $3 million with the biggest NIL budget in the A10, why not wait until a better P4+BE job than the one you have right now comes along? Rick Barnes is on retirement watch, and Schertz has ties to the state of Tennessee.