LU @ Tenn Tech

[Shockerfan13]

This year more than any poor free throw shooting will sink ANY team. Tough loss, but it's all about how you bounce back. Good luck with the next one.

[agrinut]

Is Moser on the Hot Seat at all? They guy is one if the worst X and O coaches I can remember in the valley. What do Rambler fans think?

[Snaggletooth]

Lu didn't lose because of FT, they lost because they couldn't rebound and tenn rtech decimated them on the offensive boards.

[Rambler63]

Is Moser on the Hot Seat at all? They guy is one if the worst X and O coaches I can remember in the valley. What do Rambler fans think?

I am a longtime and deeply engaged Loyola fan. I started the fan website and message board in 1998, and ran it until 2004, writing game articles for every men's basketball game, occasional articles about other sports, and commentaries. I'm back running the site again.

In 2003-04, I accepted a job in Little Rock at a sports talk radio station and heard a lot of reports about Moser's time at UALR-- which was not nearly as brilliant as his reputation, even a decade and three jobs later. In 2006, I bought a house in Normal, and saw Moser dismissed as ISU coach, followed by dramatic improvement in the program after he was canned. So I was completely aghast when he was hired at Loyola in 2011. His handling of Loyola in his first year also really pissed me off, as he pushed out some of the players from the previous regime and set a new record for the most conference losses in Horizon League history.

I've followed Loyola closely through its last five coaches, and knowing the administration as I do, I have reluctantly resigned myself to the fact that Moser is going to be there through the end of his contract. He was the first hire of the new AD, so there is going to be reluctance to admit that he was not the right choice. So my attitude is, we, as fans, should focus on the things that we can actually do to make the program better for the long term. Wasting energy right now on undermining Moser in any way would be totally non-productive. I guess I partially rationalize this by allowing for the remote possibility that he might have actually learned something from his days at St. Louis. He's also benefitted from the fact that we're in a new league, which probably bought him another year or two of a honeymoon.

I don't really encounter anyone in a position of influence who is decidedly down on Moser yet. He's got every opportunity and near carte blanche to turn things around from his first two years at Loyola. Most people who carry weight with the program are generally happy with his recruiting, and bite their lips on his actual won-loss performance. If he finishes this season with a 7th place finish in conference, he's more or less golden for two years. But the new AD is not as forgiving as Loyola's previous department heads, so if he doesn't get into the top half of the league by the end of next year (with Christian Thomas as a senior and Jeff White, Nick Osborne, and Matt O'Leary as juniors), I think dissent will begin to quickly rise. If he finishes his second year back in the MVC without a 5th place or better finish, the transition to the new league will begin to work against him rather than for him, because the Loyola gig will look like a much better risk-reward proposition to a lot of aspiring coaches.

[jwa123]

Is Moser on the Hot Seat at all? They guy is one if the worst X and O coaches I can remember in the valley. What do Rambler fans think?

I am a longtime and deeply engaged Loyola fan. I started the fan website and message board in 1998, and ran it until 2004, writing game articles for every men's basketball game, occasional articles about other sports, and commentaries. I'm back running the site again.

In 2003-04, I accepted a job in Little Rock at a sports talk radio station and heard a lot of reports about Moser's time at UALR-- which was not nearly as brilliant as his reputation, even a decade and three jobs later. In 2006, I bought a house in Normal, and saw Moser dismissed as ISU coach, followed by dramatic improvement in the program after he was canned. So I was completely aghast when he was hired at Loyola in 2011. His handling of Loyola in his first year also really pissed me off, as he pushed out some of the players from the previous regime and set a new record for the most conference losses in Horizon League history.

I've followed Loyola closely through its last five coaches, and knowing the administration as I do, I have reluctantly resigned myself to the fact that Moser is going to be there through the end of his contract. He was the first hire of the new AD, so there is going to be reluctance to admit that he was not the right choice. So my attitude is, we, as fans, should focus on the things that we can actually do to make the program better for the long term. Wasting energy right now on undermining Moser in any way would be totally non-productive. I guess I partially rationalize this by allowing for the remote possibility that he might have actually learned something from his days at St. Louis. He's also benefitted from the fact that we're in a new league, which probably bought him another year or two of a honeymoon.

I don't really encounter anyone in a position of influence who is decidedly down on Moser yet. He's got every opportunity and near carte blanche to turn things around from his first two years at Loyola. Most people who carry weight with the program are generally happy with his recruiting, and bite their lips on his actual won-loss performance. If he finishes this season with a 7th place finish in conference, he's more or less golden for two years. But the new AD is not as forgiving as Loyola's previous department heads, so if he doesn't get into the top half of the league by the end of next year (with Christian Thomas as a senior and Jeff White, Nick Osborne, and Matt O'Leary as juniors), I think dissent will begin to quickly rise. If he finishes his second year back in the MVC without a 5th place or better finish, the transition to the new league will begin to work against him rather than for him, because the Loyola gig will look like a much better risk-reward proposition to a lot of aspiring coaches.

Interesting to read. Thanx for posting.