Reports now coming out...Mullins to SIU

[BCPanther]

$475k. That's WAY more than I expected SIU to pay.

[austinsaluki]

As the MMM article points out, his predecessor inherited a 265 RPI program on the brink of academic probation with the league’s #9 budget and finished 4th, 3rd, 2nd, & 3rd his last 4 years...and was booed, heckled, cursed, and escorted for his own protection after his final game.

Tough job. Good luck Bryan.

You forgot to add "and didn't even get a whiff of the post-season except for a 2016 invitation to a pay-to-play tournament."

Yes, SIU basketball was in the sewer line, heading for the water treatment plant, when Hinson took over. Hinson brought it back up into the toilet, even out of it for a couple of years. How DARE fans expect more after seven seasons, especially this last one, when a senior-laden team could barely break .500 in a weak MVC and was booted out of the MVC tournament after one game.

I don't think the point is that SIU shouldn't have fired Barry or that fans aren't justified in their frustrations. The point is that a contingent of SIU fans are treating him like he's the root of the problems in Carbondale, when in fact he built the program back after it had been decimated by the previous coach.

I haven't seen that; I think everyone (except for maybe a few absolute BSC Lowery fans) know that Lowery tanked the program. It's just that that became immaterial when it was evident that the program was going nowhere.

I guess we're kind of splitting hairs here, really.

[austinsaluki]

Will Mullins get any of the three Valpo Illinois Wolves kids to decommit from Loyola and go with him to SIU?

I hope not (and I'm a Saluki fan). While I would love to have recruits of that caliber, that just seems like dirty pool.

[Blers]

Will Mullins get any of the three Valpo Illinois Wolves kids to decommit from Loyola and go with him to SIU?

I hope not (and I'm a Saluki fan). While I would love to have recruits of that caliber, that just seems like dirty pool.

Yeah I doubt he'd try that; would be an awful way to start his career by burning a coaching mentor-ship and his positive connection with the only other place he's called home professionally. Plus all 3 recruits seem really excited about playing together in the city, near their homes, and they've all noted connections with players, porter, and the rest of the coaching staff. He'll win a good amount of recruiting battles in the coming years, but I don't think he'd start with them.

It's also not like Moser wasn't involved in recruiting as well; before last year most noted recruiting was probably his biggest strength. The sun times wrote a great article about it last spring: https://www.suntimeshighschoolsports.co ... ecruiting/.

[third rail]

As the MMM article points out, his predecessor inherited a 265 RPI program on the brink of academic probation with the league’s #9 budget and finished 4th, 3rd, 2nd, & 3rd his last 4 years...and was booed, heckled, cursed, and escorted for his own protection after his final game.

Tough job. Good luck Bryan.

Oh but all those people are going to write big checks to SIU.

I'm thrilled to have Bryan Mullins back but the expectations are off the chart.

They did write big checks. Did you see the salary? Did you see the $200,000k the department raised in one day?

[scotte101]

$475k? wow...SIU and their boosters went all in on Mullins. I'm shocked at the salary. I appreciated what AD Kill said at his press conference recently about the pay. something along the lines of "we're a D1 school and we're going to act like it". Obviously you have to have money to do so, but I liked his stance on that.

that being said...they swung for the freakin' fences. I hope it works. I want to see the Valley rise out of the ashes again and FAST.

[Dawgbit]

$475k. That's WAY more than I expected SIU to pay.

Why? Lowery was paid $700k to tank the program.

[Birdfan2018]

$475k. That's WAY more than I expected SIU to pay.

Why? Lowery was paid $700k to tank the program.

Was Lowery paid $700k in his first year as head coach?

[GoSIU88]

As the MMM article points out, his predecessor inherited a 265 RPI program on the brink of academic probation with the league’s #9 budget and finished 4th, 3rd, 2nd, & 3rd his last 4 years...and was booed, heckled, cursed, and escorted for his own protection after his final game.

Tough job. Good luck Bryan.

Oh but all those people are going to write big checks to SIU.

I'm thrilled to have Bryan Mullins back but the expectations are off the chart.

They did write big checks. Did you see the salary? Did you see the $200,000k the department raised in one day?

Yes, I saw...and I'd bet less than $1k came from the peanut gallery on Saluki-Insider. I'm ecastatic about Bryan coming home to Carbondale, but I don't have grand illusions about going to the Final Four next year. Give the poor guy time to put his team together. We lost six seniors. A lot more question marks than answers for the Salukis next year. Saluki fans are notoriously impatient. Unreasonably impatient.

[MissouriValleyUnite]

Introductory Conference
https://youtu.be/G4k86hEzN9s
32:55
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