Spike wrote:underdawg wrote:uniguy wrote:A lot of love for SIU on here. Why to Saluki fans hate Barry Hinson so much? At least the ones on their message board do. Seems like they're a lot better now than they were before he got there. He inherited a mess.
Hinson Haters think Coach Hinson has had too long to prove he can take the team to post season--even though next year they may go--so they say even with 5-6 starters (Bol coming off injury too) coming back we should chuck all that and hire Bryan Mullins to rebuild. Yes that sounds strange but the Saluki Nation site is closing down so I guess they're taking the ball and going home--Hinson will be back for at least one year more (contracted for two)
In SIU's last 4 games of the conference season, they played three Thursday night teams and Loyola. They got blown out by Loyola and one of the Thursday night teams and needed overtime to beat the other.
They got outplayed by MSU in their first Arch Madness game for 39 minutes and only won due to some extremely poor coaching from Lusk in the last 45ish seconds.
SIU has lost badly to any half decent team they have played. They are completely uncompetitive against actual decent teams and have no business being on the same court against actual good teams, as showed by the game against Louisville earlier in the year.
This SIU team lost at home to SEMO as well as to a heavily depleted SLU team.
Yes, they bring everyone back, but what they are bringing back is not very good. Every other Valley program will also be better, and have been bringing in much better players than SIU.
This poster doesn't root for SIU. He is very representative of what salukination became in its last couple years of existence. It was mostly either folks who were at one time passionate SIU fans whose hatred for Hinson was so overwhelming and all encompassing they rooted hard for SIU's basketball program to fail or SIU haters secretly disguised as fans using the tone of the board for their anti SIU agenda. It was more than time for that board to go, IMHO. I hope a board with a more even tone and opinions is created, but I am not holding my breath as the lunatic fringe who ran and posted on salukination will most likely set the tone for any future board.
I say the above as a lifelong SIU fan and graduate who is certainly not a Hinson fan. I would be all for replacing Hinson with someone like Bryan Mullins if we were able to keep our current roster. Being a realist we would certainly lose to grad transfer players like Fletcher and Bol should the coaching staff be replaced. I do feel if we lose key player(s) to transfer this off season the administration should re-examine Hinson's status. Short of that, I feel SIU is poised to compete for the Valley title and an NCAA birth next year. Should we fall short of an ncaa tourney bid next year then I feel Hinson should be let go as the roster will be in a rebuilding position for 2019-2020 unless several impact transfers or recruits commit
Posted: March 21st, 2018, 9:45 pm