Damn....even the NATIONAL MEDIA agrees with SU's Mike Grant


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Based on the admittedly scant evidence available this week, opportunities for basketball coaches have never been better.
Or worse.

On one end of the spectrum, we're bombarded with breathless updates about the high-stakes courtship of Phil Jackson. One night, he's having dinner with Knicks boss Isiah Thomas, the next with Lakers owner Jerry Buss. Then we're told the Cavaliers, Timberwolves and Trail Blazers might also be interested in picking up Jackson's dinner tab -- plus the additional $7 million or so per year some lucky club will have to fork over to sit him down at the end of their bench.

Then there's the very little-noticed tale of Michael Grant.

At a news conference Thursday, Southern University chancellor Edward Jackson tied the bow on a story that's been making the rounds on the Jaguars' campus and reported by The Advocate for several weeks: That Grant has being canned as basketball coach with one year left on a three-year contract because he interviewed for another job.

Even in a business where guys have been fired for behaving like frat boys (see Larry Eustachy at Iowa State), that takes some chutzpah. Then again, loyalty was never designed to be a one-way street.

Coaches take jobs at every level above high school with an eye on the next one, and so it appeared to be with Grant when he arrived at Southern. Coaches trade loyalties so often these days, it's practically an unspoken pact.

Grant's r?sum? included impressive stints as an assistant coach at Michigan and Cleveland State, and being from Ohio, it wasn't surprising that he was interested when the head coaching job at Youngstown State opened in March.

NATIONAL ARTICLE
 
Not when you consider that Southern is traditionally a football school. Or that the Jaguars went 9-20 the previous two seasons. Anyone expecting a quick return to the salad days of the late '80s and early '90s -- when NBA stars Avery Johnson and Bobby Phills fell into Southern's lap -- was hopelessly stuck in a time warp.
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GSup is gonna love this.. :lmao:

The school's basketball program and the conference, the Horizon League, would have marked an upgrade over Southern and the SWAC, in terms of resources, attention and prestige
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Interesting
 



bluedog said:
Well there goes yall's theory that know ones knows where Southern is.
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Not so fast

Mach, the writer may have ended his journalistic career with the statement. One would think he learned the extent of fabricating statements from Jayson Blair formerly of the NY Times.
 
So I guess yall.com "MESSAGE BOARD" is the authority of who's who now. :emlaugh: Boy you coons amuse the "L" out of me the lengths you go to too feel impotent. :emlaugh:
 
For someone whom team has never been to the Big Dance you should concern yourself with your coaching descision and not ours. One thread closed and soon to be another.:saw:
 
GSUperTiger said:
Not so fast

Mach, the writer may have ended his journalistic career with the statement. One would think he learned the extent of fabricating statements from Jayson Blair formerly of the NY Times.
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*looking at the link posted*

Nobody's perfect...and this link proves it too.

Not when you consider that Southern is traditionally a football school
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:tup: :nod2:
 
GSUperTiger said:
Not so fast

Mach, the writer may have ended his journalistic career with the statement. One would think he learned the extent of fabricating statements fromJayson Blair formerly of the NY Times.
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GSUpe...why'd you hafta mention dat *igga's name....
:angry: If I ever catch him on La 1, La 76...or anywhere in the continental US...there's gonna be some furniture movin... :slap:
 
One would swear Southern stole some of these people first born and set their dream home on fire that was uninsured. :lol:

People, people.........when will the hate and envy cease. :lol:
 
JROCK said:
People, people.........when will the hate and envy cease. :lol:
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LoL @ Jay-ROCKA! :emlaugh:

It'll end when we thoroughly <b>dominate and dismantle</b> Southern. :eek: lol ;) Cuz right now, weain'tonSU'slevel. :retard:
 
Panthro said:
LoL @ Jay-ROCKA! :emlaugh:

It'll end when we thoroughly dominate and dismantle Southern. :eek: lol ;) Cuz right now, weain'tonSU'slevel. :retard:
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bruh I don't know who is the worse, tbf with his hating or you with your instigating:angry: :wavey: . But it's all good, we treat you'll like family.:gift: :slap:
 
BgJag said:
bruh I don't know who is the worse, tbf with his hating or you with your instigating:angry: :wavey: . But it's all good, we treat you'll like family.:gift: :slap:
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:lol: Thought that I was the only one that noticed Pantro........."Throwing bricks and hiding his hands." :lol:

Poor tbf :lol:
 



BgJag said:
bruh I don't know who is the worse, tbf with his hating or you with your instigating:angry: :wavey: . But it's all good, we treat you'll like family.:gift: :slap:
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:wavey: :slap:

The Clampits vs The McCoys. ;) lol :gift:
 
COACH said:
Envy of what?
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:lol: confused too :lol:

Are you not the Einstein last year that was defending those deficient (SWAC) basketball coaches (speaking of confused). :lol:
 
Panthro said:
:wavey: :slap:

The Clampits vs The McCoys. ;) lol :gift:
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um..Panthro...it's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys... :topic:

the National guys sometimes don't know what they're talking about....They also don't bother to do the research before making statements like the following...


Jim Litke said:
Not when you consider that Southern is traditionally a football school. Or that the Jaguars went 9-20 the previous two seasons. Anyone expecting a quick return to the salad days of the late '80s and early '90s -- when NBA stars Avery Johnson and Bobby Phills fell into Southern's lap -- was hopelessly stuck in a time warp.
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Bobby went to Southern Lab and his pops was on the faculty..so it was a no-brainer where he'd get... Avery was recruited by Jobe... SU was winning in the 70s, 80s and most of the 90s...they started to suck the year after Jackson State's last NCAA appearance...

Besides SU is also a baseball school with Hall of Fame baseball players and Olympic gold medalists in track and field.., and this guy apparently didn't try to get in touch with Joe or anyone in Louisiana that followed this thing...

Jim Litke said:
The school will have to establish "cause" for firing Grant at an appeal hearing May 9, and he's given Southern's lawyers plenty of ammo. Besides his "I want this job" remark, Grant apparently spilled plenty of details about how he'd rebuild Youngstown's down-at-the-heels program. When he got around to talking about using the two available scholarships there to bring in junior college players, Tony Clayton, a member of the Southern board of supervisors, had heard enough.
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I don't think he read The Advocate or the Youngstown papers...wasn't no apparently...he spilled details like the Exxon Valdez spilled oil in Alaska.
 
Panthro said:
Thanks Journ! In any event, we like to just "keep it in the family! :eek:" So to speak. :gift: :slap: lol
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boy you should quick while you're ahead.:flippy: :saw:
 
BgJag said:
JR, Mach is on que! :jump: him and TBF are our number 1 fans.:look: :saw:
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LOL@BG. You shole is right. It was how they were raised. (thanks GR) ~snicker~
 
I think that a few of the SU haters fail to see the irony in all of this. And I think all of us who are grads of SWAC schools should feel somewhat discouraged that nationally, we (all SWAC schools) have never been given the respect we deserve.

Let's be honest, I think that if you replaced any SWAC school with SU, the article would have been written the same way. Not necessarily the circumstances with Grant, but the situation regarding SU being a member of the SWAC.

When Litke made that statement about Youngstown and Horizon League having a marked upgraded over SU AND THE SWAC, he basically made reference to all SWAC schools since SU is not in the SWAC by itself and many of the SWAC schools don't have a basketball history that's worthy of recognition by the national media.

Sadly, the sentence about Avery and Bobby was a backhanded comment. (We need to also keep this in perspective...I dealt with Litke when I worked in PR at the NCAA and he's always found a way to write critical articles. He wasn't the easiest reporter to deal with.)

Let's remember that nationally, we're all the same to them (media, etc.) Doesn't matter if we have NBA players, baseball Hall of famer's or packed stadiums when JSU and SU play. At the end of the day, this article does nothing but set us back and make us all look bad. :(
 
lets be honest...the Horizon League is a better conference...Wisconsin-Milwaukee made it to the Sweet 16...blasted us by 62. I saw them firsthand, they would've went 18-0 and swept the SWAC Tournament easily...

you did see the play-in game, right?

obviously, what yall did at SU garnered national attention because of the way it went down....he had a chance to comment on PV but it was handled like it should.
 
the band fan said:
obviously, what yall did at SU garnered national attention because of the way it went down....he had a chance to comment on PV but it was handled like it should.
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You always have something to say when Southern is being discussed.
 
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