FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[faunch]

Fasching fired?  What kind of idiotic nonesense is this?  The Tommie echo chamber sure worked its magic in the giddy highs of victory.  Tommies apparently don't know the meaning of constructive critisism, only aware of the psychophantic echo chamber.

Given that the Johnies were the ones calling for a coaching change, Johnnies have high expectations, and coaching changes have been known to occur at places where high expectations aren't met, this is a resonable topic for conversation. Maybe give some insight on how things work at SJU instead of attacking those with honest questions.

You guys come up with serious bull**** sometimes but this might take the f-ing cake.  A career winning percentage of 80.4%...I'd be updating my profile at https://www.linkedin.com/ if I were him.

[BDB]

An aspect of yesterday's game that has not been commented on thus far:
I was actually surprised at the lack of chippiness. The first series or two, I saw a few instances that could have turned volatile, but nothing came of it. And we really didn't see the personal fouls that the Johnnies have come to expect from the Tommies. Plenty of penalties, but not of the ugly variety.

I thought at the coin toss when the players were shaking hands that they looked to be taking it seriously to represent their schools, the MIAC and D3 football well. They did in a very competitive, entertaining game.

D3 fans should refrain from trying to affect coaching changes. These aren't big school or pro-level jobs with million dollar salaries and buy outs. There are plenty of people accountable at any university that will take care of employment decisions.

Just enjoy the games.

[jamtod]

Listening to the VOJ/SJU audio broadcast of the game. Pre-game show conversation about how important the turnover battle will be - St Thomas turned it over 2 times. SJU - 0.

[SJUrube]

There was contact on the pass interference that was called but Green totally sold the crap out of it. If a Johnnie had done that, you know everyone would be saying what a heady play that was on the receiver's part. 

The one going the other direction, the no-call -- I really thought that was a good no-call with the players' feet getting tangled.

This is wrong.

[Mr.MIAC]

To be clear, I'm not saying Fasching, Gagliardi, or anyone else should or would be fired. Nor am I saying that the coaching staff has been anything less than successful (by my standards, not necessarily those of all Johnies) over the past five years. I'm asking more of an SJU culture question. If the Johnies aren't meeting their admittedly high expectations, could you foresee any sort of move to make a personnel change. I personally don't want to see that sort of thing in the MIAC.

[Pat Coleman]

There was contact on the pass interference that was called but Green totally sold the crap out of it. If a Johnnie had done that, you know everyone would be saying what a heady play that was on the receiver's part. 

The one going the other direction, the no-call -- I really thought that was a good no-call with the players' feet getting tangled.

This is wrong.

Appreciate your opinion. I saw it differently.

[jamtod]

Pat's clearly biased. He's in the Tommie's secret society.

[miac952]

In my opinion, Fasching is in perfectly fine stead at SJU.

For the Johnnie fans out there: how many consecutive losses to UST (while typically winning most or all of their other games), would it take to consider this? Is there a number?

Also, to what degree does the Johnnie fan base influence these sorts of decisions at SJU? Donors play a major role in DI coaching decisions. If the Johnnies didn't make a deep run for X number of years, or lost to the Tommies X number of games in row, would you have donors withholding funds? If that were the case, would SJU administrators see it as a serious problem?

They haven't made the NCAA quarters since the iPhone was invented and it's been 1,100 or so days since a win against UST. I would say those thresholds have been met

As others have said though this isn't D1. Plus, he righted a ship that was heading in the wrong direction and did it VERY quickly. Two early wins against UST, and building his own way of doing things without alienating his predecessors history put him in very good standing. It's a top 8-10 program in D3 the last few years.

[Mr.MIAC]

Pat's clearly biased. He's in the Tommie's secret society.

I heard Pat actually works for UST. "Journalist" is just a cover he uses to gain access to various sporting complexes and leave the gates unlocked. How do you think the Tommies managed all those walk-throughs at Target Field? Classless...

[Mr.MIAC]

To be clear, I'm not saying Fasching, Gagliardi, or anyone else should or would be fired. Nor am I saying that the coaching staff has been anything less than successful (by my standards, not necessarily those of all Johnies) over the past five years. I'm asking more of an SJU culture question. If the Johnies aren't meeting their admittedly high expectations, could you foresee any sort of move to make a personnel change. I personally don't want to see that sort of thing in the MIAC.

Edit: I'm also not trying to imply that any large groups of angry Johnnies with pitchforks are massing in Collegeville. The question is mostly hypothetical.

[sju56321]

I am more negative on coaches, but I would not consider firing Fasching-he is doing a solid job. My complaint with SJU from the 80's is expand the recruiting base beyond the upper Midwest. I know they get guys from California and Arizona, buy they need to make more of an effort. I think I read somewhere that SJU coaches were content with central Minnesota guys-not bad-but actively look elsewhere als

[SJUrube]

Pat, time for another update so email addresses show up in all profiles. Please and thank you.

[Pat Coleman]

617 out of 14819 rows in the database were affected. Hope you find what you're looking for.

For those with the question, yes, you are required by the Terms of Service to have your email address displayed. However, it is only displayed to users who are logged in.

[bennie]

Hypotheticals are fun. So OZ, how many losses in a row to the (edited to add:) dirty, classless, cheating Tommies would it take?

Is this the Tommie fan version of "do these pants make my butt look big"?

[SJUrube]

Thanks, Pat. Generally just curious if the Skip Bayless & Shannon Sharpes of the board use a real email or not.