Friday, July 30, 2010

Summer Saluki Roundup

As the Salukiway project continues to progress, lets take a look around the web at recent Saluki news.

Jason Maholy of the Reporter Online says that Fay, Bocot, and Teague form an impressive trio and predicts that the Valley could be a two or even a three bid league this year.

Big Gene Teague has shed 20 pounds this offseason, and indicates that team chemistry will be improved this season in this WSIL TV video.

Diamond Taylor tells the Bolingbrook Sun that he's ready to make the most of his second chance. He also adds that he's added 12-13 pounds of muscle after redshirting last season (thats the good "freshman 15"). The article doesn't mention this, but due to his transfer date from Wisconsin, I don't think DT will be eligible to play until the first semester is over.

Over at the Southern, Todd Hefferman gives updates on the pro careers of Falker, Shaw, and Mullins.

Last but not least, the folks at salukitalk.com have redesigned their message board. Looks good!

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Saluki Hoops coverage for 2010-2011

Welcome back to the Saluki Hoops blog! It's been quite a while since I've posted here but I'm thinking of giving it another shot this season.

Last season, I shipped tidbits of information directly to the twitter feed (which you can still view right here on the blog) but this year I may get things back in full swing with thoughts on the team, interviews, links and other odds and ends.

Everyone knows that the Salukis have extremely passionate and knowledgeable fans. With Carbondale being in a smaller media market sometimes it feels like the Salukis don't get enough exposure to satisfy the rampant fanbase. The basic goal of this blog is to give the Salukis a little bit more coverage and allow fans to ask questions and get Saluki fans the coverage they want.

I realize its been a year and a half since there has been new content here so site traffic is light right now but we've had over 90,000 page views since the site began so I'd like to open it up for suggestions from any readers who subscribe to these posts via the RSS feed, follow on twitter, saw this post on the news feed at salukitalk.com, or otherwise stumbled back across this site.

The question is this- what would you like to see covered on salukihoops.com this year?

The comments section is open, and as I have in the past I'll always answer any reader mail at salukihoops@gmail.com. Let me know what you'd like to see!