Painter to Purdue??

[JCPanthers]

In tonight's Waterloo Courier, it says that head Southern Illinois BB coach has been offered the associate head coaching position at Purdue, with the intention for Painter to succeed Keady for the 2005-2006 season. Painter hasn't decided yet what he is going to do.

Painter played for Keady, so I think Painter's days at SIU are coming to an end.

http://siusalukis.ocsn.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040504aaa.html

[JCPanthers]

Painter Gone!!

Painter quits Southern Illinois, becomes heir apparent at Purdue

(Indianapolis-AP) -- Matt Painter has resigned as basketball
coach at Southern Illinois and will become an assistant next season
at Purdue. He is expected to take over from Gene Keady as the
Boilermakers' head coach the next year after that.

Purdue is expected to have a news conference with Painter
tomorrow.

Keady said last week that he had turned down an offer to coach
at the University of San Francisco and would return for his 25th
season at Purdue. He has one year remaining on his contract with
the Boilermakers.

The 33-year-old Painter was a high school star at Delta, near
Muncie, and played under Keady at Purdue from 1989-to-93. He met
with Purdue officials on Sunday, and on Tuesday he said he was
considering the move.

Southern Illinois also will have a press conference tomorrow to
name a replacement for Painter.

Painter led the Salukis to an N-C-A-A tournament appearance this
year, when they were ranked as high as 15th. Before that, he was an
assistant for five years under Bruce Weber, a longtime Keady
assistant who became the coach at Illinois.

(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved

[JCPanthers]

Another link to this story:

http://siusalukis.ocsn.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040804aaa.html

I kind of hate to see him leave, I liked the way he coached and I thought he was good for the Valley.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Two words:

Fresh Meat

I think this exchange will make SIU more suspect next year. I love the Panthers' chances.

By the way, there is a recruit on campus this weekend. Any word from the insiders on here?

[JCPanthers]

Not sure. Hopefully he's 6'10", 265 lbs. and can touch the dome ceiling with his vertical.

As for the new SIU coach, it sounds like it's Chris Lowery, Assistant to Bruce Weber at Illinois and before that at SIU. I think he graduated from SIU in the early 90's.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/Sports/Other+Sports/2C0493020993A5BC86256E7100129518?OpenDocument&Headline=Painter+goes+to+Purdue%3B+SIUC+turns+to+Lowery

[UNIAlum95]

The players are refering to him as "C-Lo". Hopefully he's too much of a players coach. I'd like to see a regular season championship come to the dome as well as the post season next year.