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We have to consider a different point of view in this discussion. Let's look at Schertz, he was a kid with not much in terms of an education who started at a very low level in the business of basketball coaching. As it actually is, most famous and well known coaches may have started at a fairly low level and slowly went up the scale. This was the case with Schertz, and Schertz happened to be good so he went up the scale with time. ISU was a very good break for him, and this last season was a breakthrough season for him. There he was, he had developed a winning strategy and could recruit kids seemingly out of obscurity and train them into great players. As it was when the light of recognition and fame shone on him he upgraded and brought with him some of his best players. He now has a much better pay than he had at ISU and is positioning himself to repeat what he did at ISU. The reality of the situation is that if he does at SLU what he did at ISU, he is likely to be nabbed by some of the power schools within a few years and at a better income level. This story is likely to repeat and we, SLU, must expect this to happen. Will Schertz career end at Duke or UConn? Who knows? but it is not an unlikely possibility. You all at ISU should anticipate that your story may well repeat itself at our campus. For our side's point of view, we should enjoy our time with Schertz and understand that his time here will also come to an end when he goes to a better school with a higher salary. So, lets have a joyful time with a really good coach among us, while it lasts.

I suppose it can happen, in this case it was a girl that threw the party.

You can read all the ChatGPT you want, but the experience of such a meal was really extraordinary.

Just saw it today, also loved it.

This is the way the Pestello's administration has worked, you do not know how the next president will want to run things. And, by the way, this was not the way things worked under Biondi. Under Biondi it was his way or out. Assuming we are getting another Pestello is something we should avoid. Maybe the next guy will be a new Biondi, who knows? We live in a society that increasingly lives by ability to kiss rear end rather than ability to perform a job properly. This is a major problem.

I just hope that Schertz, who is Jewish, does not take it like the whole school thinks like that.

No speculation, the way I see it May will work very hard to be in held high regard by the new president. His job tenure will depend on it.

I'd imagine that vast numbers of people everywhere have jobs that are exactly as you describe above.

For those of you that may be interested in modern Art, the Matisse exhibit at the Museum of Art is open with FREE Admission today. Matisse's life took him through 2 World Wars, saw his birth place occupied by the Germans almost all of WWI and all of the active Western Europe portion of WWII. He loved the sea and primitive cultures and lived in Polynesia a good number of years. He also lived through the transition from Impressionism to modern art., From Cezanne and Renoir to Picasso and Klee. He adapted his work from a new form of impressionism emphasizing form and color, to pure abstract paper cut our forms. The exhibit is well worth going to see, the price to enter could not be better but it lasts only today. Have fun if you who like art.

The real craftmanship of pizza making is passed from mother to daughter within families. People belonging to this wonderful tradition can make the pizza bread pie to match the specific topping they are planning too top the pizza with. I was invited to one such party once, long ago. Each single pizza had a different topping and a different bread pie, with different thickness, flavor, and texture for the bread. Every pizza's bread matched the topping perfectly, in a mysterious fashion. It was marvelous, I still remember the experience.

Great post Wiz, totally agree that data and machines with or without AI can only go up to a point. Your program does extraordinary things, but it needs a Wiz to add a human dimension to the analysis of the data.

Just to add my two cents worth to this topic. May is still here because Pestello is on the way out next year and he is not about to do anything in terms of firing May. It will not be until the next president takes over before May may be gone, and a lot will depend upon the character of the new president.

If truth be said, last season I watched a lot of MVC games, including ISU games. I can say with absolutely no doubts that many of the MVC schools played better than we did last season. I also believe we will play a lot better this season lead by a coach and some players that transferred here from the MVC.

Too many ifs in here. Let's get there first, then we can go ahead and fantasize about the future. All you get doing this is massive disappointment when we do fine or OK but not quite as well as you hoped.

I was talking about the $ 1 M per game played paid to teams in the NCAA tournament. This is sure to come. NIL money given by big donors is up to donors, nothing certain about this.