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  1. It's not successful if you never try it. You guys keep making excuses. If you want to build a business(and college basketball is a business) you don't sit in your office and hope customers call you. You get on the phone, write letters, do some target marketing, network with people, get a laptop and make list of potential customers, etc. Was Brad doing these types of things? Did he have a detailed recruiting plan? What areas did it cover? How extensive was it? How much time did he spend during the season and off-season on recruiting? I don't know, maybe he did have an extensive recruiting plan but just couldn't close the deals. Only he can tell you.
  2. Grimes WAS a top 100 recruit. Newbourne was NOT a top 25 JUCO. I don't know where you got that from. Show me the source on that one. His stats coming out of JUCO weren't very impressive. Don't make stuff up. So you have come up with ONE name(Grimes) of a top recruit that Brad was after in 5 years. You have made my point.
  3. Let me make it simple for you. Answer these questions and quit nitpicking at everybodys post. Question 1 : Name a Top 25 JUCO player that Brad was recruiting the last 5 years. Don't give me Frerichs, Newborne, etc. These guys weren't even the best players on there JC team. Go back to 'JUCO Junction' website for the last 5 years and get the list of top 100 JUCO players in the country. Now look att the Top 25. Did Brad recruit any of these guys? Answer the question. Question 2: How many Top 100 Ntional players did Brad recruit aggressively in the last 5 years? Go to Rivals and get the National Top 100 National list published every year(there is no top 50 or top 100 local list by the way). What players did Brad recruit aggressively form this list? Do your homework then come back with some names of the top JUCO and National HS players from these lists that Brad was recruiting. That's 100+25=125(I'll do the math for you) names of potential players each year. Tell me which ones Brad recruited. Give me some facts, not subjective ranting. Question 3: If a team wants to be a top 50 program each year shouldn't they be getting their share of the Top 125 players in the nation over a five year period(and some local talent of course)?
  4. Name a top 25 Juco player Soda recruited early on. Name a Top 50 player Brad recruited in the last 5 years that is in college now. Name a top 100 player from outside the Midwest that Brad recruited. Newbourne, frericks, Morris ,ect were not top recruits. You made my point. Dixon? Brad 'recuited' Voyoukas? Bryant was a transfer. You need to get you facts straight first. Again. Name me the Top 25 JUCO player or the Top 100 HS player that Brad actively recruited and didn, fall into his lap or transfer to SLU. The man set his sights too low. Result: mediocrity.
  5. Bull. The job is as attractive as it has ever been-----for the right coach. You don't need a coach that fits the conference you need a good coach/salesman who is willing to work his a** off recruiting. Screw that maximizing us in the conference #####. You recruit the best players you can get. The problem with Sodaberger was he set his sights too low. He recruited to be mediocre in the conference. He ignored junior college players, top 100 players, players from outside the Midwest, etc. A recipe for disaster. A good recruiter has to sell himself, the city of St. Louis, the University and the New Arena. This isn't high school basketball where you have new players coming in every year. You have to go out and get your own players. You have to get out there and sell yourself and the program. Ask Huggins, Calipari, Patino, Theus, Willaims, Olson and Howland how important recruiting is to their job performance. Give me Williams' players and I could roll out the ball at practice and still win 20 games every year. If you recruit the likes of David Lee, Larry Hughes, Tommy Liddell, Kevin Lisch, Blake Ahearn, Chris Carawell, Cuonzo Martin, Anthony Bonner, Roland Gray, Justin Love, H Waldman, Erwin Claggett or Monroe Douglas does it really matter what conference you play in? With the right players you can win in the A-10, MVC, C-USA or the Big 12.
  6. If you can't beat them, join them. If the A-10 doesn't work out for the Billikens, why not apply for entry in the MVC along with Xavier and Dayton from the A-10 and Butler from the Horizon Conference? With the existing 10 teams the 'new' Valley might look like this: West East St.Louis Xavier Wichita St Dayton Missouri st Evansville Creighton Butler N. Iowa SIU Drake Illinois St Bradley Indiana St All teams have a winning record
  7. All-Time(last 40 years) First Team G Larry Hughes G David Burns 19.4 ppg 54.8% fg '79-81 F Joe Wiley 17.5 ppg 9.6 rpg '67-70 F Harry Rogers 18.4 ppg '70-73 C Anthony Bonner 14.8 ppg 10.7 rpg '86-90 Second Team G Justin Love 16.3 ppg 80% ft '99-00 G Erwin Clagett 16.5 ppg '92-95 F Roland Gray 14.6 ppg 45.7 3-pt '85-89 F Donnie Dobbs 16.6 ppg '92-94 C Kelvin Henderson 14.6 ppg 110 blocks '78-80 Third Team G H Waldman 42.0 3-pt 125 steals/295 assists '94-95 G Jimmy Irving 15.7 ppg '68-71 F Monroe Douglas 14.7 ppg 78% ft '85-89 F Lewis McKinney 17.2 ppg '73-76 C Billy Morris 15.9 ppg '73-75
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