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Maybe spend less time bashing your SLU Athletic Department colleagues, superiors, players, families, coaches, boosters, here. There’s not a lot of honor in that Brian. For someone that has worked in the SLU Athletic Department the past 25 years, you sure are last to know about a lot of things there. Maybe spend some of the time you spend here, building better relationships with the above mentioned people, and you wouldn’t be last to know so often. As for the mentioned topic, the reasons he gave were incorrect. The relationship with the coach was incorrect. The style of play of multiple schools was incorrect. His speculation was 100% off base. You even work some of the SLU Women’s Soccer games. But almost all of your posts here are about only the Men’s team.

Jordan was asked to change positions out of need. She is an attacking wing/forward. She switched to outside back on defense in order to help the team. No fuss. Team player. Not only that, she spent this past Summer in Colorado playing Summer Ball, just to play with and against high level players, to improve her game at a new position. Some were USYNT players, Jordan has been one of the leaders on SLU ‘s team. She is often one of the players who hosted SLU recruits because they were in good hands with Jordan. She also was asked to live with and mentor multiple new SLU players too. She is also an excellent student, All District Academic Team. Jordan was a stand out player at Scott Gallagher and at Collinsville High School, a highly decorated player. She gave SLU a rotation player, and depth at multiple positions. New roster limits mean more difficult situations. Illinois State is an on the rise program with newer HC Raleigh DeRose. She was a long time assistant at Brown, including when SLU played them a few seasons ago. Good luck to Jordan. It’s a chance to play more. Good get for Illinois State.

Yes to your first sentence. Both things are true. You project your discomfort with females in many posts under multiple accounts. Watching Women’s professional soccer? Try SLU Women’s Soccer first. This is a SLU message board. Good people. Good program. Plenty of room on the bandwagon for everyone. Other SLU (and Men’s) Women’s sports too.

Try paragraphs next time @TheA_Bomb Did you create your account in good faith? Do you troll in good faith? Is being sexist in your post here and many elsewhere posting in good faith? You have a strange discomfort with females that you project often here. Good faith? Geldmacher fabricated a recruiting story that you gullibly believed. Is that good faith? When it was pointed out to Geldmacher that exhibition games don’t count as non-conference games, he considered counting them anyway instead of simply conceding. Fact. Is that good faith? That’s a lot of words for you to say Indiana did not in fact “Park the Bus” against SLU in September. Teams play a wide variety of strategies when taking a lead in games. Exhibit A is SLU. SLU plays different games different ways for different reasons. They will play Bryant much differently than they played Indiana. Now, had Geldmacher not made up a recruiting story out of thin air,………. had he not try to establish alternative facts about non-conference, games,…………had he not oddly posted that he ignores my posts while responding to many of my posts…………….. and had he genuinely posted his opinion about how teams play when leading games, there would have been potential for more productive discussion.

Baylor announced that Head Coach Michelle Lenard is receiving a contract extension. She has been a candidate with some of this cycle’s openings. Sweet 16 team this year. it took a few years but she has it going at Baylor in her 4th season. Recruiting is good. They landed two good local St. Louis players that SLU recruited, 2026 Grace White, and 2027 Leah Roberts. Prior to Baylor she was the successful head coach at D2 Dallas Baptist for 14 years .

You forgot to use the word tenuous. You’re slipping. Horns down. Yes, I am opposed to plagiarism and intentional misinformation. No one is forcing people to do those things. I was good enough to point it out. People are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. Those are two different things. You were one of the gullible people who were duped. But instead of approaching that person you would rather let me live rent free in your head. And here I was going to post some new Men’s hoops information. But I’ll save it as demand is just too high elsewhere again. Thanks again for being a faithful reader and for bumping those threads. Your posts, are what people post, who are unable to discuss the topic.

The funny parts are some people’s reactions who lack the critical thinking skills to change with new information. You duped them. They keep coming back for more. That’s a nice little snapshot of some of America right there.

I’m saying you fabricated a recent recruiting story. I’m saying SLU played 8 non-conference games because that is the number they played, 8. Not 10 (2 additional exhibition games) not 14 (4 additional Spring games). I’m saying Indiana did not in fact play more conservatively after taking the lead against SLU in their first game. Some of us were at the game. Some of us watched the game. Both the full game, and highlights are available on video. I’m saying different teams play different ways in different games, when they have a lead, for various reasons. SLU for example has played a variety of ways this season after taking a lead in a game. I’m saying you have a pattern here of making things up that aren’t true.

Katie prefers the term F4 or football four, as not all football four programs are powers. Janet was not part of the committee deliberation for SLU’s at large bid, as is standard for schools in that situation. Yes, continued and improved resources are needed annually, to compete consistently at the highest levels.

It’s definitely been Horns Down at the University of Texas. Just 2 Sweet 16’s in the past 14 years and just 5 in school history. Compare that with Texas A&M who had 28 of the last 30 NCAA Tourneys, a Final Four, 7 Elite 8’s, 16 Sweet 16’s. Under G Guerrieri. Even TCU has had 4 Sweet 16’s in the past 6 seasons. 2 have been Elite 8’s. Baylor a Sweet 16 team this year has had 2 Elite 8’s this decade. Texas Tech has a had a few Sweet 16’s as well. …………………… The high level St. Louis players weren’t going to Texas. But some were going to other Texas schools. 2027 Ayrissa Robinson TCU 2027 Leah Roberts Baylor 2026 Grace White Baylor 2026 Claire Benoist Texas Tech Former Billiken Caroline Kelly picked TCU for her 5th year last year. Kirsten Davis was a First Team All American at Texas Tech. Nearby Oklahoma State has recently had some St. Louisans too. Gracie Bindbeutel, Anna Lawler. Even the pokes have a few Elite 8’s And this is just St. Louis. But Marg is good, well regarded on and off of the field. This might finally get things going in Austin, TX. They’ve been behind their peers for a very long time.

Thanks for being a faithful reader. That’s great.

Sure. These are some of the many schools SLU recruits against. For example, SLU recruited Jennie Immethun and Bella Winn on UCLA. they also recruited Kendall Williams and Amanda Villareal on Texas. UCLA recruited SLU commit Lyla Schenk. Texas recruited SLU commit Vada Goss. There’s quite a few of examples. I know Texas wishes they had the Texas player of the year instead of Saint Louis. Win some lose some. And there’s examples where SLU recruited against these schools, and a third school ended up with the commit. Jay Brownlee for example. Or Gracie Milam. SLU recruits against football four programs, Georgetown, Santa Clara, Xavier, and some Ivy League. These are also some of the bigger jobs in college soccer. Unless SLU is playing these teams head to head, they cross paths every recruiting cycle

I believe even the most novice of observers would be able to point out that your last sentence is incorrect here. It’s a common theme. Make up a generality, repeat it as true or fact, and apply it in all or many circumstances. You went from fabricating a recruiting story, to counting exhibition games as regular season games, to wrongly guessing how Indiana played the first game against SLU. But if people don’t want to take the word of people at the games, they can watch for themselves. Full game from September 3rd is still available on Big Ten Plus. And, a 12 minute highlight video of that game is available on YouTube.

For the 2nd straight season, 2027 SLU Soccer commit Lyla Schenck, was named to the New York Playoff All Tournament Team. She represented Penfield High School in Section V Class AA. Lyla will be playing with her club team at the Girls Academy Winter Showcase, in Norco, California, next week. Other SLU commits playing include Charlotte Wilson, Maren Gansner, Sofia Scego, Hana Allen, Gianna Harris, Lila Megyesi, and Vada Goss.

Texas AD Chris Del Conte is someone that often has the replacement head coach ready, when making a coaching change. Margueritte Bates ((Aozasa) is the new HC at Texas. A few years back, Georgia was able to lure Keidane McAlpine away from USC after he won a national title for the Trojans. Now Texas has done something similar with UCLA. https://texaslonghorns.com/news/2025/11/25/margueritte-bates-aozasa-named-soccer-head-coach Texas had reached just 2 Sweet 16’s the past 14 seasons under Kelly. ……………….. Openings include: Florida Mississippi Texas A&M UCLA