TheChosenOne

@dlarry maybe we can save you a trip across the river and you and @IsaacR can wager on it!

Thanks for the posts, @deltalucas! I think you and your friends are in for an exciting season, definitely take advantage of it!

Thanks for bringing awareness to it in case any students still want to catch practice. Any observations are also appreciated for those of us who can't wait for next week!

Probably a miss for the programs to not take advantage of the one podcast actively covering Billiken athletics for the fans. Nobody listens to Chris May’s weird interviews, what a dork. Passionate fans like Zac will be around and cheering on the Billikens long after Chris May is employed which hopefully is not beyond this spring. That will be my last negative post as I am super pumped for the basketball Billikens this winter.

With the fighting on this board, sonoma bob has arrived at the perfect time to pull us together as the season nears. We will rally around sonoma bob and play good basketball!

Feel free to share any other memorable stories, I have really enjoyed reading your posts! I think based on the box score we are past the statute of limitations hahaha.

Dang it. This was one I really wanted, liked that we were seemingly the earlier leader, but then his profile kept rising.

Drake got most of its production from a handful of guys last season; Bennett Stirtz, Daniel Abreu, Tavion Banks, Mitch Mascari, and Cam Manyawu. And then they got more reserve level production from guys like Isaia Howard, Kael Combs, and Isaiah Jackson (was a starter with limited production). Of that group, Iowa landed Stirtz, Banks, Manyawu, Howard, and Combs. I would think of the transfers from Drake, Stirtz and Manyawu are likely starters with Banks maybe being their 6 man, but maybe a starter. The other starters would likely include Brendan Hausen (transfer from Kansas State and Villanova prior to that) and the big from Robert Morris, Alvaro Folgueiras, but I am not sure who the other starter would be beyond it possibly being Banks. They have a solid roster on paper, but will have to incorporate guys like Hausen and Folgueiras with the guys from Drake. Always a question how guys adjust to a league like the Big Ten.

Yeah, I am also curious about this between @SShoe ("Our outside shots fell in the 3rd quarter and we pulled away against their starters.") and @SLUMS81 ("Our 3 point shooting much better in the second half. Iowa kept most of their starters out in the second half.") posts. Although maybe they are saying the same thing and my initial comprehension is off. If we beat Iowa by 20+ in essentially a game like scrimmage with them playing their starters for most of that, that would be a significant result for those craving some positive news heading into the season. Last year at Drake with a veteran squad he largely brought with him, McCollum relied heavily on his top core and then spread minutes around for the other spots somewhat similar to SLU.

Very cool, thanks for posting! Congrats to Robbie on the recognition, now lets make that a reality!

Yeah, Soderberg was often late to offer or like you said offered very few. As much as I disagreed with that approach especially when it came to local kids who often would feel burned when SLU wasn't an early offer, his reasoning was that an offer should in fact be an offer. I think that is when things were changing and it was clear that not all offers were the same at least from the school's side. With him, I think they were, so he wasn't going to throw out an offer that wasn't a committable offer. And then I think it was Ford who would throw a lot of offers at kids who were in town playing in the various Nike camps, so we were offering a lot of those top underclassmen early in their recruitments. Now with NIL, things have probably changed even more as the NIL package is likely the most important factor at the end of the day.

Yeah, I’ll sign up to be the guy being signed, paid, and immediately waived.

Could this rumor and result be proof of this concept?

Right. Too often when the end result doesn't line up with a rumor folks come back calling folks out for being wrong even though the result doesn't somehow invalidate the rumor being true at that point in time. That is why recruiting folks probably hold their tongue a lot since what is true in recruiting one day can likely not end up coming to fruition. Since multiple posters on here and other folks not on this board seemed to be hearing similar things, I assume there was some truth to the story, but it appears to have not resulted in any availability issues. Also, it is funny to read about someone hurting their credibility on a message board.

I think most agree with this and few would dispute that which is why this statement should have been released last Monday.