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Team rankings spread is 7.5 pts favoring SLU with 3 stars of conviction. So far all 3 estimates of the spread are between 5 and 8.5 pts in favor of St. Louis. The estimates are close to one another meaning that Grand Canyon has a fair probability to beat us. This should be an interesting game. We are planning to be at the Chaifetz for the game. From a positive point of view SLU is ahead of Grand Canyon by 5 out of 8 Offensive stats, and 5 out of 7 defensive stats, this means that Grand Canyon will have to really try hard to win this game. Go Bills!

OK, however, keep in mind that once taxation of specific streams of income is established involving a few Universities, it will be expanded to every other School in time. It is simple, the US is going down the tubes because it cannot pay its debt. They need to raise the taxes, some estimates say by 30% to stay solvent. What do you think will be the preferred method used? Increasing the taxes of all voters, or extend taxes to tax exempt companies, schools, churches, etc.. Think of it Correct, money is king.

Not entirely, the current issue of the Harvard magazine boasts their lower court wins against the administration but reveals that research grants have been reduced and that they are currently paying significant taxes for at least part of their income. The interesting thing is that all the court decisions up to date are going to higher court levels where they will probably be changed. So Harvard is not currently a totally non profit enterprise as per this information, and it is not known how the current status will change at higher court levels. Of course, this does not affect their endowment which is very large. I think that the tax status of Colleges and Universities is likely to change. Their income, at least in some cases, is too large to be allowed to stay tax free.

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I think we are doing very well so far. I hope we get to see Warlick playing with the team soon.

@The Wiz Thank you very much for your review of Bill's records back to the very beginning, even older than my age. Now I want to do something similar but encompassing a smaller time frame, simply the 3 games we have played all of which we won. In the first game against SEMO we won by 25 pts, 6.5 points over the spread. Prior to this first game of the season we were ranked 81 by Team Rankings. VCU, Dayton, and GW were ranked higher than SLU. After this game SLU's ranking went up to 75, a gain of 6 levels. After this game we were ranked above GW. The second game against Chi State we won by 20 points, 9 points below the spread. Even though we won this game below the spread we won with a score of 108, which is very high. Our ranking in the Team Rankings system went up to 73, a very low 2 level gain. Our ranking level remained below VCU and Dayton and above GW. The third game against Lindenwood we won by 43 points, 18 points over the spread. We won by 109 pts, the second win over 100 in a row. In the Team Rankings system we went up to 62, a gain of 11 levels. After this gain VCU was still ranked above us but we had gone over Dayton's, to the second highest overall ranking in A10. It appears undeniable that winning by beating the other team over the spread, results in a larger movement up in ranking that winning below the spread. I thought this was interesting enough to post here.

I was thinking that since I started following the Bills seriously, during the Majerus final years that the team has been much more tuned to defense than to offense. This was the way it stayed until Schertz came in as a HC. I think we are becoming primarily an aggressive team with an emphasis on offensive. I am glad to see this change and the improvements are becoming visible as we play more games this year. Looking forward to an exciting year. Go Bills!

Nice win, we had 109 pts vs Lindenwood 66. Well over the spread and well over 100. PLUS 2 consecutive games won with a score over 100. Schertz continued sending the second squad in at the end as he has done before. Chi State used this time to get a decent score, but Lindenwood could not do this. Well done, I expect SLU to go up the rankings more substantially that in the prior game. So far so good. We are doing fine. Go Bills!

Loved Blues Brothers, particularly Belushi's character. Unfortunately the a--hole offed himself by overdose in a few years. Team Rankings has us winning by 24, with 5 stars of confidence.

This is what happens when you win a game like last night's. We won at 106 but allowed Chi St. to make 86 pts, we did not go over the spread. The Team Rankings got better for SLU by 2 slots. The Team Rankings got worse to Chi State by 15 slots. If our defense had been better and we had been able to go over the spread we would have gained a lot more in our ranking than we did. Not going over the spread and allowing 86 pts to Chi State hurt us.

Wow! great game, the 3 minute or so period when we made 30 pts or so vs 1 or 2 point for Chicago finished any hopes Chi St. had to win the game. And no, technically we did not go over the spread. BUT we had Holmes and Hutson playing at the end and won this game by 108 over 86! The issue with going way over thee spread is to raise excitement among the viewers. This game generated plenty of it. We will see how much we go up in the rankings after this win.

Tough game very contested. I think we will win but I am not sure we will beat the spread this game.

Team Rankings posted their spread, it is 28.5 pts in favor of SLU winning. They give SLU 5 stars of confidence to win this game. Again two totally different predictive systems coming this close in their results is significant. I have no doubt that SLU will win this game and that they may indeed go over the spread.. Go Bills!

With all respect to the Wiz's predictions, If he says 28 poins, what he is really saying is that we are likely to beat Chi St. by a very large margin. The actual score will be determined during the game. It may be well over 28 points.

@WUH The selection process to the available at large slots for the Dance for schools that do not win their conference tournaments has, in my opinion, much more to do with maximizing the expected revenue or viewership than with NET efficiency results, logic or fairness. Money is king. I think the power schools look at the at large schools chosen the attend the Dance and the winners of lower level conferences as low lying fruit ready to be harvested by them.