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No reason to play another buy game. We have enough. Why aren't we playing more road games? We could open up a H & H against a worthwhile opponent who could help us in the NET instead of playing a D-3 opponent, and a very bad D-3 team at that. The players on Principia didn't start for their HS teams. I don't like this math of "we play a D-3 opponent because it doesn't count against the NET." Zero is still zero. Schedule a game that helps NET. Why have a meaningless game in season where players could get hurt? I'm still all in on Schertz but the elephant in the room right now is his weak scheduling. We have the talent to be an NCAA team, but we aren't close to having an NCAA schedule.

She needs to end up being the the basketball HOF. Her act only worked on basketball courts, so she was exclusive to that game. There are generations of fans and players who love her and her act. I've heard many stories about teams coming out from the locker room at halftime to watch her perform. If they let in executives, refs, broadcasters, etc. in the HOF, then they need to let the Panda in.

SLU 92, can you please organize your thoughts for now on so that you put all of your ranting into one post and no longer have to reply to you own post twice before anyone else comments? That will make it easier for the rest of us in our efforts to avoid reading them.

People are way too low on the amount of minutes Dunlap will get. Do people really believe he will get the same or less court time than he was getting at St. John's before he got hurt? He will be in the top 4 in minutes on this team. I think this is pretty obvious.

Here is my take...We are bigger... more aggressive...more physical ...faster...more athletic....We are still rough around the edges(they have only practiced a couple of weeks) but are looking good at this point. Players to watch... Best additions ...Otieno and Dunlap Nice looking shot...Sharp Shooter Sharma Healthy player...Thames played a lot of minutes with no seeming problems. Best freshman in a while...Kerr and Laczkowski...thin big guys who are athletic and can shoot. Knows what he is doing...Brown...has good floor sense and can shoot. Most improved from last year...Anya and McCottry...both more aggressive and playing more defense. Lost weight and is in better shape...Avila...he can still shoot and pass. Big difference maker...Jones....he can do it all Best Kwamain Mitchell impersonator...Green...he has that potential Bottom line...This will be a better team than last year and should win more games...check back with me on the first week in Nov. Go Bills

So to summarize, you are suggesting that we push out the 60+ year olds crowd who actually show up to the games and pay the bills, and allow the 20 and 30 year old crowd who excel at running their mouths but disappear when asked to spend any of their own money, take over. When I was your age, we didn’t need gimmicks to create an electric atmosphere and we also didn’t portray ourselves as the poor victims looking to spew hate at our older fans who were supporting the program. The only thing keeping the arena from being filled are losers like you who would rather whine than show up to the game and reach into their own pocket. It’s stunning that you think alienating a large portion of your fan base is the key to success.

Short answer: Yes, but some context helps. Longer answer: Maddie is a unique talent that doesn’t come across often, especially at her position. She’s a forward. She scores goals. She sets up goals. She’s excellent off of the dribble or in space. That position also gets more attention than other positions. She is one of the best players in the country in her age group. Class of 2027. She would likely reclassify to 2026. 2026 Izzy Dalke (Clemson) is an outside back and USYNT regular in her age group. 2026 Gracie Milam (Florida) is a center back and also a USYNT player in her age group. 2026 Lily Selvy (Penn State) is a goalkeeper with USYNT experience. 2026 Alex Pfeiffer is a forward who turned professional just as she was turning 16. She plays for KC Current in the NWSL. She was the 4th youngest NWSL signing and she became the youngest ever NWSL goal scorer. Unfortunately then Alex tore her ACL last season. Alex helped lead USYNT to the U15 Concacaf Championship. And ahe scored the game winning goal for USA in the Mondial Montigu Final U16 Final. Alex was the ECNL National Player of the Year and also the top ranked player in her class. She would have been a 2026 graduate. She played up with 2024 and 2025 players to win back to back ECNL National Championships, including with a few Billikens. 2025 Caroline Birkel (Stanford) is a regular USYNT Goalkeeper in her age group. 2025 Grace Restovich (Notre Dame) reclassified to be 2024 instead of 2025. Box to box central midfielder and USYNT regular with Birkel. She had a good Freshman season at Notre Dame on a young NCAA Quarterfinal team. They will be one of the national title favorites in 2025. 2027 Ella McNeal. Ella is one of the best few goalkeepers in the country in 2027 class. She did not play high school soccer. She did play basketball at Parkway West. She is a regular goalkeeper for the USYNT for her age group. There are 2 USYNT players from St. Louis in 2028 class. And there is 1 from the 2029 class. There also was a recent new USYNT college camp announced to increase player pool depth for the USYNT at that age group. 2 St. Louisans were invited, Kiley Kukan a forward,(Alabama) and Zoe Cuneio, a center back (Purdue) were invited. Cuneio reclassified from 2024 to 2023. And that’s just USYNT players from St. Louis. There have been other very high level players that didn’t play USYNT. Example: Another St. Louisan was one of the best Freshman college players nationally at Arkansas this past season, Jay Brownlee. She played high school soccer with 2 Billikens. SLU for example, has had many recent All Americans, and none were all that highly ranked as youth players. Obviously many top ranked youth players go on to great college and pro careers. Some don’t. And some our perform their recruiting or rankings. This is similar to any other sport. Kansas City has some USYNT players in a similar age group but they live in Kansas. Generally speaking but not always the best high school aged soccer players in KC are on the Kansas side. Megan Hinnenkamp was the SEC Freshman of the year in 2023. Injured in 2024. She is from Liberty, MO Izzy Dalke is Metro East Illinois. 2025 Lily Freer (Stanford) is Metro East Illinois as well. ………….. As far as their high schools: DiMaria: Cor Jesu McNeal: Parkway West Dalke: Althoff Milam: Francis Howell Selvy: Fort Zumwalt North Pfeiffer: Visitation Restovich: Visitation Birkel: MICDS Kukan: Winfield Cuneio: Eureka Brownlee: Fort Zumwalt South Freer (Alton) Hinnenkamp: Liberty North The 2028 STL USYNT players attend Edwardsville and Visitation. And this again doesn’t include several other players in different class years that have had high level college success. Rylie Combs was the SEC Defender of the Year this past season at Mississippi State. She attended St. Dominic. Maci Teater (Holt) was named to the best 7 team for the TST Tourney this Summer. She plays at Vanderbilt, formerly North Carolina. And so on. ………… But yes Maddie DiMaria is one of the best players in the country in her age group, USYNT player. She’s ranked #1 nationally, in two different rankings in her year.She’s a forward as is Alex Pfeiffer. None of the other STL players played high school soccer as a Sophomore. Some switched to high school after their college commitments, as Juniors. Some played as Freshman. Some never played it. ……….. Ella McNeal is considered to be a top 3 goalkeeper nationally in 2027, top 25 overall at any position. Alex Pfeiffer was number 1 nationally in 2026 as a forward. 2026 Dalke was top 10 as an outside back. Birkel was top 2 nationally at goalkeeper in 2025 class, top 30 overall. 2024 Restovich was top 10 even though she reclassified from 2025. KC has a top 10 national player in 2027 at center back. Another fast rising player is top 50 but soon to be top 25 probably. Both are on the Kansas side and don’t play high school soccer. KC also gets a few top 50 level players various years. Typically the best few STL players annually are top 50 level. More importantly for SLU’s purposes, SLU know how to identify,, recruit, close, and develop, many high level, on the rise, players, regardless of rankings. SLU will also target many top 50 top 100 caliber players from anywhere in the country. SLU’s recruiting list of roughly 175 players includes players from 30 states and 45 cities. There are several good high level St. Louis players on it. Half a dozen from the same club. A few elsewhere. Maddie DiMaria tops that national list for them.

It cannot be overstated how devastating the hiring of Crews was to this program.

If you are going to dedicate resources to stuff like this, do it right. Let someone do it that that has reach and is actually going to put effort into promoting it across multiple platforms. Until you do it right, it is just a missed opportunity and a waste of resources.

Season ticket holders should be given the option to opt out of any regular season non-D1 games at a pro-rated discount. I get it for exhibitions but it’s bull**** to be filling the regular season with non-D1s.

This is a fantastic review of the year. The three pillars of the ADepartment: Educate, Compete, Building Community. For those who have forgotten, this is college athletics. Yes, football and basketball have gone pro, but for the rest of the athletes, they are at SLU to gain an education and to compete in their sports. If you don't value education anymore, tell that to the athletes and their parents. How many SLU athletes will be able to make a living playing professional sports in their selected sport? 10%? I'm unsure of the total number of SLU athletes, but with 298 making the A10 Commissioner's Honor Roll, I'll estimate that there are at least 400. So for the 360 that won't get a living wage paycheck for playing sports after graduation, Education is their future. We have several posters who appear to not care about education, or the athlete. The athletes apparently are at SLU simply to provide entertainment, while the "fan" gets to sit in a comfortable seat with plenty of beverages nearby. I for one, and maybe I am the only one, am glad SLU stresses education. Compete: For the poster who didn't find anything about wins, you needed to have the volume on or you had already tuned out. To bash track and field is irresponsible. They put in every bit as much effort as the baseball, softball and every other athlete puts in. I guess winning the A10 softball tourney and medaling in T&F A10 Championship isn't winning? Building Community is a vital part of everyone's life these days. If you volunteered to help out in N. St. Louis after the tornado destruction, you can see how important this is. The video highlighted the basketball team's efforts in N STL, hospital visits, visiting schools and serving others. The Jesuit Mission emphasizes serving others. Building Community-the third pillar Go Bills!

I don't care about the athletes' GPAs any more than I care about any random students' GPAs. Which is to say not at all.

You’re welcome. I was wondering when I was going to get this question outside of private messages. Speculation isn’t my thing. But I will share what I shared with some others for many months privately. Short answer: SLU is heavily recruiting her, and yes SLU has a legit, strong, chance of landing her. Competition is elite and challenging, as expected. The process takes time. Long answer: SLU has been actively recruiting Maddie for a while. SLU has put together a competitive, unique, NIL package to compete with the small, select number of elite programs on the coasts of interest to her. Those are mostly coastal ACC and the few West Coast warm weather Big 10. Maddie is a reclassification candidate. She is allowed to change her mind at any time but she has said she prefers not to skip too many steps, meaning she prefers to play college soccer first before professional soccer. At this time, she hasn’t added any new schools to her list since June 15th recruiting period opened. That hasn’t prevented many from trying. Katie Shields attended many/most of her high school basketball games, high school soccer games, and club soccer games this past year. All of the above. Maddie most often plays as a left sided forward in a 3-4-3 system at both the club and high school level. She also plays with the USYNT in her age group. But she can and does play any of the attacking positions. It’s extremely competitive, but I like SLU’s chances. SLU will do very well with or without her. So that people understand the landscape. Maddie is just 1 of 13 local STL youth players that have played with the USYNT program over the past 5 years. A few of those are younger than her. And a few differences with similar age and older players are: The others didn’t play high school soccer. More people know Maddie because of that. Her family has strong ties to SLU and the STL soccer community. And Maddie has landed a few accolades such as the one you mentioned, as well as the top ranking in her age group at both TDS and Prep Soccer. The point of that is to say Maddie is a great, elite player, and talent, deserving of accolades and who will hopefully pick SLU. But, there are many other high level stud players out there locally, (and nationally) with other names too. Some of those players are perhaps less familiar to some for some of the reasons I gave. Example: Did you know that Ella McNeal has been a long time USYNT Goalkeeper? She is the younger sister of 2025 SLU Men’s Soccer player Jacksen McNeal. There are 11 other player stories too. And that’s just USYNT players. Sometimes the players with the better college careers were never affiliated with USYNT or had special accolades. Maddie’s dad Jeff played at both Connecticut and SLU as did Kevin Kalish at a similar time. Both were All Americans. Maddie’s mom Sara played at Loyola Chicago as SLU only had a club team at the time. Maddie’s older sister Ana is a reserve player at Mizzou as she sat out last year with injury. Jack is playing at SLU this Fall. Younger brother Tommy broke his ankle during a USYNT U14 game this Spring. But he will be back for Fall ball. Everyone is different, but a typical recruiting cycle is 3 to 6 months of getting to know the player/staff, and the player giving a commitment. That’s how it is on the Women’s side, with some taking up to a year to commit somewhere. The Men’s pace is much slower. Official visits begin August 1st. Football schools schedule visits for football weekends so the recruit can be in the field for the game etc…which pushes some of those visits into the later Fall months. Maddie’s next game is Thursday at the ECNL playoffs in Del Mar (San Diego). She is playing up with the U19’s in the Round of 16. They play Solar (Dallas) this Thursday. 3 SLU commits are on the team. 2025 Caroline Chier (Missouri Class 3 Player of the Year) 2025 Ava Rademeyer (Missouri 1st Team All State, 2025 Blakely Hockett (Illinois All State) Maddie usually plays on the 08 team with 2 other SLU commits 2026 Lucy Marsh and 2026 Keira Bartholet, also all conference and all state players. SLU has roughly 175 recruiting targets this cycle nationally. Early priority targets are roughly a dozen to 2 dozen at this time from a variety of geographies. Recruiting is a 365 thing. SLU and several other schools recruited a recent 2026 from player from Texas who is talented but coming off of a knee injury. So her process took a little longer. She committed elsewhere.

Prestige Worldwide, I think

HoosierPal isn't even a Billiken fan, he's just a random guy who has a fetish for being a message board moderator.

Just as I thought. You have no desire to talk to Dr. Chaifetz. He isn't worth your time? Here is a second chance for you to do something meaningful. You can request an appointment with Dr. Feser. Set yourself up with a meeting with Dr. Feser to tell him what he doesn't know. Tell him "the truth" as you see it. Make sure you tell him that Educating Student Athletes shouldn't be one of the cornerstones of the Athletic Department. Only winning counts. Building Community is a waste of time and the Athletic Department has no business sending athletes out to North STL to help with tornado recovery. Only winning and fancy facilities count. If you are SO upset with SLU athletics, do something productive. You apparently won't talk to Dr Chaifetz, so try Dr. Feser. Stop making excuses. Typing anonymous complaints on a message board isn't the way to change the world. Here is the link to use. Scroll down just a bit to "Request an Appointment. https://www.slu.edu/about/leadership/president/index.php I'm trying to help you out with your crusade.

Dr. Chaifetz will be at the Chaifetz Arena this weekend with his Pickleball tourney. If you had watched his Podcast with Chris May, you would know that he will be very available to talk to any Billiken or Pickleball Fans. He threw out an open invitation. Instead of your neverending repetitive, repetitive, repetitive posts that do nothing, do something that has meaning. Go talk to the Man. Yes, face to face with Dr. C. I am sure he will give you time to air your grievances about Chris May.

A good idea, but a different host would be better. Why not just have Rammer do it?

T-Rank has us third, GW second and VCU at one. https://barttorvik.com/trankpre.php?conlimit=A10&state=All&year=2026&sort=

Halftime Show pitch - ZOOperstars vs Principia College. With Kevin Duranteater coming back from injury the ZOOperstars will be heavily favored. The only chance Principia has is to get Shaquille O'Seal in early foul trouble and try to go to work on Yao Flamingo inside.

How do teams like UD and VCU consistently get P5 games? They win alot of games, travel well. CJS needs to do the same, but I maintain it should be against the BEST non P5 teams we can, in home and home series. Play and beat the best non P5 teams you can find, they will come to us. SLU should reestablish a relationship with the StLouis Sports Commission (if it still exists). Establish a 4 team tourney here, play it at the Dome, or the Savvis even. A double header. Good teams, non P5 within 100 mi of StL. Memphis, DePaul, Murray State, Northern Iowa, High Point, Stony Point, heck even the Blue Point Oysters if they have a team and are good. Make StL a bball destination. If the P5 wont play us, let's stop whining about it. We are stuck with our league, so do like the women's soccer team, go out and get the best schedule you can. Not for the fans, but for the team to tell them they're good and we will bring in the best teams we can to show the bball world how good we are. No more pisx asx teams that dont build confidence for our men. End of rant mhg

They can add all those teams....as soon as we join a different conference.

My wife and I were at the free practice this afternoon, and I was glad I went. I had not been at the Chaifetz since my hospitalization in November 2023 plus all the tough rehab that followed it. Leaving aging and decay aside, I must say I was happy to see Thames play with no evidence of cramps and able to play well. I did not recognize him while the practice was going but I asked one of the assistants iif he had played. He told me with a big smile that Thames had played the whole time wearing the number 6. I am truly very happy for Thames, they seem to have his problem under control with whatever combination of salt pills and hydration they have decided to use. I will be the first one to agree that real competitive play requires more than the degree of effort required by practice. We will see what happens when the season starts, but I think we are justified to start thinking that Thames may be able to play this season at least as a regular player.

Mia Berardi is a 2027 SLU commit from Algonquin, Illinois. Mia is a Central Defensive Midfielder, who can get forward as a box to box midfielder. She is the Captain for the Rockford Raptors 08 team. The 09 team won the rugged ECNL Midwest Conference this past Fall. (That league includes Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin etc..) The teams combined for their Spring Super Cup team. A physical defender, Mia was also a stand out player offensively at the recent national showcase events in Florida and Texas, scoring several goals and providing assists in addition to her defense. They begin their playoff quest next weekend in San Diego. Mia attends Huntley High School. She played Super Cup Club Soccer this Spring. She has also been USYNT ID Camp participant. https://x.com/miaberardi27/status/1935712812497514730?s=46

You clearly insulted him by implying that that May was a worthless individual who he knowingly took advantage and conspired with. You also claimed that May was nothing but a puppet and that Chaifetz was pulling the strings.

Ah slick - is that one numbered? Just got these in the mail.

Red Panda doesn't deserve the stray...especially laid up with a torn ACL.....

While it was a small sample size, after I want to say 7(?)ish games he was ranked as a top 10 player in the country according to T-rank. Anyone who can cut as well as him, shoot the 3 a little, and finish around the rim will see a lot of PT.

Small time program gonna do small time things. I'm as big of a fan as they come and I haven't watched a single one because of CM. Do players interview players or something. Could be funnier and not as awkward as it is now.

Thames is starting to get the Luke Meyer treatment on this board. Pure Love (I suppose bc he is local) with rose-colored glasses. He played last year because AJ Casey flamed out and Schertz didnt think McCottry was ready yet....when by the end of February most fans thought McCottry should have been playing the whole time. Now we have Green, Dion Brown, Sharma, Dunlop, who were all much more coveted recruits and actually recruited by this coach. I strongly disagree with Pistol that Thames starts if healthy. He was a Ford guy and now that we have enough swing men that were recruited to the JS system, I expect he will take the route of Davell Roby, Eliot Welmer, Jermaine Bishop just like when Ford came in with his own guys (Bess, Henriquez, Foreman, Goodwin). If Thames is playing big minutes then that means that one of Dunlop, Sharma, McCottry is a bust and likely transferring after first semester....which would be terrible in my opinion.

Can we watch red panda for two hours and play principia for the halftime show?

I rather they go on the road as a buy game for a potential top 20 not from the Midwest than play a non D1 opponent at home. Take less home games, I still pay the same for the season tickets.

the problem is the big boys wont play. the equal mid majors, want home games without a return game. the low d-1's will kill our net with their quad 4 ratings. so what are we supposed to do?

Only one of those 7 guys was a rotation player for the number 10 team in the country last season before he had surgery. Gibson led the team in minutes last year. Dunlap is two inches taller and better defensively. He is going to get minutes.

The 397th best Division III team, 4-21 in 2024-2025, locked in, let's f___ing go!

Interesting. I didn't know he was back in the states. Hertha had their Christmas training in 2019 in Tampa and played a friendly there that I got to see him play. My favorite SLU road game of all time was in 2003 when SLU with Vedad played at Furman, who happened to have a freshman forward named Clint Dempsey. SLU won 1-0 in OT. Crazy that that game would have two freshmen that would go on to become World Cup stars

Based on this start time and comments that were previously made, I think @billikenfan05 has pretty much locked himself into going.

Trying to remember any half time acts we have bought in Red Panda was always great. I saw her at a TCU women's basketball game about 8 years ago and she definitely had lost a step. Cant believe she was still performing. Bud Light Daredevils - the first time I saw them they were amazing. Then it was pretty much the same act year after year so it got kind of stale. When we played Spirit Express, we always got a halftime sermon. That was fun. I remember alot of wheelchair basketball at Kiel

For Women's Soccer MBMs like me nationally she is on the same level as Jayson Tatum was.

I don't like his blazer.

There are those who still believe academic success is important in college athletics. HoosierPal congratulates the record 298 SLU athletes who landed on the A-10 Honor Roll. If you want to blame the AD for everything that goes wrong, fine, then give credit for a remarkable achievement by its athletes. https://slubillikens.com/news/2025/6/23/billiken-athletics-school-record-298-billikens-land-on-a-10-commissioners-honor-roll.aspx

I applied.

1. Crews would have been not signed to a contract after taking the team to 1 2nd round NCAA tournament. Not fired. 2. Put that in context. Retired Coach, who won't recruit and took over a complete team that had 80% of their minutes returning. Who doesn't win COach of the Year? 3. This is blatantly false. Message board nonsense. Majerus didn't name a successor, and even if he did no one would have paid attention to him. The real reason Crews was named interim was simple. May wanted to keep him on the staff and he said he wouldn't stay unless he was the HC. Whitesell had been clamoring for the interim job (and no more) and May chose Crews over him. Whitesell also had the players approval way more than Crews. 4. High profile NCAA tourney team is an easy springboard to more successful recruiting. While Crews' big class with Yarbrough, Roby, Reynolds, etc was a dog, the real issue was Crews didn't start recruiting the previous year till he was sure he would be back. Refused to recruit and had Crawford fall in his lap, but got nothing else out of that class at all. Because of that he went all in on the following class and recruited some of the worst Billikens in modern history. A good coach uses great on court performances to get bigger and bigger recruits. Crews squandered it, and there was never any indication that he would be a successful recruiter, he was a dinosaur, hadn't had a good recruit since the 90s and refused to hire any recruiting hotshots for his staff, just hired old Army buddies.

SLU Minor League Update Patrick Clohisy Rome (High A - Braves) ..237 Avg/.674 OPS 3 HR 25 RBI 38 SB Pat has cooled off. The entire team is barely hitting at all. 38 stolen bases is pretty amazing, #6 in all of minor league baseball. He stole his share of bases at SLU. I dont remember him being lightning fast. Evan Gray San Jose (Low A - Giants) 6-1 1.84 ERA 1 Save Spectacular first pro season Cam Pferrer Eugene (High A - Giants) 1 -1 4.56 ERA 2 Saves 23 IP 25 K Ethan Bell Myrtle Beach (Low A - Cubs) 0 -2 5.54 ERA 12 IP 22 K After a great May, he has had a terrible June And our very own Kenny Powers... Miller Hogan - 3 years out affiliated baseball pitching in the Mexican League with Campeche 4 - 2 4.42 ERA in 11 outings

I fully agree that Crews was terrible here. However, every AD in the country would have hired Crews after he took the team to the Round of 32 and won national coach of the year. It's an unfortunate situation, but there was no way he wasn't going to get hired. Let's say May hires someone else and that guy doesn't make the tournament the following year. May would get lit up for not hiring the national COY.

This is the most idiotic post I’ve ever read on this board. You’re a complete nitwit if you think trashing our most generous donor is helpful.

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Agree with some of this. One reason why I have maintained my fandom and support long after graduation is the high quality of student athletes SLU has developed. A ton of terrific young men and women who represent the school very well. I dont take for granted how many end up on the commissioners list. However there is no financial reason why SLU can't compete for conference championships in every sport they play in and Chris May has failed us on this in several areas. We are not competitive OR have substandard facilities OR BOTH in Swimming/Diving, Tennis, Field Hockey, Baseball, Softball, and previously successful programs Women's BBall and Volleyball are trending in the wrong direction. There was much to be proud of last year but they have ALOT of work to do.

Good luck TJ. With a solid showing, perhaps a chance for a G League gig. Non-drafted players typically received only a per diem expense reimbursement.

In Kentucky it's called white dog (and yes, I do have some in the liquor cabinet).