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GORDON & THATCH welcomed Pearson to the Billiken family on Twitter last week. You do not do that if you are decommitting. GORDON & THATCH have been solid since they committed. Love this class of three. November 8......start of early signing period.

I don't usually talk basketball on here, but you guys are idiots. Welmer put up 8 pts and 5 boards as a freshman for us last year. Shot 51% from the field and 37% from 3. He shouldn't be going anywhere, and certainly not down to D2 or even lower. Jeez.

It won’t surprise me if this is Welmer’s last year at SLU.

As of right now, no. The assistant that was arrested was a Frank Martin guy - not sure why Parrish didn't make that connection - that was hired by Underwood. The only connection between him and Ford was that they have both pissed in the same bathroom before. However the FBI is using that to grab records far back. They could find something from the Ford era, perhaps, but the guy wearing the wire is the key to their case now. I don't see how they would be able to piece together anything against Ford from old call logs and the such. I've said this before but it bears repeating. This is probably the best case scenario for Ford. If nothing comes of this for him, he can stand on the mountaintop and say that he is 100% above board and clean. There will be a handful of coaches that can do that, and the rest will have some sort of link and stench from this for the next several recruiting cycles. Ford can then say "You know I am clean because I've already gone through the FBI investigation, but do you know if Coach XYZ is?"

Always a need to stir up a new controversy-just sit back and enjoy the upcoming season.

I'm in the same boat. Definitely don't hate him and have no ill will given how bad we were with Crews recruiting him. Ford would have landed him; I have no doubt.

legacy. dad was a billiken. gives him a semi pass especially out of college plus i blame crewsplatt it never happened. they could f up anything

-little known fact is that a team can play a fourth exhibition game/scrimmage if the funds go to UNC to pay their legal fees for getting no penalties from the NCAA for having make believe classes for 18 years