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I heard a couple days ago that there was a scholarship available. Maybe this is what they meant they might be working on a big and a guard

If true, then it is understandable. That said, I liked him as a player and wished things worked out for him better. Regardless of anything, he appeared to be a good teammate, and was part of a great culture this year. I hope for the best for him.

Taleb’s book The Black Swan is great.

I'm going to talk Billikens basketball with Roy and the impact of the Corona Virus with my economist friends and doctors.

SLU returns 7 proven players that won the last 5 games with 3 freshman now sophomores that have experience and will improve. They will bring back Jimerson that teams will have to watch from the perimeter. The top 8 players on our team should have SLU picked for second if Richmond is first in the A10. The top 8 players alone if nobody else on the team steps up will win the A10. The depth at the guard position is concerning if Thatch cannot return and that might be the reason SLU was not picked first.

A bunch of things can all be true at the same time. The response we are getting now was needed. The length of the current response and possible escalation need to be weighed against the cost of further economic degradation. The Chinese government lied and probably continues to lie to the rest of the world. The people in power underestimated the threat. Almost everyone else underestimated the threat, too. The need to turn everything into a political narrative is more infectious than COVID-19.

No one is saying that. What many are saying is that corona could overwhelm our health care infrastructure, which would result in far worse human and economic impacts than the seasonal flu. When is the last time the seasonal flu overwhelmed our system?

Saw it on Twitter. Makes sense to me

He belongs on team blue

Thought he could have been productive for us. Best of luck KC

NH, a few thoughts. First, I don't see the conf going to any schools and kicking them out, although a couple of them might want to leave and go to a conf where they would be more competitive, e.g. the CAA or the MAAC. Second, although MBB is the financial driver of the A 10, other sports are very important to eastern schools. Also, some of the schools you want out are excellent in some of the secondary sports such as soccer, volleyball, lacrosse and field hockey. Third, I think the conf prefers having a NYC school, like Fordham. Lastly, while we are looking at it from a SLU viewpoint they might just as much want us out of the league due to travel costs associated with having to send all their sports teams to the midwest. HP regarding your info about which teams we play twice each year, I think due to decreased revenue this upcoming year at least next year should take travel expense into account. For example, I would like to see our 7 H&H opponents be as follows: Dayton (always); St. Joe and LaSalle (one trip to Philly); GW and GM (one trip to DC) and Richmond and VCU (one trip to Richmond) or Fordham and Rhode Island (one trip to schools a bus trip apart). This also seems to be the way to go for all other sports to save $$$ due to decreased MBB payouts from the NCAA.

Sheltiedave, I am not putting you down. I intended to put down the guy with cholesterol, triglycerides, and mortality, but I guess it did not come out correctly. Sorry about this.

“As we said, when one deals with deep uncertainty, both governance and precaution require us to hedge for the worst. While risk-taking is a business that is left to individuals, collective safety and systemic risk are the business of the state. Failing that mandate of prudence by gambling with the lives of citizens is a professional wrongdoing that extends beyond academic mistake; it is a violation of the ethics of governing.” Brian, Taleb and his partner do a good job of framing the ins and outs of risk modeling, but they fail in part as they enter into medical modeling. It is radically different than engineering modeling, where there only three to six parameters beyond material composition that will encompass a robust modeling. Courtside, tossing out your animosity for Old Guy, I am absolutely certain he has serious, valid, and professionally informed opinions about how the British projections are skewed, and from the initial huge numbers that were advanced, I would wager he did not bound his model in the proper conventional fashion. If he led the published paper with an unbounded model outside of accepted practice, he could easily go off the reservation. Let’s do a quick model for England. England has 66.4 million people. Let’s set Rought at 2.3, 1000 people infected, each generation is 3 days, how many people would be infected after 45 days, how many people would die based on a 3% mortality rate, no mitigation? y = m Ro ^T/t y = 1000(2.3)^45/3 = 1000(2.3)^15 y =1000(266,635) = 266,635,000 total infected defaults to 66.4 million 66.4 million x 0.03 = 1,992,000 deaths

It isn't about what I believe or don't believe. It was about you posting misinformation that was corrected by the person of whom whose information you used. Did I feel good posting it? I felt indifferent because it's about you and him.

You are nuts. we have shut down america and are knocking on the door of a major economic depression. that is panic. the media is now being destroyed every night by president trump. i love that the tables are turned on the fake news msm. finally america that only watches fake news is seeing for themselves how dishonest and one sided the media has become.

I dont care about simularities. I am asking why when the flu kills tens of thousands of people every year there is never a media created hysterical panic like this. Why the panic that is ruining America when we have many health issues that kill more every yeat than the Chinese flu virus?

and that stupid friggin' New Madrid fault scare awhile back.

Just to give people some perspective, South Korea managed to curtail their epidemic by testing at a rate of 600 tests/100,000 people, over 300,000 tests. They then drilled down into contact testing by using cell phone tracking of infected individuals. They added social distancing and directed quarantining, and most importantly, they tested early, and with massive numbers of tests. We now are at about 200 tests/100,000 people. Our testing numbers will explode once hospitals and the VA get their programs up and running.

i've never seen anyone use "abdictate" in a discussion before. that must be worth big points. i've given you my solution. start opening the country gradually based on the statistics. FOR EXAMPLE, new york stays closed, seattle stays closed, the rural areas where there is not a high amount of infections opens, etc. as the closed area's incidents fall open them as well. but to blankly all stay closed indefinitely is jeopardizing america more. it's time to get back to work. you all dont realize how many people live paycheck to paycheck. i see it all the time. america cannot afford this as is. hope this helps you cliff.

Not thinking there is anything wrong with calling the virus “Chinese” seems inconceivable from anyone who had any exposure to Jesuit education IMHO.

We're always going to have a 13th scholarship that contributes nothing. The reality is that only 9 guys are going to play significant minutes and unless 3 guys get injured, the 13th guy isn't going to play as a freshmen. Possibly, not even as a sophomore. The question is do you rotate this guy out every 2 years or do you let him stay? At the end of the day, it's a matter of preference. It simply doesn't matter who the 13th guy is. On a good team, they are career backups at best.

i'm very willing to give diarra the benefit of the doubt. hell he is 6'11" tall and obviously has some athletic ability. well worth patience.

Looking for 2 tickets for the game tonight. I can get some at the arena, but prefer to see if any of our fellow Billiken.com posters had any available. I will pay for them, just let me know. Thanks.

deal with it? we have over 35,000 deaths in america every year rom the flu. that is dealing with it? again, i am not denying there is a chinese flu virus that is causing problems. i just want to know why the hysteria and panic for this virus when we have had and do have very serious problems with other viruses every year and nothing like this current panic has ever occurred before.

Roy, who is panicking? All I see are hardware stores and grocery stores that are jam packed. Everything else feels like it is 1970. Kids playing in their yards, parents and older folks going on walks, and plenty of people on staycations. You want panic, watch Florida and the Gulf Coast evacuate just before a major hurricane hits. Watch people in California who stayed too late as the foothill fires start line jumping. These are panics. What we have here is a controlled frenzy, and you don’t like the media holding our elected leaders’ toes to the burgeoning fire.

Maybe we can all give up on KC now.

Out of reactions but Troll posts to pretty much everything Billiken Roy has said the last 24 hours. Haha god old people are hilarious.