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Just wanted to include some of the photos the wife took of the place while we dropped by. The potential rooftop addition is fantastic.

What concerns me about the new rules is P5 teams will reduce the number of HS recruits, which, on the surface, appears to be a plus for mids. However, if a mid lands a kid who would have sat on the bench his FR year at a P5 and gets minutes with the mid and does well, the portal allows the P5 to come after him. So, in effect, the Mid Majors become a minor league for the Majors.

"I was in the military, Beverage Ops." always makes me laugh.

Underrated movie

This website for the fans proves that SLU has the most passionate fans. Billikens.com is second to none.

What about the high major kid that is forced to transfer down to make room for the poached mid-major player? He has to go somewhere. And there are lots of 4 ppg high major guys that transfer down and become high performing mid-major starters. Happens all the time.

The money TCU alums are making in the Barnett Shale to keep Gary Patterson happy in Fort Worth is worth every penny. It’s a black gold Brinks truck.

Not to be a cynic, but we should wait and see on Okoro whether he’s a Bess. Here’s hoping he is.

Okoro and Bess are perfect examples.

This is actually far more common than the the mid-major player moving up and being the star at the high major program.

8 SLU offers on the floor. Can't miss it. Stream here.

Exactly. Look at the bottom right hand corner of the graphic "data compiled by South Harmon Institute of Technology" (S.H.I.T.)

Is it sad that I am really looking forward to watching this? An hour until tip off.

Agreed. They want it all and the March Madness $$ have them licking their chops to bag it all. Question is will it be worth as much to a network when you do away with the David v Goliath drama in the tournament? I still think that’s the big draw of the Dance.

That may be the case. I give Lorentsson a little bit of a pass for last season. It was already gonna be a crazy year, and it was made even crazier for him because of his student visa situation and getting on campus so late. I’m not sure I expect him to regularly play big minutes this year, but I’m not ready to call him a total bust either, especially if he can shoot as advertised.

Kansas’s football futures have never shined so bright!

I don’t put much stock in him, but maybe it will be improvement from Lorentson, who definitely brings something different. The best I have seen from him was the 5 seconds in the video a month ago. We will see, he looked stiff running the court last year.

Ah, as a good lawyer would say, that gives rise to the question of "what constitutes a difference maker?" Sometimes I think people underestimate how important it is to have players in practice who will push your starters to get better. If the starters don't need to go all out in practice, they won't. That's human nature. It is hard to push yourself every day to do things that you don't appear to need to do. Much easier to get better when there is someone in practice pushing you, forcing you, to get better. You need depth that will push the starters. If the coaches can find a kid who's going to come in and push one of the starters, particularly one of our bigs, I say take him - whether he's an in-game difference maker or not. Sometime I think French suffered from not having a big who forced him to deal with a shot-blocker in practice. It is tough to suddenly have to develop that ability in a game if you haven't developed it in practice. Trust in Ford. He knows whether adding a player will help the team, or any particular player on the team, or not.

This article feeds the comment from Mr. Roy. Recruiting HS players has changed. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/how-new-ncaa-transfer-rules-have-coaches-changing-the-way-they-recruit-high-school-prospects/ "We're going to end up probably taking half as many high school prospects as we would've taken before," he said. "Over a period of four years, in the past, we might've taken three or four high school players a year on average. Now it's going to be one or two." That's a sentiment I heard from countless coaches over the weekend -- their point being that it'll rarely be sensible going forward to sign high school prospects early who don't figure to play for you as freshmen because you can probably find somebody better in the transfer portal, and now that players are allowed to transfer without sitting out a season, there's a decent chance you'll spend a year developing a limited-role freshman only to lose him after that year to a school that offers more playing time. "I actually told my staff that I think we have to look at this differently because it's a different time," Capel said. "With this transfer portal, if a kid can't come in and have an impact [immediately], and if he's not realistic in understanding that, then you're setting yourself, and him, up for a transfer."

Just wanted to report that the wife and I had been visiting St. Louis several weeks ago, and just happened to drop by SLU's campus while the Humphrey's front doors were open. The couple inside cleaning it up were extremely nice folk, apparently restaurant owners in Clayton. One of them had parents who met at Humphreys while at SLU, so it sounds like Humphreys has special value for these people and they truly want to bring it back for SLU community. Humphreys meant a lot when I was at SLU as well, so that nearly brought tears to my eyes seeing them putting some elbow grease in and hand scrubbing the floor and bar area all by themselves. Will be very excited to visit when it reopens and I am in town again. Humphreys is in good hands again everyone.

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