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Yuri averaged 2.3 turnovers a game in his 2nd season. He doesn't have a turnover problem. He had a "I'm forced to set the table for every guy on this team" problem. Which has been resolved.

It's officially summer.

The video will only load if you are pure of heart. It is a new validation the ADept added.

If you look at just 2 games then it doesn't make sense...small sample sizes rarely work ...but if you take 14 years worth of A-10 games it becomes more meaningful. And of course the system is weighted...ie after a 10 pt spread the margin value starts to decline. ...so the 30 pt road win (outlier) is not as big of an advantage particularly if put it into a pool of hundreds of home and away A10 games. Finally, if you win every road game by a bigger margin than your home games ...you have NO home court advantage... under any system.

Last year, I would have paid Jordan Goodwin $200k to come back for a final year.

Season 2 of the Midtown Madness has more or less come to an end. As we enter the Summer Peter and I would like to first thank @SluSignGuyfor allowing us to pimp our show on this platform and being incredibly supportive of our show and content. Second, this would not be possible without the posters, readers and lurkers of this message board. Billiken Twitter is growing by the day but this is still the major gathering place for die-hard Billiken fans and I would assume ground zero of our listener base. We would probably put out Billiken content regardless of how many listens or views we get, but not only does it make it easier on the psyche to know people appreciate your work but also it helps us attract financial support of sponsor(s) and isn't donated by listeners. Barring a magical decade run of multiple final fours, I don't think our show will ever be a source of steady income to either of us but running it in the black is a lot more sustainable than the red. Looking back to the past of the "relationship" Peter and I have had over the last 18+ years, I still have to stop and laugh that he's become my podcast partner and one of my closest friends. He has brought so much more to this little show than he gives himself credit for from his obsessive research of recruiting, to his knowledge of CBB from the inside out, general knowledge of the game, an incredibly patient on air sounding board board for my dumb references, humor and most importantly being able to reign me in on air and social media. @slufan13, I love you but I don't think you and I together would be having this much success. This next season has the potential to be one of the biggest in Billiken history and by virtue of the fact that we do better numbers when the Billikens are putting up Ws I cannot wait to see if our little show can ride that wave to a wider audience. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US YOU MESSAGE BOARD MORONS. Personal and shameless section: I will always be 126% committed(inside joke of sorts) to this show as long as I have 90 minutes a week to devote to recording, but I can't overlook that I'm decent at talking on audio/video and would love to at least explore the possibility of a long term transition into more media with broader audiences as a career. So if anyone has any connections within St. Louis media I would absolutely appreciate linking me with them. Finally, I would be dumb not to at least post our social links to this (DMs are always open, welcome and appreciated): https://twitter.com/MidtownMadPod https://www.instagram.com/midtownmadpod/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjKU0PHmMCH70XutSS9NUAA Please drop us an Apple Review https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midtown-madness-podcast/id1552953967 https://open.spotify.com/show/1p2II1i9LLMcyysnF9jfkg

he should go back and study the progression of fred van fleet. that kid has achieved far far more than i ever believed he would.

I think DOC is trying to say that big $ donors give to the University specifically to pay Ford's salary. It IS included in the AD budget since the AD technically pays him, but it is not like they could decide to fire him & hire a new coach for less and wind up with a budget surplus to allocate elsewhere. Those donations are restricted to paying the MBB coach's salary.

It may also be opened by True Love's Kiss

Having followed KenPom for a long time I remember a blog post of his that explains his thinking on home court advantage. He broke it down in a two-part post. If you are a subscriber to his site: How to measure site-specific home-court advantage, part one | The kenpom.com blog How to measure site-specific home-court advantage, part two | The kenpom.com blog His blog is actually pretty interesting (though not very active). He also has a lot of posts with Majerus mentions, including dedicated posts about how great of a coach he was: rick majerus | Search Results | The kenpom.com blog

Random thought: I have a strong feeling Yuri will shoot over 40% from 3.

Anyone else get a email from the billiken box office with a video highlighting the first practice but you aren't able to watch it?

I’d find a way to calculate based on two things, performance and some sort of bonus for every extra year they stay.

The day's of ever increasing coaches' salaries are over in college football and basketball. The most important thing to winning is talent and the coach is no longer the most important thing when it comes to attracting talent. As contracts expire, smart boosters and athletic programs will reallocate a portion of the funds that in the past that would go to the head coach's salary to NIL money. That will lead to downward pressure on the wages college football and basketball programs pay their coaches. Pay cuts are coming at many programs, they just won't happen until contracts expire.

I get by the numbers where you are coming from however coach Ford has ran into so tough luck. If Perkins is healthy I believe the Billikens win a least 4 more games last season. I thought the coach did a good job without Perkins last season. The COVID season where the team who beat LSU is shut down for over a month. 2019/2020 the team finished the season with 5 straight conference wins and played like a well oiled machine and then COVID ends the season. Ford imo overachieves in recruiting and hopefully this season will be the season of good luck. I like that coach Ford has the team in the running for a post season bid every year now and has managed to put together consecutive winning seasons.

In my prime I was only about 174 out of 101. But that was high school. In college you have to be better.