billiken_roy

you are changing the context. this debate is about anya. i dont think that 5th spont on the floor is an either or of anya or otieno. i couldnt really care less if either plays. and if otieno is as bad as anya, then keep him out as well. we have to have shooters. no weakness

i never said they went out of their way to foul him i meant that they were unconcerned to guard him and if he got the ball close in, they would then foul him. everything i have read on otienno is he can shoot better than anya away from the baket. the whole key to the schertz offense is everyone is a shooter to some decent degree. anya is a layup maker thats about it.

come on torch. you know basketball. i was all for anya at the beginning of the season. then we saw he is the worst free throw shooter maybe in billiken history. opponents were more than happy to foul him and let him shoot free throws. takes a lot of suckiness to make us rather have french at the line. now add to it that 65% is pretty much all layups. so this all added up to our opponents not guarding him if he was more than 4 feet from the basket. that let them double on our shooters and totally broke down the advantage of what Schertz wanted to do. by the end of the season we were using mccottrey and warlick as much as anya as power forward. if anya shows he can do more offensively that layups and putbacks he'll play. he is a good defender and a great rebounder. but we cant play him at the expense of our offense being broken like he caused last year.

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?

Congratulations. I've been telling you this since you first appeared on billikens.com.

o'Fallon gets the majority of Military families.

id say the citizens of the taxing district for mascoutah schools are paying far too much property tax.

we've been waiting for this for a few years now to see him for ourselves! Dad get your son to the Billikens!

My Freshman year was 1977. The Billikens were playing then in the Arena (later known as the Checkerdome when Purina bought the blues and the building). The student section had less than 10 people per game and even that was probably about 5% of the total attendance. That's my only memory. How pitiful the attendance was. There was no good reason SLU played in such a large venue Those of you complaining of attendance and students showing today have no idea how far we have come in 4+ decades.

His injuries were causing the bad passes and non focus instances of players just snatching the ball out of his hands?

That to me is watering down the term "star". Second team all American is a star. The line is somewhere in between imo

A star at the MVC level. I'm not ready to even call him an A10 star. I'm sure my expectations were too high, but I'm pretty sure most expected a more polished and consistent player than what we got. I'm hoping a light bulb went off and he will be more focused, in better shape and consistent than what we saw last year. This up of coming season is his last chance.

Well don't forget that Arkansas has one of the worst floor and practice head coaches in NCAA history.

my daughter pitched in high school and college and often pitched in two games in one day on consecutive days in tourneys. never had arm issues. her legs would tire before her arm.

The difference would be academics would become the main and really the only focus. Assuming the NCAA would realize their problem they would gladly remove the players not focused on academics. You see the great players are nice, but the real attraction for NCAA sports is the name on the front of the jersey not the back. The team, the growing of a roster that would again grow together over four years. The games themselves wouldn't be about the individual play but the beauty of good team offenses and defenses And when the greedy prima donnas leave all programs because the won't put in the required academic work, we would have our college teams back instead of the NBA and NFL Minor league teams it has currently turned into Academic cheating would be the sole focus. Players would seek colleges out and recruiting would become less and less important. Sure it sounds far fetched, but something has to be done. This dogshite Division 1 basketball and football has turned into will eat itself. The whales will not be able to keep up nationwide. Sure you might have a couple of dozen programs that could afford it but staying status quo would definitely lead to a breakup of Division 1. I say one that happens the academic version will win the hearts of true college basketball fans