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my son makes his first billikens.com appearance. he should be studying his chemistry. :-)

i believe it is something to do with the ncaa as well. they want the arena to appear as "neutral" as possible.

it is my guess the "hawaii game" is being used as a recruiting tool since next year that will be an away game. remember, memphis, cincy, and marquette are all supposed to be top 25 teams, louisville is supposed to be a top 5 team. uab and charlotte probably are top 25 teams, depaul is getting press, i.e. we have a damn tough schedule just within our own conference.

if the billikens did have anything to do with the weather, most of us wouldnt know it because our sports information department would only hand out stats about it at halftime of the storm to the people in the first row of the spectator section.

(read with tongue firmly in cheek) of the fine job our sports information department does to get the word out on our team. here's hoping that soon the effects of cheryl levick start showing up somewhere. so far i havent seen much in the way of waves.

insiders.com confirms it tonite...... "O'Fallon (Ill.) High School head coach Kevin Kellermann has confirmed that his son, Chris Kellermann, made a verbal commitment Saturday to play his college basketball for Central Michigan University. The 6-foot-8, 225-pound power forward had been considering a number of Division I schools, but Coach Kellermann said Chris liked what he saw at CMU when visiting the weekend of Sept. 11. "He hit it off real well with the players," coach Kellermann said. "Chris liked the facilities and he liked (CMU head) coach (Jay) Smith. "This is a great opportunity for Chris and I know I feel real good about his decision." Last season, Kellermann averaged 14 points, seven rebounds and four assists per game for O'Fallon. He shot 65 percent from the field (44 percent from 3-point range) and 89 percent from the charity stripe. Kellerman also had offers and interest from Bradley, Samford, Southeast Missouri State, Austin Peay, Wichita State, Bowling Green, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Southern Illinois."

wow, that is interesting. and it would look good in my basement sports bar. are you serious? assuming good condition i might be interested.

i've explained my braves loyalty before. blame bing devine. i was in 4th grade and devine had the audacity to trade my favorite player, orlando cepeda, to the braves for tubby joe torre. i cried myself to sleep that night and vowed 1. to become a braves fan and 2. not a torre/cardinal fan. i have since backed down quite a bit on the cardinal thing as i root for the cardinals when they arent playing the braves. no worries on the $nyder thing. i still hate the cheating lying scum.

at least he tried. he was in there fighting and clawing for whatever he could get. kellerman sits out on the wing and waits for a pass. like i said, if the rest of his game was matt shaw like, i would lead the charge, but he doesnt want to utilize his big body for anything but shooting threes over 5'10" high school guards.

i say a taller version of troy robertson would be more like it. like i said, kellerman is a shooter a 2 guard, in a pf body. now if he comes out this winter and plays the rest of the game like matt shaw, i will lead the charge on sign this kid. but no way i early sign him.

jeff was not only the shooter (and more) that kellerman is, but jeff did all the other things as well. sorry, i dont even see kellerman as close to jeff luck.

i would not compare kellerman to ryan luechtifeld. imo, luck was a lot tougher and willing to do the intangibles more. kellerman is a sg in a pf body imo. i am not a kellerman fan. i was not a ryan luck fan either (i was a big jeff luck fan though). but if i had to pick i would have taken ryan luck over kellerman.

taj said, "or do we see the best team in the American League versus the best team in the National League? Wouldn't that be a change of pace?" why would another braves/yankmes rematch be a change of pace? ;-)

skip i thought you were donating a car so i didnt cash in any of the bonds.

kellerman is now being listed at insiders.com as a billiken potential recruit.

ealstun said, "Tagging onto the "need a bang up year" comment, how effective will the recruiting class be this year?" since most of us believe that newborne and polk will both have to contribute a lot, here's hoping the new recruiting class is extremely effective! half of the class, (newborne and brown) are relatively unknowns. so it is hard to comment at this point. but practice starts late next friday nite (i assume a midnight practice is forthcoming? any one know anything?) and we will then have a lot better feel for how they will mesh with reggie, frericks, izik and drejaj. ealstun said, "It seems to me we are gearing up for a serious 2005-6 or 2006-7 season. This has probably been talked about much on this board (I am new to the board), but which of the new local recruits do you see getting a starting position and having the big contribution this year?" imo, only newborne will start at the beginning of the year. our inside game is dangerously unknown outside of frericks. but one would be a fool to think that polk is not going to be there asap. just too much natural talent. ealstun said, "I am excited about our recruits for the most part (kudos to coach) but not sure on the 2004 impact. How many of our egges are in the Reggie basket this year?" reggie will have a lot to shoulder, but again, i think the strength of the team will lie in how good newborne is and how much izik finally decides to play consistently at the high level he is capable of. reggie and frericks are the best players, but they cant do it all.

i would pretty much agree with that. it is the american way.

i'll believe it when i hear it. especially if on the weekend when there are a million other sporting events for kfns that traditionally wants to use the syndicated stuff for weekends.

i wouldnt bet that kmox will carry the paradise jam games. few times in the past have the exhibition games and preseason tourney games been broadcast. besides, it might interfere with the kmox auto report or the swap shop.

eallstun, welcome to the board. at least i think welcome is in order, i dont remember you posting before. my daughter had jj as her coach at brad's shooting campm at althoff this summer. she too said how much fun jj was and how his enthusiasm and eagerness to play basketball made the camp time and all the drills go by so fast. she was very upset to hear he had been kicked off the team. jj is obviously a bright young man with a great personality when he wants to be. i am hoping he finally realizes his future is passing him by and he is about to get kicked off the train.

might be able to make it. my son who is now a freshman at slu told us he wants us to have dinner with his roomate and his parents and his new friend and his parents, but it hasnt been decided which night we will get together. but apparently we will be participating in some of the weekend festivities.

until we are a consistent top 25 team, we arent going to be in any espn games unless we are playing the likes of louisville or something like that. i.e. we arent the reason espn picked us. fox doesnt have a contract with c-usa. thus espn blocks that. at least that is my understanding. you are correct about the home games, i.e. what's the point? however, i will give charter credit for picking up almost all the road games. no way fox, espn or anyone else would show that many games let alone just the road portion of the schedule.

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there was a shooting guard at chipola with newborne that had slu as one of his final choices. however he went to ohio state i believe.

the head coach now at chiploa was the assistant last year. connection one the head coach now was a previous assistant at loras college where brad soderberg was one time head coach connection two the assistant coach now is a native of wisconsin connection three. the point is, brad isnt shut out of chipola yet.