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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

It's my opinion, true academic integrity and progress towards REAL degrees is the answer to recovering of college athletics for what we love. Throw 100% of the NCAA monitoring into academics stopping the fraud insuring they are true students. Who cares what they are getting paid and by who, but I suspect those only interested in the money will not have the patience and will to follow through.

This was a lot of work just to compile the list with the various sports let alone make the trips. Thanks. I have only traveled to watch the men's basketball teams play. I have watched baseball, and women's basketball and softball but only on the SLU campus. I've seen the men's billiken Billikens in Memphis, Louisville, Chicago, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Brooklyn, Carbondale, Indianapolis, Myrtle Beach, Cincinnati and all the St Louis venues you mentioned above Planning to go to Pittsburgh next year assuming nothing comes out of the weeds for me in 2026.

Obviously you didn't read Stu Durando's column today on scheduling. The majors are in concert to shut all quad 2 and quad 3 teams. They will play loaded major conference and gimmee buy games. Thus landing New Hampshire at home is likely a pretty good get.

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I totally agree.

ive heard the same. i got the opportunity to see walsh up close a lot last summer. he shoots at 360 hoops in south county as does my grandson and thus i would get to watch him occasionally if their court time would coincide. Walsh can shoot. no doubt about it. not sure about the rest of his game and not sure about his athleticism and size at the A-10 and above level. that all said, walsh would have served us fine and the 5 out offense is made for shooters like him. my only question and i am sure the same with schertz is does he have the quickness for the next level after high school? personally i would have rolled the dice to see considering the way he shoots. but for now, in schertz we trust.

the way i look at this, we either accept the invites like this or we no longer look for a preseason tourney, the big boys are going to continue to keep us out of their big events they are going to screw us on the tourney, etc. it is what it is and there isnt much we can do about it.

Now you're just trying to piss me off

Let's keep in perspective Jordan has only played in 29 games and the great majority of those were before he signed the regular contract. Before that he was still playing with the limited 2 way g League contract. So the $223K amount guaranteed is a prorated amount of the $1.2m salary for a full year. Don't forget he will get a playoff bonus as well, so young Mr Goodwin is gonna be able to buy milk and eggs for the near future. As t this point i'm more about Goodwin qualifying for the NBA pension. If he continues to play well, he we will get paid

i believe retention of successful rostered players will depend on how much we pay them. if their agent says they can get more. i am betting most if not all will test the portal waters. once they do that, it is a crap shoot if they stick around. its a new ballgame. one i sure dont like. if there ever was an industry that i think we need to take a socialist view, college sports may be it. across the board salary control. this is getting crazy and i dont think it is sustainable.

i think this is a good point. i am doubting Schertz's walk on plan. seems like a loophole that programs could take advantage of to hide players. and still stay under the limit and still have a number of walkons.

what was the 3 point statistics for andrew young? (%, attempts makes)

WV that is an incredible uncovering by you. i will definitely temper my enthusiasm on this one. thanks for your work!

as i have always contended, playing time and starting vs not is always a factor. those buying into the rickma statement, "starting is for high school" which playing time is the same thing imo, have never played serious organized sports at any level below professional. it matters to kids. personally i dont hold that against any kid. they all dream of big ending to their sporting career. and if they cant get past that and accept reality, wish them well and let them move on without holding it against them we are better off not having that affect the whole team.