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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.

skip, see the top of the board! david has a sticky thread there.

i shouldnt have used that phrase. tseugnekillib you know i am/was a huge romar backer.

ace said, "In time, Romar could've turned it around, but when he left, the program certainly wasn't looking good." for a program that "wasnt looking good", coach soderberg must have been a miracle worker. imo, the likes of josh fisher, marque perry, kenny brown, chris sloan, and company would take offense to "wasnt looking good". and the fact that the billikens always finished in the upper half of the conference during and after coach romar, and went to post season most of the years during and after, prove that romar wasnt the mess most of you make him out to be. i am with tseugnekillib on this one. glad that coach soderberg is here, but i would have been happy to ride out the romar years. i will forever contend he would have been an eventual success. those of you that got to know him, know how personable he was, (translates to eventual recruiting success) and anyone with half a basketball brain could see how good of a floor coach he was.

romar was a proven top recruiter by the ucla team that won the national championship. granted he never got it together here at slu, but he was in the running for a roster that would have been huge. we dont even get mentioned with kids of that caliber anymore. as ironic as it sounds, the fact he was as good of a recruiter as he was is why he failed at slu. had he not been in the running to the end of the likes of darius miles, jamal sampson, chuck hayes, travis deiner, etc, he wouldnt have had to settle for the likes of seyfert and randy pulley. he missed out on second tier recruits that he would have gotten if he wasnt being taken to the end by the top guys. i believe that eventually he would have hit on one of those big guys. and then it would have been dominos as it has been this year for him at washington. in the meantime, there is no denying that he did a good job with what he had. he coached hard defense and disciplined offense that allowed the billikens to compete. that all said, the greatest recruit coach romar ever did pull in was an unemployed head coach from wisconsin he brought in to help out for a year. if you think about it, to have the self confidence to bring in a brad soderberg as an assistant is quite amazing. all things happen for a reason and maybe the basketball gods made us go through 3 years of coach romar to get to coach soderberg.

well let's not forget that chris massey took 28 hours in one semester and of course the scholar of all times......ricky clemons!

unless we are talking about duke or the detroit pistons, actually ross had the height and strength of a typical division one college power forward.

actually, we should have known there was risk if justin was let go of his scholarship as easily as he was and there was no reported competition for his services. i mean how often is a 6'8" athletic power forward out there? let's just hope justin realizes what he is throwing away and gets it together.

tseugnekillib's point was to answer all the critics that couldnt fathom why ross played and justin sat last year. it was not a comment defending if ross was a talented player, but rather of our choices, was his playing time the best. i concur with tseugnekillib that we now have a clearer belief that justin has not provided the mentality and discipline needed to play college basketball and ross did.

a perfect illustration of what coach soderberg expects from inside. running and jumping isnt priority one. he is looking for heart and dedication first.

first off he has only been there 3 years. and he didnt inherit a powerhouse as crum had let things fall off pretty badly if you consider the louisville history. telfair would never have fit any system anyway. too selfish. imo his not coming was not as big a setback as it appears. i love garcia. imo he is the pippen of college basketball. while he isnt the point guard per se, you will see him involved all the time and the offense will always run through him. right now, i think he is a great candidate to be poy. as to what louisville has or has not accomplished, pitino got them back to the ncaa tourney and has consistently had them in the upper echelon's of the rated teams. a lot of programs would consider any of the last three seasons of the louisville team a high mark in their history.

i have heard that huggins is a demon in practices for the bearcats. as mean as it gets. however i concur on scum calipari. his whole success seems to be about loading the roster. and he is as good of a recruiter as there is. pitino is the coach to study. i was lucky enough to have seats 2 rows back at the conference tourney two seasons ago and got to watch pitino up close. he was never the bad guy. each assistant coach had charge of part of the roster. if a player screwed up in the game, pitino went over and chewed out that assistant coach. during a timeout, you would see each assistant run out to greet "his players" and give the necessary negative feedback. in the huddle, pitino was all about motivation and instruction. i can only believe the practices are the same way. while i am not a fan of "slick rick" that doesnt mean i dont respect the hell out of his results. you sure cant argue with what he has accomplished.

brehms, i for one really appreciate your input. i hope you never leave the board, even after reggie graduates. you are just a great poster that always has a point that is well worthy of continued discussion. thanks! here's hoping you are now a lifetime billiken!

both of those reasons would make sense with the report that he will have the opportunity to work his way back onto the team. buying those reasons, he now has to work out by himself and demonstrate a top attitude to get back on the team. i was never a college level athlete, but i played a lot of sports in my day. i would have given about anything to have the physical skills and chance that justin has and it boggles my mind that he doesnt get it. too bad for the young man.

this is the last of the names that has been associated with slu over the summer. insiders.com is reporting that jacob will actually walk on his first year as drake has committed all their available scholarships already but he will be granted a scholarship for his sophomore season then. there are now no public names circulating in regards to the billikens "recruiting" non-committed seniors or juco players. we know there was a recent power forward that visited, but no one has publically acknowledged who it was. anxiety......

why are you responding to me? i have consistently said we should play siu and sms every year.

it is a good point butch that this is a serious happening. and the fact it comes at what i consider our weakest or at least most unproven position, power forward, speaks volumes for what he apparently did.

i totally agree with willie and slu72. the shame is the talent this young man has which is obvious when watching him in his rare bursts of "i care". too bad. let's hope justin realizes he is probably down to his last chance and finally wakes up.

after your post, i has occurred to me that i have forgotten darius miles. miles is the best area player since larry hughes hands down. lisch or liddell neither have the talent that darius miles had at eastside.

was is the key word in your statement.