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Maneut Bol is looking for a job. Maybe we can hire him.

Harry Stantons name was Tom Stanton. Tom died a couple of years ago well into his 90's.

Jimmy is retired and living in St. Louis. He attends a lot of games. I believe that Billy Morris also played at Beaumont. Morris had 2 unspectacular years after transferring back from Ill.

I find this interesting if it becomes true. Indiana the school of Miles Brand is suppose to place of higher learning . Sampson has one of the worst if not the worst graduation rates in college basketball. Doesn't seem like a good fit to me.

Actually Box you have a very long shot at second place. If George Mason beats LSU in the final 4 people tie for second.

Don't feel sorry for Romar it's his fault they didn't win. When are these coaches going to learn that when your up by 3 pts.and the time is under 5 seconds you foul. I don't think anyone on this board can tell me of a game this year where a coach fouled and the other team won a game or forced overtime by making a freethrow and putting in the missed second shot. It just hasn't happened.On the other hand I bet I've seen teams force overtime at least 30 times during the year by making the 3 point shot. IMO a coach who doesn't foul deserves to lose.

ESPN is saying he took the job. I think this makes perfect sense . It's about the highest profile job I think he could have gotten. Win at K-State,keep your nose clean for a few years and he can write his ticket for his next job. Besides how many job offers did he have?

I agree Brad is here for the long run.............As long as he wins.

Guess I'm wrong but for some reason I thought he was Pentecostal or something like that. And Yes it means nothing.

I don't think Brad is Catholic. He is a Christian more to the conservative side then the Catholic Faith.

Roy your probably a little young for this but in the early70's when the tourney only had 25?teams they tried to have a runner up tournament. I think they called it the commisioners tournament. All of the 2nd place teams who couldn't go to the NCAA's met here in St. Louis for a tournament. I can't remember how many teams were in it but I do remember Bobbie Knight and Indiana were here. All Bobbie did was complain and call it a losers tournament. It was not a financial success. I believe the idea was the creation of SLU's AD Larry Albus. Larry might not have been a great AD but he was a fantastic promoters. In the 70's he staged several doubleheaders at the the old arena, bringing in the best teams in the coutry to play each other. Teams like UCLA would play NC State who had the great David Thompson. In those days there was not a lot of interregional play.SLU would sometimes get to play in the second game of the doubleheader and I assume would have a good payday and greater exposure.

There is nothong wrong with 39% shooting from the 3. Thats the equivalent of a 58% 2pt shooter.

Torch that was a very good post,but I think you are being a little generous to Dreja. Please this is not a Dreja bashing post but his numbers were not high enough or consistent enough to rate a B. To nit-pick I would give him a C+ based more on effort and leadership then actual basketball productivity.

I disagree with the international play. While he may have tired Ian's improvement was huge,part of that must be attributed to his playing in international competition. He won't get any better playing in the Bonner league.

Texas A&m is a preseason tourney.I assume we will play 3 games and it will only count as one.

I'm sure some people will be upset by Bernie but I think he is good for our program. He continually prods us to be better ,to acheive Larrys promise of being a top 50 program. His bit comments about the arena may have helped push Larry to go ahead and bite the bullet and set a date. We need to have high expectations. I don't think anyone wants a coaching change but Brad must give us improved results. If he is the long term answer things must get better. Bernie and Gordon and the media as a whole would love to jump and stay on our bandwagon. In the meantime I'm glad they are out there asking hard questions,putting pressure on program to do better.

I hope your right about Kevin being better then Drew, but Drew was a damn good player who got a cup of coffee in the NBA. I'd be thrilled if he was just as good.

I'd rather have the tournament in vegas but Atlantic City might work.

Brad did say that a lot of JJ's lack of playing time is based on practice.

Lets stop all this talk about passing on.

Roy I'm sure Cheryl would tell you exactly that.

it's OK by me. By overall athletic department I mean basketball/soccer.

FOOTBALL

It's not a title 9 factor. Lose 1 gain 1. You just save money.

They save some scholarship money, and some travel money, and whatever Schwent made. The way I understand it the track team is nothing more than the cross country team running long distance races during the spring. I'm sure they won't change scholarship money for the cross country runners,or if they do it won't be much. I think you can look at this in two ways. One, Cheryl is a smart by having 2 Title 9 sports with the same scholarship dollars. The other is why do we have such a mickey mouse operation. Since I really only care about basketball and soccer I'll go with number one.