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Tonka should know that beer is much too expenive at Savis to throw on anybody.

Surely no one I know would do that.

Let me take the other side of the coin. While I can see letting Tommy walk I think Brad should fight this as hard as he can. If we are going to become a top program we can't back away everytime we run into dirty recruiting . Tommie is a top recruit and Brad needs to go out and win the battle again. If UNLV did something wrong then he needs to report them to the NCAA. If Lewis is a scum he needs to dicredited locally. If we don't fight your asking for it to happen again next time we're after a top recruit.

I don't buy it.Something like this would come in steps.

My logic is a really top team like Duke Ky NC will not tie up three games playing SLU. That leaves the second tier teams who may be willing to play a 2for1. There is no way I would give a 2for1 against the big 10 or big 12. Also being a buy game would depend on what it might do for my RPI. If I knew 1 year in advance that a Duke would likely be a top 3 team I could be bought for what it does for my schedule strength.

It's not a 2 for 1 . I don't think you'll ever see us play those again. Now I didn't say we wouldn't play an away game at a Duke or Kentucky. While I don't like a straight away game if the team is right I think the coaches would look at RPI and except such a game.

What I don't understand is why Claiborne keeps his job? I guess part of it is that he's a self proclaimed hockey expert, and the hockey heads are a vocal radio group. If I was KFNS's GM I would take him off the air and give him a weekly hockey show like Randolphs golf show. The guy I think who does a good job is Marecek's kid. He's gone from nepotism to a pretty good reporter who's very good at baseball.

Student Life recreation and intramurals was his background. Several of us became friends and socialised a little with Larry and his wife. I think Roy was right and Preo new that and thats why he left SLU to go back to Purdue to become something like the VP of student affairs.I believe he recently retired from Purdue. He was a real nice guy.

I don't follow womens basketball and don't know who's good and who's not but I'm sure that UofL does not play at Freedom Hall,Depaul does not play at Allstate,Marq. does not play at Bradley and Memphis does not play at the Pyramid. I would also guess that our rotten attendance at West Pine is better than the league average. I think Jill has done a poor job of putting her teams together. Bring back John O'Brien.

I agree Jill has not done a very good job. West Pine is an excuse. That said who cares. The only 2 sports I care about are mens basketball and mens soccer. Sure it would be nice if we had a good golf team,baseball team or whatever,but I really don't care. The fact that Jill and Bob Hughes{?} are still there are they must be liked by the administration and the administration really doesn't care whether the non revenue sports win or lose. Sure they would rather win but not enough to really spend the money to upgrade those programs. Just give the money to Brad and Dan, it's ok by me.

College coaches don't do a good job of taking advantage of match up problems. I wrongly said that Brian Grawer could not play D-1 ball because he would be abused in the low post. In his 4 year career he was hardly ever posted up. The college game just doesn't exploit size problems. Polk will be a strong defender.

While we all think that playing 4 years and graduating is the way to go these 2 guys probably would have been first round picks last year.Somebody told them that they could move into the lottery after their senior year. Something to be said about putting that bird in your hand.

Our outfield play last night was just awfull, Anderson and Luna are just too large a liability to play out there.We'll score enough runs to win most games.IMO Tony nedds to play his better defenders.Mabry and So Taguchi. Picking up a LF is my highest priority.

I think we should trade Scott Rollen for Placido Palanco.Placido got us in the playoffs.

As I said before I hope he is really good. I'm a big min. per game guy. If you have a whole bunch of guys playing 15 min per game it hurts the flow vs.3 guys playing 25 min. per game. If he's good enough to beat somebody out then it'd good, if he's only going to share someones time then I think it's a mistake. As I said in my original post word is they really like him.

I know the word is that they really like this guy and they think he's a complete player but I just don't think it makes sense. Unless he is clearly better than lets say dreja, we just don't need another guard. I know we'll play 3 guards most of the time the but position is awfully congested. If you can't get a 4 man I would have kept it.

Someone just told me that Kevin played in some AAU Tourney in Texas over the weekend. He averaged over 30 points per game and everyone was all over him wanting to know where he was going to school. Anybody know who he was playing for or anything about the tournament?

Why not add quality starts? If you play 15+ min. turn the ball over less than 2 times-shoot 45+%-get 4 rebounds would be considered a quality start.Dave Duncan Thorpe can keep stats in his book.

Billiken Rich I wish you would tell us what you really feel. You hide your opinions and we never know what you really think.

I didn't see below.

Ohio State fired Jim O'Brien today for alleged recruiting violations. He supposedly gave money to a foreign recruits family. It's good to see a school stress ethics unlike somebody else we know.

Ekker married Ginger,they are still married with a couple of kids. The ex Mrs. Ekker is a Billiken fan and comes to all of our games. By the way I voted for Grawer.

Ian can shoot the ball. How many big men outside of the NBA can do that. If he stays here a couple of years he will be the best center we've had since Melvin,and I thought Melvin was pretty good.{I am not including Jamal Johnson.}

Your not going to find any courtside tickets for $80. I know this is NY, but I bought a trip to NY and tickets to a Kicks game at the billiken golf tournament in Larry's rookie year. The club tickets which came with the package had a face of $150. I thought I was getting 2 tickets but ended up with 4 and got to see Larry play against the Knicks. Probably the best bargain anyone ever got at the Billiken Tornament. Airfare,Basketball tickets,Hotel Room,and a great dinner hosted by a SLU restraunt owner,and the priveledge of being one of the few people in America to see the play the Civil War for $1200. It pays to be a Billiken fan.

I will never ever spend one dime of my money to watch an exhibition NBA game.I can't believe anyone on this board who has been to one of those games felt he got his money's worth or even remotely felt it wasn't a waste of time. Each year the attendance for this game drops because they have run out of suckers.