willie

Can't I just meet you at Walmart.

Sloan 28 pts.

I am moaning,but give the guy credit for earning the job. I do believe if he is still playing big min. 12 games from now we can't be a good basketball team. That doesn't mean we can't be a winning team,but we can't be a good team. To be good we have to have I/O play at a high level. Is Isik capable of being a big time college player? Time will tell.

yes

While I am going to miss playing Louisville Cin. and Memphis I feel the A-10 is a better fit for our University. I believe that our chances of competing with like minded schools is more important than seeing Huggins Pitino and Calapari. If the A-10 can dump a couple of bottom feeders the A-10 is the next best thing to the elusive papal confrence.

Frank's father has been a Billiken fan forever. He use to entertain recruits at Kemols old north grand restraunt. He very seldom misses a home game. Frank was brought up right.

ESPN is predicting next years tourney. 4 A-10 teams make the list. St. Joe a 5 seed. Xavier a 6 Dayton an 8 Temple a 9 seed. I'd say we are joining a pretty good league.

I should have said I was told it would take 18mo.to 2 years.

I was told the board was prepared to give the official sign off in December and they were ready to break ground shortly thereafter. It's suppose to take about 18 mo. to build, so it would be close to being complete for two years from now.

This is good. Maybe we will start a rowing team.

There is a pretty good chance I'll have extras for that game give me a call 342-2986

I grew up in Kentucky where they let you vote at 10.

I voted for Louisville ,but as usual my voted didn't register. Kind of reminds me of when I voted for George McGovern.

I'll miss his Charter Billiken comercials.

If you believe that MU had absolutely nothing to do with the transfer of that game I have some Enron stock I'd like sell you.

That would make a good poll question. While real life is not that b lack and white, but if you could choose would you rather have a team with 10 wins and 80% graduation rate or a team with 20 wins and a 20% graduation rate. I think if most of us we're honest we would choose the wins. I know a program can have both wins and high grad. rates,but I'm just asking.

Just read an RFT article on PHL players leaving the city to play for county schools. In it they refer to Irons as former basketball coach who is now Vashon's athletic director. Did I miss something. When did Irons give up coaching?

As rude as Norm was,and he was rude I remember Denny Crum being charming. I remember him telling a story about Chickenman and his rubber chicken.

I spent 10 hours last night looking for Billilou memorabilia. I stuck out but did find a picture of Rich Grawer on a stick to be used as a mask,a Fallstaff beer mug with SLU Billikens on the glass,a Community Federal beer mug proclaing the Billikens as a Blue Chip,and about 10,000 plastic cups from the Arena and Keil with different Billiken images . Ekker- I know he is devil of Billiken basketball for many. While he was a terrible recruiter I maintain He was not the problem. He had zero administration support. The athletic dept consisted of Ekker 1 full time ast.coach,1 part time coach,Lisa Jaekel as business mgr. and a part time ticket sales guy. Ekker started the golf tournament. He also had a luncheon program called the court club. On the day of the game there was a lunch at the old arena club with the visiting coach as guest speaker. Denny Crum,Abe Lemons,Joe Stoval,Danna Kirk ,are a few speakers I can remember. The guy is still a coach in the NBA so he must know basketball or have good pictures. By the way he and the cheerleader are still married and have several kids.

We're all going to Unca's house. He's got a wine cellar.

Thats a pretty good description. It was totally Ekkers idea. You have to remember he was his own AD so he did whatever he wanted. I'll look and see if I can find something with Billilou on it.

I bet if I looked hard enough I could find some billilou beer cups in some box. Maybe I could sell them on ebay''

There is no way jj is going to put Sloan on the bench. I get the feeling that Brad believes Sloan will be his MVP. I was also at last nights meeting and didn't quite get the same feeling about Brad's comments about Johnson. I read his remarks as he really doesn't know what to expect from Johnson. Johnson has the tools but hasn't shown that he knows how to use them on a consistent basis. I felt Brad was saying he just doesn't know.

Will do. Did your father live in Maryland Terrace?

55-one of the oldest farts on this board. stockbroker.2 SLU degrees-wife has 2 SLU degrees. Oldest son kshoe a SLU grad. One semester of tuition left for youngest son shoe. Have had season tickets since 1966 and have missed maybe 3 home games since then. Had a couple of grad classes with Bonwich's father.Liked him. Lived next to Jimmy Irving in the dorm. This is for you Roy, drank a few beers with Ron Ekker. Not a bad guy for someone with low morals.