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This fanbase needs to move past Mizzou. We are never playing them ever. We don't recruit against them. Our conferences never intersect.

I don't like his blazer.

This is correct. The problem is making the team. Most guys with these types of contracts get picked up for the full season. Only 1 player was let go at the deadline last year in the whole league. The Lakers may not end up making very many moves but there is a chance LeBron bolts, to probably Cleveland and the resulting haul of players could force a Goodwin release.

Calendar. Players are not paid by the game.

Goodwin is only guaranteed $25,006 on this extension. This means it is a pretty easy out for the Lakers to drop him off the roster. If he does make the team through training camp, then he has to remain on the roster till January 7th to be guaranteed his full contract. Anytime before that Lakers can release him with very little penalty. Goodwin is no longer eligible to be a 2 way player. He must make a roster or go to the g league or overseas on his own accord. The Lakers have several roster issues ongoing. Lebron James did exercise his player option and will be back. Dorian Finney Smith refused his player option and is looking for a multiyear deal as a free agent. Smtih and the Lakers are both interested in him coming back but a big payday for Smith will rob the Lakers of any roster flexibility. The Lakers did not have a 1st round pick in the draft. They traded up in the 2nd round to get Adou Thiero from Arkansas. Thiero is known for his defense on the wing, but not a great shooter. He may be in line to replace Finney-Smith as a 3 & D perimeter defender although the Lakers like to stockpile those roles since they need players who can cover for Doncic and James on the perimeter. The Lakers also signed Eric Dixon from Villanova to a 2 way contract. Dixon was rated the top undrafted player and led the NCAA in scoring this past season. At 6'8 260 he projects as a tweener big man. The laker signed 3 players to Exhibit 10 looks, UNC's PG RJ Davis, F Arthur Kaluma from Texas, and G Augustas Marciulionis from St. Mary's. Besides trying to resign Finney-Smith the Lakers biggest priority has been acquiring a Center, or possibly two. They have been connected with Brook Lopez, Robert Williams, Nic Claxton, & Clint Capela. The Lakers have also been in talks with the Miami Heat to possibly acquire Andrew Wiggins, which again would fill a wing spot with a good defender.

When Majerus hired him, one of Crews' stipulations was that he wasn't going to help recruit, he didn't want to travel at all. He didn't attend all the road games that year. If those aren't red flags I don't know what is.

1. Crews would have been not signed to a contract after taking the team to 1 2nd round NCAA tournament. Not fired. 2. Put that in context. Retired Coach, who won't recruit and took over a complete team that had 80% of their minutes returning. Who doesn't win COach of the Year? 3. This is blatantly false. Message board nonsense. Majerus didn't name a successor, and even if he did no one would have paid attention to him. The real reason Crews was named interim was simple. May wanted to keep him on the staff and he said he wouldn't stay unless he was the HC. Whitesell had been clamoring for the interim job (and no more) and May chose Crews over him. Whitesell also had the players approval way more than Crews. 4. High profile NCAA tourney team is an easy springboard to more successful recruiting. While Crews' big class with Yarbrough, Roby, Reynolds, etc was a dog, the real issue was Crews didn't start recruiting the previous year till he was sure he would be back. Refused to recruit and had Crawford fall in his lap, but got nothing else out of that class at all. Because of that he went all in on the following class and recruited some of the worst Billikens in modern history. A good coach uses great on court performances to get bigger and bigger recruits. Crews squandered it, and there was never any indication that he would be a successful recruiter, he was a dinosaur, hadn't had a good recruit since the 90s and refused to hire any recruiting hotshots for his staff, just hired old Army buddies.

Hiring Crews was the easiest and laziest move possible. There may have been some risk in hiring a new coach but.... You had a career long track record on Crews. He wasn't going to be good. Again it is the lazy move, when Crews crashes and burns May can just say well he was the Coach of the Year I had to hire him. I would venture to say most ADs would not have kept him.

SLU is not playing at Iowa this season. They will play them in the acrisure event.

Can we join this league?

Why? I would argue there was no reason to give it him outside of that award. Team didn't like him. He was retired when we hired him to be a glorified part time asst. His last gig went horribly. His prime was 25 years earlier. He had no interest in recruiting. He had never coached at this high of a level. Sorry May had a little media pressure and caved. He lures in another veteran coach or gets a young guy that was available media forgets about Crews in a couple days. The players say they coached themselves or just ignored him. They had to, look at the results when he had control. He was fine for that one interim year but like it or not those teams underachieved. We should have made a sweet sixteen and Crews blew it. May should have moved on, told Crews that the COY award was a nice feather in his cap for his career but you can go back to Indiana. The worse part is Crews ran up his salary and May went along with it and gave it to him. Then when Crews inevitably crashed and burned we had to wait an extra year to fire him.

There were some decent names angling for the SLU job. May didn't even do a single interview. Caved into the pressure to hire Crews. The team didn't like Crews and they hated his staff. Majerus' girlfriend could have coached the team just was well as Crews did. One overlooked aspect, a new coach would have surely sent Mcbroom packing before he ever stepped foot on the court.

Bracket style.

The only thing worse than Jolly's basketball abilities was Crews' coaching. Makes perfect sense that Crews would kick him off the team than play him 6 weeks later in the most important games of the season.

There was zero reporting of Jolly being booted off the team. He didn't play for all of February, but he did play in the final 3 games of the season, inclduding both games of the A10 tourney.

What team could possibly have a worse roster than this?

No matter how tough the A10 schedule is, its not earning us an at large bid. Play the easiest schedule, win the most games, get the highest seed.

Here is an updated video on that 1st grader. For all the posters who say we run off recruits, when we offer this kid we can let him know SLU fans were on him when he was 6.

Awesome topic. I too went to games as an infant. Probably was 2 months old at my first game in the 79-80 season. I remember Luther Burden and Pee Wee as my favorite players but I don't really remember games until the 86-87 season. I have the ticket stub somewhere to the Bradley game on January 7th. It was the Grawer version of the SIUC or Washington game. It was a sellout crowd on a weeknight. As a kid I had no idea what was going on, there were a lot more people at Kiel than usual. Bradley was a big time opponent with Hersey Hawkins, but Roland outdueled him. Billikens went on an 18-4 run to close out that game and win by 2. 9000 fans in Kiel on their feet for the last 7 minutes of the game watching our comeback from down 12. Going down those ramps after the game as a kid with everyone screaming and yelling was something that I will never forget. It was the first big game I ever attended and unfortunately games like that have been few and far between in the nearly 40 years since then.

Frazier would make a perfect triggerman for Schertz's system. Has to buy in defensively though.

Barring catastrophic injury Bonner will be a NBA player. Schertz must win the recruiting battle for him.

She was a HC at Cal St Northridge for a few seasons about 20 years. Was successful there. Never has had a HC position since but has a good resume for Low-Mid Major Asst. Her last HC was telling people to hire as HC before she took the Asst position at Wisconsin.

I like this hire. Veteran coach who has led her own programs and knows how to recruit. She has a ton of overseas connections and also in the upper midwest. Cleveland St has become one of the best low major programs in the country under her watch. Recruited very successfully in the transfer portal.

People do this in town sure, but St. Louis style is to grill then sauce. KC style is known for slow smoking and dry rubs.

Pretty much. St. Louis style typically is known for the sauce, but also our distinct cuts of meat like st. louis style ribs and pork steaks, and St. Louis style BBQ is almost never smoked, the meat is cooked much quicker.