thetorch
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Parker had some serious disciplinary issues with the team. Physical confrontations with teammates and staff. Sadly the Ford era brought a lot of these types of guys onto the roster. Isabel, Gordon, Santos, Parker etc etc. He wasn't coming back no matter who the coach was.
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Goodwin should still be eligible to sign a 2 way contract this upcoming season.
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2 hours ago, brianstl said:
When you are SLU and ESPN offers you an event like this, you don’t tell them no. It will be a great opportunity for the program to showcase itself.
A showcase true.
Will this game help our chances to get in the Ncaas? Maybe, maybe not. Playing a 100-200 ranked team on a neutral site won't move the needle on selection sunday.
We have to schedule to get us an at large bid. A neutral site game against a middle of the road WCC doesn't do that. If Santa Clara is a top 2 team in the WCC then maybe it helps us. Otherwise I'd rather play 80-100 other teams as a true road game.
Does the committee give us extra points for this? SLU is on the bubble, but they beat a low major team in South Dakota on ESPN so lets put them in. That conversation isn't happening
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44 minutes ago, CenHudDude said:
Does everyone think he can get minutes as a frosh?
Yes!!!
I say he starts at least some games for us. High level talent.
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1 hour ago, cgeldmacher said:
Exactly how many quad one teams do you think are gonna be willing to play us? Scheduling is always been a problem. We shouldn’t be turning down games just because they might not be quad one.
Santa Clara is a team we could set up a home/home with.
Ask yourself if we did that would that be good? I think most fans would take that deal but not be too excited about it.
A neutral site game is a rare opportunity for us to get a P5 team to play us. ESPN wants us on TV to help launch the season. Tell them to give us a P5 opponent or at least a Mountain West opponent. A decent WCC team is someone we can schedule any time.
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7 minutes ago, Fraz said:
Interested in the board’s take:
Many articles referencing Avila as the highest regarded commit since Larry Hughes. Goodwin and Gordon were certainly in the convo. Thoughts?
Goodwin was a consensus top 100 recruit but not a national story when he signed. More of a regional big deal. Gordon even less so. He had been as a high as top 10 player earlier in HS but his rating had fell significantly and he wasn't being recruited at a high rate anymore because of all of his red flags.
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4 hours ago, HoosierPal said:
It’s amazing how some posters don’t understand the portal even with the Bills right in the middle of it. It’s the Wild West out there, not your parents NCAA. I’ll take a potential Quad 1 or a Quad 2 game any day, anywhere.
"potential" is the key word.
ESPN is bringing us in to play a televised neutral site event. Why play a possible quad 1 or 2 game when we should get a guaranteed Quad 1 game. No matter what they have coming in or returning, a couple bad losses in their bad conference and Santa Clara is not a good neutral game on our schedule. We have very few opportunities to get Quad 1 wins, why take a chance on one that could just as easily turn into a quad 3 or 4?
But this loser mentality thinking is coming from a couple posters who still wish Ford was the coach.
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3 hours ago, Brighton said:
Until
TheOne orTrilly confirms it, I would disregard the rumor.Fixed
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1 hour ago, HoosierPal said:
Using last year’s team ranking is meaningless. How many of Santa Clara’s players hit the portal? Who did they bring in?
If the Billikens can jump from 185 to a two digit ranking many other teams can also. Wait until the rosters are set before speculating on the strength of a team.
It’s a new world out there. Throw past trends out the window.I'm sure Santa Clara is putting together a top 25 roster. Get real.
We have the hottest coach and one of the most marketable players in the country. Santa Clara is pretty underwhelming.
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1 hour ago, Pistol said:
If Zyree Collins decides to Google himself, this thread is the 10th hit.
Let's hope he doesn't.
Says the person who posted in it and helped get it pushed into the top 5.
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12 minutes ago, Taj79 said:
I hear the opponent will be Santa Clara.
Santa Clara???
Guess you can never turn down the opportunity to play 109th ranked team from a tiny conference on the west coast at a neutral site 8 hours from home.
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2 hours ago, slu72 said:
What is the big event in Sioux Falls? Any ideas?
The Sanford Pentagon hosts some big time college basketball games during the year. Usually just single neutral site matchups. Last season as part of the ESPN basketball tip off Auburn played Baylor. The year before Baylor played Gonzaga in a natal championship rematch. It will be an opportunity to face a big time opponent in a neutral site that we should be able to travel to.
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2 hours ago, Lord Elrond said:
Bragger!
I live in the single wide subdivision.
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Hugely overlooked prospect.
Big guard with real PG skills. Can fill it up, is a big time scorer. Like Kwamain give this kid the keys to the car on day 1.
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It has already started. We are going to let a group of toupee wearing has beens who can't write a complete sentence create the new nickname for SLU's newest star, the biggest national star for SLU since Easy Ed.
We can't let this happen. Step 1 submit your best ideas in this thread. Let's have some great suggestions by the time the press conference hits and flood social media with the best one and force Bernie, Frank, and the Bens to submit to our nickname. If that doesn't work I have 4 cases of clown noses in my Amazon cart ready to ship today to the offices of the Post Dispatch, 590, 101, and KSDK.
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Goodwin's 3rd season as a pro is over.
In 40 games with Phoenix Goodwin averaged 5 ppg, 3 boards, 2 assists, shot .389 from the field and 28% from 3 while playing 14 minutes a game.
His best games for the Suns came in late November and early December. He had a 14/7/5 against the Knicks and a 16/5/6 game against GS. Goodwin got regular minutes well into December, then once the Holidays hit he started seeing more and more DNPs until he was traded away to the Nets. After his release by the Nets he was signed to a 10 day by the Grizlies which they then turned into a 2 way contract for the remainder of the season.
In 17 games with the Grizzlies Goodwin had 12 starts and averaged 29 mpg, with 10 ppg, 8 rebounds, and 4.5 assists. His %s took a hit shooting only .350 from the field and 63% from the line. He also had 1.5 steals a game.
His best games for Memphis was a 13/12/7 performance in a win over Milwaukee, a 10/19/5 game in a loss to the Spurs, and a 23/17/4 game against the Lakers.
Goodwin's contract is over. He is now a restricted Free Agent. Memphis can make him a qualifying offer and then has the right to match any other offer from a team or they can renounce his rights.
Currently Memphis owes over 150 million in player salaries next year, while also having one of the top picks in the draft. They have a logjam of players at the wing and guard position. It appears unlikely that Memphis will be resigning Goodwin at this point. Most likely his rights will be renounced and he will enter free agency.
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SLU holding onto a spot in the top 100 RPI.
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Wait how come we are only getting 2 ISU players?
I feel like someone said it was a lock for 4-5? Maybe I'm mistaken.
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2 minutes ago, VeniceMenace said:
Do people from North County schools go into St. Peters and teach spoiled rich boys some humility?
How dumb.
You are confusing some sort of misguided geographical economic disparity with the silly pissing contests between the area boys catholic high schools. I live in St. Peters. Across Mexico rd from me is a subdivision of double wides. Meanwhile 63034 in north county is the top ten richest zip code in the state.
For over a year Walsh has been subject to some rather vicious rumors starting from other catholic boys schools. He's been attacked in games by other teams and their parents. Most of this stems from him not going to the "right" catholic boys school. Now we have posters calling Vianney "Cobra Kai." The rest of the MCC has head hunted Walsh the entire time he's been in HS. Maybe he's not an A10 level player but i think if he played for CBC, DeSmet, or SLUH you'd be singing a different tune about him.
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57 minutes ago, brianstl said:
Screaming trees are real. I first saw Screaming Trees live opening for Alice In Chains at Mississippi Nights back when I was in high school. Great show.
Nice. I was too young for that. Screaming Trees was never able to translate their live shows to recordings. If they had they would have been the most popular band of the era. Better live sound than any Seattle band. RIP Mark Lanegan.
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17 minutes ago, BrettJollyComedyHour said:
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time.
While the science on this is fairly new, it appears trees do scream in response to stress. It is just a frequency we are unable to hear.
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5 hours ago, Crewsorlose said:
The reputation that Vianney, coached by Luke Walsh's dad, had was not good. Vianney was kind of like the Cobra Kai of local Catholic schools. I'm not sure how much of that is on Luke Walsh. I just don't think he's an A-10 level player. For some reason he's rated higher than Zyree on 247 Sports and I imagine that comes from people not knowing much about their comparative abilities. My scouting eye is nothing great so take it with a grain of salt.
This stuff is the ultimate St. Louis nonsense.
There is nothing wrong with Vianney or the Vianney basketball team. Coach Walsh is hugely respected in the area. I see no backlash when a team from DeSmet or CBC do the same things. The catholic HSs usually act terribly during games. It was much better in the 90s, when the North County schools like mine didn't have all their athletes stolen by those schools. We went into those schools and taught the spoiled rich boys some humility. And their daddy's would never be brave enough to come out of the stands and fight us.
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2 minutes ago, aj_arete said:
Was the issue with Coleman was that he committed recruiting violations? I know his record was terrible, but he was only given one year. I was curious what happened during his tenure. I was born at the time, but was real little. When I think about when I started to seriously follow the Billikens, it was during the Ekker era.
The big level boosters did not like the Coleman hire. After his first season they held a tip off club meeting as a season review. Boosters called out Coleman in public and he didn't mince words. He was fired in less than 48 hours after that.
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