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This guy is the ultimate missouri retread. This would be like an NBA team trotting out Bill Fitch. Every place he has a chance to excel himself he has not panned out. He can stay at JC as far as I'm concerned. He is no great recruiter he is a poor one in fact. If this is what the athletic dept is coming up with in their candidate search I have to seriously question our committment to a successful program.

I have gotten the opposite impression from him. He has been offered coaching jobs, albeit at lower levels than SLU, even a JC HC job and declined them. He has young kids and doesn't want the schedule that a college coach would have to keep at least not now. Who knows though.

Claggett coaches at McCluer and for the Eagles. He has inroads with area recruits certainly but I don't think he has the aspirations of being a college coach.

Why wouldn't Bonner be a great hire? He brings instant name recognition to the program. As a black male who came out of inner city St. Louis he provides a role model for area recruits that they can easily relate to and emulate. He has no coaching experience but he has played pro ball for 15 years. That is more than enough basketball knowledge. AB was always a disciplined and tireless worker on the court throughout his college and pro career, he would bring that attitude to the kids here.

My first choice would be AB. If AB was on the staff Powell coming is a no brainer. Anderson would have a harder time making inroads with area kids, or we could at least equal his prestige having a black former SLU player who was in the NBA out recruiting kids locally. How long has Sloan been DOBO? 2 years? He is a little too green for this position. Beane was our top asst. Losing that type of guy means we need to bring in someone a little older with more credentials than Chris Sloan. Same with Diener. We should make every effort to have AB on the coaching staff if he wants it.

I was gonna join till I saw that restriction.

KC might as well be Timbuktu for the Billikens. No way any kid from KC goes to SLU until we have a top 25 program, and we are not exactly close to that right now. Too many other schools in proximity with ties to the area with SLU having none.

Drejaj does not strike me as the type of guy who would want to be a graduate asst. Sloan already is director of BBall operations. I don't know any other positions they could make up to give drejaj a job.

Clemens problems stemmed largely from Barton CC, although in the Southern Idaho has had some run ins with legal issues. There was a SI expose about them a few years back. Since then I believe they ahve cleaned house, still at least run a very good program up there even if it isn't all on the up and up.

SLU assts attended a half dozen practices between Lutheran North and McCluer North this year. Based on the level of possible recruits at those schools, I would say SLU gets around quite a bit. I think the prevailing practice is attending practices. A gym packed with people vs a gym with a couple coaches and maybe a couple parents. Where is the coach going to be noticed by the player more?

http://www.hoopstournament.net/index.html this site has a comprehensive history of the NCAA tourney. According to this site and Wikipedia Memphis (the 71 Valley Champ) nor L'Ville played in the NCAA tourney. L'Ville lost to providence in the first round of the NIT that year. I have no idea why Memphis played in neither tourney. Duquesne, Furman, Fordham, Penn, South Carolina, St Joes, and Nova were in the east bracket. Jacksonville, kentucky, Marquette, Miami Ohio, Ohio St, and Western Kentucky were in the Mideast Drake, Houston, Kansas, New Mexico St, Notre Dame and TCU were in the Midwest. BYU, Long Beach St, Pacific, UCLA, Utah St, and Weber St were out West.

Metabolism I'm nearly 27 and still can't add a pound without serious work.

He can only confirm or deny if he is recruiting a kid. That is as much info as he can give.

The last I heard we still have a lot of interest in vouyoukas' brother. He is getting attention from bigger schools than Ian did. He is 16 right now and about 6'8 or 6'9. He is more of a perimeter type player than Ian, so he may be closer to Izik in skill set than his brother.

I have to agree there. I don't like this type of move. All Huggins, or anyone else has to do, is identify who has an in with a player, offer them more money than their current job, and the player comes too. Eventually you may run out of jobs or titles you can bestow on people but that is the least of worries. It still is very legal. Don't kick yourselves now for not hiring huggs, Tiger fans. This type of stuff isn't worth it.

One of our players with a retired jersey is currently serving time.

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With a former CUSA coach in place at Mizzou will a SLU-Mizzou matchup be easier to come by? Anderson doesn't really scare me as far as competition for local recruits goes. He had a good class coming into to UAB, but hasn't exactly outrecruited any of the big schools in Alabama for local talent. I don't think he will come into St. Louis and set the world on fire. Not a great hire, but not a poor one for Mizzou. We will see if the run and gun style will work in the Big 12.

at njcaa.org it says they are playing on sat at 3 against Howard College. I think Newborne spent his first year at Howard.

All those teams are considered major schools, regardless of how well they have played. All three were extremely competitive in the A-10. Until UMass hit their stride in the 90s, Penn St, Rutgers and WV regularly challenged Temple for A-10 dominance.

Conference USA was begrudgingly given "major" status in basketball, because you couldn't ignore the history of some of the schools involved, multiple final fours, championships, and big time coaches. Now with that blown to bits "majors" are back down to the 6 BCS conferences. Everyone else is on the outside looking in, the BCS schools have all the money and all the power. Giving major status to any other team or league will equal possible loss of talent and most importantly loss of money to the BCS conferences. The A-10 had major status before the BCS was concocted. Prior to the BCS The A-10 featured besides some of its current members, BCS teams like Penn St, Rutgers, and West Virginia. Once they left for greener pastures and the A-10 took on Xavier, Dayton, Richmond, and LaSalle the A-10 straddled the line between major and mid major, just like the Great Midwest, later CUSA, WAC, then Mountain West. The A-10 will never be considered major again no matter how many teams we get in the tourney. And if there ever was a catholic school conference it would be mid major as well unless Notre Dame came along.

Here is the deal. Loyola charges about 10 grand a semester. SLU 12 grand. Kids from Loyola were sent to other schools and a proclamation was made from the Jesuits that they would go there and be charged the amount that Loyola charged, and that tuition collected from them would go back to Loyola. SLU charged them our rate instead, about 2 grand more. We gave Loyola the 10 grand, but kept the difference. Loyola wants that 2 grand though. That is what they are complaining about. Now tucked into the end of the article is this little nugget "SLU's decision to charge tuition did not crystallize until late in the semester. Transfer students received bills for full SLU tuition in October, but the University said that the bills were sent out in error; at the time, Baworowsky explained that the plan was to collect tuition dollars directly from Loyola. But when Loyola went back on that agreement-which Loyola Assistant Provost John Cornwell said was an oversight and not an intentional slight to the university-SLU was forced to collect the tuition directly from students." It appears that Loyola agreed to pay back SLU the 2 grand difference, then and that the tuition costs were going to be done through the two universities bypassing the students. Loyola reneged, not SLU, leaving their own students in a bind. These students would not have had to pay if Loyola had kept their part of the bargain. Now Loyola wants to rip off SLU. Not only are they refusing to pay the difference, as promised, they want the difference to go to them. SLU is being rooked and the SGA appears to be Loyola's unwitting partner in this. I feel bad for the students but this problem is on Loyola's end not SLU's. Now loyola is trying to profit from it. Notice there is no official line from Loyola administration, they are using the students to push public and donor support in their favor. I applaud Biondi fro standing his ground. He is the one supporting Jesuit ideals in this situation, Loyola is not.

1985 Monroe Douglass McKinley 1986 Anthony Jones Vashon 1987 Jesse Hall Venice 1988 LaPhonso Ellis Lincoln 1989 Johnny Mack Country Day 1990 Cuonzo Martin Lincoln 1991 Scott Highmark Parkway West 1992 Richard Keene Collinsville 1993 Kelly Thames Jennings 1994 Demetrius Alexander Hazelwood Central 1995 Ryan Robertson St. Charles West 1996 Loren Woods Cardinal Ritter 1997 Larry Hughes CBC 1998 Jon Harris Edwardsville 1999 Darius Miles East St. Louis 00 Shelton 01 Mckinney 02 ? 03 Polk 04 Burke 05 Shipley 4 guys are NBA players. Martin had a cup of coffee in the league, Thames most certainly was an NBA player if not for his injury. Douglas, Highmark, Keene, Alexander, Robertson, Harris, Mckinney, all were above average D-1 players on major college teams. Burke and Shelton are probably the worst on the list, neither of them are D-1 caliber.

I looked for a list too couldn't find it, they will ahve one in the apaper when they do the teams. My recollection is Guys that I can remember winning it are Miles, Hughes, Jahidi White never won, but Carrawell or Woods did, Shelton, the kid from Ritter who's brother was on Mc North this year, Polk, I think Clay from Riverview won it, Keane from Collinsville, McKinney, Thames, Not sure if any of Claggett, Highmark or Winfield were the winner their year, Ryan Robertson, Did Kandlbinder win it? Thats at least 11 there. Most of those guys were D-1 caliber.

On 1380 this afternoon, Mushmouth Karraker and Balzer had a lengthy discussion about the SLU arena and funding for it. Said anything and everything is for sale dealing with the arena, Howard wants to buy a memorial urinal for a couple hundred.