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A joke that must be explained is a poor joke. I don't even see the the point you are trying to make. The respect you recieve on this board is determined by only a few variables, your demeanor, your knowledge of the program, and your knowledge of hoops in general. If you are acting like a jerk and then failing to contribute pertinent info than you will most likely be disliked by fellow posters. No one is forcing you to post here, if you find it amateurish then don't post or read it anymore. Your posts you have contributed that I have read have hardly added to an atmosphere of spirited knowledgable discussion of Billiken hoops. If anything your presence is dragging the board down. You have a choice, continue with your nonsensical postings and continue to be berated and ignored or add some tangible information to the forum. But please don't complain when posters fail to grasp your "advanced" sense of humor between your cheap digs at the program and players and your supposed vast knowledge of area hoops.

Duquesne recieved votes but was not ranked. No other A-10 teams listed. CSN ranks the Bills recruiting class as 20th. Jimmy Holmes, Tim Ream, and Scott Wisnieski are among their 100 freshman to watch list.

AB was a candidate for All American, I think they nominate 50 players maybe but only a few make true all america status. I think the combination of this and leading the nation in a major statistical category is why he has his number retired.

nowhere. He may have another year left of HS, but I doubt if he has picked up a ball in a couple years. There is still some issues concerning exactly why he fell off the face of the earth so I won't comment specifically. I've heard the gamut that he won't play ball, is going to play at a small school or that he and his family are in europe. Hope the kid is happy and has his future on track.

If he's not overwhelmingly good it is not worth it. He would be a major distraction. Unless of course his father sees fit to donate some of his millions to SLU then maybe we should recruit this young fella. The younger brother is supposed to be better though, but neither of them are star material at this date. remember a few years ago Houston when Clyde was the coach had a couple former stars as players. One of them was pretty good but not pro material. The good one I think was the Iceman's son and the other was a son of like Moses Malone or Elvin Hayes, or maybe Bernard King. Waltons and Barry's kids were pretty good but stars kids are usually not that great.

Why are we playing Houston twice?

Our 07 Recruits Dustin Maguire - 6-5 wing from Edwardsville IL Adam Knollmeyer - 6'9 PF-C from Jeff City MO Horace Dixon - 6'8 PF from Fork Union VA Maguire is a 3 ball shooter who we hope will vie for playing time on the wing. Knollmeyer is a big bruiser who can board and score underneath. Dixon is an athletic shot blocker. One of the bigs will most likley redshirt, the other will press incumbent PF Justin Johnson for playing time. Also Redshirt freshamn 6'8 PF Obi Ikeakor becomes eligible this year. He is a big man with wing skills, an unknown commodity at this point.

I'd like a 4 that comprised all these attributes into one player Bigg Butt of Donnie Dobbs Deadeye of Ryan Leuchtefeld from Outside AB's rebounding vigor Jeff Harris' finishes inside Big Rich Niemann's FT shooting ability Ross Varner's Screen Setting Big Mel's shotblocking skills Jamal Johnson's thunderous dunks & Tony Manuel's big glasses for good measure

Are the first two exhibition?

This was reported a couple of weeks ago and then found to be false.

No little pg who played for kansas a couple years ago.

Marshall went to McCluer North.

Well Darius Miles plays for them so........

Remember also Brad said certain pudgy 18 year old from Greece would be the best Billiken big man ever. He was pretty on point with that assesment.

Woolard was supposed to be buddies with Cremins. He didn't interview, he shot us down immediately. There was an article about it in the post.

Well it wasn't true was it? I trust Earl but I don't have much faith in any kid saying he committed somewhere until there is a release from the school saying he did. Until then it is all just a kid blowing smoke as it was in this case.

We recruited him. He showed up at games and midnite madness. Soderberg was in touch and most likely made an offer, but this kid had his sights set on high majors since his freshman year at Haz Central. That is why he left the area, he felt he would get more exposure. It certainly would have been a coup to get him, and who knows if this report is accurate, but there are other area prospects who are available that are more attainable that we have our sights set on.

Nice seasons from Liddell and Lisch but we have better backcourts/wings before. Gray/Douglas/Newberry comes to mind. When Liddell and Lisch both have 1800 points under their belts and finish their careers 1 and 2 on the all time scoring list come see me. Claggett/Highmark/Waldman weren't too shabby either. They both have a long way to go.

The refs went a little overboard, but you have to hand it to Wade. He has set himself up to be the new face of the league, and being a little guy who will take it to the basket along with being Stern's favorite son, he will get all the calls he wants. I don't begrudge him anything watching Dallas' wing players and Dirk chuck jumpers all night while Wade consistently takes it to the middle forcing the refs to make a call.

Ian is not a great athlete, he is a basketball player. Running and jumping drills he will get killed but he could score on everyone at that camp. There are tons of big men with little man skills who get run out of the league because they are too soft and have no bball skills. Ian is not one of these guys. His exellence shows on the court not in agility drills.

It is a four team round robin. A&M, SLU, Louisiana Tech are the 3 schools that had confirmed earlier in the year. The fourth will be some school from the Sun Belt or Southland conference.

I almost always see Ed coming out of the Billiken Club before games. A couple years ago I got the nerve to talk to the greatest billiken of them all as I noticed he and his wife always walked out when I was. He has been very nice a gracious and now knows me on a first name basis. Really a great man. He will fight it and we will be seeing him at Bills games for years to come.

This is a thread about local high school players who are possible prospects. Even if it posted by vtime it is well within the parameters of content this board has always had. Any St louis area hs basketball discussion is valid here.

Horrible NBA head coach.

Billikens.com has been a little slow for me too. It takes about 5 seconds to load a page. That is very slow for my connection type.