thetorch
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Lacrosse has similar numbers in its hotbeds like Maryland, Virginia, NJ, Up state NY.
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I played some soccer as a youth, but as many americans I moved on to harder and more skilled games. Soccer is like pre-school for american sports, it is so simple any 3 year old can play it and it serves as a stepping stone to sports like baseball and football that require more brains, coordination, and motor skills for kids. It gets stigmatized as a kids sport here, and at the highest levels it can be pretty boring.
I hated soccer for a long time, but I watched a world cup match a few years ago and liked it. It is very strategic almost like chess but the pieces are humans. Now I am a huge fan of SLU soccer but never pay attention to much anything else. It took some time but now I really enjoy a soccer match at Hermannn Stadium.
Soccer is low on the totem pole in the NCAA. BBALL (mens and women), Football, Baseball, Hockey in certain parts, Lacrosse on the east coast, Volleyball, track and field, golf, wrestling all can make cases that they are more popular than college soccer. I think soccer in NCAA circles is gaining attention though and garnering more support than it has in the past 20 eyars or so.
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Ellis plays center for Riley sometimes. He does play in the east though.
Bonner for a stretch was really good for the knicks. He started some and was the 6th man. He was well liked by the fans and Riley loves him. Ellis obviously is the superior player, but if Bonner wanted to he could have played in the league for a while longer. The NBA just wasn't a sure thing and Europe was. Bonner is still a big name in the city, because of his charitable work and his summer league. St. Louisans would not know Laphonso Ellis from Adam.
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Link?????????
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The A-10 is our best bet. The only thing wrong is the geography as Dayton would be the closest school to us in that conference. Otherwise it is exactly what we need, a conference with like minded schools, that compete on a national level without football entanglements. I think rivalries would be easily established against Temple, Xavier and St. Joes.
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I could see him filling a ballhandler role, or maybe not nessacarily bring the ball up but maybe directing the offense in the halfcourt. Why should Polk handle the ball when he is so fast and can move around screens for 3s, drejaj is a decent ballhandler but I would maybe rather see Liddell directing traffic. I think that option is intriguing.
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Yes DePaul does have a phys ed major.
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Is this George Vescey the brother of NBA analyst Peter Vescey? I remember an SI article on these two, brothers both journalists at the top of their game and they haven't spoken to each other in like 50 years. It was really fascinating.
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Nick Kern enrolled at mineral area. I think he has been taking classes there since this summer. We will see if he can turn his career around like Shelton has there.
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Cusamano pretty much announced it during his show tuesday morning.
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Highmark towards the end of his career was a good "slasher." He could get to the basket better than pretty much anyone on those teams. I don't really see the comparisons either. Highmark was star caliber, Meyer will be a very good role player, a step up skillwise than guys we have had in the past.
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this morning. Frank said Brad took Meyer and his parents out to dinner at JBucks last night and was pressing them for a committment. Apparently his sales pitch worked.
I still have reservations about Meyer. I still cannot get Earl's comment he made at the last Billiken Club meeting "most of the 3s going in the hoop for Meyer would end up in the fifth row seats at a higher level" and he did compare that part of his game to Diener. From seeing Meyer I have to agree with what Earl said, but having not seen him since last winter he could have improved markedly. I do have full confidence in Brad's evaluation skills to this point though so I am sure Meyer will offer something worthwhile to this team.
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I don't think legally the CUSA 4 can say they are "together," the other CUSA members would have problems with that and it is sort of like setting up a conference on their own while they are still in one, it would open them to lawsuits. This is as far as they can go as far as saying our four schools are together and we will be forming a new conference or joining an existing one together without hindering themselves legally. This Dempsey guy is big time and I now have full confidence that SLU will not be dumped on the NCAA curb. Biondi is putting us on a winning track.
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We should be a consensus top 5 team in all the polls now. I am going to go to the FLA International game next week. How good of a team does FLA International have?
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Huge win, Clemson is a consensus top ten team. I can't wait to see how good this team will be with experience.
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That is correct. We have to make our team as good as possible and the new arena and decent fan support for it would also help.
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Aid package is just financial aid. You can only give schollies in a certain time frame, so if a player signs to late he can't get a scholarship perse, but instead the school will give him/her financial aid package that will pay for everything. I don't SLU had to do that this year but mizzou did with Linus Kleia because he signed after the signing period was over. It is pretty much a formality and you cannot do it unless there is a scholarship available. Say Duke cannot use all their scholarships up and give financial aid to other top players and have an 18 man team.
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Could someone provide a little info on Ellis for me please?
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Boise State?????
I had the unfortunate experience of going to Boise once, let me tell ya Boise makes Omaha look like Las Vegas. Maybe he really likes potatoes.
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Still, as a mizzou hater like many fellow billiken fans "we" would like to see them lose a highly ranked area recruit.
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There is no reason SLU should be in the CUSA if it does not include Cincy, L'Ville, Marquette and DePaul. We have little connection to the other schools, the ones we do (Memphis, UAB, Charlotte) are not enough to keep us around.
It is easy to see we don't belong in the NASCAR league but where else can we go? What other conference is out there that 1. has similar scholastic reputations 2. Has good BBall programs? There aren't any that I can see right now. If we don't catch on with Marquette and DePaul in some other conference or create our own conference of like minded schools (doubtful), SLU will be banished to mid major hell.
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Roy think of it like NFL preseason games. I bet SLU found it advantageous to have a couple practice games against real competition besides practice with all their young kids.
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Most impressed by the Billiken D and Goalkeeper Hutton. They held off the Virginia attack well under pressure. The Cavaliers had 33-6 shot advantage in the game and 16-0 advantage on corner kicks. Clemson will be a tough one next week. Wish the BBall billikens had this kind of SOS.
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It could be a reference to Too sucking once again on the Tiger teet, as his last few posts have been critical of Quin, but on this one he clearly jumps back on the S.P.U.M.A.C. bandwagon.
More likely it was an excuse for an immature person to type the word ***.
These guys who say the well is dry for arena money, are they the same in the know folks who gave you the Brian Gregory tip?
Buy American?????????? Isn't Quin's biggest recruit from Lithuania? I hadn't realized they had been made the 51st state in the union.
A comment on Soccer
in Billikens.com Main Board
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SLU has a record in soccer comparable to UCLA in basketball.
As of 2001
SLU has 10 Championships (One championship was a tie) and 13 final appearances
Indiana is next with 5 Championships and 11 final Appearances
Virginia also has 5 Championships (also have a tie championship) but just 6 finals (they would be the equivalent of Duke in Bball as the recent winningest school) Virginia won all of their 5 titles in 6 seasons, including 4 in a row. No one else has won that many in a row except SLU.
San Fransisco has 5 championships and 7 final appearances, but none recently.
UCLA has 2 championships and 5 final appearnaces
Howard, Clemson, Uconn, and maybe Maryland all have 2 championships and are the only other schools with multiple championships. I think Virginia may have another fianl appearance or title since 2001 as well.