thetorch
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That Savannah State game looks tough.
Did we have this many patsies last year? Still think this is a very strong non con.
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Not a shock, expect a few other bottom programs to move on in the near future.
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Muse barring a miracle will not be able to get in as a freshman. He has only been able to play 3 semsters of ball in three years of HS because he is always ineligible. I believe he has buckled down and will be able to graduate this year (it was in doubt) but he will be headed to mineral area, after that who knows.
He does have a great body, maybe better than grimes potentially. Somewhat thin now has a good frame to gain weight on.
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I think I am going to fall on the really optimistic side on this. I expect no less than 18 wins this year and an NCAA berth.
We have a ton of good things not least of all is we play defense, I think we will be the top defensive team in the conference and one of the best in the nation. As we saw last year Fish and Drejaj can check any guard out there, our post defense is still a ? but I don't think it will be for long.
We have a bevy of good outside shooters. Drejaj, Bryant, Clarke, Sloan, and fish and IO who will improve. We can concievably put out lineups where 4 and sometimes 5 guys are comfortable shooting and making outside shots.
We have concievably 3 guys who can score and take over games, Bryant, drejaj, and IO. All of these guys can dish, penetrate and shoot. Instead of one go to guy we have 3 who can fill the bill.
We have much better athletes, last year we were plodding in some games, like against 'Zona and we could not keep up with athletic teams. With JJ, IO, CLarke, Bryant, Ficher, and Drejaj we won't be cought flatfooted, and with more scoring options we can keep up better instead of running a one man show.
I truly believe we have two big time players in IO and Bryant. Both of them will score over 15 points a game. That is firepower we did not come close to having last year.
We may not win all the tough games, and we may not go on a huge run, but I don't think we will have to. This team will be capable of winning on bad nights, no more losses to Martin, SMS and Houston.
For all these reasons I think the Bills are sure to be top 4 or 5 in CUSA and a good bet to go dnacing in an improved CUSA.
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The new BCS is going to be much tougher on teams that are not in a conference. Notre Dame may be the one with the network backing and all the dollars but there are alot of schools and conferences who can set policy and who want in on a peice of the south bend pie. I think they will turn the screws on Notre Dame and make them join a conference or shut them out of the BCS.
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Don't worry, if you have ever read a news release from CUSA they all look and sound the same. 3 paragraphs comprised of generalities and double talk, I am confident we will not get screwed mainly because if these guys don't pull off a merger they will be out of work.
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I would not expect anything bu8t Katz being a shill for East coast schools. If its not being played within a hundred miles of the atlantic these guys simply don't care and can't beleive that anything that matters happens in the midwest or west.
I can see why Soderberg is down, hell he could be in a top 5 conference or the horizon and he has no idea where he is going to end up. L'Ville with Pitino knows thay are going up, these other guys, UAB and Memphis are not being realistic. UAB will end up in the sun belt and Memphis will be lucky if they get included in the big east, they will probably end up in the WAC and calipari will bolt.
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No way Temple is out of everything. My only guess would be Notre Dame not coming along.
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Floyd's retirement at Vashon is immeninent, he has enough years to get a top pension from STL public schools. I don't think he is getting paid for coaching anymore. While I don't care for the man on a personal level I wonder what he could do for a D-1 school say in the valley or horizon? He is a helluva coach and his recruiting skills are masterful.
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Frericks is also not the average Juco transfer as he has played one year of D-1 ball at UAB.
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My guess is Marque is going to Europe.
The problem with the summer leagues is if you play in them and then cannot make a roster spot you are screwed out of the Euro leagues. The Euro leagues set up their teams before the summer leagues are over so a guy like Marque has to make a choice, go for the sure thing in Europe or roll the dice in the states and end up having to play in the NBDL for pennies compared to what he could make overseas.
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Is this the team that Izzo is coaching with Romar and Quinn? Or is it the one Arthur Johnson and Rickey Paulding were trying out for?
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Another great recruiting effort by Coach Floyd.
Good for Curtis, he is a talented player unfortunately he never can get on the court for Vashon due to his lackluster grades. After a couple years at mineral area he should be ready to go acedemically to a major college.
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ATVs are the lowest form of human transportation. I would rather be seen riding a donkey than ride on one of those things. Of course my uncle (by marriage) owns a MULE, 6 wheeled boxy dunebuggy, which he drives around his suburban neighborhood, that things gives ATVs a run for their money.
Sad note, I am sure Columbia is in mourning over the death of the greatest hoosier of all time, thats right the actor who played Jed Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies died today. In his honor the Missouri President and his family will be riding around campus on their ATVs while shooting of rifles.
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The guy was not the president of Mizzou. That guy is called a chancellor. This guy is in charge of all the missouri state universities, he is the chancellors boss. Which makes this incident even more bizarre and disturbing.
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I have no doubt that this does hurt schools like SLU.
It is not just attending the football games, it is the atmosphere around campus during football season. Even places where basketball is king, like at Mizzou the best parties are always during the football season, unless Eustachy is in town. Going to SLU you miss out on that, lets face it nobody parties cause the soccer team has a big game.
There are advantages and disadvantages, not many urban schools have a football team. When you are in college station what else is there to do but sit around and wait for a football game. SLU can offer alot more to a student because of its proximity to a major city and all that brings with it.
I don't think you can worry about it, even if SLU had a football team I don't think it could recreate that college town atmosphere that even Mizzou has because of its setting.
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I thought Roy was hoping that Bryce would be a heinrich clone? Maybe I didn't see that post.
Did anybody catch what the Mizzou star recruit was doing for Lithuania, I would love to see he and Ian square off, or Ian outplay him in this tourney.
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Unfortunately we may never know seeing how few listeners there are for KFNS.
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Even though teh ACC has only 11, they will petition the NCAA to change the rules regarding championship games to include conferences with less than 12 teams.
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It is the board consensus that he is a long term project. He will be redshirted and we will not see much production from him or even playing time until his junior year. That may be a little harsh but he most definetely wil be redshirted.
I can't wait to see the Greek kid Ian play. Considering what Brad has said and his the albeit limited amount of info we have on him playing overseas now I am intrigued. He could be a real factor, certainly upgrade at backup over Chris Braun.
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He will be back, he does this every once in a while.
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SLU on his roundtable show tonight.
He and Tuna think it is a good idea for SLU to go to the Missouri Valley. Earl was also on but he was not able to get much in to defend the program. Just as I began to tune in though Bernie was mentioning something about Floyd Irons looking to get a job in the Mo Valley????? I didn't catch all of it though.
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This year they changed the rule to accomodate the young ages of Darko Millicic, Maciej lampe and Shortsianitis.
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I agree with the majority of your sentiments Steve.
There is only one new poster who has come aboard that is causing all of this, yet there are new posters every couple of weeks or so and I have never seen anyone besides Pistol/butter 33 and a few tiger fans get treated "poorly" that is resoundingly disagreed with.
People disagre on this board all the time and are not met with hostility. Pistol/Butter 33 was because he has an obvious agenda which is to degrade SLU for not giving a schollie to his son. He came on here after the RFT article came out at the beginning of the season (was never heard from during the season when Blake and DeSmet were doing poorly) and then when Blake comes up huge in DJ's game. We stated our opinions on Blake, some with more tact than others (potted plant
). He upped the ante with his flaming and was met with the same. It is very similar to Tiger fans who come on the board. Tiger basketball is a minor topic on this board and the tiger fans come out of the woodwork to give their two cents, which is fine. It is when they start going off on SLU that they are met with derision. I see no problem with this as it is a SLU board.
I for one think the board is doing fine. No one is being driven away. The tiger fans still show up no matter how much crap we give them. I am sure Butter will leave soon and show up on the rare occasions when his son plays well at SMS.
). He upped the ante with his flaming and was met with the same.
NY Post article - not encouraging...
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Or Temple or Umass for that matter. I think CHarlotte and SLU have better programs at the current time than those three schools.
UMASS was nothing before calipari and is nothing after him, rhode island had lamar odom for two seconds, and cheney will retire sometime or croak on the bench one or the other, and temple will be left w/crazy Bill Cosby.