thetorch
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Liddell has to be our top priority. I hope we wait on him, I don't see us signing two 3s unless the JJ and the Greek kid really perform this year and we know Izik will stay for his 3 years. Otherwise we need to get an interior player with one of the three schollies.
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No way Memphis goes to SEC. One Tennessee would never allow, two the SEC thinks memphis is second rate and three Memphis hates the sec for those two reasons. Memphis is screwed in the realignment scenario because of their terrible football team. They will be on the outside looking in on most of these conference shakeups.
South carolina sounds like a possibilty, they were once in the ACC but left to go independent. I don't think Kentucky would go acc, they would not enhance the football league in any way.
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I made the statement that this game was small time. I stand by that, there was nobody in this years group that got anybody excited.
Besides big Mizzou, SLU and Illinois recruits does this game attract any real top national talent? Not really, and certainly not as much as DJ hypes it as, he claims it is one of the best All star games in the country, well I have watched a few on ESPN and his do not stack up. It may be better than some other area games but it is not big time. I expect at least 2 top 25 guys coming for it to be a big time game. The national guys this year were mediocre at best.
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I would not be so down on the mo valley if SLU, Depaul AND Memphis joined, and the Mo Vall cut out two or three of the stragglers. WHile not great that league could be good, not quite up to par with CUSA though.
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I think butter would know how much ahearn scored since he is his father.
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What is Banowsky running guns or something? Why would he be going to central america especially when the fate of his conference is hanging in the balance.
Maybe Costa Rica U has an up and coming football squad.
CUSA just becomes worse and worse. The Horizon looks better and better, and it pains me to say that.
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I got it and I sent you one back.
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I find it strange that a charity sees it nessasary to fly in a coach from Texas and pay for his hotel room, when there are dozens of area coaches who would have done it for free(even some who would have given money to the charity to have the privelege of coaching it). I believe this is a valid issue, I will call Frank up tomorrow on his show and see what he says about it, unless Tiger Tim cuts me off.
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I think butter is the same guy who showed up after the RFT article hyping Blake's game.
The fact is that our coach had a chance to sign Ahearn and let him go. I respect his bball knowledge over mine. That said I thought Blake was a marginal D-1 player, a diener or troy robertson type guy that SLU doesn't need and cannot recruit anymore to be successful at a top level.
Why does SLU always have to take on the area charity cases? I hope Butter that you are on the Mizzou, Illini, SIU-C boards saying the same thing as you are doing here. No other area programs get critisized for not looking at this kid. Why does SLU?
Ahearn has shown his true colors, he had stories planted in the post and RFT ripping on SLU. That is not the type of player we need no matter how talented.
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Ahearn wanted to come to SLU there is no doubt about that,
Romar was recruiting him and was ready to offer and Ahearn would have signed on the spot. When Brad took over he stopped Blake's recruitment and that pissed of Blake mightily. Once again Blake and his handlers planted stories for Bernie, PD, and RFT going off on SLU.
Ahearn is a great shooter. He cannot play any defense and Brad will not take that type of player under any circumstance. I have no regrets on not taking him as a bball player or as a person seeing how he waged a campaign against SLU after he was rebuffed by Coach Brad.
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Lets face it I didn't exactly see LeBron James playing there. The highest rated player was Gardner nad he was lucky to break the top 50 in most lists.
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We have AJ being the voice of reason and hoping for the best from the billikens while Roy is about ready to fire Soderberg for bringing in a 7 foot project.
I never thought I would see something like this.
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Husak is a PROJECT. We all know that. He will be redshirted. Lets put this in perspective though. Look at KB. I have seen elephants at the circus with more agility and better footwork than KB had coming out of HS. The guy worked hard, had good coaching and was a credible D-1 center by the time his career was over. I expect the same of Husak. We will not need any type of minutes from him for two years. We have plenty of time to mold thei 7 footer into a good player.
Now Ahearn and Clarke. Why are we already lamenting the loss of Ahearn? So he puts up 40 in a 100 point all-star game. Big deal. We all know the reasons Brad did not take him. He plays defense as well as a potted plant, and is not much faster than the aforementioned potted plant. Clarke may not be as good of a shooter, but already we see that he has superior ballhandling and passing skills. Ahearn wanted to come here, he was po'ed that we didn't give him a scholarship, so much that he instigated a media backlash against SLU, how quickly we are forgetting the RFT articles and Bernie spewings of a few months ago.
My opinion, SLU will be in a state of the art arena, in a high profile catholic conference, making NCAA tourney appearances annually with help from a 2 guard from Minnesota and a shotblocking big man from Iowa, while Blake and the bears will be playing for fourth place in the Mo Valley.
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I wouldn't waste my time on the tigerboard. Even tiger fans find their rants irrelevant.
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Would a guy come up all the way from Texas to coach a low level HS all-star game?
Has anyone considered that this guy could've been related to Onion Horton? Only other Horton I know of who could possibly get tabbed as coach.
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On another board you use your first and last name as your username. I think you are just asking for people to call you by your name. Anyway most other people including myself have our names on uor profile, you can call me by my name if you wish.
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Not surprised that Husak did not do much. I would expect his strongpoints right now to be blocking shots and post game, and you will see neither of those in a HS all star game.
From observations it appears Clarke will be able to help us athletically and with his passing ability. Shooting poorly at this thing does not concern me. He will have to be real good to play over 10 minutes a game this year though.
I have seen Blake play dozens of times in HS games and have actually played ball with and against him. He can shoot, but other than that I don't see what he brings besides a fiery attitude. Against Mo Valley defenses he will be hard pressed to be any kind of ballhandler. I could be wrong but he just never impressed me.
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Anyone know who the kid named Glass is? He lists his hometown as St. Louis, and he is going to Ole Miss. I have never heard of him or don't remember.
Curtis Marshall was ranked high. He is playing for Bobby Knight at Texas Tech and is from McCluer North HS in Florissant.
In a response to the rankings a poster asks why Joel Shelton isn't in the top 100.
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I have always heard from Louisville people that they have some sort of disdain for the ACC, and the ACC has no love for them, similar to how Memphis and the SEC although they seem a good fit they hate each other.
Louisville is a good choice though. They have a legit football program, much better than what virginia, duke or NC have. And of course their basketball is top notch. I don't think Coach K would like to be in the same league with Pitino though.
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The tigers are screwed in this arrangement.
No way the SEC will take them. Big East does not want them.
They are now sitting with the basically the national division by itself, which was the arrangement they depsarately wanted out of. Plus no doubt CUSA will expand taking in more football programs that have crappy basketball teams like Marshall. Memphis may be better off joining the mountain west or something.
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Is it now inevitable that Louisville and /or Cincy, South Florida and Marquette are going to the big east?
It is good to hear that the CUSA is being proactive, just in case we do get stuck in that league. If they do want to add say Pitt, WV and Uconn some of the southern schools will have to go.
How long do you think the process will take now? WIll we know if we are in a new conference by the start of the season?
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Roland gets Hancock and Erwin takes over at McCluer.
Claggs coaching at McCluer makes me rethink my hatred of the comets, being a McCluer North grad. That is not easy to do. I look forward to Claggs and Randy Reed fighting for sub north championships for many years to come and then sending their great players to SLU.
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I think drejaj will be one of those special high energy clutch players who can come up big in big games. There are not much bigger than SLU-Mizzou.
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