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If Ford is here another year we will be right there with them.
Remember when Mo St students took over our student section? Now they can't fill two rows of their own.
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1 hour ago, brianstl said:
I don’t think Brad’s termination went down in exactly the way you described. I, also, think there is a chance May’s replacement is already working in the athletic department and isn’t named Janet.
Levick extended an offer to Soderberg for an extension which he accepted. Lecick wrote up and end of season proposal and turned it into Biondi. This was sent back, an indication that he approved of Soderberg coming back. Levick turned in the contract for Biondi to sign. Biondi never scheduled a meeting with Levick or Soderberg to discuss him coming back. Soderberg was let go, Levick knew he wasn't coming back after her attempts at communication were rebuffed. She had no idea that someone was being hired for the job without her input, essentially the end of her position. Hopefully this is playing out similarly with May. He has no input in the coaching hire or search and will leave quietly.
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Roads are fine. Get out there people. Ford only has a few games left.
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5 hours ago, cgeldmacher said:
So are you saying that it is the Grizzlies' front office that is responsible for Ja Morant's situation and not Ja Morant?
Grizzlies knew about Morant's issues way before the league or the general public did. Instead of disciplining him, they let it get out of control. They also could have traded him or not extended him as they did, again they knew he was a walking timebomb.
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I thought there was an eligibility issue with Bol at Florida?
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11 hours ago, Pistol said:
I've spent the almost 2 decades of my career looking at risk mitigation for private individuals all the way up through some of the largest companies on the planet. In pretty much every instance, taking a smaller, manageable hit up front to remove a larger unknown downside is the way to go.
It doesn't matter if you agree with them or not. It doesn't matter if their numbers are meaningful at all. It doesn't matter if their reasons are pure or flawed or whatever. What matters is the ongoing financial health of the institution.
"Shutting them down" puts you at risk of taking a beating in the press (and among your own students and faculty) and going to court with the people asking for reparations. A smart leader works to avoid those outcomes.
I spent nearly 3 decades running grocery stores. The bane of my existence was the Slip N Fall artist. Some lawyer or accountant around 2005 figured out that it was somehow cheaper to pay off every slip n fall artist for a few grand, than possibly pay a huge sum in court. Once word got around I had guys and gals falling in my store on Grand & Chippewa on a daily basis. Sadly one of the reasons that chain went out of business. That location alone was responsible for millions in settlements every year. Insurance skyrocketed, other crime in the store increased, all ways to stop it ended up in guess what "a possible lawsuit" that a company beancounter would tell us to pay off again to make it go away.
What did we do prior to 2005? We would have a slip n fall, look at the cameras, if it was an obvious fake or a known repeat offender we'd say we needed to do the paperwork in the back office with them. The smart criminals would just leave, say forget it. The dumb ones would end up getting thrown off the back dock after a beating. I could cover the sales floor in grease for the next 6 months after that and no one would fall down. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't fun but people knew not to scam my store anymore. That is how you deal with grifters.
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Goodwin 24 minutes tonight, 10 points, 4 assists, 3 boards. A couple big steals and he was a key contributor on the defensive end.
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11 hours ago, MusicCityBilliken said:
If your referring to Memphis, last few years they were actually pretty good.
2022-23 they were 51-31 (2nd place in the West)
2022-21 they were 56-26 (2nd best record in the NBA)
Wish my Knicks had season records like that.
Grizzlies were on the cusp of being the next great team. Front Office let the Ja Morant situation go on far too long. They have known about his personal issues for quite a while. I'd say a franchise who let the most exciting young player in the league, who also knew how to win, deteriorate into an oft injured or suspended wannabe gangster malcontent that is a huge failure. We've seen this game play out many times. Morant will never be the same. Grizzlies will be lottery losers for years now and get to watch upstarts like OKC, Sacramento, & Minnesota ride their young stars into the playoffs.
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7 teams with 1st place votes. The league may be wide open.
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7 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
SLU’s Gonna have to start taking a cut of the cover charge.
Rumor has it when Ford gets fired he's using that money to franchise the Humphrey's experience. Humphrey's coming to Berea college campus in 2026.
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56 minutes ago, Pistol said:
Maybe SLU understands that banning them from campus or forcing them off campus could do major damage to SLU's case. If SLU wants to get off on the right foot with this group and limit its financial downside, they're doing the right thing by letting them use campus for this. You don't have to like it to be able to understand the optics. It's not a question of strong vs. weak leadership, it's smart vs. stupid.
Meanwhile, I'm looking at how other colleges have responded when faced with the same or similar circumstances. There's a wide range:
- Virginia passed a law requiring 5 public universities (including VCU) to "make reparations through scholarships or community-based economic development and memorial programs".
- Georgetown created a $400,000-a-year reparations fund.
- Harvard set up a $100 million endowment fund for slavery reparations (Harvard's primary endowment is estimated to be near $50 billion).
UVA set up Universities Studying Slavery (USS), a consortium of over 100 colleges sharing best practices as they work through dealing with slavery in their histories. SLU is one of the schools participating.
SLU is one of many schools facing pressure from what is a national movement. I haven't been able to find any legal precedent that suggests SLU would actually be on the hook for a large amount of money. More likely, SLU will work with this group to address it in a way that involves a financial commitment, education, and memorialization, and it won't be anywhere near the numbers we're seeing in the headlines. If SLU actually does become the school that has to work through the legal system for this case, the current judiciary is going to be friendlier to the defendants than the plaintiffs. If it goes all the way to the top, I don't think the people who just killed affirmative action are going to open the door to broad-based reparations.
SLU will be fine.
It is one thing to entertain a political movement. It is another to placate to a group who is making baseless claims and seeking extraordinary damages through lies and faulty economics. By catering to the extreme, in this case a group requesting hundreds of millions of dollars, Pestello has set himself up to pay a higher price. What he should do is shut them down until they have a much more reasonable and thought out case.
What SLU should be doing for reparations is lowering the cost of their programs, cutting useless majors that don't equal jobs in our economy, and place a focus on creating majors that foster entrepreneurship, new technologies, and real free market economics. I hate to see an institution of higher learning embracing Marxist policies of wealth distribution and foisting it on their students and donors.
There are 50 million people currently living in slavery in the world today. That is a worthwhile cause that SLU should be addressing. If they want a mea culpa for past acts fix the current problems happening right now.
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Question - Why did SLU allow this group to have their press conference on the SLU campus?
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Memphis is terrible. They had the Morant suspension, now he's out for the season. Bane, Smart & Rose are all out currently. They have lost 9 straight and are tanking. This is a lost season for them. Right now their PGs are Gilyard and Scottie Pippen Jr, Goodwin is better than these guys. Hopefully he is given a chance to get some minutes and maybe start right away. This Grizzlies team is much worse than even the Wizards teams Goodwin was on. They are a terribly mismanaged franchise though and have been cycling through 10 day guys the past couple weeks, they've gone through 4. Not a great fit for Goodwin long term but I hope it gives him an opportunity to showcase. I really doubt he stays with them longer than the 10 day or 2 unless they just decide to keep their vets on IR the rest of the season. Theway Memphis roster is currently they will be lucky to win more than 4-5 games the rest of the season.
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It is true a team can only sign a player to two 10 day contracts....except if they are signed under the hardship exception which falls under a team having 4 or more players injured at once. Goodwin's contract with Memphis will almost certainly fall under the hardship exception so they will be able to sign him more than twice if needed. Memphis has 15 players already under contract, so without the hardship exemption means they wouldn't be able to sign another player.
10 day contracts can also be called 3 game contracts. During the 10 day contract the team must play 3 games, if they don't the contract is extended until the 3rd game is played. The contracts are paid by the day, so Goodwin is getting about 106,000 for ten days but if has to stay on the team for a couple extra days to get to the 3rd game, he gets paid for that as well.
Memphis can terminate the 10 day cotnract early, if they do Goodwin still gets paid for the full 10 days, the contracts are guaranteed.
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If you can stand living in New Mexico than that gig is one of the best in the country. Huge fan support, no media pressure, great facilities and gobs of money thrown at you. I think the SLU job is good but New Mexico is better.
I think Pitino is rounding into form as a HC. The Minnesota job sucks, no one wins there and no one wants to coach there. He's put New Mexico back on the map.
His offensive style leaves a lot to be desired and his recruiting is strange. He likes to recruit transfers and international. Local recruiting will dry up. He's not a bad candidate by any means but I don't know if he's in my top 5. I hope this is an indication that SLU is looking at legit candidates and not retired bums like Tom Crean.
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Sincere is the 4th player to drop 30 points in back to back games in SLU history. The others are McKinney, Bonner and Hughes. 21st player to have multiple 30 point games in their career & the 14th player to have multiple 30 point games in the same season. Only players with more 30 point games in the same season are Hughes 5, Bonner, Wiley, McKinney all with 4, and Jimmy Irving with 3.
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Detroit is the new Chicago St. Yikes.
One thing that always bugged me about Detroit. Dick Vitale has been the face of college basketball for decades, his claim to fame was being Detroit's HC. Detroit never has used his status to their advantage, ever. It seems they even ignore it. It's too late now but I would have had Vitale schill every chance he got for the school and help you out with hiring and marketing.
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On 2/8/2024 at 2:22 PM, JMM28 said:
Would never happen, but Soderberg would have tremendous value as one of these newly-allowed staff positions that can coach/scout.
That is what he does at Virginia. He's no longer a asst coach.
I think Brad's plan is to retire and assist on Kramer's staff at Milliken.
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We look fantastic!!! Lets ride this to an A10 Tourney Championship!!!! Extend Ford 20 years!!!
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3 hours ago, Slu let the dogs out? said:
What’s next, Jared Fogle as head of sports nutrition for MBB?
Only the Mens & Womens BB team get free Subway. Everyone else has to pay for it.
We'll finally bring back the football program with Jerry Sandusky as Head Coach.
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35 minutes ago, Scoop said:
I would look at Greg Heiar. Got let go after a few off court issues surfaced and he was kinda the scapegoat. Dude came to Mineral Area and has them ranked 2nd at 21-0 in his 1st year. Nice guy, young, coaches hard and has he team playing ridiculous defense. MAC is always good but I've never had so many people tell me I have to see this team play. They blow almost everyone out.
Terrible idea.
Really really hard to recruit athletes when guys get raped in your program.
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We are much more likely to lose out than win more than 1 game in the A10 tourney. It might be 50/50 that we win another game all year.
GDT: SLU v. VCU
in Billikens.com Main Board
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A lot of reactionary sound bites that look good in the moment but don't stand up to any scrutiny.
For instance he tweeted that VCU's offense was something to fear after their win over us. VCU struggles to score over 50 against all but the worst defenses in the country. It shows he does no background work, Rohsteain assumes SLU is an OK defense and VCU is now an offensive firepower.