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On 10/30/2024 at 12:02 AM, Dr. Holly Hills said:
I just don’t see in what world we will ever get these 4
️, heavily recruited HS guys. Prior to NIL, there was a chance (albeit extremely slim), but now we can’t compete with NIL.
If its only about the college money then yes.
If a 4 star wants to showcase his skills at a high major without competing for time with highly paid transfers that his coach recruited over him a few months after he signs than SLU becomes the right choice every time.
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Real jerkoff move to post things from a subscriber only chat.
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On 10/30/2024 at 10:21 AM, almaman said:
wish he'd go to Lindenwood
No.
He can contribute. He gets too much attention because of his name but having him play on the team adds other things to the program.
I hated seeing Monroe Douglas Jr get rebuffed by us and walk on at Dayton and contribute. Now he has an awesome daughter at Burroughs who if he went to SLU would be a no brainer for the womens program. She has tons of BCS offers and is not considering SLU.
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3 hours ago, willie said:
Not big enough.
Agree with this but...
Outside of last season most years only have one team averaging over 10,000 in attendance. The worst franchises average less than 5k.
No Wnba team has come close to selling out an nba arena in the regular season.
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11 hours ago, WUH said:
The Billikens played a particularly tough schedule in 1997-1998, but I think we could make a case for Larry Hughes Sr.
Yeah, maybe. We played a lot of guys who were great college players but not NBA guys that year who did manage to outplay Hughes.
Toby Bailey, Baron Davis, Marcus Fizer, Demarco Johnson and especially Ruben Patterson out played Hughes that year. Patterson single handedly took Hughes out of the CUSA poty conversation. Louisville as a team also locked up Larry pretty effectively.
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Avila will be by far the best player on the floor in every game we play until the NCAAs. When was the last time we could say that? Macauley?
I've made some dour predictions the last couple years (they came true), but that ends this year.
Non Con 12-1
Conference 14-4
A10 Tournament 3-0
NCAAs 2-1
31-6
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G league rosters are typically 13 players. 2-3 2 way guys, 2-3 exhibit 10 affiliate players. So there are between 8-10 spots for actual g league players.
Regular season rosters are set by Nov 7th. G League will cut borderline guys on the first or 2nd day typically so should know soon if Perkins has a chance at catching on.
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Creighton really hated losing Dotzler. Having gone to a couple practices and talking with people around the program the majority opinion is Dotzler will be in the rotation and most likely starting sooner rather than later.
Hughes ultimately is just a one dimensional player and not built for Schertz's system. Him being on the outside of the rotation is a good sign, we'll have a very good team. He's a spot up shooter, a decent defender, not a great ballhandler, and doesn't move well away from the ball at least as good as our other options.
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This isn't happening.
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29 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
The US Department of State's data shows that foreign student visa rejections are at an all time high.
I'm interested in your story and your source. I always want to hear the other side of the issue.
The state dept doesn't release all their numbers so even if visa rejections are at an all time high it is almost impossible to tell why.
The highest proportionate number of rejections is from African nations.
The whole process is a bureaucratic nightmare. There is now a push to streamline the process and remove most of the historically required background investigation and interview process. So the bureaucracy in the past year has slowed down the process so much so the only alternative is to remove all the safeguards in place. Hmmmm Why?
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. University enrollment is going to plummet in the next decade.
Probably shouldn't have based their industry around bringing in students from communist foreign countries that we don't get along with in hindsight.
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Wish his son would come home and cover some teams. He is a rising national star in Denver.
I enjoyed Tom when he was on the beat. Stu took awhile but he really became solid the last few years.
I don't think Dave Dorr has passed. He was supposed to be enshrined in the St. Louis Sports HOF last month at the MAC.
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Coming out of this game the only concerns I have are the soft play at the rim, on both ends, and the lack of shooting opportunities for Swope. If Hughes is taking 7 3s, Swope should be shooting 10, not 4. Rockhurst played tough D and they were physical. I fear some teams in conference punching us in the mouth and the Bills being too soft to respond. I like Anya & Casey and of course Avila, but they are from from bruising big men. We are going to win on finesse.
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Goodwin was a long shot to make the Lakers roster. He will go to their G League team and wait for a callup.
The difference between him and Collins is pretty stark. Collins is a super longshot to play even 1 game in the league. He should go make more money overseas right now. Goodwin already has the service time in. He plays in just 1 game this season and his pension goes up a large amount. Way more lucrative for him to stick in the G League now and maybe next year as well. He will get called up at some point by someone if he plays well and his future earnings will go up significantly.
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37 minutes ago, slufanskip said:
Anyone else having trouble getting the game on espn+
it was listed. I was on game starting soon. Now it’s gone
LaSalle announced the game will not be televised due to technical difficulties.
At this point they don't know the cause. They maybe dropped some of the equipment in the pool or the broadcasting team came under heavy fire on the way to the game.
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4 hours ago, OkieBilliken said:
The crazy thing that stood out for me was Markelle Fultz was the overall #1 pick in the draft. I know I don’t follow pro hoops as much as some, but huh? Has he done anything as a pro? Was the talent really bad that year?.
Fultz had a lot of personal, training, and injury problems.
Prior to starting his NBA career his stepfather screwed up his shot mechanics. It took him 2 years to learn to shoot again. He's had tons of injuries. He has played well for Orlando for stretches. Last season was not good so Orlando let him go but the year before he averaged 14/6/5 and is a good defender. Noth worthy of a #1 pick but not a total bust either. He's still only 25 years old.
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1 hour ago, OkieBilliken said:
Getting Perkins vibes and dont like it. At least we dont have 4 dudes we are waiting to get cleared by the NCAA.
Remember when Ford Said Zhang was hurt when in actuality he wasn't cleared. That was fun.
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13 hours ago, billiken_roy said:
that should have happened 30 years ago. too late now. the fandom has moved on and the majority of fans dont even know him. another biondi FU
Not true.
The majority of our fanbase played CYO ball with Easy Ed.
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8 hours ago, Box and Won said:
Millennial (and Gen Z?) nostalgia for ugly '90s gear is a powerful force.
Pretty sure I had some Billikens zubaz. Can't wait till they bring those back.
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Hlas covers Iowa and Iowa St. Mostly football.
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4 hours ago, ACE said:
The one non-P6 team in the preseason Top 25 (Gonzaga) will soon be in the P6. Then you have to go all the way down to McNeese, followed by us with 9 votes to find the non-P6 schools. This is just a preseason poll of course and hopefully several non-P6 schools will exceed expectations, but I remain pessimistic about non P-6 schools having the opportunity to earn at large bids in the future unless something changes in the current landscape.
How many AP poll votes do we need to get an NCAA bid?
2024-2025 Season Prediction Thread
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What goalposts did I move?
I named several players who were better than Hughes that year. Hughes wasn't CUSA poty. He wasn't even 2nd. What position he was drafted in the Nba draft means nothing. Those players I named were better than him.
You do a disservice to the rest of that team also. That was a good team. Larry didn't score 40 every night. Some games he didn't have ten or scored 14 on 30 shots. We beat some good teams when Larry stunk. Luck, Baniak, Walker, Cobbin were all solid players, far from scrubs.
In Larry's year we were a 10 seed, barely made the tourney. You say that group wouldn't have been .500 without him? They were 1 game under next season with multiple starters injured, no real replacement for Hughes and a much tougher conference.
Cincy was not loaded. They were top ten ranked 1 week the entire season. They returned 1 starter from the previous years team. Their leading scorer was Bobby Brannen. It was as close to a rebuilding year as Hughins came to. CUSA was way down that year. Only reason we were able to squeeze in as at large.