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How bad has the Pac 10 become over tha past few years? I know things will change, but we're more than halfway through December and their rpi is behind the Colonial. They're starting to look like a 2 or maybe 3-bid conference.

Are you really going to do a touchdown dance if you win a home game against a team filled with 1st & 2nd year players? It's a game that SMS is clearly supposed to win.

Marquette is already in the Big East. I think booster's point is that SLU will need a good run of success to get consideration for a better conference (if any offer is ever extended).

Agreed, unless SMSU wants to play 2 in a row at Chaifetz after next year.

we've played at UMKC before. I wouldn't mind going over there once in awhile.

Since we'll never play a game at Rockhurst, I'm not sure I agree with this. How would that help? From what was in the paper earlier this year, we play Rockhurst because Biondi insists.

Do Creighton and Bradley want to play us? I wouldn't mind either if it came to be. Based on RM's recruiting I'd like to see a regular home and home with a Chicago area school (even UIC or Chicago State) and maybe even UWM. I'd obviously rather play the big boys from those towns, but they don't appear to be willing.

Last time I checked Horton Watkins was a public school. You could have moved to an apartment in Olivette and gone to school there if you really wanted.

I believe Skinner transferred to KY Wesleyan, and Stewart was at Okie City (not Okie State, Okie City). They were both complete a-holes, and I was never embarassed by benching those guys. An assistant coach had to go up to Robinson's dorm room every morning to wake him up, otherwise he wouldn't get out of bed and go to class. That one didn't embarass me so much either. Do you think RM would have put up with Robinson? The program was better off without Skinner and Stewart. By letting the young guys play, the 5-23 season led to the tourney teams a couple of years later.

KPLR is showing re-runs of Bones and the Closer. What's your problem? They would be going head to head with the Blues, but I don't think that should be eonugh to stop them.

This guy is about 150 lbs. light of RM.

Grawer still had talented freshmen on that team, despite all of the turmoil.

Austin Peay is 6-6, but they've only played 4 home games.

+1

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/illini/article_1c725a76-5d64-5f65-8213-722119925f20.html The Big 10/12 is making the old CUSA red, white, and blue sound like a good idea. I guess they did focus groups with Ohio State and Michigan fans.

As I've posted on here before, I'm shocked that people are surprised by how this played out. When I went to SLU they were very clear about what was allowed and not allowed on campus. The biggest surprise to me is that KM has a chance to get back into school. I know a couple of people who were kicked out of SLU for doing far less than what happened here. That said, from what I've learned in a previous thread, the university has apparently dialed down the rhetoric somewhat over the past 20 years.

I should clarify and say that SIUE would be the only type of team who would agree to play us. I don't have a problem playing SIUE either, save for the 300-level rpi.

As shaky as things look right now, we might need an extension for RM. He only has 2 years left on the contract, and that will start to make recruiting a lot harder. If possible, I'd like to give him 2 more years that would include some kind of reasonable buyout if things go south. As I've posted many times, I thought that next season should have been the drop dead year for getting to the dance. Based on everything that has happened, I'm willing to extend that by a season.

IMO we have enough trouble scheduling the BCS types as it is. If you cancel a December game in late October you can look forward to playing teams like SIUE next season.

I'd rather be playing to win instead of playing "not to lose by too much". IMO, slowing things down wouldn't have helped much anyway. Duke averages 80+ ppg and has played much better opponents than SLU. How can you "take the air out of the ball" when you're having trouble moving it past half court? How can you "take the air out of the ball" when you're having trouble completing passes on the occasions that you do make past half court? I'm not sure what game you were watching. Duke probably won't go undefeated this year, but they're far and away the best team going right now, by a longshot. They'd have beaten us by 20 even if WR/KM hadn't gotten into trouble. Were you really expecting freshmen guards to run a the shot clock down to 2 seconds each possession against this team? I rarely make excuses for our program, but this was the first game in probably 20+ years that I knew we had no chance to even keep it close. The experience on the current roster isn't there yet.

Was your goal to "make it close" or work on your game to make your team better?

Probably has something to do with the level of high school talent in Chicago vs. StL. It's the same reason why I think we should play a game in Chicago at least every other year, even if it's against UIC or Chicago St.

Come on, 72! How about Drew Diener's haircut?

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! Been there, done that. YES, since we built the new arena a couple of YEARS ago this subject has been covered. You have shed absolutely ZERO new light on the subject. What's your next earth-shattering topic...RM is close to signing an Aussie named Cody Ellis?

I expected an 80-50 Duke win (that's what I posted a few days ago). That's pretty much what I saw today.