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Tough break for Richmond.

I want that Walz dude in Billiken blue for the sole reason of him being from Munich.

Looks like he committed to Oklahoma, not OSU.

Roy Schmidt. Not sure if he’s still around. I stopped following him on Twitter. Sad deal in a way; he used to be fairly good, but then he got Twitter and kind of went unhinged.

This. Rivals seems to have a function where subscribers can make “predictions”. That’s just fans picking their favorite teams. The only ones worth looking at are the predictions from the recruiting analysts. There are none of those for Kern.

So we have Brian Snow at 247 with the “Crystal Ball” prediction, and we also have this guy from Rivals who predicted SLU last night. https://n.rivals.com/content/forecaster_profiles/2383619 Maybe I’m forgetting, but I don’t think we’ve had a recruiting analyst predict us to land a recruit other than Carte’are Gordon, and that was done right before he committed. That combined with Frank C’s comments the other day make me think something is about to happen.

STL has liked him since he was at SIUC. He seems to be a pretty nice, folksy, “aww shucks”, kind of guy, and STL people eat that stuff up. He’s basically a much more successful Barry Hinson.

This is a good point. One of my reasons for generally preferring a Euro-Style name was that I haven’t been the biggest fan of the nicknames for many teams created in the last 25-30 years. Part of me wonders if my preference for many older team names is just due to the fact that I’m just used to them.

St. Louis City SC/FC was right around the top of my list out of the names that were generally suggested. While I am going to roll my eyes at anyone from St. Louis County, St. Charles County, the Metro East, Jefferson County, etc who tries to claim that the team doesn’t represent them, I still didn’t think this name would be likely just because I thought they’d go safe and avoid that potential conflict. I’m a big fan of this name. My big soapbox with the name was that I was ok with a given nickname only if it was fairly simple and traditional. No names like Kraken or Battlehawks. Give me a “boring” European style name every time over a name that sounds cool and edgy in 2020, but has the chance to sound really dumb in 10 years.

Exactly. And I expect that they’ll really hammer on it at the announcement.

My guess is that they’ll spin it as a message that it doesn’t matter what counties or suburbs we live in, we are all one city. St. Louis.

Agreed.

If this was already posted, my apologies, but I don’t think I had seen it here. Nesbitt rankings/predictions from a national recruiting writer. https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/news/ranking-the-contenders-jordan-nesbitt

If I remember correctly, teams may have a limit to how many games they can play each season, but tournaments/events count differently than if you just scheduled several games. As an example, the Orlando tournament can include 4 games, but may only count for 1 or 2 towards the limit. It’s a loophole to play more games.

Yeah tough break. The year we get into the Big 10, they cancel football. It’s tough being a Bills fan.

I’m assuming you mean that a promoted team has never won the EPL in their first year after promotion? Because I think Leicester City won in their 2nd year, 3rd at most, after promotion. If you’re saying no team that ever had to get promoted to reach the EPL in the Premier League era has won a title, I’d cite Leicester City, and I think Manchester City was relegated and regained promotion at least once in the PL era. I agree though that while it’s an interesting aspect of European leagues, relegation is a very questionable concept in MLS.

Understandable now, but in 2006/7 when I was picking a club, Chelsea and Manchester United would have been the easy ones to pick. I chose Liverpool, or maybe they chose me. A game at Anfield is high on my sports bucket list, but it hasn’t happened yet. Been to one game in Europe...Bayern Munich-Augsburg at the Allianz.

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Have you heard something? Or speculating? I had the thought last week that it would be cool if the team incorporated something related to the railroad or trains in its name. The stadium will be right by Union Station and is part of a revitalization of that part of downtown.

That’s my take too. The name falls into the category of names made up to sound tough, edgy, cool, and original, and I don’t like those names generally. If MLS4THELOU went with something like that, I likely wouldn’t like it. Seattle nailed the branding though.

McDermott has been trying to make Legacy happen since the announced the team. For what it’s worth, I think I saw Ben Frederickson of the P-D mention on Twitter that he had heard of a few names that were not the team name, and Legacy was one of those names.

There are some team nicknames in MLS that are good. The ones you mentioned fall in that group. I just don’t want a name like the Montreal Impact or some of the names that have been replaced. Using prior names in St. Louis, I don’t want a name like the Storm, Ambush, or Battlehawks either.

I forgot about that one on my list. I like it too.