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I’m not sure what the root of it is, but I don’t think Goodman’s the only one in the media with that opinion. Again, can’t explain why, but I just get that feel.

He’s 11 years old.

My initial thought was “How did Tatum or Beal not get Player if the Decade?” I still think one of them probably should have, but I remembered that the P-D typically favors players who win championships when they pick Players of the Year, so using that rubric, I see how they ended up with Liddell as Player Of the Decade.

Yeah. The Chase Park Plaza. As I remember it, he lived in LaRussa’s former place.

I think that guy attended the Billikens alumni thing at halftime of a game this season. My first thought was “Really?” The second thought was “ where’s a trash can!”

I was a bit young to know the Williams background, but if both him and Ahearn were guys that would have come if we had offered, I think Williams was the bigger miss. That said, we talk about stacking or bridging classes with Ford, and the progression from Williams to Ahearn to Lisch would have given us 10 years of really solid guard play.

I’m going to have to listen to the Sloan episode. Romar’s tenure was when I started following SLU news on websites like this and it’s predecessors. I was constantly checking recruiting updates and would get excited about the possible recruits Romar would get. Since he was from California and that’s where his connections were, he tried relentlessly to start a California pipeline, but repeatedly missed out on several pretty good California players. Finally got Ryan Hollins in his last year, who was probably much less heralded than some of the guys we missed on in previous years, but he ended up at UCLA and going to the NBA.

I’ll admit, when I heard this part of the story when he visited/committed, I was concerned that he wasn’t visiting Davidson, which could suggest that his coach told McKillop that Andre wasn’t good enough. Later, it sounded like Davidson did have some interest, and for whatever reason, he chose us. I’m interested to see how he does.

I put this in here instead of the former Billikens thread because I didn’t want to subject people to that picture of Grandy Glaze.

He’s expected to graduate this summer, so he’s a grad transfer.

DeSmet has two juniors, Sekou Gassama and Yaya Keita, that SLU has been recruiting. They’ve been at some games this season. They are from Mali. Diarra is from Mali. The thought is that maybe having someone from their country could have been a draw. I’m not sure what kind of connection they had with Madani.

Before people freak out and think one or more of them are gone, note the breakdown of the analytics. It’s not a prospects ranking, or a draft projection. Jeremiah Tillman was ranked #2. Obi Toppin was #90.

I figured this is as good of a place as any for this. May have had a SLU offer once. The name sounds familiar.

True. And if one of them committed, that would be cause for excitement. I hadn’t heard a whole lot about them to date with regard to SLU, so I hadn’t considered the possibility.

Let’s hope. I’d be good with Kern right now too, but Coach314 said he’d be surprised if Kern was committing now.

I’m going to be greedy...is more good news on the way??

As someone who occasionally wears multiple Normal Brand items at a time, shot at me out of nowhere.

I drive by that place all the time, but haven’t eaten there. Maybe once when it was Kriegers. Anyway, while I have my own list of favorites I’m trying to support, I’ll consider checking that out. I glanced at the menu, and the Jameson BBQ sauce they use made me think of probably the best meal I had in Ireland last year, so that’s intriguing.

Yeah. When I heard it, my thoughts largely were the above, but I think the more likely scenario is that instead of Okoro, we get Russell, and Kern commits with Russell. Maybe things go especially well and we get Nesbit too.

Cusumano just said on his show that while he can’t get into details, “things are brewing”, not only for this recruiting class, but for the next one too, and Billikens fans should be excited about it.

With Linssen committing, we don’t have any open scholarships, so someone’s going to have to leave.

Just looked at his freshman year stats. If his brother didn’t win the national POY award this year, there’s no chance that Kentucky even knows who he is, let alone signs him to a scholarship, right?

I clicked the “Good Post” thing, but I wanted to compliment this post again. Well done.

I don’t disagree with you. It may be different for the national media people who cover recruiting as a larger portion of their job, but I don’t really know if it’s a big feather in Frank’s cap if he reports this first. I already know he has a better handle on the local HS basketball scene than basically anyone else on the air in STL, unless you add in Earl Austin Jr.