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To me it seems we are deep at the wings; McCotry, Dunlap, Shirma, Thames, Jones, Warlick with little difference among the first 5. Given that two of them have injury histories the depth is a good thing. I also wonder if Schertz may be looking to speed things up and spread the minutes around to keep them fresh. You can never have too many shooters and it seems we have a few.

The list is at 117 (Va Tech) so far no A10 teams listed in the first 27 teams selected. Given our just about totally new roster I expect we’ll not get listed. Of course there are a lot of teams just like us, ie high turnover rosters.

Exactly. It’s all about the A10 tournament for SLU. Maybe if we won the reg season title and our record was like 29-3 we might get an invite. That said, I do miss games against P5 teams.

If healthy I would think Dunlap moves up to top 7. Schertz loves the 3.

I agree about the Beast. But that seems like a pipe dream at this point. If the opportunity to get in really exists then we should pull out all the stops to be an invitee. Our history has always been as a member of a major BB conference until the A10 got depleted when X and Butler bolted. But if big time BB goes the FB route I’m not so sure even the Beast will be a major conf. I was just being realistic. Again, the Beast is our lifeline but it hasn’t been tossed.

SLU’s never gonna be in one of the P5’s so we won’t face these pressures. That’s a good thing because the P5’s will for all practical purposes be professional sports teams. We and 300 other schools will be minor league semi pro teams. But that’s ok, we separate ourselves from the bigs and form new championship levels. It won’t be the end of the world.

It’s easy to see why UD is so popular with MTE’s and P5’s; their fan base travels well and every home game’s a sellout. Their deal with OSU is huge. Too bad for us Mizzery doesn’t have the cojones of OSU. All our previous games vs Mizzery were well attended and generated a lot of excitement.

I realize it’s practice and in these vids our FG% is 100%, but we do appear more athletic with more depth. Robbie does look trimmer and a little more toned. Still we have to replace about 35ppg with the loss of Gibby and Swope. Those points will lhave to be replaced by a deeper better bench as none of our newcomers had double digit ppg averages at their previous schools. I did like the ball movement and unselfish play seen in the vids. One question for anyone there, did we have a lot of turnovers or was ball security decent?

Took the words out of my mouth. I recall the practice before the UL game was a meat grinder. He ran them ragged and the tank was empty come game time. Admittedly May was in a tough spot after the COY award, but he could have found a justification and just thanked him for his effort. Thank God the portal was not in place at the time of Rick’s passing otherwise we very well may not have had those 2 extra dance invites. If we had brought back Moser, it makes you wonder if we might finally have got that long dreamed about seeet 16 bid or better.

No one promised us a rose garden. It’s why our motto is It’s hard being a Billiken fan. After 22’-23’ season I’ve tempered my expectations for any season and hoping for sunshine and lemon drops in March. I don’t get ‘em but am still hoping.

Added to the financial issues is the fact that the Trump admin is taking a hard look at the $$’s being doled out to Universities. Also. looking at foreign students who pay full boat in tuition. Even when I was at SLU we had a fair # of foreign students. Not sure what the foreign situation is today. A lousy situation all around. And I don’t expect the Beast to be in expanding mode unless their broadcast masters come up with increased $$’s.

Take him back in a NY minute. Swope hiit some huge clutch baskets for us last year. When u need a guy at the end to step up it was Swope.

Is there some question as to whether he’s coming? From his IG post it looks like he’s already here.

Tx for the effort and rundown. Can’t recall if it’s Torch or 3Star who tout the portal as working with good nods moving up and P5 subs moving down, but it does seem we got our fair share of P5’s dropping down for a chance at getting more minutes. Dunlap is intriguing as he was a Pitino recruit, and Slick Rick knows talent. Hope he stays healthy. Go Bills. Hope springs eternal every June.

68 to 72/76 is nothing. As TajMahal79 said, it’s a chance for P4 or P5 to get a few additional spots. It would need to expand to 98 or so to get in more mids. In all likelihood it’s irrelevant as once the biggies get FB sorted out they’ll turn their sights on how to make hoops more biggie friendly, ie how to get more $’s for themselves. In the long run, mids are toast.