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Well, no. I used the words "high-ticket" donors. I think it's clear what that means. I also said "several," which only in a grossly convoluted way could be construed to mean that somehow these donors would balance out the donations that have been lost. And to oversimplify it, Biondi got "run out of town" because he was an arrogant son-of-a-beatch, a quality that served him well as he made many of the sweeping changes that improved SLU's stature, campus and a lot of other things. But an academic institution is not just a business, and its faculty is a great deal more than a bunch of employees. He was a dick to a lot of people, but he really shot himself in the food when he used his usual bulldozer style (I just thought of that, and it's fabulously accurate, no?) on the most important people in terms of what makes a university great. You should go back and read some of the history -- Biondi personally reviewed every faculty raise recommendation and approved or disapproved it. What does your long-ago business degree say about a CEO that supersedes his managers to look at 1,500 employee salaries? What's the word here? Microeconomics? Microscope? Microgram? Ehh, micro-something. (BTW, long-ago B-school grad, did you have my old man for marketing?)

I think something that was said often on this board needs to be repeated: May was not hired to be a leader. No one that Biondi hired was meant to be a leader. There Can Be Only One. And I think if you look closely, Biondi is also almost solely responsible for the state of the athletic department. He grossly underestimated what a "Top 40" program really entailed. He found his angel in Dr. Chaifetz, but he didn't figure out how to raise enough to take care of all the nitty gritty, like, um, marketing. Not to mention he was willing to spend millions on a dream coach, but then to nickel and dime on things like charter flights. And like a whole lot of stuff that happens in St. Louis in general, he went for the big ticket and the quick fix without making sure the foundation was in place for the long term. My limited interactions with May lead me to believe he's an administrator, and a consensus-builder -- but in no possible way a risk-taker. And I've I said before, I don't think we have a clear idea of where Dr. Pestello puts athletics in the overall pecking order. Finally, regarding the budget issues: They're certainly not unique to SLU, and they won't be anywhere near solved even if Biondi re-ropes some of the locals and then corrals more overseas money. (BTW I know several potential high-ticket donors who swore they'd never give the U any money as long as Biondi was still in charge.)

Oh, please God. I don't ask You for much. Please let Kostas Antetokounmpo play at Chaifetz.

Anthony Drejaj, silly. Terrific 3-point stats.

Yeah, that's exactly how I read it. Lighten up, Francises.

You will note that Jones hasn't coached East for seven years now. He was head coach at Lincoln for six seasons until being fired last September.

SLU > SVU

I give it a "Semi" because Claggs is the basketball coach and because there are a number of double- and triple-Billikens on the board. (And because, aside from the Majerus days, Jones is responsible for what may be the favorite all-time memory in St. Louis sports for many of us.) SLUH names new football coach

Yeah, that's why there are at least 100 calculators available to do precisely this. But I'll play along. I got a little more granular and ran Maplewood against Framingham. $40K in Maplewood requires $53,905 in Framingham. You have to squint a little, of course, because Framingham is an exurb and Maplewood is an adjacent suburb. But most the adjacent suburbs in Boston tend to be megaexpensive. (I suppose I could run Clayton against Cambridge for a comparison on the other end of the spectrum. And new hires in STL can't live in Clayton or Maplewood anyway. I don't know the residency requirements of Boston cops.)

"Tom Irwin the Director of Civic Progress said on that show the City of Boston pays their police $100,000 per year." You're really not very good at this, are you?

This is tangential, but why did half or more of the student section disappear (and never reappear) starting just before halftime? Did they just come for the goodies and then split?

And according to CNN's geographic cost of living calculator, $40,000 in St. Louis will go as far as...wait for it...$61,267 in Boston. How about that!

It certainly did, but I can't find any reference at all online for Krushelnyski playing for us, save for some mentions in the list of Selman's players that went pro. Seems to me that after hockey got cancelled the first time but got a reprieve, Selman threw together a Slapshot-like roster of junior-hockey players and the occasional 30-year-old. I vaguely remember Kreshelnyskl leaving in the middle of the year, but I certainly don't trust anything I remember from those days.

[sigh] The final roster

My '70s-vintage windbreaker with the logo "St. Louis University."

If he was still on the team at the time I'm reasonably sure that was an NCAA violation. Edit: Apologies to NextYearBill, whose post I hadn't yet scrolled down to.

Given that the Fresh Market in Creve Coeur closed in about 20 minutes, I'm guessing it's out of the picture for the Foundry. Esquire was probably at the aforementioned Los Tacos. To go a bit further into tangents, Whole Foods in Brentwood now operates a taqueria. Haven't been yet.

So how the fork would he know that you can't get a good meal in St. Louis? He most likely never left a 40-square-block area downtown when he was here (other than, of course, his regular trips to Brooklyn). And as for all of that lovely bresaola and coppa and prosciutto he's only now just discovering, perhaps he should have spent more time in the neighborhoods here than in the strip clubs. Perhaps he would have found all those meats and more at the home of the "best salami in America." http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2011/05/25/the-best-salami-in-the-country/#4bf07ecb394c What an .

I would take exception to your description of "boring food choices." I'm no expert (oh, wait), but I've been eating at The Lobster Place for about 10 years and still manage to find new stuff every time I go there -- and have to wait in line anytime after about 10:30. There are lots of great places throughout, but also (Del Posto, one of the best restaurants in NYC, and Morimoto, as in Iron Chef Morimoto, which may actually be considered to be in Chelsea Market. I think there's also a Colicchio restaurant across the street.) Some of the stuff I've stumbled across inside -- and sometimes you just need to wander the side aisles to find interesting stuff) include Los Tacos, Buddakan. Num Pang and Mokbar, plus a few other walk-up bars in the right-side branch when you enter from 10th Avenue. I'm pleased that you'll hold the Foundry to such high standards.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170216/NEWS07/170219889/millercoors-brings-zima-back-to-u-s-market

I'm more into the narrative that he just didn't give a sh!te and/or had no comprehension of the importance of his role as a lobbyist to other U. presidents and league influentials.

Chris May's liability for us not getting into the Big East is negligible.

We ought to just move to the Valley. Natural geographic rivalries, easier travel. It's where we've always belonged.

Christ, everyone, mellow out. We played an athletic 19-5 team on two days' rest (they had three days' rest). We're still exactly where we were before the game -- slightly overperforming suckiness. If we're similarly blown out by Fordham, then we will have regressed.

They all pee, don't they?