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1 hour ago, RiseAndGrind said:
Did I miss his stories in the Post?
Well, since they haven't been published yet, I guess not.
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59 minutes ago, Spoon-Balls said:
Stu Durando, of course, never fails to drop the ball on providing any semblance of important news to SLU fans. Most people have to come here to find out anything regarding SLU's recruiting. Just an all around low energy guy.
This is a SLU-centric observation. Stu has been working on a massive, long-term investigative project for many months now. And like any of the other survivors at the P-D, he's assigned to whatever comes up on any given day (IndyCar? seriously?). You may have noticed that he was also frequently assigned the 237th Cardinals article in many issues, so now that the season is officially over, he should have at least an extra hour or two in his 60-hour-weeks to devote to more SLU coverage.
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3 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
SLU can pay for their defense from what I was told. A booster can not
Yeah, but SLU paying for their defense while simultaneously still subject to a Title IX inquiry seems a bit screwy.
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4 minutes ago, kshoe said:
The point from my perspective is that people have insinuated that our players couldn't possibly afford him so where did the funds come from? The obvious implication being that SLU somehow gave them cash for this or has already paid the players cash.
The comparison of him representing Lindenwood players is that nobody in their right mind would suggest Lindenwood players were paid under the table by LU. So either those players found the money themselves, he isn't as expensive as people assume, or he does some work pro bono or at a significant discount. Either way, it wasn't players being paid cash to then pay their legal fees.
Fair enough, but hence my initial comment about NCAA regs. Is it possible in either case that someone else (not the schools) pays the legal fees? It seems to me that even in the case of the attorney working pro bono that it's the equivalent of someone else paying the legal fees.
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I'm not sure the point of the Lindenwood reference in regard to Rosenblum's fees. I do know that he's had other high profile cases for which he was most certainly paid. If anyone knows for a fact or at least has strong evidence that he (or Rogers) has done work for free or for only a nominal service charge, please say so.
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8 minutes ago, Billiken Rich said:
No way the U is paying these attorneys
"The U," no. But I seriously doubt any of those guys would have known to hire Rosenblum, and I also seriously doubt the "pro bono" narrative. I have my own theory as to who brought Rosenblum in, but I don't know enough about NCAA regs on something like this to know if my theory is plausible.
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6 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
This is true. I think the more correct way to put it is that with the rise of instant information, everyone is rushing to be the first report on a story and take liberties with the term "credible source"
Or you could be a public official and use the fact that you read it on the Internet as validation something's veracity.
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3 hours ago, JMM28 said:
Pitino is officially fired.
God bless the Onion.
Louisville Janitor Scrapes Rick Pitino’s Name Off Parking Spot At Sorority House
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/louisville-janitor-scrapes-rick-pitinos-name-parki-57058
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Try this. It's the sharing link they provide to the main article. You may or may not be able to get to the list from it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-takes-top-honors-in-wsj-the-college-rankings-1506466800
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I'll remind everyone that Chris May was never intended to be a leader. He was hired to implement the wishes of a select group of others.
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I hope this isn't behind a paywall for y'all.
https://www.wsj.com/graphics/college-rankings-2018-tool/
Data points:
WUSTL 11, GW 64, Creighton 134, Marquette 158, MUST 184, Xavier 220, Gonzaga 223, Mizzou 330.
One other good point of reference is that we're basically tied with the Nads. What more could we want?
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Wait, Louisville was in on this too? That just can't be. Pitino has always run clean programs.
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1 hour ago, thetorch said:
Around Morganford and Bates. It is inside of an existing bar. Good food.
From right before it opened.
https://www.stlmag.com/dining/sneak-peek-the-stellar-hog-in-south-city/
And yet another bbq place is about to open, this time in Kirkwood in the old Steak and Rice.
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6 hours ago, 615Billiken said:
What are some good hole in the wall BBQ joints. I'm Relatively new to the city. I'm familiar with Pappys and Bogarts as well as the uppity joints like Salt and Smoke and BBQ Saloon. Are there any different, more homey places?
Eat your heart out, so to speak. The first article in the link goes through a couple dozen barbecue joints. I need to find the link to all the places they sent me to in the heart of the 'hood.
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4 hours ago, brianstl said:
Adam's Smokehouse.
Adam's and Dalie's are, like Bogart's, Pappy's cousins.
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Um, kids...did everyone have a bit too wild of a night last night at wherever you drink while waiting for Humphrey's to reopen? A whole lot of feeding one-poster trolls (or, as is more likely, troll) going on in this thread.
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If you ever sat in Davis-Shaughnessy, the library, etc. and wondered what mysticism was taking place across Lindell, here's your chance to own a piece of it. A whole lot of fancy ashtrays, among other things. (And no Snake Plissken artifacts, dammit, although I thought he was dead.)
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3 hours ago, RiseAndGrind said:
Stl is a good restaurant city. Multiple James Beard award winners. Outkicking its coverage for sure
Two. Four if you count me and fellow SLU grad (and U News vet) Jeannette Batz, but I didn't exactly win it for my cooking. (Well, maybe, but...)
Anyway, that's not the best yardstick. One of those winners and I had a spirited discussion in my food writing class as to what that award really means. But in terms of quality of cooking, breadth of choices, chefs' community, national visibility and other fairly intangible measures (weighted for size of metro area), we hold our own.
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2 hours ago, slufan13 said:
As an employee I can tell you that the building is awesome and that Westport has gotten a lot busier just in the last month that we've been moved in
I should add that I'm at WWT fairly regularly, usually meeting with groups of three or more. I don't recall a meeting where there wasn't at least one SLU grad in the room, and usually there are several.
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3 hours ago, willie said:
Maybe Joe will agree with this but St Louis wasn't always the good restaurant city it is today .
Well, yeah, that and Casa Gallardo was actually pretty good when there were only a few of them.
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3 hours ago, wgstl said:
Westport was a huge hit in the early 2000's for the younger crowd. Thats where all my siblings would go out for the night.
And even bigger in the early '80s. West Port is in the midst of an utter freaking explosion thanks to the SLU grad who recently moved the headquarters of his multibillion-dollar business into the Plaza proper from about a mile away. I'm betting it gets even more popular than the peak time when Casa Gallardo had a 1.5 hour wait on weekends, there were about 50% more shops and restaurants, and multiple entertainment venues (West Port Cine, West Port Playhouse and the comedy club) all packed 'em in consistently.
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23 hours ago, kwyjibo said:
Ken Pomeroy's deep off-season dive this year was on the home court advantage (a subject I have discussed here long ago). The big take away and surprise is that the home court advantage is shrinking and last year the conference home court advantage was only 2.8 points (down from over 4 in 2000). He does confirm a point I guessed was likely true 10 years ago that whatever home court advantage is it is created by officiating. He shows that the home court advantage is most correlated with the home foul advantage. Further, as the home foul advantage has declined (video replay used by conferences must be making refs better and fairer) the home court advantage has declined. The crowd and thus certain atmospheres may play a role in "persuading" refs but there just was not that many consistent places where that was true year over year (of the 50 teams that had the highest HCA in 2002-9, 90% had below average HCA's for 2010-17). In his data Air Force had the biggest HCA (Texas Tech in his 2002-9 analysis way back) but even that was not that strong. Given that you have to go through security checkpoints to attend or officiate an Air Force game maybe that is where the refs feel swayed.
https://kenpom.com/blog/how-to-measure-home-court-advantage/
https://kenpom.com/blog/how-to-measure-site-specific-home-court-advantage-part-two/
I know there will be people who still think certain places convey some advantage (or travel) but there does not appear to be any consistent place over 16 years of data that has shown to be a great advantage. The real story seems to be that officiating has gotten less homer and thus the home court advantage is waning.
One of the guys in my advanced econometrics class (the smartest person in the class, for that matter) did his final project on a model determining the value of home court advantage in the NBA. Remember, this was when you had to enter both the formulae and the data on punch cards. It was quite clever, and the professor (Goldberger of the Klein-Goldberger model, for which Klein won the Nobel) actually laughed out loud for the first time anyone had ever heard him do so. I think the result was "maybe."
Anyway, said smartest person went on to get his Ph.D. in econometrics. He was, shall we say, a little on the socially defective side and couldn't land a professorial position, so he became a professional gambler, Blackjack, I think. He was eventually banned in virtually every casino in America and many more abroad, but not before he made enough money to retire at age 50.
The kicker? Despite being from and moving back to San Diego after going to Wisconsin, he sent his kid to SLU.
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His KY farewell address, in which he goes 3:40 without a single correction.
Recruiting - 2018 class
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It could set up a great marketing campaign, because he's an anagram for Jocular Bunch, Uh.