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In addition to scoring 22 points he had the game winning lay-up with 10 seconds left and shut down McInnis on the following possesion for the win. He is having a very strong season thus far. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=231125022

I was in Chicago last weekend and was listening to the Depaul pre-game show which was basically a call-in show. The topic of Depaul in the Big East was brought up and many didn't think it was a good move because they would be bottom feeders, if they couldn't compete in CUSA how can the compete in the Big East. The problem is not exclusive to SLU. You get enough opinions out there and some of them are bound to be wrong, such as this guy you were listening to.

because he would have been out of eligibility if he had transferred to another 1-AA school. His talent level (before the injury, I never saw him after it) was clearly higher than McKendry.

Ramsey gets the opportunity to call IO's name a lot more this season then he did on Friday night. He NEEDS to be a leader on this team.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/st...e+for+new+arena

the idea that he is not a quality recruit is wrong. He was recruited by many big-time prgrams including SLIU and was the Show-Me player of the year (I believe). The kid can play, although a year of development would likely help. The whole reason for him to walk-on is his family obviously has enough money and are huge supporters of the school. By paying an additional 20k or so for tuition they save the school a scholly for somebody else. I'm surprised that him and Kroenke are on scholarship.

Liddell spent a large amount of his time this summer working on his academics and missed some of the Eagles tournaments, chances to shine, etc. Grimes' high ranking is based almost entirely on potential. His actualy production has been small against clearly inferior players, particularly in highschool, but his size alone makes him an NBA prospect and thus the high ranking. In head-to-head games Lidell has played better than Price. At least that is what the people that have attended the games have said.

anybody on the Billiken's roster.

Billiken fans complaining about a defensive struggle with low scoring. Thats kind of like the pot calling the kettle balck don't you think. The only that matters about the Marquette game last night was that they won. It is good for them, good for the conference and good for the Billiken's RPI. I only wish Memphis had won too. If the Bills finish 17-12 or something like that wins like last night will make the difference betwen us dancing and us hosting an NIT game. First and foremost, helping the Billikens is what I care about the most, and last nights win helped the Bills. Good win Marquette!

but they will likely be sharing time at the point. I wouldn't be against Polk calling a stud Juco power forward every chance he gets.

but their indecisiveness is really pissing me off. A month ago they turned down the ACC. Now their football team sucks a$$ and you see articles on ESPN like this. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1660664 If they did leave the Big East does all of this reshuffling still happen? Discuss

Athletes In Action beat UW last night. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/spor...104_umen13.html

I have argued in vain with my favorite poster on the Tigerboard, Makeshift, about this subject. Whether its partial or non or what I think it is all a mute point. Basically, SLU has had two players in the past 10 years that did the prop 48 route, Tatum and Frazier. I don't think this is a "major" recruiting advantgae. Basically, its hard to tell a kid he should pay 20,000 to attend your University when he could go JUCO for free or prep school for a semster (ala Travon Bryant) Mizzou has proven, however, that it is lax on its screening of potential JUCO players. Clemmons proves that. So does Paul Oliney who basically walked off the street to play for them. So, while technically it is easier for us to get a kid in from highschool (try convincing a kid its in his best interest to pay tuition on his own) it is considerably easier for Mizzou to get JUCOs eligible. If the Clemmons situation had not happened, does anybody believe Pulley would be ineligible?

whether a player or two are missing from time to time I don't know. I do know we got Joe Crispen on his first game with the team and he was noticeably rusty. Still, they are a competitive team.

"UB" is a reference to Uncle Brad.

is what I think of your record prediction. Why? Because we only play 27 regular season games and you predict 33 with a 23-10 record. That is six games in the post season. Since a 23-10 type record will probably get us a first round bye in the CUSA tourney that is at most 3 games in CUSA and another 3 in the NCAA. With out SOS we will make the NCAA with a 21-9 record. Thus, you are predicting us to make the Sweet 16. That is awfully optimistic considering SLU has NEVER done that before.

Cinci was not in a position of power on this move. Everything I read suggested Louisville was in for sure but Cinci had to fight and claw to be included because of their bad football team and questionable reputation. Thus, in my opinion Cinci would have had little power to veto a potential Xavier addition. Seemingly, the only reason the two choosen weren't Xavier and Marquette was that Trangese only wanted to raid 1 conference and thats why Depaul got the nod over Xavier or Dayton.

I'd like one.

His article today was bad. It was poorly written and focused way to much on SLU in CUSA although we are obviously going to the A-10. But those that criticize Gordon the person need to back off. I contend that besides Frank, Earl and maybe Ramsey there probably isn't a bigger Billikens supporter than him. He may be an ex-antler but he writes more critical articles on Snyder and more positive articles on the Bills than just about anyone. Again, today's article was bad, but he is an ally and we'd be foolish to turn him against us when we already have a shortage of allies in the media.

in criticizing Marquette and Depaul for leaving. We would have done the same thing in a heartbeat if given the opportunity. How do I know that? Because we have done that twice in the past. We did it to Xavier in the formation of the Great Midwest and Dayton in the formation of CUSA. And don't give me that b.s. about us wanting those schools in, we did no more and no less to get them in than Marquette and Depaul did to get US in the Big East. Thankfully Dayton and Xavier didn't harbor the same ill will towards us that you seemingly feel for Depaul and Marquette. Otherwise we'd be heading to the MVC. We look like little crybabies when we post anti-Marquette and Depaul stuff. Everybody that posts this stuff should grow. Now with all that being said, you can rest assured from now on I will be rooting for A-10 teams against CUSA teams. Xavier vs. Cinci. Clearly Xavier. Dayton vs. Marquette. Clearly Dayton. And you'd better believe when Marquette plays Cinci I'll still be calling for Marquette.

at this point and I don't blame him for waiting two days. Simply pu I think everybody that has criticized this man needs to at least acknowledge on Thursday when we get the invite to the A-10 that he did a good job. Given the situation we were in it is basically the best possible outcome. Kudos to Doug. Now build us that arena!

the most insightful (not for billikens.com readers) info of the night was from a caller who refrenced some of the recent articles on the baord. I have a feeling it was Torch???

and I don't think Bernie means to be this stupid but sometimes he just doesn't get it. He's now suggesting that if SLU had only started up a football program they would have been invited to the Big East a-la South Florida. Of course he totally ignores the fact that South Florida is in the football hotbed of the world and the Big East just wants to to keep the pressense down there. I seriously doubt the Big East is looking at the St. Louis highschool talent and wondering how it can get a foothold in the area. He just doesn't get it. Thursday can't come soon enough so we can 1) end all the media speculation about us going to the MVC and 2) stupid posts about Worst Case scenarios won't happen. Why people insist on worrying about things that aren't going to happen is beyond me.

I'm sure if JJ had been playing it would have been 20-10 or something.

we are most likely heading to the A-10 aren't you? The fact is SLU is going to come out of this ok. I'm sure thats what you wer hoping for all along.