Quality Is Job 1

Well, while C-USA was a very good situation (until the ACC raided the Big East and the Big East followed suit by raiding C-USA), the Great Midwest was an even better conference situation.

We won't hold that against him (or against Whitesell). (When Majerus hired Crews, it was a move more along the lines of Ford's hiring of Giacoletti.)

In hindsight, it appears to have been a mistake. RickMa cashiered Thorpe pretty quickly for dropping the ball in monitoring Cotto.

I was stumping for Jamall Walker long ago! Father Biondi made a mistake in choosing to retain Thorpe rather than SLU alumnus Walker.

But it was Rick Majerus who hired Whitesell!

This is a tough year for recruits — and all those graduating from high school — as they navigate the immediate and short-term future on the heels of this plague (and the global reaction to it). [I can hardly imagine the deflating horror of cancelled proms and drive-through commencement exercises. Yet some of them will be stronger for it. They will have managed to weather much tougher circumstances than most of us ever had to.]

Where would Jalen Johnson fit in? Would you consider adding a category?

No, but even he under-performed under Crews's tutelage.

Ash Yacoubou.

My recollection is that there is a penalty for a low score — perhaps -50 or something (Steve would know). I think it limits the number of times one can post per day if below whatever the threshold is.

Bonner led the nation in rebounding his senior year. Maybe that merits the honor.

I guess AP honorable mention isn't enough, because a all-conference POY is automatically honorable mention (e.g., Jett in '14), but no raising, yet.

Well, Bonner, Douglass, and Gray are considered Billiken greats without having played in the NCAA Tournament — in addition to Liddell and Lisch.

The real question is why SLU hasn't hired @crymdg2 to coach Hasahn and J-Good with free throw shooting! Heh!

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I'm sorry; I know Seton Hall is in the Big East, but I have trouble perceiving of them as being cut-and-dry a level above SLU (with respect to "power" status).

The home page of the website (billikens.com) is not part of the board. My guess is that if Steve removed Chapley's tweets from the feed, it would have to remove all of them and wouldn't be able to filter them by content.

Um, I "hate" to tell you this, but A-B is actually in his 50s!

Straight Bs except for a C! Hook 'em Horns!

"All the way across" Massachusetts isn't the same as "all the way across" most other states!

I'm thinking Jordan Goodwin could be A10 Player of the Year.

In that case, my apologies to Melvin.

I don't think guys — throughout all of basketball — listed at 6-7 or 6-8 are actually those heights; I think they're all an inch or two shorter. Maybe it's their height including shoes and hair! After standing next to Bryce Husak, one day after a visit to West Pine Gym to watch Soderberg's guys scrimmage, I "bumped into" Melvin Robinson. Mentally I compared my memory of standing next to Husak to standing next to Big Chill, and I felt that Melvin couldn't be 7'. I asked him if he were really seven feet tall, and he said that he is, but I didn't (and don't) believe it. Anthony Bonner was listed at 6-8, but he's probably really 6-6.

Indeed. Perhaps he's confusing "impact player" with "star player."

You have your anecdotal "evidence," and others have contradictory anecdotal evidence. About a dozen years ago, when I was still in St. Louis, I hosted a cousin from Cleveland who was in St. Louis for a bodybuilding contest. During one drive to a function, we discussed hoops a little. (He went to Ohio State.) He asked me who my favorite schools are, and I told him SLU and Mizzou. He said, "Saint Louis University? Are they even D-1?!" I was incensed! (In his defense [possibly!] though, because I went to the University of Missouri-St. Louis [and I imagine he was aware of that, at least vaguely] and not many people outside of the St. Louis region are really familiar with its school structure or that of Missouri, he may not have realized that SLU is not UMSL.) I'm sure there are plenty of sports fans outside of the St. Louis region who have no idea that SLU is — or has been, depending the definition — a high-major program.