Quality Is Job 1

You have officially demonstrated that your mind is in the gutter. For crying out loud, it's Sunday!

...the thread should have died a long way back!

"Obi's 10 inch earthworm...." That's a jungle fever stereotype.

Dude, stop procrastinating! You have too much time to waste.

I concur. The most important thing for Ian to do is to avoid getting into foul trouble. I hope that A-10 refs don't have something against big Greeks.

I listen to KFNS rather frequently, and this is the first I've heard that there would be any changes to the lineup. Can anyone confirm that Bob Ramsey will move to the show with Kevin Slaten? When is that supposed to happen?

I have a sense of humor, but it's not gutteral.

You, sir, have poor taste in humor. I thought your joke about Savvis/Family was funny, but this joke is just in poor taste.

>Didn't Julian hurt his knee. Also ... though I may be >wrong, I think he agreed to transfer to KS but didn't >actually do it. I remember the fuss ... as I recall Roy was >hot because he had specifically asked Julian if he was going >to follow his father and he said no and then did. Yes, now that you mention it, I do recall that Julian injured his knee during the year he sat out while he was at Kansas. He did, indeed, transfer to Kansas and was in attendance there in 1992-93. Julian probably told Roy Williams that he wouldn't follow his dad, but that was BEFORE Lee Winfield was hired by Missouri. The family then decided that Julian would go to Mizzou instead so that Julian wouldn't play against his dad and Lee wouldn't coach against his son. It makes sense to me, and it was a brilliant move by Stewart. If Lee Winfield had taken a position at a Big 10 or SEC school, I'm sure Julian would have remained at Kansas.

Actually, Winfield transferred to Kansas after Grawer and Lee Winfield were dismissed from SLU, but after the season that Julian sat out, Norm Stewart hired Lee to be his assistant coach, so Julian made a family decision to attend Mizzou, instead. Julian, a Parade All-American, was the most highly touted member of the 1991 recruiting class, and he had a decent, but not spectacular, career. He was extremely athletic and was a very good defender, but he wasn't an especially good point guard (his position) and he lacked a dependable perimeter jumper. In the end Claggett and Highmark wound up with gaudier contributions.

I saw Ikeakor working out with teammates two-on-two some three weeks ago. He probably isn't doing full-contact stuff, but he has been on the floor, with a basketball in his hands, and been working with teammates.

Brian Smith was a 6-9 left-handed power forward. He played at SLU for two years: Grawer's last year and Spoon's first year before leaving. I liked him, but he was limited to offense around the basket. I guess he was like a taller, but skinnier version of Justin Tatum.

That's how I interpreted it, also.

What he really meant to say was, "If SLU played a super-uptempo style, I would be able to play, even though I would be only the sixth best guard on the squad." I wish Darren well. I hope he puts up some really nice numbers for UTEP. The newspaper's biggest error was stating that Clarke played at SLU for only one season "but would have two years of eligibility remaining."

That's "beaucoup."

But it's the school's arena. Should they say, "Oh, we're taking a picture for the women's team media guide, so let's take the men's team banners down and then hang them back up after we're finished"? Where would it stop? Would they then have to say, "Oh, the men's team will have a lackluster season this year, so let's take down the 50-year-old NIT championship banners, because that's old news, anyway"?

Earlier in this thread you wrote, "You lie, there is no connection. I'm not VTIME!" But now you admit that you had the alias VTime and were banned for posting too much. Why couldn't you sit out the time the administrator assigned? You weren't banned forever, nor were you exiled for anywhere near the length of time aj_arete was barred from tigerboard. Are you addicted to this thing? Many of us have that problem, more or less, but I think you need help, my friend.

I'm not 100 percent certain, but I think they do display the men's banners in Bauman-Eberhardt (West Pine). I'll try to remember to look the next time I go to watch pick-up/practice. The men's team did reach those levels, so how is it false advertising?

Some have suggested that instead of spending $XX million on a new arena, SLU should spend a fraction of that on a state-of-the-art practice facility and continue to play the games off campus (at Savvis, or occasionally at Family Arena or the Ed). Here's why I don't like that idea. It will cost too much. Saint Louis University isn't really shelling out its own money to build the proposed arena. Rather, local basketball fans and SLU supporters are funding the project. Not only would it most likely help the team improve its product, but they'd also get to go to the place they helped build and enjoy the fruits of their labor. Are they going to spend their money, even only a fraction of it, to build a facility they will probably never enter? I doubt it. That means the university would have to fund the facility. They don't bring in enough revenue to do it; therefore, the students would then have to fund it, and even they wouldn't benefit from the facility, so it wouldn't be fair to them. Before you argue that people have made contributions to other campus facilities that they may never enter or benefit from, like a hospital or research facility, let me counter that there's a difference between contributing to something that will benefit the students and/or the community than to paying for something only the team would benefit from.

SLU (Biondi) doesn't aspire to anything beyond mediocrity, let alone Top 50. Miklasz must have it right. And why should it be any different? St. Louis is a baseball town that loves pro sports and couldn't care less about basketball. The best basketball players to come out of St. Louis in the last 25 years have almost nothing to do with SLU, and the school's career leading scorer can't even be enticed (for whatever reason) to be a coach/spokesman for the program. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood today, but I think my sig is in question:

It's great as it is.

...for those who may not know, Iran had visa problems and didn't get into Argentina to play, so every team gets a "win" for that game on the schedule.

cheeseman, I think I have to disagree with you and agree with Taj on this point. The Billikens this year do somewhat resemble the team at the beginning of the 1992-93 season. The nucleus of the team is young and coming off of a rock-bottom season. I will grant you that the 2005-06 squad has a better center and better freshmen than the 1992-93 squad (though it remains to be seen if those players will improve the Bills' shooting and rebounding enough to be significantly better than the '92-93 squad), but the '92-93 squad's sophomores provided significantly production than I feel we can expect from the '05-06 sophomores.

Hey, have you been cleared to play again? Will you play pro ball anywhere? What are you planning on doing with your life? Congratulations on graduating from SLU, along with Reggie and Izik!