SLUMS81
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IMO, it speaks volumes that CG quit the team in mid-season. I cannot see how this benefits him career-wise. Has there been another player do this in the past?
I agree with other posts - let's recruit athletes with character who are fully committed to the program.
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A couple of additional observations from the first two hours of the 2015-2016 campaign:
1. Neufeld - aggressive on offense. Looks to the hoop, gets to the hoop with either hand, something we have not seen in a 5 in God knows how long.
Will actually draw fouls. He may be our best offensive big already.2. Welmer - quicker and physically bigger than we may have been led to believe.
3. Gillman - more muscle, Looks more comfortable.
4. Yacoubou - best athlete on the floor, explosive.
5. Crawford - best shooter on the floor.
6. Hines/Bishop: in a learning mode. Give them time.
This year's offense looks more complicated, 'hot read' based, compared to last year.
Coaches and players very cordial.
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Not quite basketball related: a certain Erwin Claggett got a hole-in-one at Wolf Hollow. Ninth hole, 3-wood, 215 yards. Proves he can still make 'em from beyond the arc.
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...and a member of the once proud Pi Delta Theta fraternity.That would be the same Tom O'Toole who was the student manager for the final years of Billiken hockey.
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Amen to that.
Would Kim Anderson be worth a look?
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Even if the other recruit is tall, unless we recruit a really good JUCO he is going to be a freshman who will probably not be a significant upgrade compared to CR in the short term. Makes it all the more important for WR to return.Problem is, if Reed can't play next year and Remekun does in fact transfer, we don't have a whole lot of an inside presence- Manning, Loe, Conklin, with Evans and Ellis. Hopefully whoever the other recruit is also happens to be tall.
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If Willie comes back, he better have a few more dozen pounds of pure muscle on his frame. Many players lose weight during the season. There is absolutely no excuse for him not to be alot more physical going forward into next year.If he's ready, look out A-10.
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...For SLU to reconsider becoming a football school again. Basketball is clearly a secondary sport in the grand scheme of the current conference realignment drama.
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Alright Board,
This is one of the most important decisions I have ever had to make and I need your help.
I am signing up for grad school classes at SLU and most of them are at night. With our potential schedule in mind. Do I leave open Tuesday nights or Wednesday nights in the fall semester so that I can make the most games...
Since you are smart enough to be a Bills fan, you are smart enough to skip a few classes when the need arises.
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Wow...interesting choice. SLU over Yale. Good call.
I think Cornell proved this year that Ivy League athletics should probably be taken seriously.
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Congrats to all..Too bad RM wasn't named coach of the year.
I can't think of another coach who did as much with a bunch of youngsters as RM.
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Huge win!
I spent time listening to the MU game on the radio to day and no disrespect to Mike Kelly but Rammer does a 10 times better job calling a basketball game. I have listened to at least 3 full games this year with no tv or internet feed and each time was disappointed knowing I could not watch. After each game I have felt like I missed nothing.
Way to go Billikids, keep it rolling in AC!
Rammer and Earl are great. They are as much into the game and the program as any fans are. This comes through during their broadcasts.
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Huge win!
I spent time listening to the MU game on the radio to day and no disrespect to Mike Kelly but Rammer does a 10 times better job calling a basketball game. I have listened to at least 3 full games this year with no tv or internet feed and each time was disappointed knowing I could not watch. After each game I have felt like I missed nothing.
Way to go Billikids, keep it rolling in AC!
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What exactly does everyone on this board want from the St. Louis University basketball program? I thought that I was in the majority thought pattern here --- that I wanted a program that competed seven or eight out of every ten years, for a spot in the post season. I always considered that post season to be March Madness and saw the NIT as the typical failure as in Not In Tournament. Now, given the level of play and the limits of NCAA bids, with almost all open bids going to BCS-league teams, I am more willing to accept the NIT bid as more success than failure. I am, however, still some higher-than-thou United Nations wannabee and do not formally recognize the CBA or CBI or whatever they are as legit. I also believe that it takes time to build anything, longer for an item from scratch, which I have said is the plight of our never-was program. Others seem to espouse to the ten-second sound bite method of immediate gratification. Giving a guy a million dollars means success is due yesterday.
I get the feeling that there are folks out there, roy included, who have this black and white view of success. I don't know what that is but apparently roy includes the need to have a saint or benevolent father figure at the top of this program as well. Not roy's words, mine. Not only do I want to watch Selection Sunday with SLU being relevant, I want a clean program (nothing major in terms of overt violations recognizing a 500+ page rulebook), kids to be successful, nice graduation rates, few if any criminal instances, on-campus packed house, and so on.
I am guessing that most will agree that that too is what they want. Maybe the real question is how to get there? It appears to me that Majerus is a polarizing figure. I just don't think we have an option to go a much different route. I cna't complain with Rick's success --- while two year win totals are not huge, he has replaced what he was left with and is now stocking his own supplies. With that stock comes more accountability. So I intend to watch the progress now with less of a perchant to cut breaks.
Thoughts.
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What exactly does everyone on this board want from the St. Louis University basketball program? I thought that I was in the majority thought pattern here --- that I wanted a program that competed seven or eight out of every ten years, for a spot in the post season. I always considered that post season to be March Madness and saw the NIT as the typical failure as in Not In Tournament. Now, given the level of play and the limits of NCAA bids, with almost all open bids going to BCS-league teams, I am more willing to accept the NIT bid as more success than failure. I am, however, still some higher-than-thou United Nations wannabee and do not formally recognize the CBA or CBI or whatever they are as legit. I also believe that it takes time to build anything, longer for an item from scratch, which I have said is the plight of our never-was program. Others seem to espouse to the ten-second sound bite method of immediate gratification. Giving a guy a million dollars means success is due yesterday.
I get the feeling that there are folks out there, roy included, who have this black and white view of success. I don't know what that is but apparently roy includes the need to have a saint or benevolent father figure at the top of this program as well. Not roy's words, mine. Not only do I want to watch Selection Sunday with SLU being relevant, I want a clean program (nothing major in terms of overt violations recognizing a 500+ page rulebook), kids to be successful, nice graduation rates, few if any criminal instances, on-campus packed house, and so on.
I am guessing that most will agree that that too is what they want. Maybe the real question is how to get there? It appears to me that Majerus is a polarizing figure. I just don't think we have an option to go a much different route. I cna't complain with Rick's success --- while two year win totals are not huge, he has replaced what he was left with and is now stocking his own supplies. With that stock comes more accountability. So I intend to watch the progress now with less of a perchant to cut breaks.
Thoughts.
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Congratulations to Theresa Lisch for being selected first team Academic All-American. Pretty impressive!
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Biondi Thunderdome.
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Does anybody think Webster Groves is more athletic than McCluer North?
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...behind the SLU bench during the Xavier game? If so, hopefully he was impressed with the overall effort and atmosphere.
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Apparently, SLU had numerous decent looks at the basket at GW. The coaching staff is responsible for getting the players in a position to score. RM cannot make jump shots for the players.
If SLU shoots 40% rather than 12%, we lose by 7 or 8 points and there is no hysteria.
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I expected this season to be like Pitino's first season with Kentucky, back when they had Pelphrey and a couple solid but unspectacular role players, and then some deep reserves. Implement the new program, play like hell but be hellhounds, and have a below average season with games where the new system clicks and upsets are registered. I also expected RM to spread the love, establish a very positive mantra, and get set up for the following seasons. I also expected him to be able to coach the team up, even moreso than FRUBS.
Maybe it is the media, maybe RM has pissed the media off too much, or they won't listen to his mantra, who knows. Maybe RM doesn't want to sell a positive mantra because he feels it is beneath him. We are witnessing an incoherent PR campaign followed with incoherent coaching and game planning. We have a coaching staff with three HCs and a lead assistant, yet no one colud tell RM to dial down practices so the players had enough in the tank to match the feeble defeat boxscores that overmatched FRUBS teams could generate?
RM is driving this futile season to the point where he'll be able to convince any recruit that they will be better than anyone we currently have in the program, but I question whether that is a good thing. It is obvious to me that RM and staff are not going to squeeze any more effort from the team on the defensive side(we are the 17th best defensive team in DI with what many posters like to point out is a team with two true starters,) yet a strict overanalysis of what to do offensively has led us into catonic efforts for most game starts, and some finishes as well.
Another two eggs like GW will lose a lot of recruiting advantages we inherently have in the region.
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Does a team's rpi reflect the strength of schedule based on opponents' cumulative record, or just their record or rank at the time that SLU played them?
I am asking this because Pitt has now lost 2 starters for the season due to injuries, and will likely end up with a mediocre record as a result. They were a legit top 20 team at the time we played them.
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Doesn't Duke have a stud freshman from Oregon? I wonder if he and Conklin ever matched-up against each other in high school.Thanks for the link. I am getting more excited about our recruiting class every day.
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i would hope that if hired he gets the same budget and staff (with corresponding adjustment for football) as a notre dame athletic director.
The candidate would probably expect an adequate budget prior to accepting the position.
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This is less of a hit to the program than it might have been. Imagine the layers of speculation if CG had decided to de-commit last summer.