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other than the coaches having character issues-I always thought the team did not quite have the talent to play the positions available to them. Clagget came out on top because the entire fan base and team that remained were convinced of his talent. A kid that shot the three that well- maybe not a point guard in fact he hardly ever finished a drive for a layup prefering not to get hammered-but his passes turned into assists. Kevin Grawer could get minutes for SLU Or Mizzou-too bad KG couldn't have finished at SLU but his dad self destructed for whatever reasons-RG was good for the program for a while but he sure benched talent year after year in favor of true grit

this was a really tough season for a "20" game win season-disappointing P-R for the team and coach-poor media both radio and TV coverage were almost crystal set technology. Recruits-not many and as many left as gained. How does Brad keep staff and team spirits high under these circumstances? The future?-Is Kramer the point guard of the future and will he be shorter and slower than Grawer's son. A lot of us were there when Grawer let Clagget sit the bench freshman year so his son and Winfield's could try to learn point. So if we have these questions how does a recruit for point guard with more than Juco years choose SLU when he could be coming off the bench when the coach's son runs the point for 4 years whether he is that good or not. Somebody who has seen kramer play please write in and say he is that good and will give his body up for the team. The little I saw of him a year ago at Bauman-Eberhard scrimmage was that he thrived on being bounced around by the bigger guys, can he shoot from deep like the Porter kid 5 foot 6" or so from Oregon?

what is the status of wendell bennett?

they are both very accessable under the right circumstances; the school did more to introduce Romar but Brad was already here because it was quite obvious he or someone like him had to be brought in to recruit the midwest and as far Romar's coaching style-he let them play and sat on the sidelines; Brad has to restrain himself he wants to win so much and Romar's program had all kinds of recruiting violations as soon as he went to Washington and Cameron Dollar took the heat for it. Brad has the credentials many here have espoused yet they don't necessarily support him. He was a Big Ten Assistant for Wisconsin who continues to have a top program; he was acting coach of a Big Ten school; He has had few lucky wins and had some hurt players and his own assistants seem a little weak; but with jamal walker that seems headed in the right direction; jeff harris begged for a spot but with no coaching experience they did not take him on; Sloan could have been a good recruiter if you were looking for Sloan type guys; we are not necessarily looking in that direction. If he makes $4oo,ooo and his kid can come on with an employee scholarship deal; he should use some of his money for whatever extra it costs to have his kid stay in the dorms and use the extra scholarship for an athlete who needs a full ride and will play like he needs. Many of us who went to SLU had parents pay tuition and we worked summers and during school to get through. It seems Soderberg has lived in the county so his kids could get free public school educations-not exactly a backer of private schools, in his private life.

are we in this pickle because we gave walk-ons multiple year scholarships in spite of the fact that no one ever offered them; I realise their importance with our lack of depth but are they now the reason for us to have no depth? If so, that is stupid and I would jump ship on BS

actually having the Valley offices on Chouteau across from Ameren UE has been a boon to the local neighborhoods' residents for the most part. It seems as part of their good neighbor largesse-many $66 tickets were given away to fill the stands-attendance was 26,500 or so and many tickets had valley comp type signatures. We may not want to join but it is at least as good as having the Bowling Hall of Fame downtown. If SLU gets on a roll we should expect the media to want free tickets as well as pro players-for all the money they make. They had no problem when Spoon was here begging for tickets even if they left long before the curtain call-I am always amazed at "fans" who leave a tightly contested game with 2 minutes to go. UNX was down 49-33 before beating Georgetown by almost 10. a 20-30 pt swing is not unheard of in this game.

small towns and large cities-we in St. louis would not want someone to judge us by how we looked in the late sixties and seventies when people fled because of civil unrest and minorities wanting in a hurry what Kennedy promised. Change scared people. Now we have had lots of good changes in St. Louis but we shouldn't be surprised that all ships rise in a rising tide and we have found that it is good for all of us that we don't have to stand on someone elses shoulders to keep from drowning. It would be great if could get MG to play for us and I think he would find the influence of St. Louis would spread the reputation of his skills throughout Southeast Missouri.

I have SLU season tickets and most often invite neighbors to join-we enjoy the game and sometimes the buffet. One reciprocated and I am a guest to go the games tonight

every year the city of St. Louis has millions of bulbs bloom for spring-you'll love this city for the sports on the pro, collegiate and amateur level. You'll love Forest Park for the picnics and free zoo and sledding on art hill. you'll love our art museum which is free certain times every week; you'll love our muny opera (which is really musical theatre-not opera and has free seats every performance-come and go atmosphere in casual clothes); these are just a few of the wonderful things St. Louis has to offer for you and your friends. The University is great and so is the city we live in. Many recent ball players have found great opportunities lie ahead of them as a result of their time at SLU

come on sunshine our campus can look as good as anyones if the sun comes out-better than many

no duh? and here I thought maybe he sunk to the pits and became a politician

programs and combine it for a wonderful PHD program-I have said it before call it PE or Parks and Recreation or Sports Medicine-if a kid wants to coach at Big Ten school he should really have more than a bachelors' degree from a liberal arts or business college. Obviously, this is a profession where hundreds of head coaches in Football, Basketball, and som Track coaches can knock down $400,000 plus per year

we have got to fix the tv and radio coverage; you can get KY all over our area on radio; we can't get ours outside the Scott Trade or downtown if you are returning to the E Side after a game-the PR support for Brad has been abysmal-it was great for Spoon and Romar and even Grawer-as good as Cheryl is in person-this is one area she has not been improving

credence to all the students' hopes of improving their chances? not to knodk our former conferences but you can imagine going to GW to grad school or Temple would be better than some of our former collegial associates-when we were in the old mvc with Dayton and Louisville their were always feelings that some schools had good standards and others had lesser

I talked to the assistant AD the year Bonner was a freshman; he said when they scrimmaged they split Douglas and Gray to lead two teams whoever had Bonner always won in spite of his never developing a jump shot. He was a raw talent all right like Bob Gibson was raw. Carlos Skinner was a smaller board banger you had to admire-Grawer wouldn't let him shoot ever; but if he didn't board he didn't play-Brad get us a banger

will Margot or someone tell us how many Billiken Club members there are; that may be a more interesting number as another poster said of the new arena they are offering a point for every $50 instead of the usual point for every hundred if you earmark for arena capital fund; new ticket holders are in line behind Billiken Club point system

wow finally payback for Princeton taking that Bill Bradley kid from us who played for Crystal City and was Missouri allstate-lost track of him because he left town to play basketball for Ivy league and then I heard he went to Europe on one of those fancy Rhodes scholarship deals but I don't know what league he played in over there

I went to several different size schools; found some great teacheers at small schools and some great minds at larger ones. I understand, locally, Wash U has a reputation for superior academics and decent basketball and volleyball programs-I also understand tenured professors, there, rarely teach undergrads much less underclassmen. So if your bachelors' is going to be a terminal degree it may be important to get an idea of what kind of teachers, grad assistants, etc you will actually have. When I went to Illinois-many of the math teachers were Asian and could not speak English or teach; they spent every class copying problems on the board for those that did not drop the classes. I experienced the same thing in grad school six years later at SLU-Dr.Kwon taought management systems and he had little grasp of English at the time, later, he was promoted and touted by the University as someone of importance. We all grow. We have seen small college basketball player Brad Soderberg go from assistant to acting head coach at Wisconsin and assistant and chief recruiter for SLU and on to head coach-now he has had a decent winning season and been better than predicted in a league of seasoned head coaches-who definitely outcoached him last year and against whom he did better this year. We can only hope he lands some big recruits and we go on to win league, tournament and get in NCAA

my kid looked at 16 schools; he was an allstate vocalist 4 years and wanted a degree in engineering as well; I took him to small and large schools-East and midwest; Mizoo offered a full ride and the promise of the lead in a show every year. He picked up on a feud between the music school and theatre and was put off, He went to Big Ten small school Northwestern on a partial scholarship-called after two terms of straight A's and said I got good news and bad: good full scholarship from eng school; bad just quit engineering- my response, I'm not surprised-he asked why? I replied they don't clap at the end of engineering classes-did his master's in London-now a sometimes struggling sometimes glamorous opera singer-has played the met and Carnegie Hall and every stage of the Lincoln center-had he gone elsewhere he might be a physicist with Nasa as one of his cousins did in the space program-they are just kids making these decisions and they have to live with them-sure I took him to SLU and he interviewed with both the music and physics department and I thought they had a shot when the physics phd said he had been an allstate piano player

my guess is about 4,000 accounts and nearly double that maybe as many as 8 or 9 thousand tickets are pre sold for every game and the balance is walk ins-someone could call the ticket sales office and get an official number

smart kid he used his visits to get to know the competition in the league; I hope we get some players that astute-definitely point guard and coaching type of mind

In 1968 I went to the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana they bragged about having the most PHD's in physical education of any school in the country-how many great minds are in our athletic department-in a school that prizes academics have we purposely dumbed down our own athletic department?

he also did not answer your question when did you become a Billiken Fan? He posted-he just did not say he was a fan-he is not a hypocrite

the Cardinals are coming home and the city will be a buzz with good sports news-don't we have some basketball thing going on in town that they could show the kid the old gym where we used to play-before we decided to go on campus and we are one of few where beer is allowed-how big is that?

highschool junior year girl I dated had a brother who attended and father who kept getting tickets I think we got some he couldn't use in 1962. We got married 15 years later and have our own season tickets-we went to a lot of highschool bb games as I always had trouble tansitioning from football to something where you were not supposed to block-coach hated that I wouldn't melt away for the first string center or forward and would take those charges. I probably could've made the team with less impact.