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is the Blu Ribbon Book available at World News or other places they sell lots of periodicals like Borders?

I used to buy the three best ones and scour them; but the last couple of year's you were lucky if they knew who the new recruits or transfers were. They would basically take the year's before finishes and subtract who graduated and who returned. In that scenario we would look pretty good in spite of our dismal fall at the season end. Brad needs a plan 2 and a plan 3 as we see teams a second time and for league playoffs; we seemed to still be working at trying to get the flow of our game plan going and the opponent's coaches and players could pretty much predict our style. We need Twin Towers, We need perimeter shooting from someone 40% or better from the three and we need a rebounder other than our center and guard IV and TL. It is rediculous for Tommie to be the second highest rebounder on the team unless he is following up his shot. Let us pray his grades continue to be good and he keeps getting attention from the media for being loyal to SLU and wanting to play close to home for his parents and freinds and TL has a break out year and gets some support. These days you need a team with 5 threats not 2 like in the old Douglas-Gray days or three when we added Bonner. Please Brad get 5 players involved and if you ever get a ball hawking, scene stealing, free throw making guard or forward who is as intense as Blake Ahearne or Kevin Lisch don't give the scholarship to a reluctant spot up shooter like Darren Clarke-ever again Amen p.s. my group is back up to 12 season ticket holders we had dropped to eight for awhile.

did you stay in the area so you can continue to go to the games?

one of the things I hated in CUSA and MVC was playing nothing places like S. FLA or Evasville Aces-even the fans don't come out for those games. We need rivalries like XU and Dayton and I'd like to have Marquette and Depaul on our schedule. Maybe even Cincy but I think we have the better deal playing x rather than Cincy from now on.

I went to Illinois-Champain Urbana and to Slu for two degrees and I hate Mi$$ou, Laurie, Savvis, the jerks who tore down the old Arena and can't understand anyone who doesn't recognize SLU for being the finest school within 150 miles when you consider teaching faculty, student body, sports acitvities, access to pro sports venues, real city living. forest park, the muny, etc. I tried living in Michigan for 18 years and my brothers said St. Louis did nothing but get better while I was gone. I don't want to take full credit so if Billphan and some others could move away for a similar amount of time maybe we could have another resurgence. I think I hate Mi$$ou more.

My wife and I went to St. Thomas and as the refs treated Brad like a "skinhead" and Darren Clarke of UTEP fame vanished as a starter; we lost 2 of three and almost spoiled a wonderful island experience and three nights of basketball-pre season. Hawaii is too far for the team to go. It is a leg killer. I'd like to see us back in the paradise jam but Brad would have to hang out with the locals to get them warmed up. It set the tone for a tough zebra year for BS and he was a heck of a lot more controlled this year and I'll bet with a better team the refs won't bother him so much. Two years ago we were a step short, a slow set up, and ugly shooters. Let's hope 2006-2007 is a run and run team.

I went to club football games in 1967, 1968 and we had great soccer and respectable college ice hockey and club football drew 100-150 students and few parents. Most of the "talent" were kids who were good in high school but not big enough or not committed enough to put sports before academics. We (they) tried it and it went unnoticed. Other things like Vietnam were on peoples' minds and in the seventies pop music concerts were the only thing that interested most students. If it was going to happen on a D1 basis it would have happened between the Arizona Cards and St. L Rams interval. Public politicians are not going to fund a venue for a private school even an argument can be made that this is a college town. Vtime is really beating a dead horse on this one.

we wanted to add swimming pools when Father Rheinhardt had Biondi's job; they actually listened. I'll probably never understand how we could tear down the three row houses across from humphrey's expecially the one we all bought baloney sandwiches from as we had no student union or cafeteria. But we did have a great Jesuit education and teachers who cared; I went to University of Illinois in Champaine-Urbana before SLU and while I have fond memories of both-I chose to get my grad work at SLU. You will never find a closer student body than at SLU. At other schools they are your competition at SLU they were our classmates. Somebody still makes that part work.

NBA arenas, new or old lots of kids might want to show their skills to large population towns they have only dreamed about and never visited.

really, your posts are very tiring

We must still have those qualifying summer school pre-acceptance trial classes. Does anyone know how we clear students for admission? Horace evidently has done fine in the summer classroom and will have no troubles getting started; that is why he was not practising until he got some feedback about his academic capability. Makes you wonder how Randy Pulley and was it Jeremy Skiles who left SLU for SEMO got in under the wire.

very uplifting comments I am sure everyone will be happy to see you post in the future

Lafayette Square only Sqwires restautant was open and had electric most restaurants including Soda Fountain across street were out until 6:00 PM this evening the New Vin de Set with rooftop view of the city on Chouteau lost some of its new roof but was back in business and ready for the hardy types out and about in this heat.

SLU has had a history of really good fours. To name a few like Frerichs, Baniak, or Tadyshak type or if you go back to my era Eugene Moore- Carlos Skinner. I am a Brad backer but it remains to be seen if any of his players are tough enough to set screens or rebound as his main focus; we have far too many players drifting to rhe perimeter and unwilling to penetrate. I hate to agree with Grawer who felt(in my opinion) bigs were only useful to get the ball back to the guards; but every baseball team needs a catcher and every basketball team needs a four who can add to the mix or at a minimum rebound- we can't pull TL to the board to rebound because no one else has a passion for the ball

Romar was spending SLU money to recruit the west coast for Romar not SLU-his big effort, locally, was to go after Darius Miles who could get in the NBA but never be eligible to enter SLU Romar will continue to reign at Wasington but he couldn't have gotten off the ground at SLU-he was the luckiest coach we ever had and that is not a knock on him

I like Brad but he needs to be more creative and also recognize when to go to platoon 2 or platoon 3 or platoon 4 and I'd practise that way. I'd expect a lot more in the way of running/conditioning from Bryce, Ian, Obi, Luke-we need more motors like Lisch. The Bryce start gives us strength at 4 other spots.

in a slu uniform and the locals would remember him and his stats and his grades better if he had gone to slu. What was he thinking? Go to a school with a history of questionable ethics, non existent academic prowess, and poor loyalty to the players on the bench or get to be a media darling and star in St, Louis where he grew up. He would have been a role model for Vashon just like Bonner if he stayed home and played. And Vtime, he was offered.

he wasted everybody's time with people like Darius Miles who would never be eligible for college; he was very lucky to get out out of town when he did; name his big recruits, name his wins that came because of coaching; brad does have a clue about recruiting in the midwest and last year and this year have shown that he can get the right types; romar had real fan support and in spite of a lack of SLU background was really accepted by the fan base; if the media and fans gave brad half the credit and hope they gave romar we would be ahead of schedule. brad seemed a little younger but really had more experience at coaching and romar seemed very content to travel the west coast he was familiar with and to let the players play and not interfere very much. I would have liked brad to have assistants who were his equal and I think the one thing romar did to show he wanted to at least try in the midwest was hire brad-we have had growing pains with brad but he certainly has SLU way out ahead of MO or we would not have the new recruit from Linn

if not I've got him confused with someone else we had as an assistant? thanks for any information I hate to have the wrong thing in my mind

Bonner was great but not as good as Larry Hughes who was not here long enough to make an impression on NBA starved St. Louis fans and now that Laurie has fizzled. SLU arena will reign as the best place in town for basketball. McCauley (Easy Ed is hands down, the winner of any best awards and Bob Ferry was better in his era than Hughes-there may be others our chances of seeing Hughes are nil; I would like to see Bonner on the bench, too; my guess is associate coach would only tease him. Back to Jamal. He is from Wichita and Kansas City so was Angres. Brad must figure we can recruit against KU, KState, Mizzou, and Oklahoma schools. We certainly can attract city kids to St. Louis and everyone sees the demographics are way up on people playing and living in the city. Maybe Brad will move in after his son starts college

Dayton sells out all the time and has a large season ticket percentage and they have to compete with X and Cincy just down the road. Surely, 10,600 is a better number than 10 flat. If we sell out every game can we reach the heights of the Charley Spoonhauer-Larry Hughes single season?

the but is Floyd Irons has been passed over many times with regard to SLU jobs; even when the program was down and he had good recruits to follow him. Vtime it is great to have your participation from near the SLU campus and to get the local feedback that you work at gathering; however, many of the St. Louis audience have been affected by recent (see the Demetrius Johnson and Floyd Irons) co hosted program that has been on local TV many times supporting Quin; yes, it is that old, and they still replay it. It is the same conversation where they question whether TL will stay at SLU and can accept Brad's coaching style; and it ends with Floyd Irons questioning whether Brad can get along with black players. A lot of the program was a retribution to Slaten and his interference with Irons coaching Slaten and Iron's son on an AAU team, I believe. I wouldn't listen to Slaten on radio for a minute; but to Seque (not sure of spelling) onto Brad after that conversation showed little interest in giving SLU or at least treating the balding coach as if he were a racist skin head because they are at least biased toward public schools for the money they represent. Harris Stowe has become a power in the public school system in St. Louis and it has always had a special place in St. Louis history. We hope you work as hard at keeping their ambitions alive and that you benefit from staying in the city. I have a couple of degrees from SLU and live in the city and grew up on the Eside;but this is my adopted hometown, now. Vtime keep reporting, and leave the editorials to old folks too lazy to dig for the facts

Ahearne and his family begged for a chance for the kid to go to SLU; he would have been the best free throw shooter on the team and the best ball hawk since the tenacious Scott Highmark and that would have been fun to watch with DP, AJ, etc. Darren Clarke was intimidated by D1 opposition, he only looked good when left unguarded; he had no toughness. Our coach is tough on himself but not brutal with his players like Spoon or Grawer; remember how Spoon made Virgil Cobbins play with such a bad ankle? We definitely need some more intimidating players. They need to qualify academically and not come out of prison but some multisport types or banger rebounders wouldn't hurt us. Carlos Skinner played his heart out for Grawer and was rewarded with minutes for rebounding not shooting; we need a rebounder; we can not count on a guard to be our second best rebounder

Would you rate Steve Novak a top post player or a tall 3 point shooter? Burwell says he rates ahead of IV as a post player-he has none of the true center characteristics that make IV a top college center-can IV shoot a jumper like Novak? Unequivocably, NO. So IV is going to enjoy a great senior year leading the Bills and we are going to have a great year with a recruit or two more that can start at 4 or hit 3's or slash to the basket or rebound. We were a weak rebounding team when a freshman guard is the second leading rebounder. Burwell doesn't belong on the front page of the Post sports section. He does not do his homework. He just dreams and fantasizes. His aritcle was an agrandizement of the one on page three that offered details, reports but no suppositions. Did Burwell glance over and see what the other guy was writing and say I can give a take on that to stir the pot. Nice try but we can see you hardly follow the Billikens.

blame Romar who tried to recruit basketball players from the West Coast and non scholars; he was the luckiest guy to get out of here before he ran out of miracles to save him; he may be a coach now, but maybe you don't remember all the game he just let the team play-not even calling time outs when the other team went on a run. Brad is growing as a coach and once he gets acclimated in the new league and with the new refs we will be just dandy. We do need a starter 4 but that is no news. AK looks like the future can you imagine us in 4 years if Ian's younger brother comes on board at 6" 8" and growing.