billikenfan05

May was hired to be Biondi's yes man/gopher. When Biondi was retired, he all of a sudden had free reign.

Sports card collecting having a resurgence was not on my radar.

Red Panda doesn't deserve the stray...especially laid up with a torn ACL.....

HoosierPal isn't even a Billiken fan, he's just a random guy who has a fetish for being a message board moderator.

I don't know sh*t about who DaGuys are, but I believe they have a decent YouTube following and sit on the baseline courtside for games.

No I mean he transferred from SLU…unless I’m slipping

Abonnel transferred?

How much a scholarship costs a university is a murky and gray discussion. It all depends on what type of scholarship and what it covers. The cost of attendance is nothing. Books would cost SLU. Room & board would cost SLU. This would be something where SLU is losing the actual cost of what a non-athlete student would pay for that room If the athletes being provided a meal plan, that would cost SLU in some way. Not necessarily 100% of that value, however. Anything involving limited resources I don’t have the time to get more specific, there are some direct costs to the university.

I am OOO next week.

Outside of Basketball, I don't know how much SLU will change. Soccer I could see them stepping up on both sides. But I don't think they'll have any interest in adding for other sports. Hendo was quoted by Stu as saying he think SLU will stay at the current number for Basbeball.

I'm so glad you asked. The two scenarios are very different. One is a direct decision by the athletics director Chris May. The other is a human error, likely made by an underpaid employee in an understaffed department. I also never explicitly said that I found Chris May's wardrobe decision to be a "big deal". In fact, as I stated in my post, I was not going to post anything about it but brianstl mentioned it, so I decided to weigh in with a fairly measured take on the matter. Details really do matter, especially when it takes little to no effort. In a video detailing the achievements of his athletics department, he very easily could have worn something more reflective of someone that has Billiken spirit. He chose not to. It's an opportunity to put on a display of school spirit, a show of solidarity with fans, a show of solidarity with the athletes and coaches you work with every day, wearing the same school colors they wear. He wore a plaid sport coat and an orange and black tie. They are shooting the video from the stomach up, he could have brought in a gray coat and blue tie. Takes 5 minutes to change before and after shooting the video. It takes zero effort to show some school pride in a video about being proud of "his" student athletes.

I didn't want to be the first to say it, but I just don't understand May's thought process. You have to know you're filming the year end review on a certain day, right? It HAS to be on the calendar. You have an almost unlimited supply of Billiken Athletics apparel and I'm sure a collection of royal blue ties. All you can muster is a light blue plaid sport coat and a tie devoid of the any of SLU's official colors? DETAILS ARE EVERYTHING.

I applied.

https://slubillikens.com/404-1.aspx?url=%2fcoaches.aspx%3fpath%3dfhockey%26view%3ddefault You can still find Zoe's page via google search but the Coaches Page triggers a 404.

For every coach who views a job this way there is a carbon copy of them that views all of these things as a positive. I also don't think anyone on this message board is qualified to assert what or what not smart coaches think.

I have no clue who he's referring to, but that sounds like Porter Moser to me..

I don’t know what the agreement would have looked like publicly or privately but he should have been given a 2 year interim/caretaker deal.

Schertz dropped the Iowa scheduling nugget a few months ago, but that specific game fell through.

This is true

Chloe Rhine transferring to Wichita State.

I had that comforter in college . Walmart Special!

Yes. As a sign of my approval regarding the firing of Travis Ford and hiring of Josh Schertz. Yes. I’ve had season tickets every year since I graduated SLU and took over as account holder on my family’s tickets. Except for Ford’s final season. Was it worth it? For every game except maybe one or two, no it wasn’t. Nor has it been since 14/15.

I mean I get that. I am going to take your side when it's all said and done. My point is that it takes quite a bit of gall to ask your season ticket holders, especially at a price point where affordability and location quality meet, to foot the bill to compensate for (and I'm trying to not be overly negative here) an inability to put together a good basketball program over x years.

I understand that. However, when you factor in the fact that season tickets have already been devalued for a multitude of reasons, the major ones being poor on court performance and papering the town with free tickets pretty much yearly the last half decade. Perhaps the solution should be to work on growing your fan base and by extension increasing your donor, not once again going to your loyal season ticket holders with your hand out especially when you're shaping up to release another lackluster home schedule. Unless you have a handful of seats together, buy all inclusive seats or are adamant about sitting in a very specific location single game tickets will always be available.

I guess nobody is going to mention the season ticket price increase.