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First objective achieved: slow start has been avoided. SLU 16, Minnesota 9 after 1 quarter.

Billiken, trickster god. That's really funny.

DOC, regardless of who deserves credit, I hope you are able to transition away from 100% negative posting. The fan base is more energized right now than I've seen it in a long, long time. We can all move forward together.

Oh nice. Peel is a fun place. Used to have a great tap lineup but now I think they brew their own beer.

That person did not go to college if he/she believes "college kids aren't as motivated strictly by money as adults".

Or just a human with internet access.

Part of this is just the age of the rosters. Duke starts a senior, 2-3 sophomores, and 1-2 freshmen. Purdue starts 3 sophomores and 2 seniors. Whereas most of the rest have more experience in the starting lineup, and guys who have been around 4-5 years have usually transferred. Tennessee is the exception; very experienced roster. My point is that Duke and NC State might not be opposites in terms of roster churn, just that Duke's players are younger and they haven't transferred or gone pro yet.

That is now a Quality Inn, just south of downtown and about 3 miles north of I-70.

Give Jimerson one last bag. Keep Thames. I actually think Curcic might be a sneaky good (and inexpensive) guy to hang on to. I'm not worried about anyone else.

If you want to understand why an ISU fan is painting us as rich snobs, you should go to Terre Haute and walk around the town. Then walk around the campus of the #10 rated college in Indiana. It's all a matter of perspective.

Fine by me.

It will be at SIUE.

That's a good point that I hadn't really considered based on the fact that he's still actively coaching this season.

Schertz said he would take "a full day" so I'm not sure when the clock starts on that, but Friday might be too soon. I figured they would avoid Saturday for the Final Four doubleheader, not sure. Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday - it shouldn't be Monday.

The path of totality is pretty close to STL - places like Desloge, Farmington, Bloomsdale, Red Bud, Carlyle, Okawville, and Effingham are right over the line. The closest points to SLU in the path will start to see the eclipse around 12:40 pm and start totality around 2:00, getting over a full minute. Roads will be chaos that day. Terre Haute is fully in the path, will start to see the eclipse around 1:48 and get nearly 3 minutes of totality starting at 3:04. SLU can't do this Monday, for real.

Maybe this is just me being selfish because my kids are off school and we're driving to see it, but I really hope they don't do the big announcement on Monday. The story will be buried by eclipse mania. Terre Haute is within the path of totality and STL is pretty close to it. Then the men's final is that night. It has to be Sunday (well before the women's final) or Tuesday.

Within a small circle (that happens to include a few local media figures), they are. But in a larger, more relevant way, they aren't powerful at all. SLU and its boosters ignored them and pursued the candidate(s) they wanted.

Getting chippy in here. Bottom line is people should be confident. We just have to wait a few more days.

They put themselves in the same category. They share the same bad ideas.

I would rather jump off the Eads Bridge in winter.

Great point. I live in Cincinnati and the internet doesn't exist. Frank and Slaten are different people with different shows pushing for the same bad ideas for SLU.

There are certain local sports media figures - like Frank and Slaten - who want SLU to be run in as small a way as possible. They're the ones who push for SLU to move to the Valley, to hire people they know, and to recruit exclusively regional players. They want easy access to the program, they want influence, and they want it shaped by a small fraternity of like-minded locals who don't think beyond their pocket of the Midwest. They're obsessed with petty high school-level relationships and are stuck in the past. They either complain about or refuse to acknowledge the way the sport exists today. They're small-time people and they want the program to reflect their small-time nature. They are not to be taken seriously. We aspire to national competitiveness, the Big East, deep Tournament runs.

I would not consider him a "serious" media figure.

Jimerson is also raising is price by going into the portal. We've seen 2 lists of interested schools already and there are some big names. That said, if we could get him back for one more year, he would thrive in a Schertz offense. He worth retaining at the same price - I'm just not sure how much that price will have gone up.

Bring on Vermont.