brianstl

The only real solution if you want true student athletes is go D3 or form a new organization with like minded schools. Everything else is just going to be minor league sports and will eventually collapse when people start viewing it as minor league sports. I love college sports, but it is already losing some luster in my eyes.

College football and basketball are professional sports now. Minor league sports, but professional none the less.

No locations have been announced for A-10 Men's tournament locations beyond this coming season's in Pittsburgh.

I am really excited that the 2027 local class includes Leon Powell Jr.. IYKYK.

The kid has got some game.

He got fired a lot. He almost got into a fight with Huggins during a once, too.

“Hy-5, it’s got zinc!” i am probably the only person who will get that reference.

It probably is just a really strange coincidence, but I would really want to do a survey of all former SLU athletes over the past 20 years and see if any of them had a problem similar to what Thatch and Thames have experienced.

The one thing I would like to know is have athletes in other sports at SLU have had similar issues to those of Thames and Thatch and in what numbers. It just seems really strange that we have had two players in such a relatively short time that have had this issue and part of me wonders if there might be an environmental factor on the SLU campus at play.

Seems like a real overstatement for a player that had an awful assist to turnover ratio and was a bad shooter throughout her career. The problem for the women's team isn't losing the Brooklyn Grays of the world. The problem is that appears to be the ceiling on the talent that Tillet can recruit here. Maybe she will surprise us and close out the offseason strong, but her track record to this point doesn't give me great hope.

I think there are multiple issues involved. Not winning enough and not traveling well are most definitely the reasons why we don't get constant top tier events like Dayton and VCU have been getting. The reason we don't get to top events as often as some of our more similar A 10 peers on those two fronts is harder to nail down. It is kind of hard to blame the coaching staff when it has been an issue over decades now. It is, also, kind of hard to put the blame all on the current AD for the same reasons. Some blame probably lies with the current and multiple former athletic directors, but if it is a real meaningful amount is hard to say. I think it has probably been a university culture issue where these events weren't viewed as carrying much importance. That kind of culture leads to a lack of time and resources being put into building the relationships with the people that put together the MTE's. The further you fall behind over the years as a university in building those relationships, the harder it becomes to catch up with out winning big consistently or always showing up in big numbers as a fan base at these things.

I’m not against it or okay with it currently. We don’t have enough information one way or the other right now. I think we will all probably be satisfied with how this shakes out, but that isn’t based on anything firm.

I understand VCU and Dayton consistently getting better MTE appearances than SLU. I don't understand how programs like St. Joe's, Davidson, UMass and even Fordham have managed to do it. St Joe's managed to pull the Legend's Classic and the Players Era back to back. So this can be done by programs like SLU even right now. It is just not happening here.

We don't even know officially if we are in on of the tournaments they have or if we are getting a single game at this point.

Transfers sign a financial aid agreement.

This is the same event the women's team played USC in this past season. They had 3 diiferent men's and 1 women's tournament last season and the one off SLU-USC game. So it could be tournament or just a one off neutral site game like the women had.

Swope isn’t a 30+ mpg guy on this projected roster. I love Swope and want him back, but he isn’t the best option at point (or even second best option) and it is crowed with good options at the wing position. 27-30 mpg? Yeah, I probably could buy that.

Ginger werewolves receive the worst kind of hate from the mainstream werewolf community. They are outcasts among the outcasts with their bright red coats attracting every hunter with a silver bullet. Hanging with one is a quick way to die.

I don’t remember, but give me a little bit and I will find it. He had a couple of seasons that looked liked medical redshirts.

If everyone stays healthy, I’m good with our big situation. Now that is a big if.

If all of the schools started demanding them, all of a sudden you would end up with collusion cases and even more antitrust cases.

There is at least one guy currently in the transfer portal that graduated high school in 2017.

Teams have tried that and including buyouts. To this point the agents have been pretty successful in keeping stuff like that out. It will be interesting to see how the Nico thing plays out from here. He ditched a lucrative multi year NIL agreement.

I’m thinking Sharma can fill that Julian Larry role in Schertz’s offense that the team was missing last season.