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This can happen when a school fires your friend's dad. It can still get done, but it will take a lot of work.

Form what I can tell it seems that some posters think we are now Duke and going to land All-Americans from across the country who will have perfect grades. This isn't going to happen folks, this team as RM has said will be built around area players and they will take chances on kids with an iffy academic background. That is the reason RM got concessions from Biondi on this very point. We are not the Havard of the midwest, that school is a few miles to the west.

But, we don't know any of RM's national recruiting targets yet. All we can go on is the local kids and it just so happens that 2008 is loaded with kids that can play at this level.

I give some of the SIU and Valley fans a hard time on here when they come and just flame, but I really think the best thing is to have strong programs all around the area. Look forward to SIU making the trip up here this year, maybe we can return the favor of injury one of your star players and end up screwing up your whole season. Just kidding.

constant attempts to make him a point guard screwed him up? Nark you know better than that. Would you have been excited about the Bills landing Rodney Alexander? If you would have been, then you should like Powell. They are the exact same type of player, except Powell is the better player out of high school.

Tatum went to CBC. McKinney got messed up by the MU staff. They tended to have that happen to a lot of players in the Quinn era. Powell is far more talented than anyone else on the list and you would make sure his grades were in order before you signed him.

He was trying to get in touch with RM. He is the thread were Nate Latsch a high school sports reporter in St. Louis reported speaking with him and his comments. http://www.billikens.com/dcforum/DCForumID3/12651.html#6

This isn't like taking a chance on a 5'9" kid. Powell is a 6'7" stud who has the frame that should easily allow him to pack on muscle. He is the kind of player that use to always kill us in CUSA. If he has his grades together after a year at prep school you got to go after him. It sort of rough to call McKinney a bust on the court. He was never a superstar at MU, but that had more to do with the staff at MU than anything else.

I think somebody from around the country my like the chance to become the next Andre Miller.

If Leon Powell is ready to go after one year at prep school he would be the #2 on my list. My local only list without Powell and Roundtree (in order): 1. Suggs 2. Thompson 3. Brandenburg 4. Perry 5. John With Powell and Roundtree (in order): 1. Suggs 2. Powell 3. Thompson 4. Brandenburg 5. Roundtree

The top pg prospect you desire will have to come from outside the area. This area's top point guard prospect will not be in play for SLU. If Roundtree is serious about his renewed interest in SLU, I would have replaced John with him.

Brandenburg, Thompson, Suggs, Perry, and John. I say that not knowing anything the staff may have going on outside of the area. Loen Powell would be an awful nice addition coming out of prep school.

About the rumblings that Torres Roundtree is reconsidering his verbal to SIU?

I think he is the one player that has been extremely underated to this point out of the class of 2008. I think he has the chance to develop into a very fine player on the next level.

V, he plays center in hs. That is what I am talking about. You referred to the top center in the class of 2008. He will probably move to the 3 or the 4 depending on what system he ends up in. If he ends up at SLU he will play the 4 or the 5. RM likes his big men to be able to hit from the outside. So for SLU he will be a prospect at the 5, he is listed at 6'11 after all. As for Brandenburg, I was down on him after this past high school season. But, all indications are that he has really picked up his game on the early AAU circuit. I guess you would like everyone on here to take your word that Harrellson is the better prospect than Brandenburg, when every talent evaluator and every coach in the country feels differently.

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I think he was there for a short time. I didn't remember him myself, but I for some reason remember Frank C having him on 590, when the Padres were in town one time, and they talked about his time at KSDK.

Four Warn Super Predictor?

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I didn't like Bush doing sports, but you can't argue with the job he did hiring talent to work at KSDK. He also was the one person responsible for the original Sports Plus getting on the air and the large amount of people KSDK had covering multiple events of interest locally. Either you liked Malcom's way of doing sports or you didn't, but at least he knew what the hell he was talking about.

They had the guy that is doing play by play for the Padres and has done games for ESPN and Fox. Sorry I can't remember his name now.

But he sure knew how to do his job as sports directior. When he ran that sports department they hired top notch talent. Frank C., Matt Wiener, Malcom Briggs, and Trey Wingo. I might not have liked all of their personalities, but they all knew sports and knew how to do good interviews.

http://cbs.sportsline.com/columns/weblogs/...arrish_thoughts

Do we want to be in a conference with MSU, SIU-C, and WSU? At least in the A-10 when we play schools in the state university system we get the east coast exposure out of it. The people exposed to SLU by us playing MSU, SIU-C, and WSU already know about SLU. They also receive state funding for their athletic programs, which makes it harder for SLU to compete across the board in all athletics.

DePaul and Marquette out of the mix. Unless the Big East blows up that is noy going to happen. I also think you have to consider non-catholic schools that have similar athletic goals and admission policies to get the number of teams needed and the overall quality to a desired level. I love the eight team conference set-up, but I think you might have to go to ten to make sure you can generate enough interest for TV.