saluki762

Wednesday night. Same time as penny pitchers at the Hump so you had to choose, unless you were underage, then you went to Kearby's.

My favorite game of the year. SIU like SLU has a ton of unknown. Beane will be the best player on the court Saturday. I am curious to see where SIU will get the rest of their points from. This SIU team is bigger than they have been in a long time and also should have better shooters than they have had in a long time. I also am curious to how Illinois transfer Ibby Djimde will play. I agree with most here that with 2 young teams, 1st game of the year, and with lots of unknowns that home court is huge. I said it on the SIU message board that nothing about this game would really surprise me. I can make an argument that SIU could win by 10, I can also see them losing by 20. In the end, I think it comes to home court advantage and SLU wins by 7-10.

SIU will travel better this year than the last couple. The team should be a little better and the stench of Lowery is finally off the program. I will not be at the game but assuming they have it on television, I will be catching the game from Humphreys.

SIU has no seniors and 8 new players. They are getting there but the Billikens can be confident of a win at home. If the game was in Carbondale it would be a toss up I think but in STL. SIU will just not have enough chemistry to win against a quality team on the road in their first game. They will be a tough team by the end of the year and in 15-16.

As a SLU alum and lifelong Saluki fan, I am biased towards the SIU game. SIU and WSU will travel to SLU better than any other MVC teams.

ISU predicted 6th in Valley this year. Of course I am biased but WSU and SIU are the best Valley teams for the Billikens to keep on the schedule.

I think this is absolute best case scenario for SIU. With all of the youth, I expect the early season to be rough and SLU to have very little trouble with the young Saluki's. By the end of the year, we should be a very tough game for anybody. Since the beginning of the Hinson tenure, I have had no expectations until year 4. That will be next year. With no scholarship seniors Hinson should have something really good going for 2015-16.

Have to at least double that 65K number. If the men get the money, so does the women's team.

http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/christian-romine

Except for a small minority, the smaller private school will always play second fiddle to the large public university as far as local coverage goes. Let the general public and the talking heads pump their chests about Mizzou. I will take a packed Chaifetz, a 17-2 record and the ranking over coverage in 2 dying medias. Forget about the Post and radio, they don't matter.

Agreed is was actually quite easy at SLU.

I worked at the old Balabans while a student. Went to Herbie's last year and was disappointed. It was good but it wasn't Balabans.

I would love to spend a September or October Saturday back on campus watching football but only if it is done right. I would not watch club football or non-scholarship football. To start a mid level FCS program you need 50 million plus the land for a stadium. Don't see that happening.

OK, you don't have to f yourelf then. Sorry for that response. I am a Saluki fan but also a Billiken fan since I was a student in the 1990's. Losses like this sting but are nothing to melt down over. Especially when they are close, a blowout would be a different story. WSU is better than any team we will play in the conference this year. I assume we will be better in January than we are today. We should still be dancing and at the top of the conference by the end of the season. The game I watched today didn't change my mind on that fact.

How about you go yourself?

Not good but not bad either.

Seriously though. This is the #12 team in the country. They might be better than last years Final Four team. Baker and Early are 2 of the better players we see this year. We only lost by 5. The melt downs here are laughable. Even if we don't like Crews, I enjoyed this game and the atmosphere at Chaifetz more than all but a couple of games from when I was a student. I know we expect more now than then but this loss isn't at all bad.

I have no idea who this Cassidy guy is that everyone keeps referring to.

I don't think you change the name of an existing building. There will be enough future construction to enable naming a building after him.

Since none of the statues are ever clothed, I am emphatically voting against the idea of a Biondi statue. That said, at minimum, he deserves a building named after him.

The Board better do an excellent job with this hire or the results could be less than desirable. Any chance Garanzini could be poached from Loyola? I personally believe it would be great to have him back.

It is not just 1 and done's. Any player that leaves early for a non academic reason, i.e. entering the draft, does not affect the schools APR as long as they are in good academic standing at the time they withdraw. They could be a Fr., So, Jr, doesn't matter, Just have to be in a good standing when they leave.

Correct me if I am wrong, the SGA voted no confidence in Biondi in either 1997 or 1998 when I was a student. This is nothing new, it won't end soon and it is correct that Larry will leave on his own terms barring something terrible happening. I also believe that if you take a look at the SLU of my first visit in 1994 and SLU of 2013, he has earned this right.

That's funny, I always assumed that Tuna was to busy feeding cocaine to young girls to have another radio show. Guess you can be surprised every day.

Unless someone here at SLU is getting in the way, I don't think Creighton happens without SLU. I also don't believe any of the west coast stuff unless they are going huge with this new conference. 16-18 teams is the only way the west coast teams are included.