jimbofive

not flaming, but currently, i'd say brad's giving us a real $h!TTy time

that's the plan, stopping by in denver fri. night, skiing breck and vail hopefully sat-mon good luck will have me snowed in and telling my boss to piss up a rope or send a helicopter born and lived in colorado for 4 years, wallowed in missouri for the past 19, hopefully back in CO in 2 1/2 after an MBA from this fine university

you can't argue me on this, and i doubt most of you would. any time ANY bench player comes in, i groan, along with everyone around me. next year, unless we get a TREMENDOUS couple of recruits, i'm talking the best of what's around, we will only have 4 players. then in '08 we will lose every recruit except for kramer (if brad's still around) that leaves us with tommie and kevin (maybe). unless they turn into 30 ppg players in those 2 years, this program is sunk for the next 5-10 years. i wish i had a solution. but i don't. i'm counting on sheer dumb luck to pull us through to winning the conference tourney, or some flat out ass-beatings of the elite in the a-10, esp. xavier twice. if brad really keeps everything as close to the vest as you all say, he should be offering everybody he can, and then pissing on those who don't make the cut when the others commit. something is better than nothing, and we have a 5-man, undersized rotation. our bench sucks so bad, we can't even get our starters off the floor long enough to give the bench a chance to learn how to not suck. this should have been the mother of all garbage time games, and it simply became a travesty. here's a stat for you: our bench (excluding danny brown) has played 325 minutes and taken FORTY-SEVEN shots in 14 games. that's right, our bench (outside of our regular six) is averaging 3.36 shots per game. that's f'ing RIDICULOUS. granted, i don't want them taking those shots, but therein lies the problem. i'm done, i'm off to CO for the weekend, and hopefully i don't see a basketball ANYWHERE.

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very few know about this, but oden actually toured SLU in 8th grade... things were going great until they took him up to the rec and some clown at the turnstile tried to charge him for a faculty pass. oden got upset and verballed to ohio state. he verballed to the person checking ID's, but he verballed nonetheless.

no offense taken... as long as we get the majority of the in-town talent consistently, eventually our recruiting range will expand... TO CHICAGO, HOPEFULLY!!! funny recruiting story actually... i was in the gym the other day, after the ole miss game, and my buddy and i were playing horse, loser had to run a killer. not sure who it was, but some 6'6"ish guy was being shown around by 3 SLU assistants, and he came in just in time to see me lose and half-ass my sprint. i did garner a laugh and a "way to hustle" kid from one of the coaches for falling across the end line as if i were completely gassed. now i'm actually kind of wishing i'd offered my post-graduate services to the team. i know i'd make grades (again) and i can dunk and make at least 2 out of 5 3 pointers usually, w/ nobody guarding me. i could easily step in and challenge danny brown for turnover king

Twas... A top 5 recruit going to a school that hasn't made the tourney in 5 years, not gonna happen. And, as someone who grew up somewhat close to Poplar Bluff, I know that, for most, leaving rural Missouri might as well be leaving the country. I bear no ill will towards Tyler - I wish him all the best, as long as it's not against us. But Tyler will get a better pedicure at Chapel Hill than he ever could in STL.

I don't see how we didn't get Hansbrough, with all the wonderful nail shops on South Grand... Maybe we could have offered his perfectly healthy brother Ben a vital organ... WE HAVE GOT TO GET THESE GUYS OR WE WILL NEVER BE UNC.

They can all stay home until those @$$h0Le$ learn to cheer. Out of an entire section composed of what I assumed to be 4-game package people, I was regularly the only one standing and cheering @ the UNC game... until the first timeout, that is, when I went down to the student section where I can stand and yell whenever I want.

he also ruins the the threads on his bedsheets nightly. and by bedsheets i mean cardboard spaghettio boxes underneath an overpass. and by overpass i mean shade from his mother's behemoth stomach. and by mother i mean a giant cave beast. and by giant cave beast i mean kathy bates. sorry, i forgot to put LOTS OF BLANK LINES IN here and capitalize seemingly at random. it is said. to quote a quote from the 16th greatest movie ever, jay and silent bob strike back, "this guy is fu(k!n9 CLOWN SHOES." seriously, they must have thrown this guy's afterbirth in an incubator when he was born, and fished him out of the dumpster later at "mother's" request. as a child he was fed a steady diet of motor oil and fortune cookies. his first word came at age 6, and was an approximate portmanteau of the words "crack" and "candy" or "cwandy" at age 11 he became self-aware, and he began to wage a robot war against humanity. by robot, i mean mongoloid, and by war, i mean shuffle. his mongoloid shuffle has thus far been taken with about as much seriousness as whoopi goldberg at a career expo. i urge all my fellow posters to just sit back, relax, and enjoy the mongoloid shuffle.

I stand all the time. You can sit at the movies. Concerts and sports, you stand, dammit.

>Any alums going to sit in the student section? You know I'll >be there! If there's room. I'm always there.

No, they were not, I was pulling my hair out as much as anyone else. However, 15 of those 22 were from 2 players, one of whom, legit or not, won the game for us regardless. Tommie, as many have already stated, probably played the worst game he ever has, and take away say... 7 of his turnovers, and we're sitting on 15 total, and at least a 10-12 point difference in the final score. It was sloppy, but that was the way the two teams came to play. Not to insinuate that you feel any differently, but I'll take a team that always has heart, and sometimes plays sloppily, over a nice, shiny team that crumbles every time they fall behind by half a dozen points.

Correction: Our best player had a horrible game. We played terrific defense. Everyone else (DB excluded) played excellent ball. Would you rather we'd slacked off on defense hoping for some easy buckets on the other end, or played keep away after 2 minutes to protect our 10-2 lead? We held their leading scorer to 0 POINTS. ZERO. We beat a team (that didn't play outlandishly bad themselves) that beat the #4 team in the country at home. That was NOT a horrible game. Turnovers against a team known for causing turnovers aside, that's a terrific game.

I'm hoping Liddell makes up for a few of those NINE turnovers on Monday and gets at least 3-4 steals by sagging on Handz-Bro and Wright. If we help and rotate on defense, without giving up too much room for the 3, (along w/ a few choice long rebounds to start the fast break), we've got a real shot. Long list I know, but that's what has to happen.

I got seats in 303, 5 rows up I believe. Surprised to get center court (albeit upper bowl) so late.

I've got a seat in the rafters... got one of the last TWO single seat 4-game packs. I'll be on the court when it's over, so makes no difference. If you see a Billikens fan not cheering, F'ING ream his ass for it, I'm sick of golf-clapping, 1 beer, in bed by 10 clowns coming out to games to rub elbows with the rest of the schmucks that never left the library. This team can RUN and they might get a chance to do it on Friday on a BIG stage. I will not get outcheered on any single play by a bunch of hicks from the BOOTHEEL! nor any East Coast Tarheel jerkoffs either. Who knows what this team could do if they actually had a salivating, rabid fanbase? If you expect them to leave it all out on the floor, leave it all in your f'ing seat as well! It's the Friday before X-mas, you can nurse your swollen throat all weekend, no excuses. 9-2, 10-2, 11-2, etc.... LET'S GO BILLS!!! "Psycho" T's gonna take a pounding from Zeus, Euro-style. Bills by 4.

You're right, I miscarried a 16 in there somewhere... I still maintain that those people have more teeth than we give them credit for, albeit not in proper alignment.

Nice, although I think the one should be High Student/Teeth ratios... Unless of course, you're insinuating that some of their students' mothers partied a little too hard in the developmental months and, along with other assorted birth defects, they've got an abundance of ****** dentata (look it up) cases down there... That was wrong.

Amen. I wish my little brother would get a shot at the bike. He'd just grab the mic, look Scottie in the eyes, and say "Dude, you're a joke." Then he'd AND 1 the ball up into the stands and walk off with his shirt over his face and his arms up. "Blue and White" reminds me of the God-awful "Red and Black" cheer we had at my podunk high school. If Scottie really wanted to get the crowd pumped, he'd take shots in the face from the shirt cannon every 15 minutes.

Did anyone see Luke Meyer play like a REAL 4??? I did - he missed a few shots, but every rebound was HIS, at least he saw it that way. Did everything he possibly could, and I saw him calming the other guys down, or firing them up, all game. Great leadership. Same from Polk, he was even nice enough to let Tommie shoot his free throws after going all out for a loose ball. And those end to end takes, holy sh!t. Lisch gets the Ironman award, and everybody knows what Ian did. Took my little brothers (13 and 16) to their first SLU games Sat and last night, and now all they can talk about is how they want Vouyoukas and Lisch jerseys and how they're going to go to SLU in a few years and help this team win "cuz these old fart fans suck" LOL Great win.

BET YOUR F'IN ASS... I NEVER GAVE UP ON THAT ONE! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! POLK=IAN=KEVIN=LUKE=GODS

I see a split too, and I would not be surprised at all w/ us going 13-3 or 12-4 conference. I'd be damn impressed/happy with that. If we stay healthy, and Soderberg continues to "adapt", it happens.

Fair enough, now that I think about it, the A&M loss is devastating enough as far as getting a "high" tourney bid. I'm just thinking that 2 wins this week gets us close to top 30, and dominating conference to me is 2-3 losses and winning the conference tourney, which would raise us at least a few spots to the top 25. I went brain dead earlier as well, a 5-6 bid at the "lowest" was meant to be "best". I think it's all highly speculative, there is no way I would bet on us winning both games, but here's hoping, and yeah, I'll go w/ your analysis. Top 50 RPI is a no-brainer to me though, if we win those games.

from a poster on that board - "NIT team for sure, with chance at NCAA if they can win both games this week and dominate their conference, and have a top 50 RPI" the poster is not a "hater", per se, but hayzeus crease-tay are we looking for a #1 bid in the tournament or just a bid??? if we won both of these games and dominated the conference, we'd be looking at a #5 or #6 seed at lowest, am i wrong?