RUBillsFan

I watched this a little while back. I know the guy that runs that blog has caught some flack on here for his being a fan of the state school, but he does a pretty good job covering the Billikens and did a nice job overall on the Femi documentary. My one small criticism that I have is that he needs to work on his documentary voice or get someone else to do the narration. His voice just doesn't have that good narrator quality in my opinion.

I would be curious about the terms of the rent-free lease. My guess is that DePaul would not get any of the parking, concession, or other auxiliary revenues associated with the team playing in the United Center. I also wonder how some of the expenses associated with getting the facility read for games and hosting the game would be covered. On first glance, rent-free looks great, but without knowing the specifics, it is impossible to know if it is really a good deal or a lousy deal.

You could make the argument that the folks in Green Bay are even more fanatical about the Packers than St. Louisans are about the Cardinals. I'm not sure if that makes the city more fanatical overall about sports. I think the argument is very difficult because it is subjective. Who is to say that some town out in the boonies where the whole town literally shuts down on a Friday night for a high school football game isn't more fanatical than Boston?

Now I'm not sure if this is a joke or not. I'm guessing by the lack of an emoticon that you are serious which is unfortunate.

I didn't say they don't know who the Cardinals are. I said they barely know who the Cardinals are. Perhaps it is different in the inner city, but I will respectfully disagree with your assessment based on my personal experience with a large group from the county.

Sounds like most people think that taking a recruit to a Cards game is the best option. I can't think of anything better so I'm not arguing. I have some experience with coaching basketball for african-american teens and many of them barely know who are Cardinals are. For example during the playoffs last year, they asked why everyone was wearing red. I do agree that going to a Cardinals game in St. Louis is a big event and I can see how for someone from outside the area it would be very impressive.

Geez. Lighten up! I was clearly joking and I thought the emoticon was an indicator of that.

I don't want to start a huge debate or make a racially charged statement, but is taking a young african-american basketball player to a baseball game the best way to spend time during a recruiting trip? It's not like there are a lot of african-american fans at the games or african-american players (I think Jermaine Curtis is the only one on the Cardinals and he will be sent back to AAA when Adams comes off the DL). Further, I think it is likely that most of these kids whose passion is basketball are probably bored to death with 3+ hours of baseball.

No idea. But given that it is Rob Loe, I'm guessing it's a "soft" cast.

Obviously we've seen crazy things in the past, but I can't see anyone leaving. I can't see any of the rising seniors leaving (McCall, Jett, Evans, Loe, or Barnett). I can't see Glaze leaving as he was a starter and seems really happy. McBroom just transferred to SLU so he's not going anywhere. Drew is coming off a red-shirt year and while we've seen it before with Tselentakis leaving, I don't see him going anywhere. I suppose Manning would be the most likely, but he got decent minutes last year when healthy and has to expect more minutes with Remekun and Ellis graduating. Further evidence Manning is not going anywhere is the fact that he was one of the guys showing Jesperson around on his visit.

I'm starting to wonder if RO is sort of a tease and is really just holding out for a BCS or higher profile type program. He visits SLU and by all accounts has a fantastic visit. Presumably Crews even expected him to sign an LOI on the first day of the signing period because he said he expected 2 signings and Agbeko was the only one who signed. Then RO visists Miami (OH) and has a great visit perhaps even likes it better than SLU if you glean that from Ben's tweet. However, he doesn't commit. Now there are rumors about RO and Pitt despite it seeming like Pitt doesn't have much interest. While I would like to get RO, I am happy that SLU is looking at other options. Hopefully they have made their best pitch to him and now they are "moving on" to others while still leaving RO's offer on the table.

The teaser on Bens story says something about an interview w the family. I'm guessing/hoping he did an interview and wasn't supposed to put it up until after the announcement was made. Then he saw that verbal commits had tanner listed as committed so he made the story live. However tanner hadn't actually announced yet so everything was taken down. If tanner ends up going elsewhere, it's going to be a kick in the junk and Ben better have a damn good explanation or he's losing at least 1 subscriber.

Tanner, Randy, Hakim, Daishon, Jordan, Brett, Achraf, Larry, JP, Sean, Ike, Malek, Ore, another Jordan, Jayson

Yeah, I was being a little dramatic. He is still only a freshman. I generally don't like the trend of coaches making offers to younger and younger kids. It seems kind sleezy to try to recruit a kid who can't even drive. However, it seems to me that this is probably a special situation. SLU offering Tatum at such a young age, imo, is different than Kentucky offering Tatum because #1 his dad played here and #2 he is local.

Jayson Tatum ‏@Im_that_dude221h WAS OFFERED BY Saint Louis University TODAY !!! All I can say is, it's about damn time.

Psssh 2,000 means nothing. Post 1,981 is going to be the one that puts it up to 100 pages and 2,001 is going to put it over 100. I suppose 2,000 will complete the 100th page, but I doubt anyone will notice until the next post puts it over 100.

Lancona retweeted this earlier today: Billiken Athletics ‏@SLU_Billikens5h Some extremely early accolades for @SaintLouisMBB Forward Dwayne Evans from @USATODAYsports http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2013/05/02/preseason-all-americans/2127991/?sf12345285=1 … #Billikens Retweeted by tanner lancona Add this to his retweet of Ellis' tweet about his SLUspy award and it looks like we may be in good shape. He tweeted that the CSU trip was "short and snowy, but for the most part good." However, he doesn't seem to be retweeting anything about CSU and hasn't mentioned K-State since April 23.

I'd like those two as well, but I am still intrigued by Yacoubou. He hasn't been discussed much because there hasn't really been any news or anything else to discuss. However, he was more much more highly touted than either RO or TL coming out of high school. Looking at his stats, he shot almost 40% from 3pt range last year for Villanova and also averaged 2.6 rebounds per game despite only playing 12 minutes per game.

I'm not disagreeing that most of the information is compiled by by algorithms. However, there is an element of human "editing" involved with VerbalCommits.com. If you go to a team page, at the top of the "scholarship chart" there is a "chart options" section where there is a "submit correction" button. If you click it gives you a form to fill out with your name, email, the correction, and a link that validates your correction. I submitted a correction when they did not have Jared Drew listed as a red shirt and I got an email back from what I assume was an actual person because it didn't sound like a robot sent it. I deleted the email, but it basically said thanks and that they would look into it and make a correction. Therefore, I think VerbalCommits.com uses an algorithm, but there is also a Wikipedia sort of element to it where fans can help correct any mistakes.

Obviously, these rules are in place to protect high school kids from having hundreds of people constantly annoying them everywhere they go about where they will choose to go to college. In that respect, the rules are noble and should be followed. It is also important to note that tweeting at someone is much different than walking up and talking to them. These kids on twitter can easily ignore someone's tweets or just block them entirely. You can't do that to someone in real life who is talking to you.

I don't know much about how the mechanics of college basketball recruiting works. Is there a hard limit on the number of offers you can give out? If there is no limit it would seem to me that SLU should offer anyone who they remotely have a chance of getting that has talent to be a star at SLU and has good character. The worst that can happen is that a kid who is probably out of our league anyways turns us down. Best case a highly touted recruit who you didn't think you really had a shot at decides to take a look at SLU because you offered and they end up as a Billiken.

More 2014 recruiting news: Ben Weixlmann ‏@BWeixScout2m http://Scout.com 's No. 54 player in the Class of 2014, PG Larry Austin (@_LarryAustin2_), has been offered by #SLU.

I have a feeling we have to worry about Miami (OH) more than Seton Hall when it comes to RO.

I think he has too busy retweeting all of the "happy birthday, bro" tweets to remember.

Alcoholism is a disease. Those who suffer from it are addicted to alcohol, not partying with co-eds of a school hours after your basketball team just lost to said school. That being said, I'm fine with leisure suit Larry being given a second chance. However, as a parent, I would still be concerned about him coaching and teaching life lessons to my son.