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10 minutes ago, AGB91 said:
Grawer saved the program.
Ekker was a dog.
Agreed
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11 minutes ago, AnkielBreakers said:
We really need to let go of the Jim Crews hate. He was a really (or at least pretty) good coach at one time. He ran out of gas. He should have retired, and thought about retiring, then tried to keep going with us, but just didn’t have it. We have every right to be mad. But time heals all wounds. He coached some of the best teams in Bills history. He at least didn’t screw that run up, and others might have. It honestly takes wisdom to know when not to tweak with a good team.
Travis Ford has turned the corner. It is time to start remembering the good things from Crews.
Wrong. Jim Crews should never have been hired, and if so, should have had a minimal buy out. Our AD who hired him is still here cashing his paychecks. Our program stupidly hired him and stuck with him too long to allow the program to sink to new depths. And BTW, Crews underperformed with a stacked team - the best I have seen assembled here at SLU, so I choose not to think back and at Jum Crews positively. Crews added no help and then left an empty cupboard - which is relevant for our current status of the program.
Nonetheless, Ford quickly rebuilt this program from scratch only to be set back by a dishonest and uncontrolled campus department in S2 only to again rebuild and have COVID take away last post season and then to come back this year only to have its own campus COVID “police” and City of St Louis ignore science to ruin this season causing basketball neophytes on this Board to unfairly take shots at our head coach.David King, slufanskip, BigMouthBilliken and 1 other like this -
15 minutes ago, A10Ref said:
Not saying this changes must of your story Taj, but I think it is important context.
No doesn’t change it at all. Any one of us MBM‘s could have coached equally as well as Jim Crews. In fact several on this Board could’ve done better.
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12 minutes ago, WVBilliken said:
Porter has produced yet another very well coached team. Illinois may have had the talent, but Loyola had a game plan and executed it to perfection.
It wasn’t a game plan. It was relentless implementation of fundamentals in practice which allowed them to execute their game plan and beat a team with far superior athletic ability
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27 minutes ago, 3star_recruit said:
Has there ever been a coach who has turned their career around this late? Moser's lifetime winning percentage after seventeen seasons is .548. The last four years have been an amazing story.
Agreed. I admit that I haven’t been a big fan of Porter. And in my own defense, he wasn’t much of a coach when he arrived here at SLU. Young guy. Tried hard. Recruiting accolades. Not an x’s and o’s guy. Complement to RM.
IMO, and from a distance and without inside information other than being a MBM, Porter had a true conversion and really did learn alot from RM. Sure, recruiting is the lifeline of college sports, and sure you cannot teach height or athletic ability but Porter is winning bc he has implemented RM’s fundamentals and has demanded /recruited kids who are willing implement these fundamentals.
Personally, I have not seen screens set and used like they do since RM - and that includes Jett, McCall etc on auto pilot under Jim Crews.
JGood, Perkins, French, Yuri don’t set, wait for or even use a real screen.
Not lightning in a bottle, luck... just fundamentals, attention to details and kids who can shoot. Fundamentals are timeless.
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6 minutes ago, 3star_recruit said:
I understand Yuri's limitations but finding a point guard of the caliber you describe on the transfer market is even more difficult than finding a quality big man. Maybe you could find a point guard out of high school to push Yuri for minutes. Maybe.
Not seeing “pass first” PGs in the Tournament.
Also not seeing bigs like French and Bell. And not cherry-picking from a top rated program but I would trade them for Jaquez and Juzang all day long. Remember when our bigs could shoot ? And not just FTs and from within 5 foot? Cody Ellis and Rob LoeMost talented team in our lifetime? I would take Ellis, Loe, Evans, Jett and McCall over this year’s team?
BRoy. Close your ears but I would have already run off Jacobs by now.
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2 hours ago, 3star_recruit said:
I would love for the combo guard to be named later to be as quick as Yuri. We have some leapers but we don't have the foot speed and ballhandling on the perimeter that we did with Jett, McCall and Mitchell. We have high jumpers that are heavily dependent on Yuri to get them the ball. If you slow down Yuri, you neutralize the other guys.
Sorry. I am likely in the small minority here but PG remains a huge problem for us. Goodwin’s unique skills and leadership helped at PG this year when Yuri needed a break or was injured, but JGood is/was not a PG. And while the offense flows better with Yuri, and while Yuri is an asset to this team, we will have similar issues and again struggle against better teams next year if Yuri plays more than 20 mpg. Perkins yes. Okoro I assume. Not only does Yuri need to improve offensively (I give him the benefit of the doubt) but his decision making has been poor these past few weeks (not sure that can improve) and his height will not improve (easy to shoot over). Again, MIss State did not even guard him in the second half but doubled on Perkins. And Yuri bothers the other PG dribbling but otherwise plays little defense. This team has other issues too (not all blame on Yuri) but perimeter defense will not improve with Yuri who even got posted up and burned bad by their equally small PG, Iverson Molinar, yesterday. And poor defense and turnovers place even more pressure on the offense.
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10 hours ago, almaman said:
4 sure just look @ the nun's gang x town. I secretly fear SIUE
Oh wouldn’t go that far. I would think alot of Chicago kids would like to stay home and play in the Big East as compared to stay home by going to Edwardsville and playing in whatever their league is... the other Valley?
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On 3/14/2021 at 1:42 PM, Brighton said:
That's when SLU's basketball fate was sealed when they didn't take basketball, a revenue maker, seriously. We would be in a better place, think Big East, today if they did. Instead, we have seen Creighton, Xavier, Butler, Marquette, etc pass us by and Loyola-Chicago go to the Final Four since then. Think about it, we didn't have a state of the art arena with great facilities until 2008. Two-thousand and Eight. 21st Century, and this program has been around since 1914.
If that isn't a sign of a small time operation, then I don't know what is. There's no way on God's green earth that St. Bonaventure should clean our clocks...or anyone's clock...yet here they are playing for the A10 championship.
Troll or not - he is wrong.
First, what changed with SLU basketball in 1986? Saint Rich was already at work. Roland Grey and Monroe Douglass were already here in ‘85. Huge amount of fanfare. Bonner graduated high school in ‘86 but no one knew what he would become. Little fanfare comparatively, and yes the ‘88 and ‘90 NIT years but Craig Upchurch came after 1986 as did Grawer’s last year in ’91 - another low point.
Spoonhour came in 1992 and Biondi promised Top 50 but did not deliver. At the same time, we played in brand new NBA quality facilities - state of the art and common in the Big East like he references. I prefer Chafeitz, but the days at Kiel/Savvis/Scottrade were not bad, were actually a selling point along with Great Midwest and Conf USA and were not the reason we did not do better. Not winning enough but the lack of a state of the art practice facility also hurt long after 1986. And as great as Chaifetz Arena was in 2008 and helped us attract RM, let’s face it, RM would have won playing games in West Pine Gym. After 2008, we won bc of RM ... not bc of Chaifetz Arena.
And if unsure, just look at the Jim Crews years, after 2008, which did more to hurt the program than the good brought by Chaifetz Arena.
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20 hours ago, almaman said:
One and done had whole different meaning with Meyer family and the dance.
Yep
Just really surprised that DePaul cannot find a local guy w connections. So much Chicago talent.... in the City and suburbs. And good conference... all you need is 3 good players...
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11 minutes ago, Bay Area Billiken said:
While that's probably true, the First 4 OUT do not share in the riches, the $1.8-$1.9 Million per game played in the NCAA.
My past understanding is an NIT participant breaks even. I don't know what happens since the NCAA took over the NIT. There also may be a difference due to the pandemic, no on campus home games. But I don't know there either.
Yep.
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8 hours ago, Quality Is Job 1 said:
Actually, it's because they're afraid of the hit their reputations take when they lose to SLU and other "mid-major" programs.
Yes. That’s what I meant by protect their name.
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2 hours ago, Bay Area Billiken said:
And then there's the case of Drake, NET 45, 2 spots below SLU, meaning SLU had the better objective metric. There's Drake, whose non-conference schedule, whose tour of the Summit League, uniting of the Dakotas, gave new meaning to cupcake and cream puff.
So the NCAA says play a good non-conference schedule. SLU played LSU, NC State and @ Minnesota. Drake? No.
By this new "Drake Test," will SLU in '21-'22 "Drake up" its schedule to compete? SLU can schedule a home and home with SEMO, host NAIA Culver-Stockton and D-2 UMSL. After all, Drake played South Dakota twice, North Dakota, Nebraska-Omaha, Chicago State, a lousy Kansas State team, Air Force, along with NAIA St. Ambrose, and D-2 McKendree. Then Drake played in all those cataclysmic struggles in the Missouri Valley Conference.
The only good team Drake played all season was Loyola Chicago, to whom Drake lost by 27 points on its home court and 10 points on a neutral court, and won at home by 1 in Overtime.
Then Drake received a gift from the City of St. Louis and Missouri Valley Conference, not having to play the MVC Quarterfinal vs. UNI.
Drake received an NCAA At Large, gets the $1.8-$1.9 Million NCAA Unit per game played. SLU is a #1 Seed in the NIT. There's something wrong with that comparison.
Yes. Again all true. No argument from me. And you wrote your points very persuasively too! Well done.
But we went 1-1 in our A10 Tournament, were blown out and were never in the game. The A10 is not the best or worst league but when you don’t make your league’s final game - and get blown away in the process... its hard to look away. And then you look away and see see the loss to VCU after getting blown out by UD and you look at the next team.
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23 minutes ago, Bay Area Billiken said:
I think your points as to why SLU was didn't make the NCAA are largely correct. I think SLU flunked the Committee's subjective eye test. Objectively per the metric used, SLU should have been IN.
However, SLU was still snubbed. The NCAA field followed the NET to the button, 100% for 35 of the first 37 at large bids. The two variances occurred because (1) Room had to be made for Michigan State (NET 70, 9-12 Big Ten including B10 Tourney) as the 9th Big Ten team. That NCAA Unit is simply worth too much money, $1.8 to $1.9 Million; (2) a second AAC team (72 Wichita State) had to be slotted because each conference in the Group of 4 (WCC, A10, MVC, and Mountain West) each received 2 bids, and the 7th conference ranked AAC was not going to receive only 1 bid.
Someone had to go to make room. Regrettably, SLU was excised, despite its easily NCAA qualifying NET of 43.
In fact, the picking was so skewed against SLU that SLU was only the 3rd team OUT, despite having a significantly better NET than 56 Louisville and 51 Colorado State.
I do not accept the snub of SLU, not with its NET of 43, kenpom ranking of 47, and ESPN BPI ranking of 37. Why have the NET metric if it is going to be ignored when it comes down to the nitty gritty? Why have a ridiculous Power 5 exception for a Big Ten also ran like Michigan State? In advance, I'm well aware of the claimed justifications of Michigan State winning 3 top level games late (all at home), or its 5 Quad 1 wins. Michigan State was 5-11 in Quad 1, .3125. Those faux justifications are rejected here. Michigan State is IN for one reason: Follow the money.
I will watch SLU play in the NIT, and am looking forward to seeing the Billikens play some more ball in '21.
Yes. All good arguments... but 4 of our 6 losses were blowouts. And were down the stretch. Our good wins which made up the 43 NET were pre-COVID pause. The Committee was likely unsure as to why the losses and why blowouts. And, coupled with a smaller body of work, the lack of a name school and our conference affiliation -- the Committee clearly did not follow their own system. I suspect the Committee would say, as with all systems, there is always human over-ride if the system produces an outlier result.
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3 hours ago, CBFan said:
I cannot disagree with your points, I love the Billikens but I am honest about the results.
They should have played a practice game before taking on Dayton.
The 2 blow out losses to Dayton and the Bonnies cost SLU the NCAA tournament.
The loss to LaSalle hurt as well.
To be a NCAA tournament team they had to beat Dayton once and beat a boneless VCU team and they did not.
I have no argument with the selection committee not selecting the Billikens.
I hope you watch the NIT. French and Goodwin got SLU to the NCAA tournament with a wonderful A10 sweep. Last season I believe if they made it to the A10 tournament championship SLU would have gotten selected. Those two players accomplished a lot and I look forward to to seeing them play on Saturday.
Agree about the blowout losses. And think you are being kind as to the LaSalle loss which also was a blowout loss. No real argument from me either as to the selection committee. We failed on the basketball court and our leadership at SLU and the A10 also failed the kids. Tough to survive both - but we nearly did.
The handling of the entire season, IMO, was shameful. French and Goodwin (and Perkins and the others) deserved better. And I, like most, will be watching and pulling for them.
I have questions about Coach Ford and his son's 21st Birthday party -- not good. I question why we missed 30 days and did not practice. If the entire league shut down, then fine, but when the others are playing, strict COVID protocols greatly hurt - and how effective they really were is another story. They were greatly effective, though, in killing our team's chances this year. And I would like to really know what happened in Richmond. Had SLU handled the other aspects better, I would be more inclined to believe SLU. I want to believe SLU but right now, I don't. I am from Missouri: show me. Yes, a practice game would be fine. But how about some help from the A10 as well. Again, the Valley stepped in and changed their whole format. The SEC in football changed opponents each weeks for the whole league depending upon COVID outbreaks. The A10? crickets... until it shut the season down a week prior, we missed 2 important games and made us sit and wait along with the lesser conferences while the better conferences had their day in the sun. The rest of the country thinks we are no different then the Valley - and our A10 Commish made us look that way too. Again, why could we not play our 2 games AFTER losing to St. Bona? All teams other than VCU and St. Bona had a week off and could have played each other.
Who said to Coach Ford, yeah, renting out a bar for your 21 year old son during a pandemic when you are the high profile coach and employee of the University? Who said the odds of playing one (1) more game - the A10 final a week later - would increase the risk of COVID so much that the loss of 2 games would be worth it? Who said to the A10 Commish, yeah, playing less games and the optics of playing when the lesser conferences do is a good idea as well? This is not rocket science. Grab 10 random people off the street and you would get better advice.
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3 hours ago, CBFan said:
I cannot disagree with your points, I love the Billikens but I am honest about the results.
They should have played a practice game before taking on Dayton.
The 2 blow out losses to Dayton and the Bonnies cost SLU the NCAA tournament.
The loss to LaSalle hurt as well.
To be a NCAA tournament team they had to beat Dayton once and beat a boneless VCU team and they did not.
I have no argument with the selection committee not selecting the Billikens.
I hope you watch the NIT. French and Goodwin got SLU to the NCAA tournament with a wonderful A10 sweep. Last season I believe if they made it to the A10 tournament championship SLU would have gotten selected. Those two players accomplished a lot and I look forward to to seeing them play on Saturday.
Agree about the blowout losses. And think you are being kind as to the LaSalle loss which also was a blowout loss. No real argument from me either as to the selection committee. We failed on the basketball court and our leadership at SLU and the A10 also failed the kids. Tough to survive both - but we nearly did.
The handling of the entire season, IMO, was shameful. French and Goodwin (and Perkins and the others) deserved better. And I, like most, will be watching and pulling for them.
I have questions about Coach Ford and his son's 21st Birthday party -- not good. I question why we missed 30 days and did not practice. If the entire league shut down, then fine, but when the others are playing, strict COVID protocols greatly hurt - and how effective they really were is another story. They were greatly effective, though, in killing our team's chances this year. And I would like to really know what happened in Richmond. Had SLU handled the other aspects better, I would be more inclined to believe SLU. I want to believe SLU but right now, I don't. I am from Missouri: show me. Yes, a practice game would be fine. But how about some help from the A10 as well. Again, the Valley stepped in and changed their whole format. The SEC in football changed opponents each weeks for the whole league depending upon COVID outbreaks. The A10? crickets... until it shut the season down a week prior, we missed 2 important games and made us sit and wait along with the lesser conferences while the better conferences had their day in the sun. The rest of the country thinks we are no different then the Valley - and our A10 Commish made us look that way too. Again, why could we not play our 2 games AFTER losing to St. Bona? All teams other than VCU and St. Bona had a week off and could have played each other.
Who said to Coach Ford, yeah, renting out a bar for your 21 year old son during a pandemic when you are the high profile coach and employee of the University? Who said the odds of playing one (1) more game - the A10 final a week later - would increase the risk of COVID so much that the loss of 2 games would be worth it? Who said to the A10 Commish, yeah, playing less games and the optics of playing when the lesser conferences do is a good idea as well? This is not rocket science. Grab 10 random people off the street and you would get better advice.
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I named only Terry Cummings. Forgot Aquire was still there.
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3 hours ago, Taj79 said:
@Clock Tower —- not only Cpt. Obvious but reading impaired and logic impaired. I blast you for taking 14 days to post that in-depth piece of analysis and you come back with some disconnected gibberish tying my A10 analysis into glowing reports on all teams but ours. I EXPECT Billiken fans to know their team. I don’t bother to report on what Cpt. Obvious seems to want.
I did say I was done with both players. There. I said it again. Maybe they’ll go out in the Not In Tournament Tournament and look good. Won’t matter. It’s not The Dance and that is the banner of success. Nothing else measures up.
Also, we were not a NCAA tourney team this year or last. Did we play in either tournament? No. I don’t know how you count but that’s how I count. Play and in. Not and out. Seems simple to even Cpt. Obvious types. Mangle that however you want.
I don’t recall calling COVID an excuse but for Dayton 1.0 and La Salle. Look around the country, almost all teams affected by COVID have come back weaker —— Baylor, Michigan State, many others. But I only write off the first two games back. Then the rest fail elsewhere. I have long said we are better than the Bonnies and think Schmidt a tedious, sideline wanderer who I want nothing to do with. Yet you seem to credit me otherwise. Again, reading comprehension. And you still don’t get matchup issues between teams. Sit down and shut up.
I have no clue what your son and kids recovering have in this discussion. On one hand your kid got it and recovered with no (?) problems. So kids recover? But then you say for French and others it was a big deal. Then comes “but I have no firsthand knowledge. The effects of COVID are real and no excuse.” So COVID is real and not an excuse.” WTF are you trying to say?
I have long said Perkins is a scoring machine. Collins is the best pure passer since H Walkman. French and Goodwin are warriors. Gibson Jimerson is a shooter. But all are weak and exploitable from a scouting perspective. I also EXPECT Billiken fans to know that too. I calls them as I sees them. You don’t like it, don’t read my stuff.
No reading impaired issues here. Too many important things in my life to not respond sooner to your post. But please explain how waiting, as you say, 14 days nullifies your wild and rosy predictions of a bad St Joe team? Ok. I will hang up and listen. Cannot wait to hear. 100 points put up on them in a conference game doesn’t appear like a team which defends either.
And I am glad you learned about matchups from reading 3Star - one of our better posters BTW I learn things from him too, such as Hargrove’s weaknesses as a high school player - but not what you learned - that matchups are important. I learned that at age 10. So if that was your new insight, look in the mirror Captain Obvious.
As to my son, friends and family who have gone through Covid, let me better explain. Yes, they recovered. Yes they are no longer contagious. Yes, they returned to school and work. Yes they regained their taste and smell. Yes, they looked and acted the same coming out of quarantine- and thankfully came out of quarantine and did not die- but they continued to get winded walking up steps for long periods of time. This past Spring, after another hockey season and then rugby practice starting with a 2 mile run to warm up, my son was in as good of shape or better than Team Blue. And yet he and others experienced breathing issues going up stairs for months and others who have more recently tested positive are still experiencing this symptom.
If true, ask yourself if Team Blue got winded playing high-level D1 basketball day in and day out? And on day two of the A10 tournament against a team that they throttled two weeks earlier. Even to Captain Obvious, it did not look like they played as they did prior to Covid. I am glad you gave Team Blue 2 games to return to normal. To me, that says it all. Where did 2 games come from? Do you have a medical degree we are not aware of? I am not a medical doctor and I don’t pretend to be be one or have superior medical knowledge. Just a MBM, but to me, when I see a whole team not play well, I look for possible reasons.
I guess we react differently. I am glad you called JGood and French warriors in the past, but when they physically didn’t perform like they did in the past, or with more rest, I dont write them off, say I am done with them and post snotty comments about them dancing only 1 year. Same with Coach Ford. Yes I have some concerns with next year’s lineup, but I believe we are going in the right direction. I guess we disagree there too. You see, I believe we were an NCAA team last year like Dayton was an NCAA team. Covid robbed us of this last year and I suggest again this year. Guess we agree to disagree but I believe the team Coach Ford put together was an NCAA caliber team this year too. Did we make it ? No. But for Covid, I say we make it. But for a 30 day shutdown, the Richmond fiasco and the A10 shaving off 2 games to play most of our Tournament with the Valley, I say we make it. Again. Agree to disagree.
I am just thankful to have had college basketball simply played again. I recognize that many of the traditional powerhouse teams did not make the Dance this year. Coincidence? The disparity of teams throughout the country as to the number of games played, their relative healths, how their schools and conferences have reacted, how their areas reacted and were affected by Covid is massive. This year has been unusual. I would be ecstatic if our team were dancing but this is not a normal year and while I will not put an asterisk on this season because we are not dancing, I also believe that team and player evaluations, if they are credible, should have Covid factored into them. Apparently you and I disagree on this as well. -
1 hour ago, ACE said:
There's no reason a decent coach and recruiter can't turn DePaul at least into a Seton Hall level program.
Yes and a good coach and recruiter can turn DePaul into a powerhouse. A Top 20 program
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25 minutes ago, brianstl said:
What did Gardner send out that was unverified? The pictures are sourced to Brooks own Instagram account. No one has said the party didn't happen. If people just wanted to nastily attack the program, this whole incident would have been brought up on the board a long time ago because it has been an open secret among many since shortly after it happened.
I don't like talking about stuff that makes the program look bad. That said, attacks on people who tweeted about something that actually happened shouldn't be unanswered. Travis Ford screwed up. The full extent of the screw up is unknown, but it was Travis Ford's screw up and not Chris Gardner's or Carter Chapley's screw up.
Ok. Point taken about the pictures and the party. And not sure what attacks are being made about Gardner. I guess I missed that part.
But again, this is not journalism. No one is trying to write a comprehensive story. Fair, old school journalism always reaches out to the other side. No proof... no linkage established. Contract tracing most likely was done and may have linked the party to Ford or not. For now, just mud... that Travis Ford brought this upon himself and the program and got what he deserved... and irresponsible behavior from our head coach during a global pandemic.
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2 hours ago, Taj79 said:
Thanks Captain Obvious. What you been doing these last 14 days or so .... developing that in-depth analysis.
Funny. Would be nice to read a positive comment or two from you about our team's players rather than the glowing ones you post of the other A10 teams. I respect your knowledge of the other teams and such info is appreciated, but not sure you realize how negative you have been about our own team.
You said you were done with JGood. Nothing good from you about French. Alot of blame upon Coach Ford. Blame due to not making the NCAA but 1 time during their careers.
Will just agree to disagree. We were an NCAA Tourney last year and this year too, but for the COVID. St. Bona is not a better team than us and I would much prefer Coach Ford over Mark Schmidt. We don't need a new coach or a program overhaul of talent - just good health this year and some new pieces to the puzzle next year. Maybe you and others call COVID an excuse this year. So be it. Again, agree to disagree. My 19 year old son was in perfect physical shape before getting COVID last Fall. He lost taste and smell, had normal sore throat and cough, slept 22 hours two (2) days in a row and soon otherwise recovered. Young kids recover quickly -- and thankfully he did too - though he continued to be winded going up stairs for 2 months afterwards. No big deal for him -- but I suspect it was/is a big deal for French and the others. Thankfully, I have no first had knowledge - though several in my office and friends and family tested positive and all have talked about both the short term recovery and the longer term recovery.
Bad luck, possibly self-inflicted as per the other thread ... but the effects of COVID are real -- and I suggest are not an excuse.
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3 minutes ago, NH said:
I am fairly certain based on what I’ve heard and the general fact pattern that Travis was not at his sons bday party. That doesn’t change the fact that he is the face of the program and at a time when he was talking about how cautious the program was, he was renting out a bar for a bunch of college kids (including one who lives with him) in what can only be described as a high risk event. If his justification was that his son already had COVID then that’s fine but it’s not ridiculous that he would be asked to explain why he thought that was acceptable.
well said
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1 hour ago, brianstl said:
What did Ford say that countered anything in the tweets sent by Gardner or Chapley? Ford didn't deny anything in those tweets. Ford never said he wasn't at the party. Ford went out there and acted like the whole thing was an attack on Brooks to avoid getting asked questions he didn't want to answer.
Since the loss to the Bonnies, Ford has been saying COVID should be took into account for the Billikens issues in the second half of the season. If you are going to use that as the excuse, you should be prepared to answer question about how the team got hit so hard by COVID. Especially when this story has been making the rounds for months.
Why should we expect "real" old school journalism, proper sourcing, etc. when our major news outlets don't do this either? Journalism is dead.
Gardner sent out a nasty, unverified hit piece -- which as many have pointed out may or may not be true.
Why does Coach Ford need to respond with a proper journalistic response to such a nasty attack?
And why is the source of the COVID required to state the obvious -- our team was greatly and negatively affected by COVID?
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On 2/28/2021 at 7:47 PM, Taj79 said:
@Clock --- I'm talking matchups, right there in black and white. Many people on here go in many directions and the matchup scenario comes from a very good poster in 3star. Yes, the Joeys are 2 and 9 but they've done the nine without Daly. Since he came back, they are doing the two. Let's see what happens to them at Richmond tomorrow.
Everyone on here has lamented our inability to cover those shooting the three ball. THIS IS WHAT THE JOEYS DO. Ditto the bench in Tracey, Forest, Longpre Douglas and Bishop. The Joeys play five out ... meaning no traditional center. This negates anything Bell could provide defensively and hurts with Linssen some. If you delete Perkins and Jimerson from our three point shooter lists, our next highest volume shooter is Goodwin at 56. Then we drop off to Jacobs at 32. The Joeys have six guys who have launched over 32 threes this year. Almost 50% of their shots come from three. What has been our weakness of late? A three point shooting team against a team that doesn't defend it well. Damn right I don't like it, record regardless and notwithstanding.
Plus factor in some schmoe having his career night against. Maybe one of those secondary five I mentioned. I really don't like it.
By the way, their staring "center" Funk, has launched 140 threes all by himself. Jimerson has 88 and Perkins 83.
St Joe lost 100 - 66 to UMass despite the play/return of Daly and his 7 points...
GDT: NIT Round 1 vs Mississippi State
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Yes. And Michael Jordan and I played the same position. What’s your point? All pass first PGs - whatever that term means - the same? Because I was good in high school but Michael was better.