kmbilliken
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From watching the games I don’t understand why Bess and Warren don’t get more playing time. Are they injured?
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3 minutes ago, wgstl said:
I cant see a team leaving PHX
The grass is greener in St. Louis.
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10 hours ago, Old guy said:
Of course I am real, I am old (76), and I am retired. I am an MD (Georgetown '71), internist (Georgetown '74). I spent 4 years after residency at Harvard doing immunology and Microbiology (2 degrees, MPH '75, MS '78 in lieu of a PhD). I spent most of my professional life working in insurance dealing with disease, life expectancy, and disability. I know statistics and probability reasonably well and can apply them reasonably well. During my medical training (1973?) I did a training rotation at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) where I worked for a couple of months as part of a clinical team led by no other than a much younger Fauci, yes the one you have been hearing in the news. He did not impress me then and still doesn't. I also volunteered and did 8 years as an MD in a Army NG Infantry Division. While the troops trained, we, the medics, worked taking care of the heat shock or deep hypothermia cases, plus all kinds of odds and ends kinds of accidental trauma cases that happened during training. My division was the 26th ID MAARNG, and we were designated the relief division for the 10th Mountain, so we trained with them. Oh, and my division contained the oldest artillery unit in the US army, which was first created with the guns taken from Fort Ticonderoga way back when. Finally, I have traded the market since '72 and I am familiar with uses of AI in the market. I have also testified in court many times as an expert in disability and insurance.
Even the Mexican Ice cubes and disease are real. The company would send me to Mexico every year to speak to the Mexican insurers about life expectancy and disability. I suggest that, if you doubt the Mexican Ice Cube stuff, you should go to Mexico City to check out their tequila on the rocks and Margaritas. See what happens after you are there 4 to 5 days. If you want to go fancy in DF for lunch or dinner, I suggest the Hacienda de los Morales in DF. Do not forget to visit the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon near the city, and drink some more booze with ice cubes out there. The anthropology museum is also a must see. After you come back home go check the Cahokia mounds park and museum. It is amazing how similar the Mississipian culture and the pre-colombian Mexican culture remains and artifacts were to one another. Oh, and if you are closer to the Shiloh battlefield than to the Cahokia mounds, the battlefield park also contains Mississipian culture mounds and an exhibit of artifacts.
Sadly, the pre-colombian cultures had no basketball, but they played a form of ball game where the object was to pass a rubber ball through a vertical hole high in a stone pole. Winners won, and I believe the losers were sacrificed afterwards. The last paragraph of this is included because this is, after all, a basketball board, so why not give some credit to the pre-colombian cultures from creating their own ball game version for sacrificial purposes.
So, yes I am pretty sure I am real, and have had a real life behind me.
On the tour of the pre-Colombian city I had they said the captain of the winning team was beheaded. Not much incentive to win unless you don’t like your captain
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13 hours ago, BrettJollyComedyHour said:
I hope that they actually acknowledge that if/when it happens lol. If nothing else this rockets our S.o.S wayyyy up for the season. Kind of like when we played UConn and actually held our ground and didn't get totally embarrassed.
That was a different game than I saw. UConn could have won by 80 if they wanted.
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5 hours ago, 3star_recruit said:
How exactly did they "sign off" in making NCAA sports a big business? NCAA basketball has been a big business ever since Bird and Magic went at it in 1979 and immediately transformed the NBA. I don't think it's an accident that the explosion in TV contracts coincided with the explosion of top 50 players in the 1980s.
What happened? Did they get more than 50 top 50 players?
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It is impressive how much our recruiting has improved. In many of my years as a Billiken fan, a recruit like him would have been the gem of the class. Now he is just a good addition. Give Ford credit for that.
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16 minutes ago, gabriel said:
The lack of news is starting to hurt my morale. Has travis lost his recruiting fastball?
He’s just setting it up with the curve.
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This has not been an inspiring hire. There have been no exciting new players added. She better be good with the Xs and Os. Time will tell.
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Was Marty Simmons their last coach?
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I’m assuming UM is Michigan. Aren’t all their top players going to demand at least that or enter the portal? At this point from a business perspective shouldn’t every rotation player in the top 6 to 10 conferences enter the portal every year to see what is out there?
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The way I look at this is as a business decision. If you were earning 50k per year working in St. Louis and a different company offered you 200k a year to do the same job for them in Tennessee, how many of us would turn it down out of loyalty to either our current employer or St Louis? I wouldn’t and I suspect neither would most of the other people on this board. Now is the time for the current employer to offer the same to keep their employee in St Louis. Yuri can’t turn this down. It may be the most he will ever earn playing basketball. He is not an NBA player and can’t make that kind of money in the G league. Whether he could make it overseas is up for debate, but he may not want to go overseas.
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8 hours ago, gobillsgo said:
So he profiles like French basically? Same AAU team even. For those who would say French didn’t have an outside shot, I’d tell you to go back and watch his HS highlights. He shot jumpers, handled the ball, etc.
What happened to his outside shot? He didn’t have one here.
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3 minutes ago, AnkielBreakers said:
Is Pickett a pretty good ball handler, can he help with bringing the ball up? Can he score off of the dribble?
Driving to the basket has always been his game.
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20 minutes ago, Slufan10 said:
Larry Hughes Jr. announcing his commitment tomorrow.
Are we still recruiting him?
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Do NIL payers approach players directly? Can they approach a player and tell him they will pay him 100k for his NIL, but only if he plays for his favorite school?
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Is he still going to classes? That would be a big indicator.
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Do season ticket holders get priority to get our seats for the NIT games?
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I think the Thatch improvement has led to fewer TJ minutes. Against VCU, it was DJ’s increased minutes for ball security.
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1 minute ago, Bay Area Billiken said:
With NET of 82, Drake has no chance for an NCAA At Large Bid, at most is on the bubble for the NIT.
I didn’t know the net. I just thought at 24 wins they may have a shot.
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What are Parker’s stats? The Moberly site lists him as a freshman. Is that right?
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4 hours ago, dlarry said:
The Ohio Valley.
TJ could be a feature player at SIU-E and give them a big boost while staying close to home.
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7 hours ago, Brighton said:
And 1 NCAA Tournament appearance (which was done by a 6th seed).
If that isn’t underachieving, then I don’t know what is.
What SLU program have you been following? Ford is doing well by SLU’s historical standards.
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3 hours ago, Bay Area Billiken said:
Loyola Wins! Bid steal averted. Juan Bid takes residence in The Valley.
Drake may get in.
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6 minutes ago, Fraz said:
Our assistants were on the refs about this. Believe Marten got nicked as a VCU player came down with a rebound. At least that’s what the ref was motioning - inadvertent play. I was more concerned with that goaltend and Yuri charge play
Was Yuri outside the circle?
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Bess is a 3 point shooter, but never gets in a game. Is she hurt?