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39 minutes ago, slu72 said:
And our friend Cart’are is begging the NCAA for a waiver. I saw his tweet. After all his trials, tribulations, and travels he’s still a confident guy who’s chomping at the bit to show off his skills.
Has he completed a semester anywhere besides his semester here?
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8 hours ago, RUBillsFan said:
With no insider knowledge whatsoever that is exactly my 1,000 foot read on what happened here. Likely Nesbitt's HS coach (or a possibly a parent) pushed him toward Memphis after strong pitch from Penny.
I'm not sure Ford can totally close off recruiting St. Louis Christian, but I'd be much more wary of going hard after STLCA recruits after the way this played out.
I thought it was interesting that in one of the interviews the coach seemed to indicate SLU was doing ok given they had only first offered around summer 2019, but nothing was said about Memphis first offering just before he narrowed his choices to his top 10 thereby requiring him to change it to top 11. That indicated to me the coach didn’t think much of SLU, given he did not have a problem with the very late Memphis offer.
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8 hours ago, slufanskip said:
Without a bit of sarcasm, I can say I'll be a little disappointed in the season if we are a 5 seed.
I’ll take a 5 seed any day of the week. That means we will be considered a top 20 team by the tournament selection committee. It will be tough for us to get higher than that unless we only lose 4 or fewer games.
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What is Carrawell under sanctions for?
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1 hour ago, Dr. Holly Hills said:
Damn! I’m disappointed. And that latest article posted is really confusing in that it doesn’t even mention SLU. Oh well.. there are more fish in the sea... guess I’ll just have to focus on the a$$ kicking the current roster is going to put on the rest of the league this year!
All I really got out of the article was Penny’s call from The golf cart really impressed him. Doesn’t he know SLU has all kinds of golf carts?
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Travis will roll with the punches and come up with someone else. It’s been a long time since we could have that kind of confidence in our coaches recruiting ability.
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I understand the appeal of Memphis with Penny telling him you remind me of me and I can show you how I got to the NBA. The NBA is foremost on all these player's minds.
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13 hours ago, BiggestSteve said:
I will make one last post and then leave you all to live in the fantasy land where everyone cheats except SLU.
Where do you think the money for inducements comes from? Do you think the athletic department is cutting them a check? You think the Coach is going to go to the AD and say "Hey boss sure would love to cheat so go ahead and cut a check to this kids family" The money comes from boosters. Boosters outside of the athletic department. Doctors happen to make a lot of money, and there are some of them that also happen to like SLU basketball a lot. They aren't acting in an official capacity as med school faculty. The whole point of the money coming from boosters outside of the athletic department is that it is harder to trace. This is how basically every school does it. There are other boosters who are not doctors, and I don't have much insight into what they are involved in. People like Reinert's daddy don't know about these things for three reasons. One, they don't go through the official channels and instead go through boosters. Two, you don't tell your boss when you are cheating or doing something potentially illegal. A coach isn't going to tell on themselves to the AD, and the AD isn't going to tell on their department to upper admin. Three, upper admin and typically the AD doesn't WANT to know about these things because if they did know they would be implicated if the whole thing blows up. As for Gordon, it wasn't an actual condo. That phrase was hyperbole. It was used to indicate the amount of money his family was paid, as opposed to say "had to buy his dad a car" which would indicate a lower level payout. For those wondering, my bachelors was actually from Bradley (SOOOOOOO SLIMY).
My point is, you don’t have a credible source. If someone is making an illegal payoff, they aren’t going to go around bragging about it.
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4 hours ago, BigSteve said:
Anyone who is halfway clued in at SLU knew about the Gordon recruitment. My father in law works in admin at the med school and even he knew. He called me after he committed and said "You hear about this kid they got for the basketball team? Had to pay for a nice condo for his mom" The Gordon family was not particularly low key about what happened either.
Of course the athletic department is going to discuss their payoffs with the medical school administration. All payoffs have to have their stamp of approval.
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3 hours ago, TheChosenOne said:
Right, such an odd time for recruiting. Within the article he acknowledged the possibility of that not being possible which could make things more fluid. I just listened to Frank's show from today and he said that he expects him to commit to Mizzou in the near future, so who knows.
Frank also said he was texting with Corey Tate asking him when he is going to close Jordan Nesbitt and sent him a coffee's for closers meme. Said Tate responded that he is trying to get that locked up. I doubt many local media folks are texting coaches things of that nature, so for now on I am going to take anything Frank says as essentially coming directly from the coaching staff. Good to have one guy on our side!
I thought coaches weren’t allowed to comment on specific players until they are signed.
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They coordinate.
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1 hour ago, Reinert310 said:
Well technically, if you go far enough back genetically, everybody is related to everybody. I watched a documentary on it. It was pretty interesting.
Like 3500 years
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1 hour ago, slu72 said:
I’d say his cousin, Yurimania, will be our leader, and he’ll lead by example.
Is Yuri related to Nesbitt too? If so, is Nesbitt also related to Russell?
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3 hours ago, Franchise_08 said:
Wonder if Phil Russel told him something...
Probably told him he’ll need a backup.
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8 hours ago, AGB91 said:
How much better do you Tilmon would be if he had come to SLU?
When Tilmon was a senior and Hargrove was his sophomore teammate, Hargrove was the better player. He still is.
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What surgery did Goodwin have?
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Based on the current state of the pandemic, it’s doubtful either of our Euro recruits will be making it here any time soon.
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2 hours ago, AGB91 said:
#22 was worn by one of my favorite Billikens of all time.
David Burns a former Metro Conference POY.
Just us old men remember how great he was. A literal one man team as a senior.
One of my favorites too. He could come down the floor 1 on 3 and still have them outnumbered.
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Spoonball
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21 hours ago, TheChosenOne said:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1257370946215780353
Seven schools have publicly acknowledged NCAA Notices of Allegations:
Kansas: Five Level-I violations
NC State: Two Level-I violations
Louisville (on probation), Oklahoma State, South Carolina: One Level-I violation
USC and TCU also received one, but didn't reveal allegations.
So this makes Kansas #1?
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5 hours ago, BilliKat said:
Wow! What a week!
my sweet Lillian Kathleen arrived on Wednesday and now okoro?
sometimes, life is just GREAT!
LilliKat? Congratulations and sign her up.
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On 4/23/2020 at 10:09 AM, The Wiz said:
A promising breakthrough...no side effects and can be ramped out quickly....on fast track for FDA approval
Why isn’t this getting more attention?
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3 minutes ago, almaman said:
That would suck for him. I’d hope he’d go somewhere else. If no medical issues he could be a starter lots of schools
If he had no medical issues he could be a starter here.
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Maybe he wants to go there, be the man and lead a resurgence of the program. ISU has had some good runs through the years.
SLU WBB vs Bradley
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She only played 4 minutes in the game. After watching the way she closed out her freshman year, I thought she was going to end up one of the women’s all time greats. She hasn’t improved, and possibly regressed since then.