Four Seventeen

Whatever, dude.

I've already forgotten about Soderberg. I'm hoping Jan can take down all the pictures on the wall that has his sorry excuse for a face on them at Humps. Viva Majerus!

This can be summed up in five words: HIS NAME IS RICK MAJERUS. Comparing him and Soderberg is to compare delicious Washington apples with Shnucks Brand Oranges. Simply put, Soderberg was the absolute worst thing that has ever happened in the history of Saint Louis University -- we went backwards as a program and as a university. The marketing our school does (or even if such a department exists) is the redheaded stepchild of SLU. It was embarrassing to be a SLU student from 2002-2007. The Reign of Terror/BadRecruiting/Soderberg is over, and now we enter a Golden Age of Saint Louis Basketball. Praise Allah.

I'd love to see Saint Louis and Georgetown battle it out every year. It makes for a natural rivalry -- the two oldest and most prestigious Jesuit universities in the country -- market it as "The Olde Game" or something like that with SLU getting the game in 2008, G-Town in '09 and so on...forget Marquette, forget Louisville, forget anyone like Dooke/UK/KU/MU/OU, etc. Get back to basics, forge an alliance with our brothers at Georgetown, get some kind of rivalry going and sell t-shirts or have a braggin' rights atmosphere - get the GU band up here, have the midwest-based GU alumni clubs have a function in St. Louis (that's what X does -- they had a pre-game rally at Federkos) and then when SLU goes out to DC, have the alumni club out there welcome SLU folks visiting for the game, etc. It would do a lot of good for both universities. But, knowing SLU, we'll have the opener on a cold Tuesday in November against UMSL.

It's about time we started getting talent from outside the "metro area." Look at BC, GeeTown -- no one on the roster from Chestnut Hill or the Georgetown district of Washington, D.C. Biondi wants SLU to be a national player --- let's start recruiting the CaliKids and the InnerCityKids.

duh

He was shooting with Bryce, Knollmeyer and MacGuire during his last trip to SLU. No wonder he went Brick City on that last shot. Even TNT announcer Marv Albert was ripping him. And he's been convicted of sodomy.

That doesn't surprise me, knowing that a bunch of old Lower Level Walsh guys that were sophomores my freshman year came back for a Spring Pantie Raid in March, now that LL Walsh is an all-girls floor.

I'm not saying Major League Baseball players shouldn't go out and drink and carry on, but when Chris Duncan catches college co-eds at Humphrey's better than fly balls in left field, that might be an issue Walt Jocketty might want to address next off-season. He was at the bar last night and I heard a lot of snide Hancock comments being made. I got a good chuckle out of some of them, but most were pretty off-base.

Ok, so a kid who graduated summa ###### laude from SLU doesn't have any room to talk about mental capacity? I think you use this board as a way to vent and take out the problems you suffered as a youth. I'm no Freud, but you sir are a fraud.

Just look at the kid. Reminds me of Jim Carrey, er, Lloyd Christmas. He looks lost on the basketball floor. He has no idea what he's doing. Cut his #####, Majerus.

I don't watch the NBA so how could I admire anybody? I used to be a huge Pippen fan back in the day. Still am a Pippen guy. Scottie is probably the most underrated player in NBA history, besides Bobby Cousy. When my old man was transfered to Boston with Caterpillar, we got to see the old Garden when Bird, McHale and the Chief (Robert Parrish) were in their Swan Song. Those were the glory days of the NBA. Now it's all about the Benjamins, record labels, making it rain and other black things. You never hear about Tim Duncan doing something good in the poorer areas of San Antonio because that doesn't make for good Television. No one wants to hear about that. They want to hear about Ron-Ron punching a guy or Karmello hitting or slapping a dude. It's the culture of violence that spreads from youth watching their "idols" on the NBA hardwood.

I'm not the coach. But at least he isn't a local player and would give SLU some central Illinois ties. Too many of those "iffy players" like J.R. Koch from Morton and Mitch Gilfillan from Notre Dame are passed up by bigger programs but end up having a lot of D-I success (Koch at Iowa, Gil at Lehigh). Roth would probably end up at a Northwestern or Purdue and have a great 4 years and we would be kicking ourselves for not signing him. Can't shoot? Ever seen the kid play? MacGuire on the other hand, doesn't have the mental capacity to play D-I and he's really slacking on the physical aspect of basketball.

He is not athletic enough to play at the D-I level. Sure, he might have ruled the IHSA, but this is the NCAA. Typical of the type of recruit Soderberg brought in, the likes of which we will never see again under the new regime. Husak, Knollmeyer, MacGuire...the soft underbelly of Billiken Basketball. I'd love to get R. Lee Ermy in here to yell some sense into those kids so they can take off their lace jock straps and start being physical on the court. I would recommend that he transfer immediately to UMSL or something.

WHOA! Coach Mo! From a personal standpoint, this would be a killer hire for Majerus. I grew up during his tenure at Bradley when I was a kid in Peoria, and very similar to SLU -- BU plays off-campus and has a hard time getting students to Carver Arena. Similar to SLU, a lot of gray hair in the crowd and it's the "see and be seen" thing to do, which drives me nuts. Molinari's family still owns a home in my old neighborhood in Dunlap, which is just north of Peoria on Rt. 40, and his kids are still young enough where a move to St. Louis might be a great thing for them. I would kill to see Mo on the sidelines, but with Porter Moser, it would be weird to see two of the "War on 74" (ISU-Bradley) guys on the same bench. Mo is a great recruiter and with the exception of the Hersey Hawkins/Jim Les era on the Hilltop, probably brought in the best recruiting classes in BU history -- Anthony Parker, Dwayne Funches, Aaron Zobrist, Billy Wright, Adebayo Akinkule, Deon Jackson (who probably hit the biggest shot in the history of the MVC Tournament), etc.

That's only because SportsCenter is more soap opera than sports. They showed the Karmello fight at MSG only 3,000 times, as opposed to the 1.4 million replays of the Ron-Ron Brawl in Detroit. You can lay some blame on the media too, Pistol.

I don't side with the religious right. I think you're stereotype of me is pretty off and degrading and unappreciated. Please ban this user.

Pistol, the culture of the NBA has everything to do with it. When I was in second grade, and I remember this vividly, every kid on my middle-class and mostly white neighborhood in Franklin, Tennessee had to have the first pair of Jordans that came out. My best friend on my block had his room poster painted in Michael Jordan posters like the "Wings" poster from Nike. In essence, parents gave the O.K. for their kids to idolize the Jordans, Birds, even the Magic Johnson's of the world. They were safe for suburbia. Now we have the Rumble in the Palace circa 2004, the TrailBlazers (the Bengals of the NBA), Ron-Ron Artest, Ra-Sheed Wallace, Rip (good name for your hero) Hamilton (second in the league in Technicals), the Kobe Scandal, guys like Karmello Antny going nuts on a guy at Madison Square. Sure the NBA of the 80s had Laimbeer and even a young Dennis Rodman, but they had the calming influences of Zeke, Dumars, Jordan, Pippen, Jack Haley, Luc Longley, etc. I don't want to watch the NBA even for a guy like Adam Morrisson or Kirk Heinrich Maneuver. Even the foreign guys are dirty. Half the teams make the playoffs and they botched that up this year putting San Anton and Phoenix in the semis. I also don't want to watch a bunch of people walk around in headphones the size of phone booths walking to the pre-game shootaround in Sean John and Karl Kanai gear. That's trash and clothes that gang-bangers and not idols to the youth of America wear.

Right, and Voyoukas was hitting the weights all that week in preparation for PsychoSlutTylerHandsinhispants. Too bad he should have been hitting the weights all off-season instead of going to the beach with his BFF/GF. Can't prepare for PsychoBluffHandsbororugh in one week. Sorry. You're fired.

Larry is like Stacy King on the 91-93 Bulls Version 1.0

I'll tell you why, VeeTime: Because the Golden Age of the NBA was from 1980-1998. That's it. Bird. Johnson. Zeke. Pippen. Worthy. Laimbeer. Stockton. Malone. Dumars. Some guy named Jordan. No one cares about the NBA anymore simply because the league has lost it's luster and the NBA can't market players who are constantly in Stern's doghouse. It's racially driven, and I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm not going to go buy a ticket to see the Portland TrailBlazers play when I can go to a police lineup later that night and watch them. I don't want to hear grown men who make millions of dollars to not play defense whine about not making enough money (Spreewell) and then B.I.T.C.H about having to wear a suit and to represent the league in a more positive manner. Was the suit deal racially motivated -- DAMN RIGHT IT WAS -- was it the best thing for David Stern to do -- DAMN RIGHT IT WAS. The hip-hop culture is out of control and is killing the youth of America faster than Al Gore can come up with more of his Nazi Propaganda. No one cares about LeeBron or DeeWayne or even Kirk Heinrich. The NBA sucks right now. It's going to take the abolishment of the hip-hop/gunslinging NBA guys to get me back. The Jordan-Bird-Magic days are over and thank God I get ESPN Classic.

I just want to have a better recruiting class than X.

That was also unfortunately the biggest win during the Soderberg era.

With Ricky Baby going around St. Louis and being more visible than Brad Soderberg ever was (with the exception of those wacky/hilarious Lou Fusz ads) and reaching out to old-timers, will the hire (or as the hire already) lead to an increase in donations/giving to Saint Louis athletics as a whole? Will we see this "trickle down" to the smaller budgeted programs, i.e. baseball?? I have many friends who are still playing for Hughes and they told me that they have to raise money for SLU to build them or furbish their new locker rooms in the Chai, which I think is typical SLU C-R-A-P. But maybe with Majerus getting out there, throwing Snausages and Knockwursts around to people that the tight checkbooks of wealthy SLU alums (and trust me, they're out there) might open up a bit to the rest of our programs. Excitement is at an all-time high. When Majerus walked into Humps, I got 8 text messages from people telling me Majerus was in the building...unreal. GO BILLS!

If Rick Majerus is smart, and I think he is, he will schedule UMSL at Fam. Arena or something and have a game or two away from STL before opening up the Rocking Chaifetz Arena and a standing-room-only crowd for the Home Opener against a Georgetown or Boston College. It only makes sense; but knowing SLU, they'll open it against dUMSL.