Duff Man
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one thing im wondering is, I have now seen dozens of things on twitter talking about his commitment to slu. About half those mofos claim him as in fact a SG? a PG/SG is an odd mix up, IF hes a defined PG. What im getting at is IF hes a SG, does this mess with home boy ash.
I'll cede authority to anyone who GSTKP, but if he's listed as both a PG (verbal commits, yahoo rivals) and a SG (espn), I'll assume he's a combo guard capable of playing either the 1 or the 2.
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I'll sleep better tonight knowing SLU has a PG* for 2014-15 in the bag**
*besides McBroom
**even if it's just a verbal
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boy you sure are proud of yourself. way to go.
btw, yes I am relieved and happy that it has at least improved. no one wants to see their alma mater which we all have grown to be proud of academically at the bottom of the list. now get it back to where it was for years. at the top.
Single year APR
2008-09: 933
2009-10: 915
2010-11: 945
2011-12: 1000
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love the nickname ash
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Not saying this is what you're implying, but you can find easy classes anywhere.
My general understanding is that it's more difficult for academically challenged athletes to remain eligible at private institutions as opposed to public schools which naturally offer a wider array of courses to a wider spectrum of students.
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If he is having trouble getting the needed number on the SAT, then Miami (Ohio) probably is not a viable option. It is an extremely tough academic school with demanding entrance requirements. Much tougher than SLU. Maybe this is why LSU is now an option for him.
Does SLU offer a class called Physics in Sports?
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Why is everyone so obsessed with RO? At this point I'd rather not have him. He visited and its been forever since then with no action. The last thing I want is another Keith Carter
If Keith Carter took his time to think through decisions as Randy O is doing, he possibly never would have come here at all...or maybe he would have come, and not left.
There is nothing wrong with Randy O taking his time before he making one of the most important decisions of his life. From the kid's perspective, it's better to avoid signing an LOI.
SLU, Miami University, and LSU would all be wildly different experiences, and it really comes down to where he feels is the best fit.
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or is Chaminade one?
LOL
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Does anyone else realize Willie (inactive bench player, sure) is in a playoff series against a player who ended the SLU careers of Claggett, Waldman, and Highmark?
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Twice this season, I've tried to listen to the ballgame on TuneIn. My phone screen even said Cards vs. Cubs for example, but all I could hear both times was CBS sports talk. I don't know if MLB won't allow the games to be aired over the phone or the Cards won't or there is some other reason. And I have no use for KMOX otherwise so I haven't tried it any other time. So not everything they air is on the phone app.
MLB has been (re)selling online broadcast feeds for 10+ years. You used to (c. 2000) be able to listen online to Cardinals games on a non-KMOX member of the Cards radio network, but they cracked down around 2002.
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Of course, it's incredibly sh1tty that Jim Crews hung this kid out to dry like this...of course
But maybe...it was never going to end well for the kid here...maybe Crews did him a favor by cutting him loose before he wasted another year of eligibility riding the bench.
Of course, it's fuoked up that they waited so long to break the news...of course
But maybe...there's never a good time to break the news...maybe it's better for everyone that he complete his finals without the devastating circumstances hanging over him
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This probably plays into RO wanting to take a look at Tennessee.
Who could resist the urge to play for Rondo?
(NSFW audio)
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It's hard keeping track of which possible recruits have what going for them, but I feel like we need to get a PG, not a SG, recruited this year. If we don't then next year (2014) we will only have AM and a FR as PGs. That make RO the priority for me.
Agreed.
i am not afraid of a freshmen pg. we make it a priority and bring in a kwamain mitchell or a marque perry or josh fisher as our freshmen point guard, that would be just fine with me. granted it puts loads of pressure on the staff to get a high quality kid next year, but thus far the staff has shown the ability to do just that.
Finding a "kwamain mitchell or a marque perry or josh fisher" is easier said than done. Nobody can predict how these incoming players will pan out. That's why you give yourself margin for error.
Remember when Kwamain was our only real PG and he got punked in the eye against Belmont and we almost pissed the game away in the last 4 minutes? I'm sure you remember the next game when we lost at home (sans Mitchell) to Mo State, decimating our at-large hopes?
If Jett or McCall gets hurt next season, I'd like to have a PG option besides McBroom.
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Miami OH would be one of the most fun places you could go for sure.
It's probably different for athletes at both places though. But yeah the girls at Miami are smoking and the parties are pretty nuts.
This weekend is the last proper weekend of the semester in Oxford (Finals start May 6th).
The situaish is kinda concerning.
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Djambo is our top priority because he at minimum would be in our rotation and could possibly even start. I agree with roy, that if there is not a good guard, don't force it. That's the beauty of having a deep roster.
We're going to be good next year without Djambo. The year we'd really need Djambo is 2014-15...and if I'm reading you correctly, you're fine with having McBroom and incoming freshman as the only PG options?
i would want our coaches to train our players. if not, then they arent very good coaches.
plus, it would seem to me the question is do you want to get in with lesser quality now or possibly do better qualitywise over the summer and this coming fall?
give me the superior talent.
How can you be so obtuse? Is it deliberate?
I don't care what sport, at any level, incoming freshmen benefit from practicing with/against good upperclassmen players.
They are going to have at least 5 scholarships to offer next year.
PG is the most critical element in college basketball (like an offensive line in football, a starting rotation in baseball, or a goalie in hockey). You can have talent at other positions, but it all comes crashing down if you don't have the singular critical element.
You don't need a star, but you need someone who is minimally competent, and some level of experience.
If Jordan Strawberry is nothing more than a backup PG his entire career, he will still be a valuable asset.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-PgpbcLsiU
i dont think this spring period considering we already have two recruits signed is all that big of a hand wringing event considering we have a very good strarting five returning. if we were looking to fill major pt spots, i would be concerned.
now replacing our very good seniors to be next year, that is huge.
so if a scholarship or two goes unused, well i would rather see that then just give them away to be filling spots on the roster.
I'd personally like Jett and McCall to train their replacements, rather than enduring another year of freshmen point guard growing pains in 2014-15 (which could very well be our first year in the NBE).
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I'm of the opinion that you cannot have too many PGs. Just look how quickly we went from stacked to depleted at the PG position last fall.
In a perfect world we could get Onwuasor and Djambo, but I'd have no problem with Strawberry plus one or the other (with Onwuasor being the top priority over Djambo).
We NEED point guards. It doesn't matter how much talent you have, if you don't have someone to run the offense, you're an inherently flawed team.
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I guess the main reason I jumped into this fray is that, per my memory, Evans was the least heralded of the recruits, yet turned out to be the best of the bunch (a VERY talented bunch, thank you!) Much like back then, Crawford is getting some admirers, but also many that don't think much will occur due to his modest recruiting profile. Honestly, who at this moment can say that they are more excited about Crawford than Agbeko? I doubt many, if any. Only time will tell, though, how it will all wash out. I guess that is my point, which could have been made in far fewer words!
Agreed on all of this. I do see the parallel between Crawford and Evans. There are reasons to be excited, but also reasons to be somewhat guarded about expectations.
I just took exception with the way history was being rewritten to make it seem like people here didn't expect Evans to be a good player. Basically you're talking about one clown (BillikenROAR) dogging DE, and a few knee jerk negative reactions to the TLIII comp all in one single thread that was taking place 4 or 5 days after the suspensions of KM and WR - a period when many regular posters were naturally taking a break from the board.
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Thanks Duff for those memories.
One post was critical and suggested that we should have taken or concentrated on Clyburn over Evans, Just curious, where did Clyburn end up and how did he do?
Will Clyburn ended up going to Utah in 2010-11, had a great Jr season on a bad team (17.1 PPG, 7.8 RPG, shot 40% from 3) then transferred to Iowa St (after the Utah coach was fired) where his numbers dipped just a bit (3FG% from 40% to 30%), but he was still the leading scorer on a very good team.
You'll remember him as the player that Aaron Craft drew that dubious charge against in the Round of 32.
He would have been a nice get (although there's no guarantee he'd have come here) - and surely would have helped during the awful 2010-11 season, but in the end it's pretty clear Evans for 4 > Clyburn for 2.
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McCall was definitely perceived as the better recruit, but there was still plenty of excitement about Evans - and I don't ever remember it being suggested on this board that Evans was a "throw in" (presumably a package with McCall ala Tatum with Hughes).
http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17662
http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17830
http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18594
http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19038
Some raised legitimate questions about his ball handling, his defense (!) and wondered how he'd match up against quicker guards and bigger forwards than he faced in HS. There was even talk that he might not play much early on because of the depth in front of him.
At no point were people lamenting the fact that we wasted a scholarship on him - which is significant since we didn't have any scholarships available for the spring signing period until Jeff Reid made his departure official.
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From an outsider's perspective, Willie appeared to be very immature both as a student and as a ballplayer during his time at SLU.
He saw himself in mock drafts and simply couldn't take his academics seriously. That's not to say he was a bad kid, he just wasn't cut out for SLU. I'm not privy to all of his trangressions while at SLU, but it's my understanding that his suspension had more to do with the grand body of work and his role in the situation was simply the last straw...and even then he was given another chance which he squandered.
It's my opinion that he needed to cope with failure (going undrafted, getting cut, toiling in obscurity) before the lightbulb went off that he needed to work his ass off over months/years as opposed to days/weeks if he was ever going to make the NBA.
Plenty of kids screw up when they are 20, flunk out of college, face reality for a while, then re-emerge in a career that values talent and output more than academic record.
Congrats Willie
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I know I am always really impressed by a young kid with limited life experiences opining on situations where he has no real experience himself. Absolutely riveting.
Another completely irrelevant post that dismisses the author on the basis of his age without addressing the content of his article.
Let me put this another way...why does it fall on the shoulders of an obscure student journalist to articulate that the emperor has no clothes? Could it be that he might actually have a better handle on what's going on at the University in 2013 than professional journalists or random billikens.com message board posters?
No one here has disputed Haenchen's analysis. Some have insulted him for being inexperienced or vaguely criticized stuff he wrote when he was even less experienced than he is now, but no one has explained why he's wrong about Biondi.
Biondi has survived this long because he insulates himself like a mob boss. The few individuals with first hand knowledge of his bull**** face a highly asymmetrical proposition when it comes to personal incentive to testify vs blowback. Annette Clark was the exception.
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Must have been an unauthorized bootleg, since they left off DePaul and called South Florida Southern Florida.
TCU and East Carolina were on board for 2001-02. Fuoking football ruins everything.
2014 Commit #2 Austin Gillmann (Center)
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