Duff Man
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The dude looks 30
I wouldn't have guessed he was young enough to be a recruit from looking at him but given that
1) he was sitting in pretty choice seats
2) he was on the floor after the game
3) Chris May told him "We could have used you in that first half"
The only possible conclusions to draw are that he's a former SLU player or a recruit, and I sure as hell don't recognize him as a former player.
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This recruit was sitting 3 rows behind the SLU bench 2 seats over from Frank C.
Indeed he was on the court after the game talking to Chris May.
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what the fuok is juice?
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I would say Mike is also an elite defender. I feel comfortable with he, Kwa or Jordair guarding anyone under 6'4". Luckily we have Dwayne who is actually a pretty damn good wing defender himself. He can take on anyone ranging from Galloway to Rosey Jones at Butler.
Mike was primarily tasked with guarding Duren, not Galloway. Context.
Dwayne (the Dwight meme was never funny...can we please retire that already?) is our MVP. He is a beast on both ends. When we have 3 of Mitchell/McCall/Jett/Evans on the floor, our defense is Elite. The system breaks down when Evans and/or more than 1 guard get into foul trouble and we're forced to go with Barnett for extended minutes. I don't understand why La Salle didn't just iso Garland and Barnett every trip until Crews was forced to call timeout or sub. I like Barnett, but he's not quick enough to defend quality scoring guards for any significant period of time. Evans is the glue that holds our defense together.
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I see 3-12 and 8. Looks clownish.
Kwamain and Jordair are elite defenders and Crews made it a priority to contain Galloway...to that point where - when McCall and Evans were out, with Jett/Mitchell preoccupied with Duren/Galloway, Barnett was assigned to Garland who promptly ate Jake for lunch
while we're having fun with small sample sizes...forget about Evans, clearly Rob Loe is the real A10 POY, not to mention a lock of the basketball hall of fame based on his 7-7, 3-3 3pt, 3-3 FT
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Evans does not have the big time scoring numbers, but this clown from Lasalle was apparently the 2nd leading scorer in the A10 until today. Didnt know who he was before the game and I don't give a crap after the game.
If you didn't know who Ramon Galloway was before today, you are the clown. Ignorance is not a badge of honor. Entering today he was averaging 17.8 points, 3.8 assists, and 2.1 steals while shooting 42.6% from beyond the arc. He was 2nd team all conference last season. Not exactly a lightweight.
Galloway was certainly not the first elite player to be held in check by SLU's defense.
Evans deserves first team all conference consideration, but A10 POY usually doesn't come from the conference champion. Khalif Wyatt will probably win for single handedly carrying a flawed Temple team to the NCAA tournament bubble. Not a knock against Dwayne, but that's just the way it works (also don't discount the pro Philly anti-midwest bias in the voting).
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The SEC schools don't sell alcohol because they're predominantly located in bible belt markets.
I've never known Catholics to be anti-alcohol or anti-money. Nothing to worry about.
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Bottom line: Does Crews possess the charisma and vision to convince 17 year old kids that his program will maximize their potential?
Getting into the new Big East will make SLU an easier sell, and likely put some recruits in play that wouldn't have even considered us otherwise, but at the end of the day Crews' sales ability is the overriding factor.
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Either way, it appears Temple and Butler will be in the 4/5 mix which matches up with the 1 seed in Brooklyn.
Butler is in danger of slipping to 6th in the A10 tournament seeding, and really needs to win @UMass on Wednesday to avoid that scenario.
It's looking increasingly like it will be UMass vs Temple in the 4/5 game.
Butler (9-5) plays @UMass and vs Xavier
Temple (9-5) plays @Fordham and vs VCU
UMass (8-6) plays vs Butler and @Rhode Island
Butler beat Temple. Temple beat UMass.
If UMass beats Butler, then if both teams win their final games to finish 10-6, and Temple wins out to finish 11-5, UMass is the 5-seed via the head to head tiebreaker with Butler getting the 6-seed.
If UMass beats Butler and all 3 teams finish 10-6, the tiebreaker is conference record of the tied teams based on winning percentage versus the highest common opponent and proceeding down to the lowest common opponent, if necessary, until one team gains an advantage. In case of tied percentages vs. the team or group of 1.000 or .000, the following shall apply: 2-0 is better than 1-0; 0-1 is better than 0-2.
Temple is 1-0 vs SLU (4-seed)
UMass is 0-1 vs SLU (5-seed)
Butler is 0-2 vs SLU (6-seed)
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http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/52701/the-hardcourt-shuffle-the-weekends-top-10-games
"An interesting note here is that if Butler manages to win, it pretty much guarantees an A-10 regular season title for St. Louis. I only bring that up because if you're looking to get in on a mid-major sleeper that might be one of the five best teams in the country, the Billikens are it"
Shane Ryan was in on the ground floor, hyping SLU even after it became known that Majerus was out and after Kwamain broke his foot
The 2012 part of their schedule isn't as scary as it could be, so they should be able to thrive even before Mitchell returns. They'll win the A-10, make the Sweet 16 as a 3-seed, and be total hell on a BCS 2.
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There is a very precise order of operations being followed to ensure no single entity is able to hold the entire process hostage.
The C7 wants to get Butler and X nailed down, because once it has that, it can finalize a preliminary deal with Fox, hire a commissioner and get the ball rolling, then proceed with the next round of negotiations.
Bottom line: if the C7 intended to have 12 teams next year, they would not be wise come out and say it.
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Well done by all involved to get it up over 10k.
It looked bad when 209 and 210 were more than half empty shortly before tip-off - especially considering none of those tickets (i.e. the affordable tickets) were for sale to the public at any point in the last 2 days - but I guess it makes sense to put the newly admitted student comps in those sections - and it certainly is understandable that those folks (i.e. the noobs with free tickets) would be late arrivals, especially given the crap weather.
In the first 4 years of Chaifetz there were only 4 games with attendance >10k, and all 4 came against the rivals from southwest Ohio (Dayton 2009, Xavier 2010, Dayton 2012, Xavier 2012). This season they've had 4 games >10k (none of which came against Dayton or Xavier), and there's a good chance they'll make it 5 against La Salle.
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A nuanced on-point take on the Crews situation from Gary Parrish
So many of the local radio hacks are completely out of touch on this issue, constantly asking "Why hasn't SLU made him the permanent coach yet?!?! ZOMG! They are screwed on recruiting until he gets the permanent job...blah...blah...blah"
Rammer's co-host Zack McCrite is especially bad on this issue, but he's hardly the only one.
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where did you see that? The ticket finder when I pulled it up for the most part only showed a few single seats plus maybe 100 or so $40 tickets.
Comparing my count 7am this morning and 10:30pm tonight...
7am: 403 total tickets for sale
10:30pm: 139 total tickets for sale
There were clearly tickets released at some point today (at least 67). Here are the sections with notable changes.
110: -18
203: -28
204: -86
205: -21
211: +50 (the unused St Joes allocation)
214: -71
215: -67
221: +10
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There is software overhead in providing print-at-home ticket options. The service fees cover that overhead. You're not getting rid of those.
There would be overhead in a dynamic pricing system (even if it's an internal employee manually adjusting prices on the fly), and maybe 16-18 games per year in a 10.6k venue (roughly half of which is pre-sold) isn't enough volume to make it worthwhile (whereas the Cardinals have 81 games and 46k).
They don't necessarily need to go with some super advanced algorithm that the Cardinals or airlines use, but they could be taking more progressive steps to ensure the building is (close to) full.
2012-13 average attendance
OOC: 6.191
A10: 9,566
Maybe just rank games on a scale of 1 to 5 (weeknight buy game opponents are 1s, games against rivals/ranked opponents are 5s), with prices fluctuating as games get reclassified (i.e, St Joes might have been a 4 initially but are now a 3) and have across the board pricing adjustments at each tier.
Bottom line: Make as much money as possible on the marquee games, and draw as many fans as possible to every other game
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okay...I'm going to take a step back and retract my previous sentiment
As bad as that looks, I just went through and counted every non-student seat for sale as of 7:00am this morning (fairly easy using a spreadsheet and counting the empty seats in the mostly full rows and subtracting from 20 or whatever), and only came up with 402. So while those $40 tickets* may prevent the game from selling out, they are still in a position to maintain their 9,566 A10 average for the season, and they might still be able to hit 10k* - which is close enough to a sellout.
<9k = PR disaster
9.5k = acceptable
10k = success
*300 tickets of the 402 are in those 4 $40 200 level sections (203, 204, 214, 215).
**I have no idea the student section/luxury box breakdown in relation to the 10,600 capacity
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The Cardinals sell over 3mm tickets a year and the average price is not cheap by any stretch.
The Cardinals use dynamic pricing to ensure as many seats are filled for as many games as possible.
^This^ is a problem. Lots of people are looking to see how many fans show up for this game. There will be negative publicity if we don't come close to selling out.
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From today's radio broadcast
"You could have Jordair Jett run the offense, you could have Kwamain Mitchell run the offense...you could have Oliver McCall Jr out there..."
Bernie has been spending too much time with Gus Phelps.
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2 things...
1) The 200 level seats currently $32 should be $20, and the 200 level seats currently $40 should be $32
It's just ridiculous that the last row in 203 is priced same price as the unused player allocation that get released in 105.
2) The $6.50 service fee on those $40 tickets purchased online
$12 seats have a $4.50 (37.5%!!!!) service fee (which is bad enough, but still you can do a family of 4 for $66)
$20 seats have the same $4.50 (22.5%) service fee
$32 seats have a $4.75 (14.8%) service fee
$40 seats have a $6.50 (16.25%) service fee
So aside from those who are willing to drive down to midtown during Box Office hours, the prices are
$16.50
$24.50
$36.75
$46.50
I'm sure there are a lot of dads willing to bring their 2 kids to the game for $75 (figuring you can keep it around $100 even after parking and snacks), but not $110 or $140 before incidentals.
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-what is our record in the first game after becoming ranked? any way to research that? can't be that many happenings
going strictly by the AP Poll (which has readily available documented history)
http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/saint-louis/1994-schedule.html
In 1994*, SLU cracked the AP top 25 on 1/17 when they were ranked #23, they lost their next game @Marquette*, but were still ranked #23 the next week with Marquette jumping to 22. They beat Marquette in STL the following week and remained in the top 25 the rest of the year.
That was the only season between 1965-2010 that SLU was ranked, thus for the Modern Era, SLU is 0-2 in firsts game after cracking the AP top 25.
*I want to say SLU checked in at #25 in the coaches poll in 1994 1 week before they cracked the AP top 25, but that was 19 years ago and I could be remembering incorrectly
**a Marquette team that upset Kentucky in the 2nd round to get to the sweet 16
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What a game today. Kendall Williams goes 10-for-10 from three and puts up 40 points for the 'Bos. NM comes back to win. Good win for Bills RPI purposes and the loss by #22 Colorado State bodes well for our ranking next week.
I believe he was 10-13 from 3. Still a performance for the ages.
and just think some clown on Deadspin called New Mexico the least watchable team in D1 yesterday...
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http://101sports.com/category/zach-and-rammer
Dan Dakich is at it again. First he get Brad Stevens to call SLU a final 4 team on his own show.
Now on Rammer's radio show, Dakich calls the Rammer/ref incident one of the top 5 moments of his life, alongside the birth of his children and Keith Smart hitting the shot to win the national championship.
Crawford does it again
in Billikens.com Main Board
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In the original Mike Crawford thread, someone said he was a Crews recruit. Crews is from Indiana so it's logical that he has connections there.
Someone (I believe Devils15) also explained that Mike is also an excellent golfer and his golfing schedule prohibits him from participating in the summer camps, which helps explain why flew under the radar of many scouts.