ChaifetzRocker88

Well, those people happened to play at Marquette and I could give two ######$ about them, I'm just relishing the moment when DeWayne Wade goes down like the Hindenburg.

DeWayne, Dwayne, whatever. Whatever happened to American names like Bud or Gary or Kent?

Karma. Ain't it a *****?

I remember working out at Gold's Gym in Peoria with former MU and Peoria Richwoods hooper Marcus Jackson and him telling me that Wade was always late for workouts and that Crean wouldn't do anything about it...but if Jackson would ever show up late, there'd be hell to pay. Apparently, it was also the case with Steve Novocain Novak. This summer I was in a heated battle of beer pong with Travis Diener at the bar formerly known as RBar and he and I went down to the last cup before he got the best of me...but hey, he's in the NBA and all I can do is show up at the rec M-W-Sat. and hope my shot comes with me.

http://deadspin.com/5150377/dwyane-wade-ha...-werent-invited It will be great to watch this guy fall from grace.

Well, as far as publicity for getting people to the game, it's in the last possible place you'd look on the SLUbills.com home page. Freaking ridiculous. I won't call anyone out for this except for generic Web guy (I don't know his name), so please relocate the Countdown to Tip-off feature. Love, All of us.

Could the official SLUbillikens.com Web guy put the "countdown to tip-off" feature ON THE TOP OF THE PAGE INSTEAD OF THE BOTTOM RIGHT-HAND CORNER!!! My God, this isn't a freaking high school Web site that still has the 02-03 schedule on it, but it sure looks like it. If you go to UND.com during the football season, their Web site prominently displays the "Countdown to Kickoff" on the top left, visible to the millions of ND fans who hit that site during the season. I didn't even know we had that feature on SLUbillikens.com until ten minutes ago, and I'm sure none of you did either. Get it up on the left hand side of the page. NOW. www.slubillikens.com

FYI, the Dayton game is the night of the big Mardi Gras festivities downtown and that will DEFINITELY effect the student turnout. My senior year we played Tulane that night and it looked more like a Tulane home game with everyone in their beads and completely inebriated. I was lucky enough to bum a ride up to (then) Savvis Center for the game, but it was an early 1 or 2 tip-time if I can remember. The Dayton game is at 7pm and I'm sure the passed out student body will not make Chaifetz an intimidating place to play. My bet is that the student section resembles the picture from the Duquesne game. I will be there, but as soon as it's over, it's back to Soulard.

Seeing is believing...

Was listening to the game on the radio coming home from putting in a few hours at the office and turning left from Lindell onto Grand, Lisch hits the three. On the corner, St. Francis Xavier College Church. Divine Intervention? What a game!! GO BILLS!!

A. No you haven't. Please support this absurdity with facts. B. Players don't read this board, and if they do, that is their loss. C. I want to meet you before a game. I'm not going to fight you, Nark. I'm a bigger man than that. I want to put a face to a name. D. Thanks for calling me names. At least I have the manners to privately ask you to make your absurd case. You are the one that needs to grow up.

Beats Bloomington/Normal and the ridiculous facilities at the Illinois State U.

Really? Do you know me? Could you pick me out at a Billiken game and say, "boy, there's Metz. That fu**ing co** sucker?" Could you do that? I don't know who you are or what Obama executive order gave you the privilege to label someone the way you constantly do, moy, but I'm sure a lot of people have had it with you. What do you bring to the table? What insider information do you have? Are you the Tom Lemming of billikens.com? I am here to be a fan and root for my team and my alma mater. But you can label me as a Putz and do all this and get away with it, but as soon as old Metz rears his head around the InterWebs, moy gets all fired up and Nark gets all fired up to take me out back and shoot me. For what?! Because I am a fan of SLU basketball? When was rooting for a team considered a crime? Boy, we are moving backwards as a country. I'm at Humphrey's either before and/or after every single home game. Get John or whoever is working the bar to ask "Metz" to come downstairs or come to the bar. I'll oblige. I'll shake all of your hands and have a man-to-man discussion with you. It's a shame you have to hide behind the cloak that is the Internet. It really is a shame. I'm making myself available to you. On more than one occasion, I've introduced myself as "Metz or Putz" to a complete stranger at Humps after games, so that someone will overhear me and break a beer bottle over my head. I'm not going anywhere, Moy and Nark. I'll be right here rooting on my Billikens. If you don't like that, come talk to me. Don't go crying to momma.

I didn't do anything! What the hell is wrong with you. It's been like 2-3 months and Nark is just afraid of me anyway.

I didn't threaten you. Is wanting to meet you to discuss Billiken basketball a threat? Why don't you send me a PM instead of parading your self-righteousness for all to see.

I don't think so. He isn't on the Jay-Vee team. Most kids who are competitive enough to garner and earn a D-1 scholarship are the type of athletes who use discouragement and failure as building blocks to improve. You've just come to accept and submit to mediocrity from all the years of watching Soderberg's recruits that you don't think that Brett Thompson has the makeup to become a star for this program. I'm all for using my scholarship athletes if they deserve playing time, but you can't just make excuses, or then Brett will start to believe he isn't athletic enough to guard Barack Obama.

There's a great chance that BT could be the sleeping giant of Majerus' recruiting class, but we'll never know unless the kid logs some minutes out there. We're not expecting to challenge Xavier for the A-10 crown...why not use BT more. Confidence. He knows this is college basketball and you might get schooled one night, but like a Mariano Rivera-type athlete, you can't have a good memory -- you've got to put last night behind you after you watch game footage with the GA's and Assistant Coaches, work on the things you need improvement on -- and then go out and dominate. I think BT has a lot of potential and will be better than Voyoukas, but he's gotta see more floor.

I see where you are coming from, but this is a team made up of underclassmen. If Brett doesn't play and get better and some big comes in next year and dominates and sucks up all BT's PT, then he will look elsewhere.

I agree, Nashville, but this is a young team regardless. Don't you think that Majerus knows he's got to work with what he's got? Why not play Brett Thompson? This is unacceptable. You sign a recruit to play basketball, not be a cheerleader. Let's get that squared away right now. Brett Thompson is a good basketball player that needs to develop some confidence against quicker, more athletic teams. We know that. Thompson isn't going to wake up one day being the second coming of Handsboro. He's got to clock in and go to work when coach calls his number. No one goes to work at Boeing and goes to the R&D department and says, "I've been here a couple of months. I'm ready to build you an airplane," but you're expected to contribute to the good of the company. If Thompson rides the pine against all athletic teams in the A-10, why not ask for a transfer.

WHAT?! Hey, I'm asking a legitimate question based off Majerus' post-game comments. Nark, if you weren't there, I'd suggest getting a press pass from Chuck Yahng. Chuck Yahng Sports Information Director Contact for: Men's Basketball, Field Hockey 977-2524 [email protected]

Majerus was blunt about saying he won't play Brett Thompson against a team that's "too athletic." Ok, this isn't arts and crafts time at pre-school. This is Division 1 men's college basketball. Either Majerus and his staff made the mistake of thinking this project could blossom during the summer conditioning months and work on his agility, or Brett Thompson isn't putting the effort in. I don't know what the case is, but even coming off a tweaked ankle, there's no excuse. I'm baffled by this from Majerus. We can't just play musical chairs with recruits and tell them "yeah, you're getting a ride to SLU, but you'll only play against cupcakes and the worst teams in conference." I know that you are never guaranteed a scholarship next season and that Majerus can tell any underclassmen on the current edition of Saint Louis hoops to take a hike (like he did with Knollmeyer and MacGuire), but if you want a kid to grow and develop, you gotta let him take some lumps and bumps on the court. Yes, Duquesne is an athletic team, but wouldn't you argue that unless we've scheduled Missouri School for the Blind, that most Division 1 NCAA men's basketball teams have that whole "athleticism" thing down? I wasn't born yesterday, so I think this "too athletic" excuse is a bunch of crap and that Majerus is probably getting ready to show Thompson the proverbial door.

I'd like to see us play 3-5 NonCon games against brother Jesuit schools every year. A series with Marymount would give us some west coast exposure every-other-year in Los Angeles. A series with Creighton would be a good Valley opponent and since we get a bunch of kids from Creighton Prep every year, we play them in St. Louis in November and schedule them in Omaha during Christmas so the CP kids can go root on the Bills at the Qwest Center. A series with Georgetown billed as the two oldest and most prestigious Jesuit schools in the country. It would be a classic rivalry. We know what Gonzaga does, but it would be nice to get them involved. We know that a resumed rivalry with Marquette would be bigger and better than ever with Majerus now on the Frost campus of Saint Louis University than on the MU campus. Maybe we slide in a St. Peter's or Fairfield now and again or Canisius, but it would be nice to play LMU or Creighton every year. It beats Savannah State and Grambling. Screw BC. Them going to the ACC made them too big for their britches.

Damn right it does, Bay Area. Happy to oblige. I heart the Billikens. We'll hopefully be adding one more Metzinger to the SLU ranks in August and there's a good chance she'll be suiting up for coach Champion's soccer squad as well. She'll be making another trip down from Peoria for the Dayton game.

HA!

Or we could just schedule Loras. Wouldn't be a shocker to anyone who's followed the program for the last dozen years. USC -- no, not Southern Cal - U of South Carolina Upstate Truck Design School and Kudzu Control Program Samford -- no, not Stanford -- more like the show with Red Foxx. Talk about space-age RPI cushioning.