AnkielBreakers
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16 minutes ago, ACE said:
He picked K-State.
Interesting. Well, you can find him in the wood shed.
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23 minutes ago, Davis said:
This is one of the biggest nonsensical excuses I've heard all my life and one of many reasons why St. Louis is where it is.
That right, we could support 3 baseball teams, 2 soccer teams, or 2 hockey teams. But 0 football, pro basketball, lacrosse, rugby, or other teams. We need to stay in our lane.
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I don’t know that I have lived anywhere that despises the NBA more than St. Louis. I don’t think you can even survive in most jobs if you bring up the NBA regularly in this town. I just can’t imagine it succeeding here.
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This is a very impressive video. I will just leave it at that.
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8 hours ago, Lord Elrond said:
Every year during the draft there are a lot of players not taken in the draft that have accepted money, or somehow otherwise are no longer eligible for NCAA play. I’m this age of NIL, it makes no sense to me that those players can’t change their minds and play NCAA Basketball ( and maybe get a degree if things don’t work out for them professionally). I’d like to see that change. This would give the NCAA access to players that today don’t have it.
The whole point of the NCAA was stated as a means to keep young men from wasting time in a minor league and the intellectual cost to the country. No one really considered a situation where the money from sports would be good enough to eclipse an education for a young man in the immediate term. I don’t see why your proposal would be bad for the NCAA or the country. It would fit with the mission and intent of the NCAA. I honestly think that the current rules were intended to scare kids away from going to minor leagues, which also might have been to help the NCAA build a monopoly. Pretty anticompetitive.
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So, you are saying that viewership will be slightly down when the Bills win the championship for the third straight time? Bummer.
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36 minutes ago, johnbj14 said:
“Another division I offer from SLU.” Coach Ford is offering players two times, it’s a Double Offer. This is the sort of innovative recruiting that sets T. Ford apart from the crowd. Five years from now, he will introduce The Triple Offer.
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A few years ago, I looked at rankings, and particularly where SLU used to fit. One consistent them is the number of Top 100-150 East coast, West coast, or Texas schools which I had previously never heard of. It felt like another example of how the economy changed and shifted jobs to the coasts. SLU will have to be dynamic to stay relevant. I think Pestello was a move in the right direction, and hopefully SLU keeps it up.
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Lindenwood’s football team was given all of a few months to prepare for the transition from D2 football to D1? Ouch. Hard to imagine this is going to be fun for them.
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1 hour ago, Brighton said:
17-16
Prove me wrong !
Your numbers do not add to 30. Proved wrong.
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3 hours ago, wgstl said:
5 games against the valley? Maybe we just just move to the valley.
At the rate things are going, The Valley is moving to us.
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On 8/29/2022 at 12:04 PM, Bills By 40 said:
Oh sweet baby Jesus
I'm not positive I could make 58 layups in a row.
Oh, sweet 8 lb, 6 ounce newborn infant Jesus, don’t even know a word yet, I’m positive I couldn’t.
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6 minutes ago, Bills By 40 said:
+100
While his counterparts will force opponents to give him less reason to pass out of the paint, I have to imagine that he will also be better at doing so because it was arguably the #1 weakness in his game. Hopefully both are true and he becomes the all-conference center we know he can be.
I would love nothing more than for Okoro to win 1st team over Holmes at Dayton.This will not happen, but if Cisse can shoot 3s above 35%, you could technically play him and Okoro at the same time. We have at least one clip of Cisse making good passes. Let’s just visit Billiken dreamland on this one until November.
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The nice thing about this year is that we have a team with Ray Giacolleti’s offensive finger print, and now we have a guy who helped us have that Dog defense of 2018. If those two things can mix, it could be pretty special.
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1 hour ago, billiken_roy said:
Yes he is real. I've met him. Just leave him alone imo. He isn't hurting anyone.
This whole kerfuffle is one of the weirdest things I have seen on the board. It also involves the misuse of the word Troll throughout, maybe we need a whole thread defining the word, and we can really ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ the crap out of it.
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It would really be something to be the first team from the state of Missouri to make a final four. Well, since we won the NIT and national championship.
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5 hours ago, NoCoBillsFan said:
*final 4
Finals.
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35 minutes ago, JMM28 said:
Talent is there. Unfortunately there is a 25 year track record that says Travis Ford isn't going to the Sweet 16 even when the talent is there.
That is why the thread should say Elite 8. T. Ford is due for a big run.
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14 hours ago, Old guy said:
How does he look sick? Could he just be uncomfortable, or feeling the game is not going the way he is used to play?
In essence, his basketball play is a little Crunk, medically speaking.
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8 hours ago, Old guy said:
Let's forget NILs for a while, I think they will be out of the picture within a couple of years anyway.
Right, because the players will be directly on payroll.
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2 hours ago, majerus mojo said:
I know it can get tense when we comment on preseason highlight videos but I feel comfortable saying Parker looks sick. Demarius Jacobs vibes?
Nope. Similar height, but Parker is a confident scorer, not really Jacobs’ style.
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1 hour ago, Lord Elrond said:
Does he turn into a pumpkin at 8 minutes, 1 second?
The plot thickens again!
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49 minutes ago, cgeldmacher said:
Not changing the narrative. I have no issue with the idea that he can be a competent backup to Yuri for 5-7 minutes per game. We don't disagree about that. Also, I'm not all that upset that they didn't use the last scholarship for a backup PG. I trust the coaches. Even if they had brought in a grad transfer PG with one year of eligibility left, I would still prefer that Thames get those minutes if he can handle it.
My issue was with comments like Thames is dominating (based on highlights on Twitter) or Thames is what we were hoping Nesbitt would be. Stop trying to read something into what I said that is not there.
I am changing the narrative, I think he can be a good backup for… .8 minutes!
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I feel like this thread has failed to bring up the misuse of the word ‘Trolling’.
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2022-2023 Season
in Billikens.com Main Board
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!!
Does anyone else feel that way? Baseball, football, and basketball starting up all at the same time. I guess it is no comparison to summer time , but it is always pretty amazing nonetheless.