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18 minutes ago, OkieBilliken said:
Nice. Fordham isn't very good but they do seem to play better at home. They took 2 of 3 from Richmond and also just won a series at UMass. We need to win this series to stay in first place overall.
My in-laws are just up 95 in Mamaroneck, NY. Home of Winged Foot. Wife has an appointment in the city Friday morning, so we’ll run down there and stop off at Fordham on the way back. Damn the Ram!
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13 hours ago, OkieBilliken said:
Good news: Billikens complete the sweep of Davidson, pitch very well allowing just three runs over the past two days.
Bad news: Starting catcher Knox Preston left the game with an injury Sunday and starting shortstop Austin Nueweg, who has been a defensive anchor and show occasional pop with the bat was helped off the field with a leg injury after being thrown out stealing. Hopefully both will be able to be back soon because both would be big losses defensively, the area SLU has been SO MUCH IMPROVED from last year.
No midweek game this week. They head to Fordham this weekend and then GW the following weekend. Next home game is in May.
Will be reporting from Rose Hill on Friday. Looking forward to supporting the boys on the road.
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15 minutes ago, RiseOfTheBillikens said:
I'm still holding out hope we just "SMU" our way into the big east eventually.
We gotta Pony Up to get a seat at the table. I’ll see you at Campisi’s on Mockingbird before Dr. Fred comes to town on the 17th. That’s where folks get that bag.
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13 hours ago, BillTheCat said:
Lights get turned on at SLU and one of the lights explodes over the visitors dugout, showering Southern Indiana with glass.
DH had to go apologize to their team and game stopped while everyone picked up glass on the field.
Meanwhile the new basketball coach is hanging out by the bullpen learning how to throw getting ready for a Cardinals first pitch. Maybe part of his negotiations could have included getting baseball LED lights installed that were already donated.
Roy Hobbs Jr, a redshirt sophomore out of Lenexa, KS, took the blame for those lights exploding, naturally.
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4 minutes ago, Box and Won said:
That's an...interesting choice of quote.
I think Knight was referring to the city of Evansville when he said that.
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ISU Board is a digital Chernobyl
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12 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Jesuit school so ya never know, that's how Father Stark SJ got there once upon a time, late life conversion.
Although I didn't really care for Father Stark his smoking probably made him really bad at basketball. Though my theology 101 professor, forgot his name used to lace em up in Simon Rec from time to time
Starky one of the best to ever don a Jesuit cossack at SLU. At the prayers of the faithful, I remember him so eloquently asking the student body to “pray for someone you love…” then to “pray for someone you find hard to love.” That has always stuck with me. It’s so easy to forget how to forgive. Rest in Peace, Father Stark.
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His “blessed” video. Without that, we aren’t where we are today as a program.
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2 hours ago, pakapablo said:
The men’s loss to siue was at the Fetz.
Ah . I forgot (on purpose) about that. Tragedy, nonetheless.
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10 minutes ago, Lando Griffin said:
Best day for SLU athletics in the last 10 years by far! Congrats ladies!
Amen! The sight of one of the greatest tragedies in Men’s hoops becomes the greatest sight for the Lady Bills! It’s our Gallipoli, that’s for sure.
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3 minutes ago, SluSignGuy said:
How early you eating Imo's?
It’s how late he’s eating imos from Friday night
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1 minute ago, billiken_roy said:
mediocre is kind. he was a horrible coach. no development, practice or game coach skills. recruiting was indeed his only redeeming factor. very very good before the ncaa changed all the rules. pay to play and unlimited immediate transferring changed the game of recruiting and he was out of his element and thus pretty much worthless. it was beyond time to go.
Well-said. Akin to the manager of a cab company in the Age of Uber. Couldn’t keep up with the disruption in the game.
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9 hours ago, Clocktoweraccords2004 said:
Been how long since we hired a coach who wasn’t fired but promoted to us
Brad Soderberg. Promoted within, unfortunately. So much for that Doug Woolard “national search” we were promised.
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20 minutes ago, willie said:
BS. He could have been hurt at any time. People can get hurt at practice
That’s fine. I can accept a practice injury. I cannot accept an injury against a D-II opponent when those games are for getting your bench and your non-scholies a chance to see the floor. Not your game-changing season-changing scoring machine. Ford’s mismanagement of Perkins should have been met with more ire.
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On 3/20/2024 at 7:35 PM, slu72 said:
Yeah, Perk, was special. Never the same after the knee blow out. Feel bad for him. Parker was no Perkins.
And against Rockhurst in an exhibition game. Like Kobe going out against the Washington Generals or Athletes in Action. Completely unnecessary. I don’t know why Ford wasn’t nailed to a tree by this board when that happened.
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4 hours ago, RiseOfTheBillikens said:
Roll bills
From Jimmy Bell to Stringer Bell, this site covers them all.
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12 minutes ago, slu72 said:
I have a sinking feeling he’s gonna stay at ISU. Those fans were crazy. Give him $700k and pay those guys to return, he may be thinking I can go deep in the dance. This may be my Billiken Paranoia coming to the fore, but I think we better be looking elsewhere unless we got him by the nuts legally.
You are not alone. The psyche of this fan base is something even the greatest of Sigmund’s disciples could not grasp.
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1 minute ago, MusicCityBilliken said:
Well, I am guessing, other than this year, ISU does not exactly pack it in.
2023:
ISU 3886 avg attendance
SLU 7056 avg attendance
2022:
ISU 2099 avg attendance
SLU 5559 avg attendance
2021:
ISU 3676 avg attendance
SLU 6880 avg attendance
Both arenas have similar capacity. So much for ISU being a hotbed for Indiana basketball.
There’s a lot of division one hoops in that state, though.
IU, ND, Purdue, Butler, Valpo, Ball State, Evansville, ISU, the UIPUIs, USI. Hell, they probably seat more fans for a Brebeuf - Cathedral high school hoops game than they do in Terre Haute.
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Just now, NextYearBill said:
The next time I read ‘Gonzaga of the Midwest’ I’m signing off forever.
Loyola, more than any other high mid-major Midwest Jesuit programs, of which there are just two - us and them, have been the Gonzaga of the Midwest more recently. They’ve tasted the waters of the Final Four font. I was there in Atlanta in 2018 to watch them do it. As a SLU alum, I was damn proud of Porter’s charges.
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13 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Huggins is done. He's been off the rails lately with issues.
What is Steve Lavin doing these days? He was all giggles when he and Majerus talked shop at ESPN.
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8 hours ago, thetorch said:
Yes. Shameful what Irons did to him.
This is what happens when you let felons run public schools.
Irons for years would let kids go to school without uniforms if they paid him a dollar. He'd stand outside and collect the money every day. Told auditors this money went to the district. District had no record of receiving any of it. Floyd is a real life Clay Davis.
Floyd, his sons, and Mike Knoll, were all wannabe gangsters who came up with a crooked mortgage scheme to rip off a couple guys from Town & Country. Knoll, a career criminal who used his nefarious earnings to bankroll Irons AAU program and multiple other scams, was also a longtime fed snitch along with Irons. They would rat on criminals so they could expand their own criminal enterprises. Floyd tried to snitch on his partners, lucky the judge didn't buy it. Still the FBI helped cut Irons possible prison time by more than half. Nothings changed since then. The Irons family is still involved in gangs and criminal enterprises while snitching to Feds and local cops.
These are the guys shaping young men in St. Louis.
He’s our little own Avon Barksdale.
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Happy Easter y’all. The stone which was rolled away has become the cornerstone. Believe in the resurrection!
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59 minutes ago, Old guy said:
Wiz, computers work processing data which is actually defined by prior events and actions. People do not, people have a conscious part, which is what determine actual events, and a vast subconscious part which determines how to define what is passed down and creates the conscious level. We, people living in a conscious world, have little knowledge of what is going on in the subconscious. However the subconscious is the determinant part of our perceptions and knowledge. What we consider reality, is only real up to a point.
Read "Incognito" by David Eagleman. He is a neuroscientist at Baylor and leads the Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. Very interesting, this short book really raises questions about how people make up their minds about everything. This is NOT the concept that people act to improve their lives, what determines how people believe and act like is done in a very different and hard to understand subconscious manner. Cheap read, $15 in paperback, Vantage Press, very worthwhile read.
I think Wiz and Old Guy are both von Neumann disciples who have spent time with the RAND Corp. Billiken Game Theory should be taught at all levels of academia.
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WELCOME HEAD COACH JOSH SCHERTZ!!
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I’ll second (and drink) to that.