thatskablamo

I appreciate your rebuttal… well played!

Historically, it would have made more sense for Franco to play in Spain. Dictating shot direction, etc.

Those college bands have 40,000 undergraduates on the mean to choose from. We do not have that luxury.

Denton is lovely this time of year…

The gamecocks of South Carolina would also like to be included, having won the CWS in 2010 and 2011 and runners up in 2012. They’ve got some incredible facilities in Columbia. They get constantly overlooked in the SEC. As a state, South Carolina has some of the best college baseball in the Union with USC, Clemson even costal Carolina and the college of Charleston having phenomenal teams. Citadel is the only military school to even make it to Omaha!

Get some good coloring books for the football team.

Has.

This is a microcosm of the whole NIL thing killing the upper tier mid-major programs. A kid will just tinker with the SLU’s of the world until a power 5 school picks up the phone. Essentially using us as leverage, Ford needs to say “this offer expires in 24 hours.” We are getting played by these guys. At least we can move to the next guy after a day and not waste time. Be better at sales, Travis. Hope you got something out of that Kentucky education.

Hahah - that also might be an alias of a mythological swamp-man named Amos Moses who grew up 45 minutes southeast of Tippitoe, Louisiana.

True statement. LSU rode the coattails of a pitcher they poached from none other than the US Air Force Academy, and his former teammates showed up in Omaha with one of his old USAFA jerseys, as we live in the most interesting of times. I don’t know if I’d want to be within 1,000 yards of a former teammate who decided to leave a team behind, regardless of where he ended up. But I was born in the 80s, and was taught a modicum of loyalty, I suppose. Thanks to the nuns at St Bernard’s Grade School in Nashville! Shoutout to Sister Neña!

It could have, but the game didn’t mean anything. We were cruising and Ford could have given some guys who haven’t seen the court an opportunity. Again, this wasn’t the VCU game. I get what you are saying, but it was an exhibition game.

That could have happened too, and I would have been just as frustrated. It didn’t happen to them, though. It happened to a guy who could cut, slash, take a guy off the dribble and had a solid perimeter game. You took away an average of 17 PPG and 32 points against a team from the Southeastern Conference. That talent was taken away from us by sheer player mismanagement. I appreciate your take and when any starter goes down in an exhibition, it would be a lot of moaning and groaning, but somehow Ford has been getting a pass on this.

A game Javonte Perkins didn’t need to be playing in with 4:44 left in the first half. I’m sorry, but that is indefensible. If he’s not in shape that’s on Ford as well. He doesn’t need an exhibition game to get his legs under him. If Perkins goes down at the jump ball in a game against Dayton, ok, that’s different. You can’t lose a guy like him in an exhibition game. That’s why you’ve got a 12 man roster.

Couldn’t agree with you more - then joined the ranks of “Caddyshack” and “Airplane!” in “Movies that didn’t need a sequel.” I’ll be in my Oldsmobuick or out on the lanai if you need me.

Amen to that. How Ford has continuously received a pass for the minutes Perkins played against perennial Great Lakes Valley Conference stalwart Rockhurst is mind boggling. Did anyone from the post dispatch question his logic post-game? Did anyone in STL learn from Trent Green 1999?

Reminds me of the great Fletch, who was 6’5” but 6’9” with the Afro, per Chick Hearn. A total difference maker on the ‘84-‘85 world champion Lakers.

“Ah, the shoe’s on the other foot now.” - Sonny Vaccaro

That is the best nickname ever. My imaginary cap is being doffed in your direction, sir. How do we make that a thing moving forward?

Or the infamous vuvuzela…

Agree - we just have to rip the band-aid off on this one. Aside from the old adage “it’s hard to be a Billiken fan,” a lot of us are jilted and jaded lovers. There isn’t a shrink in this country who could take on this fan base maybe in Salina, KS…going through the Yellow Pages as we speak. I doff my cap at Yuri, thank him for the memories and move on to the next floor general.

To paraphrase an old coach, they’ll probably put Cleveland State on probation for the sins Gates commits at Missouri.

Isn’t a retirement home (Delmar Gardens) one of the major sponsors of Billiken basketball on the rotating signage on the baseline? If that isn’t the definition of irony, I don’t know what is.

Ahhh I did not know that. Battle of the Bands!!

Just build an on campus arena, already, DePaul. The Vincentians have money coming out of their ears. 18 miles between campus and Rosemont in the Meyer days and always great crowds. 7 miles from campus to McCormick center area / Wintrust and hardly a soul. How the mighty have fallen…

Agree - right before the Loyola game, a number of band members played outside at Humphreys and it was awesome - it would be cool as hell to get the band leading the charge down/up Laclede from Humphreys to Chaifetz with fans, students and alumni bringing up the rear. They really sounded great - kind of a crack squad of musicians, but I was impressed! In any event, I hope we can keep the band alive and well to add the ambiance only they can!