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  1. Joe Clarke will make a brief return when he brings his Washington University squad over for an exhibition on Sunday. This got me thinking: where did the Billikens play before they played out at the Soccer Park?
  2. I do go to 1-2 games a season, but otherwise I do not follow SLU basketball. I figured it meant something else, but I had never heard that story.
  3. This is undoubtedly true along with other factors such as relationships between the coaches, but I would argue that the local talent alone is not enough to build a Top 25 schedule season after season. Well, in my opinion.
  4. Is there any chance the towel reference is slang for "I do not have a Post Dispatch subscription, do you mind pasting the article here?"
  5. I did not even see this announcement but I agree with you on this one.
  6. Say what you want you want about the Men's Soccer Program, but they are still able to schedule like a Top 25 team. Highlights include Notre Dame, Louisville, SMU (home) and Denver. Memphis (home), Marquette (home), Central Arkansas (home) and SIUE (home) round out the non-conference schedule. Please help me out here... Of the top A-10 teams from last season, VCU (home) and George Washington (home) are on the schedule, but Fordham and UMass are not. http://www.slubillikens.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27200&ATCLID=211718930
  7. Also, I do not follow professional soccer close enough to have a lot of insight, but I am going with Belgium as the dark horse.
  8. Your takes on both Warming and Mims are entirely logical explanations. I did not realize Mims had return to coach at the academy level. His career trajectory looks oddly similar to that of Kevin Kalish though obviously Mims is with an MLS team. Incidentally, I did not realize they were four-year teammates at SLU. None of my Billiken Soccer related opinions are well informed, but I love the Kalish hire.
  9. If you ever get a chance to talk to him, there is something about Josh Whitman. He has both the quiet charisma and the personal story to be one of the best fundraisers in the business.
  10. It looks like in the wake of March Madness, I missed an interesting college soccer story that is slightly related. I know this was months ago, but hey, we are in the offseason. Jason Mims was hired away from the University of Nebraska Omaha and the Mavericks hired Bob Warming. What a turn of events... Not saying I would have preferred Mims or Warming, but... Did you all discuss this?
  11. I have it from a pretty reliable source that Isabell was ready to sign with Boston College until he visited a few weeks and was completely won over by Ford. I know that is hardly the insight that merits mention of the source, but if you needed a reason to like Travis Ford...
  12. Thanks so much! Glad to hear it!
  13. Are there any current (or very recent) SLU Law graduates here? I am curious how things are going at the downtown campus.
  14. Witchita State certainly spends more, but I would be interested in the difference. Unfortunately, I do not trust that website. It still says Loyola is in the Horizon League. Loyola has been investing a lot more in athletics in recent years. That was my point.
  15. No reason to start a forum pissing match over this so I'll make this my last response no matter what, but I would need evidence that this was the case. Fundraising is always complicated and political. And, the fundraisers know who they can go to and what they can go to them for.
  16. I am absolutely, positively not missing your point. It is common for university presidents to have tight control over the donors. Your call does not prove anything other than the athletic department was not interested.
  17. Do you have a source for this or are you simply comparing coaching salaries? And considering the Koch money? Loyola has changed in recent years. For example, they are adding a $18 million dollar practice facility that is only basketball and volleyball. http://loyolaphoenix.com/2018/02/loyola-build-18-5-million-athletics-practice-facility/
  18. I understood your point. My point: many college and university presidents view fundraising in exactly the same way.
  19. Fr. Garanzini deserves a lot of credit for everything good that had happened at Loyola during his tenure as President.
  20. There you go. Nice to have a coach.
  21. Thanks guys for sharing those stories... It is very interesting when you see the standard that Joe Clarke was held to. There may have been more that I do not know about, but if he was judged by his team record, the program made the tourney in every season except for two. in 1994 and 1995, the team lost in the first round. In 1996, the team finished 5-10-6 and he was out.
  22. Please ignore my previous post. Our disagreement is so minor as to be a non-issue. I know we are in agreement that the program is in a bad way.
  23. Is that true? I guess the added duties after Keough and the coaching position became a full-time job.
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