BillikenFriar
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Love it. Happy to see ultimate frisbee make a cameo.
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Super kind of you sir. Thank you very much.
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College sports are broken. I am a lifelong college basketball fan but I am Slowly coming to think that we should get our colleges out of the sports business.
Providence cut academic budgets 3% the same week they announced a 30 million dollar basketball practice gym and a 20 million dollar lacrosse complex. BTW, the "old" practice gym was renovated exactly 24 months ago.
What business are we supposed to be in again?
Great post. It has gotten out of hand.
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I would think the NBE would see that the the A-10 got 6 teams in this past year and they only got in three and that would motivate them to expand. What do I know. I'm just a MBM.
Providence
Villanova
Xavier
Creighton
Someone check my math. Isn't that 4?
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There was ZERO talk of unequal shares or buy ins when the new big east amongst the schools. That was rumor repeated as truth.
5 million dollars from Fox plus equal share of NCAA credits makes joining the big east a financial slam dunk. It isn't even close.
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Hopefully VCU eventually wins another game so that their posters can go home. A losing streak must be a real bummer.
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Yep, I got it.
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Scoreboard?
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My favorite billiken ever.
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Your kids drink? Schlafly Tap Room if they are precocious.
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URI and UMass for me.
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I was there too. Anthony Bonner was there and it was televised on ESPN I think.
In 1996 they had one that was televised and did a pretty good job in West Pine Gym with celebrity guest slam dunk contest judges. I think Brett Hull was a celebrity guest judge. I remember it was a good event but I was a freshman and had a lot to drink. I recall slamming a few beers in the West Pine Bathroom and the Billiken had to get in there to change or something. The team proceeded to stink that year.
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Good for him. I respect him for this.
Me too. I am not exactly returned to the flock but Pope Francis is definitely has a fan in me.
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Also, the metric system is for *******.
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How about golf carts?
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You seem to have the professor gig all figured out. All that adjunct teaching you bring up all the time has served you well.
I have been teaching college classes for 18 years. I am of the opinion that there a lot of ways to be an effective teacher and I haven't even for a moment considered sartorial decisions amongst them. I certainly wouldn't be quick to assume anything about a professor's effectiveness based on his or her choice of underpants.
I better get to the mall.
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And that ability to consistently distract is part of why they are successful, in other words, the distraction is effective, which is NOT the way you want a professor to be successful.
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I can only assume this is sarcasm.
The hand wringing over Drew is out of control. If SLU wants tobe big time, this is how yhe game is played. Is it gross? Sure is. In fact, bigtime college sports is gross from top to bottom. No recruit is avoiding slu over Drew because they, unlike some posters here, understand that this is par for the course.
I think it's time to fire Crews and the only reason i say this is because things probably would be different if he had not canned Jared Drew. Good Transfers and Recruits who are considering Slu don't want to come here now because of Drew getting Canned.
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Some people are truly concerned with the soiled reputation of priests in the Catholic Church. I for one hope we get a Jesuit. People go to Webster U now-a-days and live near the school and do not even remember it was once the sisters of Loretto who got it started. A resurgence in the vocations of priests, brothers, and nuns will only occur if the majority of the population once again honor those people who dedicate their lives to fostering the rest of us.
A strong, academic who comes from the Jesuits could bring respect for the Jesuits, the Church, the University, the faculty and attract the students who want a Catholic education not just another school that rivals the tax supported BCS schools we sometimes imagine ourselves to rival. We are more than a city college.
Biondi may have been the patron of landscape architects; he may have been an accumulator of vacant land; he may have stifled the researchers who drive the prestige of the graduate and medical schools. He may have violated the reputations of any who opposed him but he has certainly laid out a known set of problems for his successors to set straight. This university is set to grow, again; to gain in academic prestige because Biondi set the table for all of these problems to be worked on.
You want in the Big East. We all should want a leader who will make Saint Louis University a top 5 Catholic school in the USA. I think that a Jesuit from a better school should be sent to guide us. Let's not rush to chuck our heritage when we have such an understanding of the schools strengths and weaknesses. Time to mend fences.
I want a leader who will bring a poet laureate to the English department; a working actor to the drama department; bridge the music department to the Saint Louis Symphony; bring publishing psychologists to the psych department; bring chemists and biologists who can wrangle research grants for the medical and graduate schools, build us a new fine arts school with some known artists that kids will want to study with, find us a politician with a national reputation to be an adjunct professor at the law school,etc. such as Paul Simons who affiliated with SIU after he stopped running for office. When I researched a graduate school to apply to I looked in the journals to see who was publishing. Young people want to study with respected academics who lead their field just like basketball players and better yet- coaches came to work for Rick Majerus. We never had known coaching assistants before RM. Time to step it up in all the departments. Put some polish on this solid institution.
There is no reason the next president can't fire on all cylinders instead of being so unidimensional.
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Exactly!
There are many who abuse tenure but the purpose it exists is for EXACTLY this reason.
Also, is my memory wrong on this point? Wasn't there an earlier vote of no confidence taken against Biondi at sometime in the late 90's or early 2000's? I seem to think it was involving the sale of the hospital primarily.
Were I a professor whose job security was dependent on the whims of a tyrannical president who has a history of making decisions based on emotion (that emotion often being anger) as opposed to reason, I would be pretty damn scared, too. The tenure issue was an important one.
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Chances of a lay president? I know gtown and canisius have laity in charge. Any other jesuit schools?
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Fr. garanzini woukd be a great choice.
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Alright then. Read that report. Maybe you hate the faculty. Maybe you love Biondi. No matter. There is no way to come to any conclusion other than SLU is an abiect mess. The University, the students and the alumni deserve a new President.
You two continue your pissing match if ya like. Meanwhile your alma mater is a flupping disaster.
I didn't realize you were still just a student - explains a lot. I will now always defer to your voluminous life experience.
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Maybe it is SELU (south east louisiana u) They call them SLU down there in Hammond, LA.
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Spot on, well said.
Having led a large educational institution as well as spending many years as the second, I can tell you that these types of organizations do not function relationship wise and decision making wise as do companies both private and public. There are many reasons why this is but suffice it to say that many of the benefits that companies pay out when times are good are not available to people who work in these educational institutions such as a SLU - for example bonuses are not paid out, 401Bs are not often matched at all ever, and opportunities for substantial raises are usually tempered to just name a few. I understand that there are times at companies where 401K matches are reduced, no or reduced raises or salary cuts take place during hard times, and other perks are stopped but by in large when my counterparts in companies were getting 3-5 times my salary and bonuses valued in the hundreds of thousands, they are suppose to save for the rainy day times. Don't get me wrong I am not complaining only pointing out the differences. Now all that being said, transparency in the operations and decision making is a critical factor for those who work in these educational institutions. It is what they find attractive to the job so when the leader pulls the rug out from under them then of course they get angry. The worse thing a leader in this type of organization can do is to appear not willing to work with the staff in an open manner. Biondi has a long record of running roughshod over people so what is happening right now is simply a cumulative effect of years of him grinding his boot heel on those below him. I am still surprised that he has lasted this long through this entire mess - the trustees who basically were picked by Biondi are at least outwardly supporting him - I can assure you that some are tiring of it and are probably privately saying some different things. After all when they signed up for this gig it was suppose to be basically a fun thing with very few if any headaches. The worse thing Biondi could have done was kick the faculty out - he should have welcomed them being there and hearing the discussion - it would only have elevated him but his choice to exclude has only lowered his stature. What could he have possibly said during the meeting that would have been so secret that the faculty need to be removed? - if he thought what he talked about was going to stay in the room then he is very naive and I doubt that he is.
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The Big East Presidents don't want to add a public school. Full stop. SLU is still in decent position because of market size, location and institutional fit. Obviously the past two years has taken a bit of shine off of the prospect though. Part of all of this is the "Press Conference Win". Announcing Gonzaga does that for sure. SLU, not at the moment certainly. This coaching hire is so enormous that it really can't be exaggerated.