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    GDT: UMSL Exhibition

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    2 hours ago, dlarry said:

    I’d like to see him get a few reps under his belt. 
    I don’t want him going into the first meaningful game we play without him having played a real game in a year. 
     

     

    We’d be favored against Murray by more than a dozen even without Perkins. We (theoretically) can afford that to be his warmup 

    Loyola Game (Gentile Arena) - General Admission?

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    15 hours ago, Fraz said:

    Was on StubHub securing tickets to this.  Looks like GA? Has anyone been in this arena and can confirm?  No reason to buy good seats if it’s first come/first serve.  Any insights are appreciated 

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    I’d be really surprised if there weren’t still some available through Loyola 

     

    edit: looks like some are still available but I’d act fast. Many of us are in 204 & 205

    https://www.ramblertickets.com/Online/seatSelect.asp

    Sweet 16...Buy Or Sell?

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    4 hours ago, WVBilliken said:

    I just want them to make the Tourney.  A mid-major needs to win their Conference Tourney or have one heck of a winning record to get an at-large bid.  So talking about Sweet 16 is way premature.  As a mid-major, lose 5 or 6 games and getting in the Tourney will be tough.  So a few unlucky breaks leading to loses and even a great Billiken team doesn't get selected.  Sucks, but that is the life of a mid-major.  I'll talk Sweet 16 if they get a bid.

    If this team doesn’t get a bid, Ford will have some explaining to do

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    Media A10 Preseason Predictions

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    27 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

    You have the SI team, except Loyer over Perkins.  It's your team, your call, I'm not second guessing you, but I am curious on your Perkins omission.  Any reasoning you care to share?

    Granted, Loyer will be a handful and could well win POY, particularly if he carries Davidson to a top 3 season.

    It is not my personal first team. Just as I mentioned in my original post, it is my prediction of the first team. My personal first team is below:

    Yuri Collins

    Gibson Jimerson

    Javonte Perkins

    Javon Pickett

    Francis Okoro

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    St. Louis Billikens Football (2022)

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    20 hours ago, JMM28 said:

    There’s probably an argument to be made that golf attracts a solid walk on (full rate tuition) crowd with only having ~5 scholarships to give. You also get their probably affluent parents. There’s also a slim chance your golf alum become high earning professionals which is only true of men’s basketball and baseball at this point. 

    I don't have any eligiblity left so what is the point

    OT: Last USMNT Camp before WC

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    17 minutes ago, slufanskip said:

    I agree with this. With 26 players how can you leave Ream off the roster. Hell, I'm not even sure he shouldn't be a 45 mpg lock with our other CB options. 

    The biggest problem with this team is depth. If we have everyone healthy (including Miles, though I know he won't be) we advance and possibly win a game or 2 in the knockout rounds. However, almost all of our best players come from a 4-5 year period 21-26 years old mostly and a few younger ones coming up Reyna, Musah, for example. There isn't enough under 21's established enough yet to provide depth (injury, rest, etc..) that we need the 27ish plus age group to provide that. The reality is that we have a 6-10 year period that just hasn't provided any real talent, not even enough to provide real depth. Even the players that are staring caliber that are 27 or older are at the low end of that. We are needing to provide almost an entire WC roster with players aged 20-27 or close to it. 

    If we are healthy, we will advance regardless of who's up top. By healthy I mean Adams, McKennie, Pulisic, Dest, Weah, AAronson, Reyna, Musah, A. Robinson, and Zimmerman is an absolute must. maybe the most important health on the roster, including Pulisic. 

    Imo Sargent and Pefok have to be on the roster along with Ferreira. Can Gregg really still be considering Stefan the starter in goal? 

    I know Gregg wants to play the ball out of the back and build up from there, and ideally that is what I prefer. However, we need to recognize that we don't have the skill set to do that against active high pressing teams. We just turn it over in bad spots or play it back and still just boot it long. It's like telling Yuri to dunk on Okoro. Just be strong and go do it. Sure ok. After the last game he said we played without imagination. What he meant was we didn't take people on enough, push the ball forward enough. He's right but he's also wrong as we didn't because we had too many players on the field that just don't possess that ability. Asking players to play a way they aren't capable is just begging for disaster and that's what we got. 

    As much as I love Tyler Adams, and I do. He's tough gritty, wins the ball and plays with an attitude. He misses so many opportunities to turn the ball up field. His first thought is almost always to lay it off which allows the opponent to gather themselves. We need to counter quicker and more direct more often. We don't currently possess enough skill to have to constantly work the ball through a team and a defense that is packing it in. 

    I personally don't know if Steffen is the answer, but in a half where we struggled to keep possession v SA, Turner kept just giving the ball away. He is a fantastic shot stopper, but it is really, really problematic when he actually has possession of the ball. I don't trust anyone in the pool in possession/distribution, but Steffen I probably trust the most. Like I said, I don't totally agree with bringing Steffen as the starter, but we aren't exactly flush with legitimate options

    College Sports Madness Top 144 Countdown 2022-23

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    19 hours ago, gobillsgo said:

    Guess those guys didn’t really grind my gears like the guys I mentioned. Maybe Gilyard.   

    I just thought about some seniors in the league from last year. Williams or Luka didn't bug me either. Just was trying to make the point that these four year guys from legit programs aren't going anywhere. If a coach like Schmidt (just an example) really underperforms (I've had this discussion before on here, and it is a hill I'll die on. He cost Bona the 5 starters' extra covid year) with talented guys, they'll leave. That's really the only reason high end/established guys have left. Fatts left bc Rhody was a dumpster fire. Fordham's transfers out have left Fordham. The same goes for Duquesne. 

    Bob Ramsey

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    3 hours ago, cheeseman said:

    I am not an expert on this but as I understand it Lindenwood has made great amounts of money off of granting small schollies for every sport or quasi sport you can imagine and getting kids to come because of that thus paying up for the difference.  

    That's many NAIA schools in a nutshell (non-D1 college athletics as a whole). Not necessarily Lindenwood specific

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