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Pistol, do you know if these four offers came from coaches watching an AAU event and then handing them out? Just seems odd that all four went out at the same time.

She needs to end up being the the basketball HOF. Her act only worked on basketball courts, so she was exclusive to that game. There are generations of fans and players who love her and her act. I've heard many stories about teams coming out from the locker room at halftime to watch her perform. If they let in executives, refs, broadcasters, etc. in the HOF, then they need to let the Panda in.

That's great news. Good luck, TJ!!

The way I read it, if he gets cut before the season starts, they only owe him $25K. If he makes the roster, he gets paid his $2.3M prorated for each game. Once he gets past January 7, he is guaranteed the rest of his $2.3M.

Ontario is about 1:15 away

How many coaches would have wanted to come here when: 1. You are replacing a coach that was fired after taking the team to the Round of 32 two years in a row for the 1st time ever. 2. You are replacing a coach that was just named the National COY 3. You are replacing a coach that was rumored to be Coach Majerus's pick to replace him 4. You are losing most of your top players and have to rebuild Most intelligent coaches would believe that to be a no win situation. Most intelligent coaches would realize that the fans wouldn't hear the stories about how Crews mailed it in. The fans would just be upset with you for not delivering another tournament team. I do not think it our newly opened coaching position would be thought of that highly by candidates at the time.

I fully agree that Crews was terrible here. However, every AD in the country would have hired Crews after he took the team to the Round of 32 and won national coach of the year. It's an unfortunate situation, but there was no way he wasn't going to get hired. Let's say May hires someone else and that guy doesn't make the tournament the following year. May would get lit up for not hiring the national COY.

Is this tournament really in Palm Desert, California? I ask because Palm Desert, California is 2:15 from LA and 2:30 from San Diego. It is 30 minutes from the Palm Springs airport, but that requires at least one layover somewhere else.

If I was the AD and Lindenwood, I'd at least make a call. Doesn't hurt to ask.

I just got a call to my cell phone. I was on a work call and could not take it. Here is what the message said. "Hi, this is Amari from the SLU men's basketball team. I wanted to leave you a quick message to personally thank you for renewing your season tickets for this upcoming season. I also would like to invite you our open practice on Tuesday, June 24 starting at 4:00 p.m. at Chaifetz Arena. Thank again for your your support. I hope to meet you in person at our open practice next week." I'm upset that I was not able take the call. However, I am very happy that someone came up with this idea of having players make these personal calls. The Athletic Department sometimes takes heat for various perceived missteps, but this is a fantastic idea that someone over there should be commended for.

We should always have the goal of dominating the league including the best teams twice. If that still isn't good enough to get us an auto bid, so be it.

I think it is sort of a chicken or egg type of discussion. Do you (1) need to have a better team to attract season ticket holders so that you have more revenue to buy a better team, or (2) charge more so that you can buy a better team to attract more season ticket holders. I have heard rumblings that season ticket sales are expected to be up. This is why we are being asked to commit so early, so that they can put new season ticket holders in seats. I, for one, don't have an issue with them charging more if it means that gives us more money for higher quality players.

You would like it better than Rhinegeist?

The BVF is basically being absorbed into the AD. Whatever it was doing will continue to be done.

Do you have any information that SLU is not doing an "all of the above" approach? That's my issue. Guys are handing out criticism based upon their own speculation.

I think that you guys are being far too negative about this one. Regardless of your feelings about Chris May, the math may just be the math. If we are able to revenue share now, just the receipts from ticket sales should give us a nice chunk to pay our players. Since we don't have to pay football players, this may give us a big advantage over football schools. Even if it is not an advantage, even if it just pulls us even with them, I'd be happy. The tone that Chris May used in the article made be think he is very positive about what this means for our program in the future. Your opinions about Chris May, valid or not, shouldn't have any impact on the idea that this could be a very big positive development for SLU.

Based upon the picture, she definitely has a love for hoops.

Chris May is normally very reserved in his comments about the future. Reading between the lines of his comments in this article, he sounds legitimately excited about what the new rules mean for SLU. To me, it sounds like a confirmation about what we have been discussing above about schools without football having an advantage. I still don't like the pay for play new system, but I will probably warm up to it if it results in us having a competitive edge in the sports we care about most (basketball and soccer).

This is going to go down as one of my all time favorite Old Guy quotes.

So, from what I am reading, I guess this sounds good for SLU. Am I right? It would seem to me that if we can spend between $3-5M under the revenue sharing system, we might be outspending power conference schools who are having to spend much more on football. It seems to me that the Big East and the top few teams in the A-10 may have just been handed a reason for greater hope.

They get me every year. Nearly every season, I go away disappointed, and then the next season, I'm excited again. I would say that some day I will learn the lesson, but the reality is that I probably won't.

Have to agree with Taj. This is not to say that Schertz is not good at developing bigs, but I don't think the college basketball world believes that is his reputation, at least not yet. Also, from what I read above, if this guy does turn out to be good and a contributor, he's gone next year. Just the reality of college basketball right now. I guess we just have to be happy with one year stints of quality play from some guys.

Agree. That's the only explanation I can come up with as well. They certainly don't show any loyalty to their present conferences.

What amazes me is that the Committee is usually made up of more than 50% folks who are representatives of non P6 conferences. Why those representatives go along with the shafting of their own is beyond me.

I've been saying this for years. It should be the St. Louis Sports Commission that puts it on. Doesn't have to include SLU or Mizzou or Illinois every year. Just have it. Kansas City has been doing an MTE like this for decades.