cgeldmacher
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I say we put up the "State of Missouri Women's Basketball Champions 2023-2024" banner now rather than wait until the beginning of next season. Beat S&T, Mi$$ouri, and Missouri State.
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20 hours ago, BrettJollyComedyHour said:
Should we though? Sometimes, I doubt it.
That's part of the problem. Many folks have unreasonable expectations about what coaches would come here, and think that just because they say that we're having high expectations this means a big name coach will be willing sign with us.
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2 hours ago, JMM28 said:
I'd need to see Tatum work his way up to SLU. Name the last successful first time head coach with zero college coaching experience? Most of the guys that have landed jobs like that are former NBA stars that also spent time coaching in the NBA.
Rich Grawer. Not disagreeing with your point, but Grawer coached us through some good years with Bonner, Douglass, Gray, etc.
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What are the odds that someone connected to SLU made this happen with the caveat that he scout for us?
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On 11/8/2023 at 1:34 PM, willie said:
I think their job is pretty hard. Take this week . Soccer on Sunday-Basketball on Monday-Wednesday -Thursday and Saturday. Soccer again on Friday and I have no idea on the other sports. I wouldn't guess the staff working the games can't get out of there before 10 or 11. My guess is that for the most part they are not overpaid. It's pretty easy to be critical of other peoples mistakes but to say they don't care is presumptious.
Sorry, but all of us have to work hard. That's what having a job is, or should be. I wouldn't normally criticize anyone's work ethic, but this department consistently makes mistakes, small and big. When you see that, you call an apple an apple. If it were one or two small mistakes every six months, that's one thing, but this is not what is happening. It's a pattern. So, yes, I will stand by my statement that some folks in the Athletic Department don't seem to care enough about doing their jobs well.
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1 hour ago, slu72 said:
Brock Vice has yet to play a minute for Creighton. I should’ve gloat but he stiffed us.
I also looked that up the other day. I hope him and his family realizes that he would possibly be our starting big man if he had kept his commitment to us.
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2 hours ago, JohnnyJumpUp said:
This is now an outdoor game, going to be 70° at tip, should be a beautiful night for a game...
I know the mistake is funny, it definitely is, but this is another indication of why there probably needs to be a house cleaning done in the Athletic Dept. Far too many people in that department that don't care enough to make sure they do their job correctly.
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4 hours ago, gabriel said:
I have an idea of a team that can take their spot
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23 hours ago, billikenfan05 said:
1. Nothing has changed with international recruiting. The rules are the same as they've been since Chris Harriman was here the first time.
2. Chinese basketball money is no joke.
3. Kansas' compliance department would have caught the issues in a cursory google search of Bruce's legal name.
4. There are no other two time non-grad transfers playing to my knowledge.
5. I'm sorry but CMay is lying to you, Stu Durando and every other Billiken fan. This is not an NCAA injustice it just isn't, nor did they JUST find out about Zhang, They are covering up for a compliance staff error.
To be clear I do not believe Travis Ford or any of his direct staff to be in the wrong here, did they roll the dice on some euros and Brad? You bet, but that's why you hire someone with a law degree and NCAA rules experience to handle compliance, that's why it's likely a 6 figure job.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but I think your being a little bit hard on CMay. Any employer can tell you that dealing with an employee who screws up is very hard. This is especially true when you have to fire that employee for the screw up and when your business is in the public eye. If you want to criticize May for hiring that person in the first place or for not micro managing that employee to make sure she did her job, I can see that. However, I think it is much harder to criticize a manager for not wanting to continue to dredge up that person's mistake in public forums. I'm not saying that how he is handling it is wrong or right, just saying that it's tough to discuss the details of something that resulted in an employee's termination.
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I want to see a stat soon where Hargrove is leading the nation in scoring average.
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Let’s not get too excited. I think UMSL would give this USI team a good game. They are not good.
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Hargrove double double before halftime.
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Also, neither the money for the BFV or the money paid to an athlete through the Billiken NIL Exchange can be handled by University. People keep commenting as to why doesn't SLU do this or why don't they do that. These entities are separate. The Exchange is, I believe, something administered by the University to help facilitate proper contact between the student athletes and the booster wanting to pay them, wait, I meant to say, "utilize their services," but the University cannot be involved in any way in determining what happens with that money other than to make sure the few rules that exist are followed.
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Money donated to a university that is used to pay a coach - TAX DEDUCTIBLE
Money donated to a NIL fund like the BFV - NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE
Money paid directly to a player for services through something like the Billiken Exchange - NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE, but may be able to be written off as a business expense
Some are still having trouble with the difference between the BFV and Billiken NIL Exchange. The BFV, which every school has a version of, is just collecting money to be used for pay for play. The Billiken NIL Exchange is where an individual or a business can contact players directly and use that player to promote their business or perform a service. The Exchange deal can be legit, or fake, such as show up to my car dealership for 15 minutes to sign autographs and walk away with a $20,000 check. Either way, though, it should be considered a marketing expense to the business.
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4 hours ago, Cowboy II said:
-sure, get Congress involved, what could go wrong?
Can't go any more wrong than college sports are already going wrong as it is. I welcome any change to the present way its being done.
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Just now, wgstl said:
really? Granted its been a years, but there's definitely been games where it was ....bad. Yes there's A10 teams with worse, but I refuse to be compared to all but a few teams in this conference because I don't think a few of the teams should even be here.
Attendance has been underwhelming for years now. I don't get it, i'm not sure why, but I'm doing my part.
Attendance being disappointing or underwhelming is very different from Chaifetz feeling like a morgue during a game. I have not been to one game in the building where I thought the atmosphere was bad. Low attendance at times, Yes. Bad atmosphere, No.
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22 hours ago, johnbj14 said:
Raw numbers, sure. But we have the second or third largest arena in the league by seats, and are in a major metro area with access to 2 million people. A more fair comparison would be % of seats filled. Last year we averaged 6,694 fans per game, which equates to 63% of what Chaifetz can hold. Sure, we put up good raw attendance numbers, but our fanbase is far from rabid, and Chaifetz feels like a morgue for a lot of games.
I have been going to games at Chaifetz since it opened. I can honestly tell you that I have never been to a game at Chaifetz where the atmosphere felt like a morgue. I am talking, like you were, figuratively not literally. I have been to Billiken games in other markets that have felt like a morgue. Duquesne was the best example of that where the few fans that did show up just sat on their hands the whole game.
SLU has a rather loyal and passionate fan base that seems to always show up. Whether our attendance numbers are better or are worse any given season depends on the excitement level surrounding the program that season and whether it brings out the more casual fans.
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From the article and good to hear:
Goodwin hit all six attempts of his free throw attempts
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How hard can this be. Let's say they've got three employees working on this. If it takes them half a day to review one of these, that means that six get reviewed in a day. This is 30 in a week. Can it really take longer than that. Just pick up the file and read it. Make a decision, have it reviewed by a supervisor, and issue a decision.
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16 hours ago, 3star_recruit said:
Somebody has to step into the sharpshooter role once Jimerson leaves. Would be nice if it's a guy already on the roster.
He is. His name is Larry Hughes, Jr.
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On 10/25/2023 at 5:28 PM, willie said:
I watched part of his minutes. Are we sure the + is not a typo?
Just checked again, and the +7 hasn't been changed.
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Jordan ended up tied for the team lead in +/- with a +7. Pretty good for 14 minutes of play.
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4 hours ago, billiken_roy said:
you got to question why ford never allowed the wing or point guard defender to double down on the D2 Big that was playing the part of the 5th grade bully just backing down hargrove. both medley and hughes are quick enough to double and get back out to get a hand in the face of that point guard or wing the center would have been forced to pass out to.
a friend of mine asked, "was ford just testing hargrove to see how he handled things?" i dont know but if that is what ford was doing, it was a fail.
Several comments on this thread were that out three point defense was not good. It's a pick your poison situation. Look bad guarding a big on the other team with 6'4" Hargrove alone, or look bad at defending the three when you double that guy. This won't be as much of a problem when our bigs get to be on the floor.
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10 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:
I’d like to point out that while it sounds odd for a position high in the university system to become open in the middle of the year, we don’t know (and I don’t know) what personal situation whoever had that position might have been going through, so let’s hold off judgement until we actually know something official. Example, our current Volleyball head coach, Andrea Beaty, got handed the interim head coach position at Denver last year right before the season started. Why? The guy who was head coach was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and had to take care of himself first and foremost (the article on the internet I saw mentioned he had 2 small girls and an infant. I’m not saying I know anything about how the SLU compliance head position became open when it did, but I say let’s not make assumptions until we know facts.
I don't disagree with what you are saying, but the root of this situation will never be made available to the public. All we do know is that someone had a job to do, their only job, if the title of that person's position is correct, and that person did not do their job.
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BTW, I don't remember it being discussed on here that the ladies are going to a Hawaii tournament next. Getting some big time games.