cgeldmacher
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I wonder if this kid knows Reynolds or his family and has been introduced to our program that way.
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I'm sure there are some on this board that would think that picture would look a lot better if that walkway was a street and that clock tower was replaced by a busy intersection.
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Did everyone see Earl Austin's tweet that Zeke is around 6'7" now?
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Tell him not to get to used to having a teammate with good ball handling skills.
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Down on the Hill, there is a block of Victoria (I think) that has special signs designating it as Hall of Fame Place. There were three members of the Baseball Hall of Fame that grow up on the same block (Berra, Garagiola, and Jack Buck). Crazy to think that three Hall of Famers grew up within a distance of about 400 feet.
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Agreed on your second paragraph.
I was specifically saying that no rational poster on here was going to suggest Gregg Marshall when he's already at a much superior program with a couple billionaires backing him.
I'm not even talking about just the Marshall's of the world. If the coach of Northern Iowa, or Bradley, or Illinois State has a big year and is getting buzz about trading up, that guy is going to be looking for offers at BCS schools and would not consider switching over the SLU. I wish we were that level of program, but we are not currently. Based upon past experience, posters on this board will start throwing around names that we will not be able to get and expect that our nice facilities will erase the last two years of bad records and being in the A-10.
The topic of this thread is about replacing JC. My only point is that if we are ever considering replacing JC, that we should be realistic about who we could get to replace him. It should be par of the decision making process when deciding whether JC stays or not.
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I agree that posters would be tossing around a lot of names where we'd have no shot. That said, there are a host of good coaches out there in lower rated conferences than the A10 that would find SLU an attractive move. You have basically 4 tiers of conferences in the D1. The Power 6, High Mid Majors, Mid Majors, and then lower mids. A10 is a high mid. MVC is still a Mid. SOCON would be a lower mid as examples. I would think that we could get a good AC from a BCS'er (I think we've tried but never closed a deal on one of these). Possibly convince a High Mid guy to make a move. Hire away a good Mid Major coach (Romar and Spoon). Definitely could hire a lower tier coach. We could get a fired coach from the Power 6. Take Ben Howland as an example. Had he gone another year w/o an offer, I think he would have given SLU strong consideration. But, you're right, we're not enticing a Big 6 guy away unless he's thinking he's getting fired.
I agree with almost everything you said. I like the hierarchy you came up with. I think it is accurate.
I disagree that we could get a mid major coach to switch over to us in our high mid major conference. At least not the ones we would want. The top guys in the mid major conferences are looking to jump to the BCS schools. Even the lower mid guys can make that jump. Remember the Florida Gulf Coast coach from a few years ago, Andy Enfield. He jumped straight to USC.
If we have an opening, lots of guys on the board are going to start suggesting that we should get Marshall or someone like him. That's just not reasonable. Doesn't matter that we can pay around a million or that we have great facilities. If he moves, he's going big like Shaka or Brad Stevens. The other coaches in conferences like the Missouri Valley that we would want, the ones having recent success, will say to themselves that they would rather stay with the rising program they are building with their half million dollar salary and hold out for a BCS job rather than come to a high mid major school that needs to rebuild for a few hundred thousand dollars more.
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I guarantee that if Crews goes, this board will start lobbing out names that we have no shot at. The hot names every year end up going to BCS conferences. Nobody moves from the Missouri Valley to the A-10. The hot names get hired for more money that the $850K we pay Crews.
I'm not saying that this means we have to hold onto Coach Crews if we have another disastrous year, but I've seen too many times when people on this board think that SLU is a top destination for big names. Right now it is not. It will continue that way until we start to have Xavier or Gonzaga type success for about five to six years.
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I actually think he would have benefited greatly by actually getting in some games down the stretch. Nothing makes you realize what is required to play at this level more than actually playing in games. All reports indicate that Welmer is a hard worker and I think him actually experiencing what it takes physically at this level would have pushed him to put even more work into preparing for the 16-17 season.
Put me in the camp of those disappointed that he is redshirting.
I absolutely would have preferred for him not to get injured and to be playing this year. That being said, he can get his first year of game experience next season after watching and learning this year. After that, he will still have three years of eligibility left just like he would have had after this season if he didn't get injured.
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I don't know much about this kid, but Duquesne beat out Wofford, Illinois State, IUPUI, and Nebraska-Omaha for his services. If you are suggesting that these are the types of recruiting battles that SLU should be involved in, then I think you have warped expectations for our program. I don't think we "missed out" on this one like your title suggests.
The above being said, congratulations to this young man for his signing. I look forward to playing against him in the future.
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A year of watching practices and games will make him even better when he returns next season. Then we'll have an extra year of him later when he is at his best.
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They certainly got "at the crossroads" right. Now, do we pull a Robert Johnson and sell our soul to the Devil by covertly starting a coaching search, or do we drift back into the little engine that couldn't type program? I know I'll get hammered for the coaching search thing, but does anyone feel that Jim Crews is the guy to lead us back to the promised land? If so, please share with us your reasoning.
The biggest problem with your thought is the amazingly overinflated view many on this board have of the type of coach we would be able to get to replace Crews. Young coaches on the rise in smaller conferences, the type that we would want, make the jump over us to BCS conference teams. Already established coaches aren't going to make a lateral or downward move to come to us. With the current state of our program, the only coaches we could get are established, formerly successful coaches who get fired from better jobs and aren't getting picked up by another top school, guys who are successful at low level programs but not getting attention from BCS schools, or assistants.
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I'm ambivalent on this. I spent enough time in that hospital -- and the Vermin Deathlodge side -- to know the challenges of retrofitting it. Or at least of retrofitting it well within a reasonable budget. Haven't been in there for a while, but the so-called "offices" that used to be in the old tower weren't exactly the kind that you'd show off when trying to attract a world-class staff.
At the same time, med and NAHP (or whatever they call it now) dorm space could be wildly cool.
One thing that I don't think has been brought up is that if FD goes down, SLU loses its entire architectural identity. Ever since Biondi added that padded bra on top of Gries, the faux-copper roofs have allegedly provided visual continuity on campus. If the tower goes away, they (especially Gries) won't make a whole lot of sense.
I do agree with you about Desloge Tower. I would love to keep it, if feasible, just because so much of the two campuses have been modeled after this building and the general design of Dubourg Hall.
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The Pope is a Jesuit. You may want to pay a bit more attention to what he's been saying lately.
Bonwich, you need to acknowledge that not everyone shares your opinion on this. In fact, I would guess that most, if being honest, would have the opposite opinion to yours. BMB is correct. Potential college students and parents of potential college students are affected by their perception of the campus, probably more so than they should be, but they are. A bright, new, vibrant campus with green space, flowers, and statues are what most people making a college decision want (not everyone, but most). Buildings piled on top of buildings with homeless people milling around are not what they want. That comment is in no way an anti-homeless statement. It is also not a comment about parents being bad people for not wanting their kids to go to a campus that has homeless people around it. It is just a fact of life.
When creating new space and buildings on campus, SLU needs to be concerned with what is best for the university, not the City of St. Louis or preservationists. If parents and students want green space, give them green space.
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We need to figure out how to get the game and then have a watch party when the Townsville Crocodiles (Conklin and Jett) play the Illawarra Hawks (Lisch and Ellis) play each other this season.
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Never trust a big butt, smile and/or Triton.
That university is poison.
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Ellis signed with the Illawarra Hawks yesterday. He is now teammates with Lisch.
We need to get all these Billikens in Australia to start scouting and recruiting for us down under. With all these alums we have playing in their league, we should try to make it a recruiting ground again.
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Here's an interesting one: Eddie Ekiyor, the very well-regarded 2016 recruit out of Ottawa (SLU interest, offers from Xavier, Florda, Vandy, Oregon, Tennessee, and many more), was charged in a hit-and-run incident that injured an off-duty police officer.
Maybe that will scare away our competition.
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So we're playing a team from Brooklyn in St. Louis and then, a week later, playing a team from Kentucky in Brooklyn.
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So Hines is now a scholarship player? Did anyone else see this? Where did the scholarship come from?
Edit: Sorry. Just saw the other thread that discussed this.
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To me, the most encouraging thing about the trip was Crawford's and Roby's points per minute. I have to think that Crews will shorten the rotation this year. If Crawford and Roby get more playing time than last year, I think we will be better.
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http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/evaluation/_/id/211977/cartare-gordon
And I read from NY2LA that Ramey is a top 5 PG in his class, which should mean a 5 star.
Do you realize that your profile picture is still FBJT (Future Bluedevil Jayson Tatum)?
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I'm drinking the Neufeld Blue Koolaid. I say 6.0 per game. I think he'll have some games where he scores 10-12 and others where he gets 2-3. On balance he'll average around 6.
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