cgeldmacher
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So, is the future brighter now, before Coach Ford has coached a game, or was the future brighter prior to Coach Majerus coaching a game? On one hand you had a coach that couldn't recruit top talent, but could find diamonds in the rough and could outcoach any opposing coach. On the other hand you have a coach who can recruit top talent, but has been criticized before for not being the best in game coach.
I have to think the future is brighter now, given what Coach Ford has done recruiting wise, even more so that when we had Coach Majerus. I say this, because I think the talent we have can get us to a level where we have never been (Sweet 16). Even Majerus's best teams never made it past the Round of 32. I think we saw the ceiling of what Coach Majerus was going to do here. I believe Coach Ford's ceiling is even higher.
The fact that Ford has done this while the stench of Coach Crews's dumpster fire is still in the air is hard to comprehend. However, I don't think anything illegal is happening. I think local players have been waiting on a situation where SLU's prospects were looking up and where they could play for a players' coach like Ford. Despite all his positives, Coach Majerus didn't give off that players' coach feel. The players had to get to know him before truly respecting what he was doing for them.
If Ford really does start to get the top talent in St. Louis to stay home on a regular basis, and supplements with good recruits from elsewhere, then we are going to be the next Gonzaga or Xavier.
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Sorry. You're correct. I got the names confused.
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Keep in mind that better teams tend to be more up-tempo anyway. It can be a chicken or egg type argument. Are they good because they play up-tempo or do they play up-tempo because they are good? I tend to think that better more talented teams naturally play the game faster. Often teams that are underdogs in games think their only chance is to slow the game down.
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I find it interesting that the MLS wants to push downtown venues. The idea is fine in theory, but one of the best stadiums in the league (KC) is nowhere near downtown. It's basically in the parking lot of a fancy strip mall development. The stadium in Chicago is about as far out of the loop as SLU is from downtown St. Louis.
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We'll be bad this year, but "Manos: Hands of Fate" bad? I'm hoping we won't be at that level. That's a pretty strong statement tucked inside of a really cool obscure reference.
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It would be unfortunate to not capitalize on the momentum we had with the Goodwin signing. Hopefully, the "parlay" White Pelican mentioned is still in play.
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I will go Bishop, Roby, Crawford, Agbeko, Gillman to start the season, assuming they are all healthy.
Gillman finally looks like he added weight and muscle base on the team photo. I think that Ford will want to find out if Gillman can contribute or if he needs to utilize that senior graduate transfer rule. If Gillman has had a Conklin summer, he may contribute for the next two years. If not, I bet we stop seeing him much after the non-conference schedule and see a transfer after the season.
I would bet that Ford eases Welmer, Johnson, and Moore into the rotation, letting them learn mostly from the bench at first. They'll get time, certainly, just based upon the numbers game. By conference schedule, whoever of those three earned more playing time will get it.
Neufeld and Hines will play more than the new guys, but less than the starters. Neufeld getting more than Hines.
Again, once guys show Ford if they can play or not, this all will change. I just think that Ford will start with the veterans and then go with whomever is playing the best down the stretch, because his competitive juices will cause him to want to be able to prove to everyone that he can get more out of the same guys that his predecessor did. I think he believes doing so, if it can be done, will build confidence in him inside the fan base.
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I'll probably take a lot of heat from the Biondi haters, but wasn't Biondi run out of town by the faculty and students over an issue that was intended to save on costs. I like Pestello, but it seems like in that move we traded financial stability for a great guy that everyone likes.
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Agree. Forget for a second that we are criticizing Stu. If newspapers in other cities that have teams that are competing with us for recruits prints this stuff and our newspaper does not, then we have a legitimate beef with our newspaper.
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The women's team should be an NCAA tournament team this year.
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All politics aside, I found this to be a very responsible form of protest. Glad that our students went this route rather than the lunacy we have seen at other universities in our state. They made their point, they did so in a memorable way, they still allowed the speech to occur, and they raised some money for a good cause. Good job students.
Now, please just start showing up to the basketball games. Also, if you do and what you see on the court this season eats at your moral core, please don't walk out. It will get better the next season.
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The purpose in my forwarding the message that someone forwarded to me from West was to point out the imbalance of a conservative speaker being forced to have someone precede his comments, while dozens of liberal speakers have never had this happen.
H. Smith - I went to SLU undergrad and law school. The law school does things differently and often presents speakers in a panel discussion because they are there to debate the law. There is a long history of SLU and SLU student organizations bringing in controversial liberal speakers and the university has never forced a conservative voice before the speech to contextualize their comments. This is the double standard I'm referring to. I'm not defending West's comments. I'm only complaining about the speaker being forced onto the listeners before his speech to offer a differing view. That has never been required on the other side.
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Except there's this. As has become commonplace in our society, there is only one side that truly gets to have its say and have true freedom of speech.
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US News and World Report's rankings came out a few weeks ago, and we were 95 I believe.
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SLU could have saved a lot of money by just letting us handle this. We're the focus group they needed. LongLiveLisch should get some free merch from SLU for his design work. I don't think the mascot that was rolled out was all that bad, but LLL's touch ups did the trick. Get it done May and Pestello. Everyone will be happy.
I think part of the problem is that I keep hearing that students were involved in the design process. I don't know about you, but my college years were not the best decision making years of my life. I'm not sure that any sane person would say that college kids are the best for making decisions. Why is some pimple faced Humanities major allowed to offer opinions that are shaping my mascot! There are people that know how to do this kind of thing (i.e. high paid consultants and LongLiveLisch and us MBMs) that should be making the calls.
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14 minutes ago, runandshoot said:
I have heard that Ford & staff really botched this up. They never contacted him or Watson until late August. Also didn't go see one game of their aau team all summer, while every other coach in the country seemed to based on articles and offers they have. How can you not contact 2 kids that have offers from previous staff already that are local and having stellar summers and are nationally ranked. DIdn't get this one. They have seemed to mend the fence with Watson to an extent and I think they tried with Ramey but the interest wasn't as strong. I am not positive in this matter just what I have heard and it seems to be true.
Seems like they both would have been major local priorities. The previous staff had both kids on campus and had them at several games.
Given the results so far, Ford and staff need to be given the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes a staff looks at a kid's tapes and might just think they are overrated or that they wouldn't fit their system. Sometimes a coach might reach out to the kid and the kid says he's not interested. In either case, neither the kid nor the coach would share their reasoning with MBM's like us.
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35 minutes ago, billikentim said:
Saw this on a Minnesota message board today
Ryan James
@RyanJamesMN 6h6 hours agoPF Hasahn French will not be visiting Minnesota this weekend. He had been scheduled for an official visit this weekend.
Evan Daniels @EvanDaniels 7h7 hours ago2017 guard Jamir Harris commits to Minnesota, per a source | Story: http://www.scout.com/college/basketball/recruiting/story/1709066-jamir-harris-commits-minnesota …pic.twitter.com/h5DPGry1Wz
Wow. This is a big development.
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5 hours ago, Tilkowsky said:
How telling is it that the majority of posts are about the new Billikens?
No one cares about SLU soccer anymore.
They are 1-3-2. Five points out of a possible eighteen. Not a good start at all.
What happened to the kid who played for his country's national team in Africa? A great story but obviously he isn't very good.
The rest of the foreigners must not be very good either (if they were good they would be playing professionally in Europe not at SLU).
How sad the program has been allowed to fall so far.
They will not get an at large bid as they will finish under .500.
No matter how tough your strength of schedule is. By the way that will be severely hampered by playing in the A-10.
Biscuits and gravy.
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Waited until I read all the comments before putting my two cents in. The face is not that bad. The costume is not that bad. The new logo is in line with modern trends and the mascot needs to match it.
That being said, the big, big, big mistake was the two-tones. If you take what is there and just make it all gray or all white, I think it would be much better. You would see that he is smiling rather than it appearing that he wants to bite whomever is nearest.
Another mistake was that video they put out. Watch it again. Why did they make it look like a movie trailer that was introducing a villain? The music was ominous and the way the Billiken turned and faced the camera at the end sent chills up my spine. Just show the Billiken bouncing up to some kids for a picture. Show the kids smiling and not freaking out or crying and they would have immediately softened the image. Instead, they made a video that looks like you're getting your first look at Hannibal Lecter's face.
The Athletic Department can fix this by losing the two color face. It will show everyone that they care enough about the concerns of the fan base to take action. At the same time, they will still get their newer, more modern logo personified as a mascot.
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We'll see. I can supplement my own tickets when I need to as well. Plus, my clients are bankers and doctors. They're usually appreciative of getting tickets and show up.
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Just bought two. Going to give them out to clients and write-em off. Seems like a deal like this is perfect for businesses to purchase to give away to folks. Helps the Billikens with funding, inexpensive give away to clients, and helps pack the house.
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My group is going to Fordham this year. Long Presidents' Day weekend helped with that decision.
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6 hours ago, Tilkowsky said:
You are right. Pretty despicable indeed.
Grass Clippings
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21 hours ago, Tilkowsky said:
Notre Dame won College Cup in 2012 or 2013.
SLU hasn't been there since 1997.
Hasn't won it since 1973
Marshmellows
Recruiting - 2018 class
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For quite a while, when people go to ESPN to see what the top ten 2018 prospects are doing, they will only see "Saint Louis" on the commitment line next to a bunch of "Undecided."