cgeldmacher
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Yeah, I think you used to have, in your signature, something about not beating dead horses, so I'm going to stay true to that and not take this bait. I have my own understanding of what happened that night and how it was handled, as I'm sure you have yours, and there's really no reason to bring it all up again at this point.
All I will say generally is that attitudes about rape in our culture, especially on college campuses and also with respect to law enforcement, are definitely not where they need to be.
But back to what our expectations were when Rick Majerus was hired.
As a law school grad myself, I'm a bit disappointed that you were prepared to assign a label such as "rape" based upon your own "understanding of what happened that night." I also have an "understanding" about what happened that night which is, like your opinion, based upon what I have heard from other people and not at all based upon what I know for a fact to be true. Because my understanding of what happened that night is not reliable as it is based upon many levels of hearsay, I don't use terms like "rape" or "innocent" when bringing up that incident, which I try not to do if possible. I strongly suggest that in the future, you use the same level of discretion.
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Frank Haith? I didn't know he recruited high schools.
He doesn't realize that once Tatum picks a school the only transfer he will be making is to the NBA.
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Programs the Billikens are currently better than (per the rankings):
North Carolina
UConn
Kentucky
Georgetown
UCLA
Memphis
Louisville
Indiana
Texas
Ohio State
etc., etc., etc.
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Reynolds is a stud. He'll get PT next year
Just from what I've heard and read, he will enter next season as my favorite active Billiken player. One through five are leaving.
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They have to be smart about it. If it won't cost us, go for it.
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There are no numbers that need to retired besides those already retired. The retired numbers are all-americans and the program's all time leading scorer/rebounder.
+1
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Great story. Every program has or should have a legend that they can look back on. We had one of the best in Easy Ed. I assume LaSalle will be honoring Mr. Gola the rest of the season.
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I'm convinced that MC will be a big scorer in the future. This board is flooded with negative comments about every freshman every year. As soon as a guy gets on campus, if he doesn't average 20 minutes and 10 points a game, he starts to get criticized. All three of the freshmen have shown me enough to tell me the are keepers and starters in the not so distant future. However, what MC has show makes me confident that he's going to be a scoring threat from nearly everywhere on the court. He will hit threes when open, he will hit midrange shots, and he will drive and lay it up in a way that will remind you more of KM than JJ.
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They arent.
They have a banner add on insidestl.com but that is the only thing I see besides the occasional billboard.
Totally disagree. There are billboards on every major highway. I'm sure SLU had a lot to do with getting one hour coach show on 101.1. I see TV adds on Fox Sports Midwest. Whether we like it or not, the Groupon & Living Social deals are a marketing effort to put people into the building. There is more marketing of this team going on, IMO, than ever before.
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What was the story behind McClellan getting dismissed from Vandy?
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Greetings from a George Mason fan. The family and I will be making the trip to St Louis to watch George Mason
get pummeledplay the Billikens next weekend. I've never been to your arena before, and wanted to see if there are any recommendations for eating in the area. I'll have my 8 year old and 3 year old in tow, so looking for more of a family friendly type place. Anything close to the arena?Thanks in advance!
As someone with young kids, I will say that many of the places mentioned are not the most kid friendly. Pappy's has been named one of the best, if not the best, barbeque places in the country by several publications and TV shows. However, if your kids don't like barbeque, that won't matter. Vito's (pizza and italian), Triumph (moderately upscale grill), The Fieldhouse (sportsbar), and Humphreys (prototypical campus bar) are the closest, but not are particularly kid friendly.
If you are staying downtown, there are a lot of more kid friendly options downtown where you could go and then head over to the game. SLU is not in downtown, but it's not very far either. If your driving, just get on Olive and head east. You'll make it there in 10 minutes.
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I agree with Pistol. SLU has been getting more local radio media coverage in the past three weeks as it has in about three years combined. I have heard Coach Crew, Coach Chaney, Scott Highmark and others interviewed on shows daily. On some of the shows, SLU is brought up in even casual talk as a story in the local sports scene now. This is going to ruffle the feathers of other fans, but who cares. With the momentum we have, and the truth on our side, the local hosts will do our arguing for us when some idiot calls in. I prefer sitting back and enjoying the accolades to forcing myself into arguments that only diminish our new found attention.
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Phil pressey and demmare carrol are on rosters right now. Kim English was on the pistons last year.
Linus Kleiza (sp.) is also still on a roster, I think.
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Maybe a letter to be printed on the Editorial page of the University News chastising the students' lack of enthusiasm and support of the team is in order. We can get a bunch of people to sign or see if the U News would allow us to just sign it "SLU Alumni."
The purpose would be to shame them into supporting this great group of kids down the stretch in the conference schedule.
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My group of 10 guys is staying in Cincinnati Friday and Saturday nights and commuting to the game. We got tickets through SLU. Going to be hard to get up to go to the breakfast at the Marriott, but we'll have to make it work.
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I ran some statistics mid-year, last season on Mike McCall and tried to show how he really was a big key if not the biggest key to the team's success up to that point. Dwayne had a tremendous second half of the season and took things over. Also, Kwamain was injured most the non-conference schedule. I was looking at the statistics on McCall again and decided to look at all player's production up to this point. Since not all the players get all the same playing time, I like to see what a player's production is based upon their actual playing time. It's interesting when you look at it from this perspective.
I looked at all our players who were averaging about 18 minutes a game or more - 7 players (Evans, Jett, Loe, McCall, McBroom, Glaze, and Barnett)
- When you look at points per minute played Evans leads the team by a fair amount (.498 / min.), Loe is second (.379 / min.), and McBroom was third (.378 / min.) - Barnett was last (.244 / min.)
- Assists per minute played - Jett leads the team (no surprise) by a lot (.174 / min.), McBroom is second (.086 / min.), and McCall is third (.082) - Jett has more than double the next person on the team in assists.
- Assists to turnover ratio - Jett leads team (2.59), McCall is second (2.5), Loe and Barnett are tied for third (1.38) - there are only 17 players in the country with 75 or more assists that have a better Assist to Turnover ratio than Jordair.
- 3P% - McBroom leads the team (.413), Barnett (.316) is second, McCall (.296) is third - McBroom also shoots the most 3 pointers on the team and still leads the team in 3P% - McBroom is also in the top 1% of shooters in the country in 3P%.
- Steals per minute - McCall leads the team (.059), Jett is second (.053), Evans is third (.044) - Glaze is last and Barnett is second to last - Loe has 6 more steals than Barnett on the season
- Rebounds per minute - Glaze is first by a lot (.385), Evans is second (.201), Loe is third (.188) - McBroom is last and Barnett is second to last
- Turnovers per minute - Evans is the worst (.085), McBroom is second (.083), Jett is third (.067) - McCall is the best at protecting the ball, Loe is second best, and Barnett is third
When I look at all this data, I have a number of observations:
- Evans is the leader on this team, but he has to clean up his turnovers
- McCall has to step it offensively - if you look at where he was at this time last year his overall points a game are slightly down, his points per minute are down, his 3P% is quite a bit lower, his FT% is down, he is shooting the ball less, his assists per game is slightly down. There is no need to bash McCall because he is a very good player - he protects the ball than any other player on the team, his defense is fantastic, his assist to turnover ratio is better this year, his steals per game are slightly up, etc. If he just pick it up a little offensively it will really help the team.
- Barnett came into the RI game with the second best 3P% on the team with the second most attempts. I always felt he was shooting worse from three than he actually was. However, after last night his % has dropped him to 4th on the team.
- Loe has actually played pretty darn well this year
- Barnett's playing time is perplexing - I knew he wasn't playing well but I thought he was taking more heat than he should. Well, the stats don't lie. Of our top 7 players he is the worst on the team in points per minute. Of the top 7, he's the worst on the team in steals per minute. Of the top 7, he's fifth on the team in assists per game, He's sixth in rebounds per minute. He's now fourth on the team in 3P%. His protects the ball pretty good and his assist to turnover ration is pretty good. His 22 minutes a game are hard to justify though.
Do you or anyone else have the +/- stats for the year? I have seen Timmerman throw those out at times on Twitter. This stat may explain JB's playing time, if he is better on defense than the alterative. My first thought upon seeing your stats was to think that maybe MC should be getting some of JB's minutes, but if JB is much better defensively, he may be the better option.
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I understand why people want to express some modest concerns about taking a transfer, but IMO the benefits far outweigh the negatives. Consider:
- Cam would be the highest rated recruit out of highschool to play with the Bills since... Larry Hughes
- Cam fits in perfectly with what this team needs going forward (a high scoring small forward)
- Once a kid has transferred, he has less leverage and the influence of meddling parents isn't as important
- He's local and people ***** all the time that we don't have enough local kids.
This is an absolute no-brainer for us to go after and hopefully get. I know this is all I want for Christmas (or shortly thereafter).
+1 to everything. With DE leaving after this year, there's certainly an opening for a lot of minutes in the small forward spot. Also, who could complain about the way DE has been used the past few seasons. If CB gets put into that role, what is the downside for him. I hope he and his father see that.
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Who was the guy on the PA for the NC A&T game? Was it a joke or prank that he called DE Dwight during introductions and when he first scored? This was not a situation where he may have said Dwayne, but it sounded like Dwight. It was clearly Dwight both times. The guy next to him corrected the PA guy after the second reference and the PA guy back pedaled and said his name correctly two seconds later. I know Guy Phillips takes heat for the same mistake, but now a new PA person doing the exact same thing.
I know this may sound like an exageration, and maybe it is, but if I was a recruit at the game, and I heard the PA announcer getting the name of our best player wrong consistently, that would definitely make me question the program's commitment to its players. I know that sounds like a stretch, and I'm admitting that it is, but sometimes little things like this make a difference to people. I can see a kid saying that if they can't get DE's name right, and he's a pre-season all A-10 pick and SLU's best player, how worried will they be about getting my name right when my family and friends come into town.
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Didn't we have several guys post that it was "guaranteed" that Tatum was coming to SLU. I never believed it, but I just wonder those guys think about this new information.
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Also, hotels should be mini Chaifetz Arenas and houses should be Billiken statues.
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Here is the completed board (subject to change if I feel like it):
Some explanations:
-I used Microsoft Paint to make this whole thing because I do not have ( and do not know of a free) better software. Therefore, I apologize for it being somewhat crappy.
-I used the 4 great coaches for the 4 railroads.
-Rammer and Earl are the 2 utilities.
-"Shot for Cash" is chance and "Scholarship Fund" is community chest.
-I decided to use the 4 retired numbers/retired jersey players for the 2 groups of 2 and then group 3 players from the same team/era for the other properties.
-I used more recent players because that is what I know and it was easier to find pictures.
-I tried to get the best players from the NCAA tournament teams in and somewhat ranked the groups based on how successful they were. I threw in the early Soderberg NIT group to get Marque Perry on the board and the late Soderberg group to get Lisch/Liddell on there.
-I used the same placements and $ as original monopoly.
I'll probably work on the other stuff (Chance/Community chest cards, money, tokens) if I have time and post additional pictures of them.
Edit: Yes, I get bored when there is too much time in between games.
I love it. There's gotta be a way to get this actually made. Seems like there's a Monopoly game for just about everything. Why not Billiken basketball? I would buy it.
A few minor disagreements. I would put McCauley and Ferry as Boardwalk and Park Place. Then Bonner, Gray, and Douglas. Then everything else the same, but pushed back, with final two spots being Lisch and Liddell. By doing this, I am adding Gray and Douglas and eliminating Vouyoukas and Boushka. Nothing against each, I just wanted Gray and Douglas with Bonner.
Actually, you could eliminate Perry, Fischer, Sloan and go with a group of older guys using Boushka. Perhaps some guys from those years in the 50s when we were always in or near the top 10.
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I don't claim to have an in depth analysis of Welmer. That's why the feedback on me calling the kid a stiff seems a bit odd. I have seen the video and have read what most people on this board have probably seen and read. I am not claiming to have a special eye for talent but from what I have read and seen this kid is nothing to get excited about. Because he is coming in 2015 there is an insane amount of time for all of that to change. I just find it funny there seemed to be an unwarranted sense of optimism about this commit and I'm not sure why.
I think you are confusing folks being happy that we signed a kid with an "unwarranted sense of optimism about" a commitment. I haven't seen anyone say that he is going to come in and dominate his entire SLU career. All I have seen is people welcoming this kid to SLU and saying that he looks to have potential. If the staff thinks a kid is a fit and makes him an offer, and then the recruit thinks enough of SLU to commit to our school, that is reason enough to celebrate the commitment in the short term, even if the long term results are yet to be determined.
Having said that, in the future, when the staff offers and a kid commits, let's try to refrain from welcoming an 18 year old to the Billiken family by calling him a "stiff." If I have to choose between your assessment of the kid from what you've watched on U-Tube vs. Jim Crews or Calbert Cheaney's assessment of whether they think he can have an impact at SLU and earn his scholarship, based upon seeing him play live and speaking to AAU coaches and probably running him through some drills, I think I'm going to go with the staff's thoughts. No offense.
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I se more value in JM than most on the board. But he does have a problem getting the ball knocked away from him. I've noticed that he doesn't really seem to use his body to clear the space around him, just holding the ball out there for an extra half second. Sometimes it looks like he's almost timid to be agressive with the ball for fear of getting a foul called on him. He gets called for a lot of nit picky fouls. Along with the new charge rule, the NCAA has implemented a new John Manning rule which says if a play happens within 8 feet of John it's a foul
+1 We're not saying JM is a superstar, but I agree with this assessment. I think the refs are subconsciously trying to enforce the new rules and, at the same time, not foul out the star players on either team. The answer is to call the extra fouls on the big, somewhat awkward backup center. He knows he's getting fouls called on him left and right and it is making him more timid.
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The shirtless guy was outstanding, but the best part was the shark mascot being removed from under the basket by the refs.
Honest Expectations After Majerus Hire
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Those two games were some of my favorite live sporting events of all time. I had my son who was 9 and my father, who recently passed away, with me. We sat in the SLU section. I remember being very upset with all of the Ohio State fans in the crowd who paid for seats and then sat on their hands rather than cheer up an underdog against their conference rival.