cgeldmacher
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For the record, I am not HOF, so feel free to blast my comments whenever you want. I won't be offended.
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Taj is a hof billikens.com member. I look forward to his well thought, complete and honest posts.
Those taking shots at taj billiken commentary are just wrong. Maybe it is jealousy since typically the taj attackers contribute little beyond board policework and attempts to refocus real debate points taj brings to the table.
Luckily taj has thick skin and keeps coming back.
I can't believe I have been so wrong about this in the past. I just assumed that all of the posters involved in this discussion (Taj, KShoe, etc.) were dudes. I didn't know you were gals. Clearly, with all of the bitching and moaning and hurt feelings and apology requesting you must all be women. This thread should be retitled "Real Housewives of West County."
This is a message board. We're supposed to argue about topics and have some thick skin about it.
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Actually in his capacity as SLU play-by-play man he is a SLU employee and it doesn't matter what station the games are on.
I thought he moved to 101.1 because the billikens went there. I don't know all the details, but I thought his gig and 101.1 and his doing the Billikens games went hand in hand even though he may be a SLU employee.
Same as with Mike Shannon. He's employed by Cardinals. He does games on KMOX. I doubt it would be OK for him to do a radio show on 550.
I'm not guaranteeing I'm right though. I just thought there was a tie-in between doing the SLU games and being a personality on the same station.
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Here's a pipe dream to throw out there. Please don't respond that it will never happen, because I already get it. It's just nice to dream.
Roby (LOI) goes to White Station H.S. in Memphis. His teamate and fellow senior at White Station is Leron Black (6'7", 215), a five star recruit on Rivals that is ranked #22 in the country for 2014. Indiana is one of four schools listed on Rivals as being "high interest" for Black. The others are Baylor, Illinois, and Tennessee. Black has a visit scheduled to Indiana on September 20. I have no idea if CC was/is involved in his recruiting, but it would be a nice present to his new employer if CC could get Black to add a visit to SLU.
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Here's a nice comment from a poster on the Indiana site who goes by Hoosierpapa:
"hoosierpapa Michael Crawley•an hour ago•0 upvotesGood luck to Calbert. Right time Right Job end of story. Real issue is that Saint Louis just became a major player both on and off the court. Team Crews/Cheany will be big time every year quickly. They will challenge us both on the court. They will have great coaches with a lot of NBA experience."
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It'll be nice for Rammer to have some stability as well. Seems like he has to move to whatever station has a deal for SLU games.
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Well, this thread has become quite productive.
Is there any more actual scheduling news?
+1 Someone please start a thread entitled "Useless Uniform Banter."
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Anyone heard any new scheduling updates?
We're at a 28-game schedule as it stands, with 14 home games. We have 8 and 8 for the conference, like last year. Last season, we had 1 exhibition and 11 other non-conference home games (2 of which were part of a tournament). So that was 20 home games, and normally I think I've counted 18. The whole season was 30 games (not including the exhibition) before the A10 Tournament.
To get to 18 home games, I'm guessing we're going to see 2 exhibitions and 2 buy games. That also gets us back to 30 regular season games before the A10 Tournament. I would love to see a "name" in one of those 2 remaining games, but I'm not guessing that will happen.
2013-2014 Schedule:
11/9 vs. SEMO - 216
11/21 vs. Oral Roberts - 151 (Cancun Challenge, home sites)
11/23 vs. Bowling Green - 274 (Cancun Challenge, home sites)
11/26 @ Wisconsin - 32 (Cancun Challenge, Cancun, Mexico)
11/27 @ West Virginia - 146 or Old Dominion - 318 (Cancun Challenge, Cancun, Mexico)
12/1 vs. Wichita State - 37
12/18 vs. Indiana State - 74
12/30 @ Vanderbilt - 120
1/4 vs. Yale - 198
Dates TBD:
@ Valpo - 58
@ SIUC - 192
@ SIUE - 304
2 home buy games
2 exhibitions
A10 home games: Fordham, GW, Richmond, St. Bonnie, Dayton, Duquesne, George Mason, and VCU
A10 road games: LaSalle, St. Joe's, UMass, Rhode Island, Dayton, Duquesne, George Mason, and VCU
So is Dec. 30 at Vandy confirmed? Next question: Are we going to turn that game into this season's Butler game in Indy? That was one of my favorite roadtrips ever. The timing is nice with it being the Monday before New Years.
Also, if it is confirmed, is there a time set yet?
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How about giving current season ticket holders an opportunity to buy the empty prime seats at 1/2 the regular price. Limit the deal to three games per year. If there is a problem with demand, meaning more demand for a certain game than seats available, then go by priority.
I guess it might create a nightmare for the ticket office for a high demand game where everyone wants those seats. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind buying some better seats for a few games, using those, and putting other people in my regular seats.
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New guys should have to take a quiz regarding the posting tendancies of the top 10 all time posters. It won't hurt any of you newbies to spend a little time learning about the people who blazed the trail that you now wish to tread upon. We are naturally legends
I will get working on it immediately. Can you please give me a list of the top ten? Mr. Skip, sir.
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EVERYONE on Bills.com will be disappointed if he isn't averaging 8 ppg by Jan 1. If he is playing less then 10 mpg at that time the suggestion will be made that JC can't recruit and MC was a waste of a scholly.
I guess everyone except for me. Who is he going to take time away from? He's not going to start over MM or JJ. We have JB with a lot more experience who already got 10-15 mpg on last year's nationally ranked team. AM is coming in as well.
And yet, you're going to be disappointed if a freshman is not averaging 8 ppg by halfway through his freshman year? This isn't Kentucky. Please cut this kid a break on the expectations. I expect him to be a very good player, but not immediately. Especially when we have other experienced, and talented, players already on the roster.
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Let's be careful about our expectations for MC. Comments about expecting him to make significant contributions in his freshman year or that someone would be disappointed if he wasn't starting by midseason are unfairly setting him up to have the appearance of being a disappointment. If we have a reasonable expectation of him getting some minutes and showing some occasional brilliance, and then he breaks out in a big way we will all be very happy. If we expect him to be a major contributor his freshman year, and then he has a normal season for a talented freshmen (i.e. getting low to moderate playing time and being helpful during his time in the games while he assimilates into the system) then many of you will unfairly be disappointed.
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Meanstreets (@NikeMeanstreets) PF Tai Odiase (@Tai_GetBUCKETS) plans to visit Western Michigan, UMKC, St. Louis & Kent State #D1 #Salute
I looked up Odiase. No listing whatsoever on Rivals. ESPN has that he is a 6'9'' C out of Chicago. ESPN gives him 2 out of 5 stars and a grade of 69. He's ranked #52 Center in the nation and #22 player in Illinois. Loyola, Northern Kentucky, SIU-C, IL-Chigago, Valparaiso, and Western Illinois are listed on his "School List."
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I still say SLU should get Jamall Walker from Illinois; make him the associate head coach. Pay him more than what he's getting as an assistant coach at Illinois.
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My point before was that SLU has the land (Hermann and surrounding areas) and the infrastructure (streets, park garages, power grid already set up for lighting standards). Obviously, what is already there would have to be knocked down and a new stadium built. However, it would seem to make it easier to build a facility like this when you would have two teams using it instead of just one (three if you count the women's team).
I think that an MLS team in St. Louis would hurt Billiken soccer attendance. However, the added interest may cause even more development of local talent and, I'm sure that there would be some cooperation between SLU and the MLS team with regard to workouts and such.
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Anyone think their's a chance SLU could work out a deal with an MLS ownership group to build a beautiful soccer only facility on the site of the current Hermann Stadium/Field that both SLU and the MLS team would share? Infrastructure and parking are already there. I agree it would be unlikely, but just wanted to throw it out.
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Question for all on here: does anyone really think that this year's team will be worse than last year? It seems as if all experts are thinking we will be worse. Personally, I think with five seniors, and four returning starters, I think well be even better than last year, with AMcB "replacing" Kwam. Thoughts?
I agree that this year's team will be better than last year's team. Unfortunately, that may not result in a higher seed in the tournament. Last year, our quality win column included three wins over Butler (a team that beat #1 seeds Indiana and Gonzaga). We won't have that this year. We had a win over #20 New Mexico that we won't have the opportunity to replicate this year.
We could be a better team with a better record and still end up with a lower seed.
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Unfortunately, I don't think we make a big enough deal for Charter to demand a higher fee. College basketball simply isn't "must-see-tv" the way the NFL or college football or Cardinal baseball is. If FOX Sports1 want to command a premium in the St. Louis area they will find a way to get an NFL game on the channel or move a few Cardinals games there.
Even then, I'm not sure how much a dent it will make as UVerse stood up to Fox Sports Midwest 2 or so years ago and didn't carry 15 or so Cardinals games that FSM wanted to charge more for. They eventually reached an agreement but I didn't get the impression at the time that UVerse lost the battle.
Your probably right. I'm just looking for any influence that can be wielded SLU's way. I would assume that the Billikens being in the BE would cause a lot more St. Louisans to watch Fox Sports 1, than if the opposite were true. It would seem like that would provide the local providers with reason to want SLU to be in the BE if they are going to pay more for Fox Sports 1 than they did for the Speed Network. However, the reality is that such issues are far more important to us than they are to cable providers.
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Cgdeldmacher I look at the offers made and see no meaningful patter in them. Appears to be a fairly even distribution across all positions. I do not think there is much statistical difference between 3 offers and 4 offers.
My point was that the coaching staff is distributing the offers among positions. We haven't offered 9 shooting guards and only 1 power forward. I may be way off base about this, or it may be purely coincidence, but the roughly equal distribution by position has me thinking that there is more of a plan in place than simply making random offers to kids.
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Offers by position:
PG: 4
SG: 3
SF: 3
PF: 3
C: 4
Offers by state:
IL: 4
MO, CA, MN: 2 each
KY, NC, IN, NY, VA, MD, GA: 1 each
The positions are blurry, depending on whether certain guys grow or will play a different position than in HS. In terms of geography, our offer list has really spread out over the past couple months. It was heavily concentrated in IL before.
The distribution of the offers over various positions makes me confident in the idea that there is more of a thought out plan to the offers being made rather than just haphazardly handing out invitations.
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It's too bad Charter is not on the list of those not on board. It would seem like Charter, at least in the St. Louis area, could argue that whether or not SLU is in the Big East or not impacts what Charter can expect as far as viewership of the new network in the St. Louis market. Not knowing the industry as much as some others who contribute, I may be overstating Charter's interest in the issue.
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But wait - i thought Biondi tore down all the old buildings?!?
+1000
That was exactly my thought. SLU saves the historic West Pine Gym and finds an alternate use for it, but gets criticized for tearing down old rat and insect infested, nobody wants to use them, partially fallen down, old ass row houses.
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In the past and now, the A-10 is a better situation for SLU than the Valley. I cheer for Valley teams in my never ending desire to cheer for every underdog, unless they're playing SLU, to win in the tournament. However, the only thing that the Valley has going for it with SLU is location.
Even with the recent departures, the A-10 will have consistently better top end teams than the Valley. The A-10 gets more top 100 recruits than the Valley every year. The A-10 gets more teams in the tournament (nearly) every year. The A-10 seems to get more media coverage (east coast bias acknowledged). The A-10 can be a final destination for a coach, as opposed to the Valley which only serves as a coach's opportunity to try to land a big paycheck at another school.
Finally, for those saying that playing games out east does not help recruiting, I will throw this out: does Reggie Agbeko, who is from Buffalo, even know who we are if we played in the Valley? I'm not saying I know that answer to this, but we have to admit that it is a possibility that it did play a part in his consideration of SLU. Perhaps those awful trips to St. Bonaventure may have actually helped SLU for once. I doubt he ever considered going to Wichita State to play his college career in the Missouri Valley Conference.
Recruiting - 2014
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The layups, blocks, threes and dunks were all nice to watch, but my favorite part was watching him sprint back to the defensive end after each make. On almost all of the threes he made, he was already running the other direction before the ball went in.