cgeldmacher

In every team sport that most Americans follow (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, WNBA, MLS) the system is set up so that players are on a team for several years. They are required to be with the same team for several years. Then, when free agency hits, players rarely sign one year deals. This allows fans to get to know a player and cheer for him or her for several seasons. College sports is now set up to allow players to change teams every year if they choose. Nowhere else does that. Whether you agree or not that this should be the way that it is, there is nothing wrong about someone saying that this will make college sports less enjoyable.

In the NBA guys, guys his size guard the perimeter all the time. And that’s with better shooters and a three-point line that’s further out. you just have to play the right system where guys help each other on defense and move quickly to close out on guys at the three-point line.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, I’m not at all saying that they shouldn’t have the store or that it’s not something cool for the players. I completely agree with all of that. Only saying it’s not some huge game changer like some people are making it out to be. It will be a small blip to the bank accounts for some of the players. Does it mean we shouldn’t have it though.

https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/mizzou-athletics-eyes-deals-with-state-s-fortune-500-companies-that-s-gotta-be-an/article_69297f2a-1d15-11ef-bb92-73130460d53c.html#tracking-source=home-top-story I certainly hope our Athletic Dept. is doing the same thing. I'm sure many of the Fortune 500 companies Mizzou is going after are located in St. Louis.

Agree, but the guys selling the most merch on the site are the guys that will be making the most NIL money anyway. So, yes, $1000, if they can make that on t-shirts, is $1,000. But if the guy is earning an d $80,000 NIL deal, that $1,000 isn't affecting in any way whether or not he comes here or not and isn't doing all that much for his bottom line. He already has much more money than other college kids.

There is no pushback (edit: from me). I'm totally fine with it. I just think that folks on this site think this is some sort of a game changer for our guys, and the reality is that its really not.

The other small print says that this particular site was made just for FSU as a way of funneling more of the money per item to FSU athletes ("instead of only earning a small percentage"). I am guessing that the SLU NIL store is through a company doing this all over the country for different universities. So, I think my $7 per shirt is still a good guesstimate. My point is that our guys should be able to make more money for a one hour appearance at a Pasta House or car dealership than all the money they make on this site for the entire year.

I love the idea of this store, but I would be shocked if any of our players made any more than a few hundred dollars off of this stuff. I would get guess that if a shirt costs $40, the player is getting $5 - $10 per sale. Also, none of this is being held in stock. The way it works nowadays, the company makes a shirt only after someone orders it. Let's say one of our player sells 60 shirts (which seems like a lot) and makes $7 per shirt. Congratulations kid, you just earned $420 before taxes. Given the tax bracket some of them will be in given their NIL payments, that means they will probably clear about $250. Doesn't seem all that worth it for someone making six figures on an NIL deal.

Rivals has 180 also. ESPN has him at 190.

Wyoming took a write up they did on their website down, but part of it was still accessible on a google search: He averaged over 18 points and nearly 10 rebounds during the state tournament for his career. He was named All-State by the Oklahoman. He averaged over 20 points per game as a sophomore and as a junior scored 15.1 points and added 8.4 rebounds per game.

According to 247 Sports, he is 6'5" and 180 pounds. We need to get the strength and conditioning coach working with him immediately.

Is displaying high school state championship rings as if they were NBA or NFL championship rings a thing?

Well if that's the case, then cool.

I hope that no kids get the misimpression that Jordan, Yuri, and TJ will be there.

Question for everyone: Is next season's Billiken team the same, worse or better than last year's ISU team? Please give reasons for you answer. At this point, I'm not sure we are better than last year's ISU team on paper. The only way we would be better is if the guys we kept and the guys we brought in perform better than they did last year now that they are in Schertz's system.

I get what you are saying, but those guys were all really good the year before they were coached by Vogel. Then, under Vogel they all had a bad year. Doesn't take much to conclude A+B=C.

Schertz jumped from his prior school to ISU, and three years later jumped for ISU to SLU. I'm willing to bet that when he was hired at ISU, he did a radio interview with someone in Terre Haute and said something to the effect of "this is where I want to be, I can see see myself being here for the rest of my career, I have no intention on leaving." I say this, because that is what coaches say. I don't think he is doing anything wrong by saying he intends to be here for the long haul any more than I think he did something wrong by leaving ISU or would be doing something wrong by leaving us at some point for what he perceives as a better opportunity. It's just how the coaching game is played.

Maybe you're right. I just haven't seen that. I also thought it was a strange post for Torch to pounce on that particular post since it was clear he was posting something he saw somewhere else. I'm not message board savvy enough in most situations to figure out how to attached stuff, but if/when I do, I would hate to be called out for plagiarism when that's not what I was doing.

That was my thought too. When Bess came here, he sat out a year, and then knew he was here for the rest of his time in college ball. Now, if we get a guy like Bess, he will be gone after one year of putting up some decent numbers.

I just think that it was obvious that he was copying and pasting it. Plagiarism is when you hold something out as being your own creation even though it was created by someone else. That is not what he did. Also, I would think that someone who has been very wrongfully, and comically, accused of plagiarism on this board would be a little bit more sensitive to that word being thrown around and used improperly.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to say "I created this, everyone have a look."

I'm confused. He didn't say he created the chart. People post stuff they see out there on this board all the time. Is it plagiarism every time someone reposts something?

I’m at the Billiken golf classic. Rumor going around that we are about to sign a St. Louis kid out of the portal. Anybody have an idea who that would be?

I bet Sooner fans want to slap him. Again and again.