cgeldmacher

I used to follow the Thunder back then, because my brother and sister-in-law lived in OKC. Amazing that they didn't win a title with that young group of stars. All three, Durant, Westbrook, and Harden would win MVPs in their careers. They also had Serge Ibaka when he was on top of his game.

Maybe I've missed it, but in the turnover discussion, has anyone mentioned that Hughes had 7 turnovers. All seven seemed to come at the worst times in crucial possessions. He seemed to be flinging the ball in random directions, but usually to St. Joe's. I've heard some criticize Cian, but when you are the primary ball handler, four turnovers isn't terrible. Seven turnovers for a wing is terrible. That stat probably costs us the game.

Here are the details about JG's contract back when it was reported a year ago. Unfortunately, 24-25 was a team option and 23-24 was only guaranteed at $300,000. Sounds like when he got waived so did the remainder of his contract.

To your point earlier about the NCAA not going away, I think it won't. What will happen is that the big conferences will withdraw only as it relates to football and basketball. They will leave all other sports in.

Colleges have been dropping sports left and right. If I were Dartmouth, I would announce that they are dropping men's basketball after this season.

Wow. A few of the minor details were off, but, in general, that was pretty spot on.

It does when other schools are also offering the same amounts you are. There is still some recruiting that has to happen.

I'll go a step further. Let's see if we can convince them to let the result of the game between Jesuits be the recorded outcome.

Boosters whose donations were keeping those programs afloat now want to contribute directly to NIL for Loyola's basketball team. This is not rocket science. NIL collectives donations are way up and, subsequently, donations directly to athletic programs are way down.

Every year, and I mean every single year, guys on this board latch onto one guy who has not gotten much playing time, but has hit a few three pointers when he's gotten in. Then, that guy becomes the next Larry the Legend, and the only reason he's not an NBA prospect is that the kid is not getting minutes. Have you ever seen a kid who is a walk on come off the bench in garbage time and hit two 3-pointers and the home crowd goes nuts? Curcic has about the same amount of evidence in his favor as those walk-ons. I'm not saying Curcic can't play, but there's a reason a coach who has everything on the line right now is not playing him. Could Travis be wrong? Sure. But does that mean that we know for sure that this kid is a "keeper?" No. I agree that we should give him some more time to see what he can do, but I also know we don't have nearly enough information to be drawing long term conclusions about this kid.

You should read it. It’s about Chris Miller‘s actual fraternity chapter at Dartmouth University that inspired the movie.

Have you read the book "The Real Animal House" by Chris Miller?

So will it be an NCAA record when we win five games in our conference tournament to make the Big Dance?

I was thinking the same thing last night. We actually need Ford to be an attractive option somewhere so that he agrees to a buyout. If absolutely no one wants to hire him, he can just sit back and collect the $10M or $7.5M or $5M left on his contract. Normally, you wouldn't want a coach leaving and raiding the cupboard of our players to attract a new school to give him a contract, but we need the team to do well so that Ford can convince another school to take him and some players he drags along with him.

Sorry, but a donation is a donation. There are no strings attached. When you donate millions of dollars to build an arena that we all get enjoy, that does not make you a permanent target for our program every time something goes wrong with the program. Donating millions years ago, does not mean that you are on the hook to donate millions more every time Billikens.com posters are unhappy with the state of the Men's Basketball program.

He has to know if it is renewed or not. I think that this is a contract provision that appears a lot in sports. The team can decide it is not renewing a five year auto renewing contract, so now the contract is down to four years. Then the next year they decide to not renew again, and it is down to three years. In that situation, if the coach wants to stay at the institution and not be fired, he has to step it up. If he shows his employer that he's worth keeping they can always still renew the following year and reset the clock back to five years. I do not necessarily think that it results in a coach quitting on the university when they don't renew.

I'd be fine with giving most of it to Thames.

By the way, my group trip was this weekend. We had 22 guys in the Siegel Center wearing royal blue t-shirts that read "I'd rather by at Chaifetz Arena." This was our 11th trip to a road Billiken game. One of the worst games we've watched. We had been to VCU once before (2016) and things got chippy with the crowd in that game. It started out that way this time. We were chirping back and forth with some VCU fans. That went away as fast as the Billikens chances did in the game. It's bad when old ladies there to support the Rams felt comfortable enough to come up to our group in the 2nd half and ask us about our trip.

I guarantee he could not. As was said above, Majerus recruited guys that were "his guys" and fit his system. I was always amazed how Kevin Lisch and Tommy Liddell, both hard working dedicate players, could not fit into his system, but they did not. We did not succeed until Majerus got his players in. This season and last season are failures. Ford is not as bad of a game day and practice coach as some on here make him out, but he's proven he's not above average either. This year's results and the reason for there to be not much hope for the future are due to a failure of recruiting. That was supposed to be Ford's strong suit. This past offseason was his worst recruiting since he's been here. If you want results, you have to do it all. He can make up for his coaching shortcomings with stellar recruiting, but he has not done that recently.

So he's the Jordan Kyrou of the Billikens?

I guess I'm confused. You predicted Dayton by 18. Dayton only won by 5. You said that this was a miss by the computer, which I agree. But, your explanation for the miss is that Dayton shot way more foul shots? Wouldn't that be an explanation for missing the other way?

I think we are seeing why Ezewiro wasn't playing much for a bad Georgetown team. From what I understand, he has lost a lot of weight since showing up at SLU. Can you imagine how hard it would be for him to get up and down the court with 30 extra pounds? He can't keep up now. For every basket he gets, he costs us an easy layup on the other end due to his conditioning. For those of you that think that the best version of our team is one that runs after a defensive rebound and plays up tempo, we cannot do that when our break out is 4 on 5.

I love the idea of a Junior Student Section. Dre could get them riled up doing chants and other crazy stuff.

Like I said, this should be for basketball only. There are many schools that have one of their sports teams in a different conference than all of the others. This concept should be basketball only. Heck, if it works out, we could move our other sports to the Missouri Valley to save on costs.

NIL is the law, but pay-for-play is not. Pay-for-play is still against the NCAA rules and nothing about the court decisions that have been handed down or the legislation passed by states says that NCAA cannot enforce its pay-for-play ban. There's no doubt that since NIL law was made, it has been the wild west and pay-for-play is happening. However, the NCAA still has rules against pay-for-play, and, I think, this is the NCAA's first attempt to enforce them. School are supposed to be hands off with regard to NIL money. That is why a separate collectives are necessary. This guy at Florida State drove the family to the collective and appears to have been involved in the conversation while there. That is against the rules. All he had to do was say, here's the address go talk to them. EDIT: Also, disassociation with FSU's collective is like saying FSU is on double secret probation. FSU's athletic department is supposed to be disassociated with the collective anyway. This is just the NCAA saying that they really shouldn't associate with the collective for the next three years.