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cgeldmacher

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  1. Also, neither the money for the BFV or the money paid to an athlete through the Billiken NIL Exchange can be handled by University. People keep commenting as to why doesn't SLU do this or why don't they do that. These entities are separate. The Exchange is, I believe, something administered by the University to help facilitate proper contact between the student athletes and the booster wanting to pay them, wait, I meant to say, "utilize their services," but the University cannot be involved in any way in determining what happens with that money other than to make sure the few rules that exist are followed.
  2. Money donated to a university that is used to pay a coach - TAX DEDUCTIBLE Money donated to a NIL fund like the BFV - NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE Money paid directly to a player for services through something like the Billiken Exchange - NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE, but may be able to be written off as a business expense Some are still having trouble with the difference between the BFV and Billiken NIL Exchange. The BFV, which every school has a version of, is just collecting money to be used for pay for play. The Billiken NIL Exchange is where an individual or a business can contact players directly and use that player to promote their business or perform a service. The Exchange deal can be legit, or fake, such as show up to my car dealership for 15 minutes to sign autographs and walk away with a $20,000 check. Either way, though, it should be considered a marketing expense to the business.
  3. Can't go any more wrong than college sports are already going wrong as it is. I welcome any change to the present way its being done.
  4. Attendance being disappointing or underwhelming is very different from Chaifetz feeling like a morgue during a game. I have not been to one game in the building where I thought the atmosphere was bad. Low attendance at times, Yes. Bad atmosphere, No.
  5. I have been going to games at Chaifetz since it opened. I can honestly tell you that I have never been to a game at Chaifetz where the atmosphere felt like a morgue. I am talking, like you were, figuratively not literally. I have been to Billiken games in other markets that have felt like a morgue. Duquesne was the best example of that where the few fans that did show up just sat on their hands the whole game. SLU has a rather loyal and passionate fan base that seems to always show up. Whether our attendance numbers are better or are worse any given season depends on the excitement level surrounding the program that season and whether it brings out the more casual fans.
  6. From the article and good to hear: Goodwin hit all six attempts of his free throw attempts
  7. How hard can this be. Let's say they've got three employees working on this. If it takes them half a day to review one of these, that means that six get reviewed in a day. This is 30 in a week. Can it really take longer than that. Just pick up the file and read it. Make a decision, have it reviewed by a supervisor, and issue a decision.
  8. Just checked again, and the +7 hasn't been changed.
  9. Jordan ended up tied for the team lead in +/- with a +7. Pretty good for 14 minutes of play.
  10. Several comments on this thread were that out three point defense was not good. It's a pick your poison situation. Look bad guarding a big on the other team with 6'4" Hargrove alone, or look bad at defending the three when you double that guy. This won't be as much of a problem when our bigs get to be on the floor.
  11. I don't disagree with what you are saying, but the root of this situation will never be made available to the public. All we do know is that someone had a job to do, their only job, if the title of that person's position is correct, and that person did not do their job.
  12. Three dots positioned outside the penalty area. Teams get to choose straight on, right or left. Each team runs a set piece from their chosen spot. Once the ball is put into play from the chosen dot, the outcomes are either a goal, out of bounds, goalie has possession, or ball is cleared back out past the line that marks the penalty area. The last three result in the end of the possession. A goal results in a point. Keep running set pieces until one team scores and the other doesn't.
  13. Because they're trying to protect these recruits from silly sh*t like this that schools do. You show up for a tour and to talk to the coaching staff and you end up having to do a two hour fashion show wearing a uniform that you may decide pretty early on in the visit that you have no intention of ever wearing. However, the kids and their parents feel obligated to do all this BS just to keep the school happy in case they need to use it as a backup plan. Most rules the NCAA makes are based upon what the member institutions want. If the majority want to get rid of something stupid like this, what's the problem? Sometimes it seems like certain folks are against anything that has the word "rule" associated with it.
  14. Also, the west coast no longer has a Power 5 conference that kids can go to and know that most of their games will be played in their own time zone. This may make kids from that side of the country more likely than in the past to consider a school in the Midwest.
  15. I think the issue more complicated than your presenting it. You seem to be setting up being able to say "See, the optimistic guys can't really state a competent argument" by starting this thread and at the same time create a forum for the so called negative guys to bash the opinions of whatever gets said. This is evidenced by the fact that in your sort of peace offering of bestowing a thread upon the optimistic crowd, you describe those with optimism as "content, satisfied with the last decade of Billiken basketball." A Billiken fan can be optimistic and not, yet, wanting changes in leadership. Someone can be optimistic, but still not be satisfied by what this program has accomplished in the past ten years. The two sides you are presenting are not mutually exclusive. Also, based on my experience with this board, it is beyond the capabilities of the "negative guys" to not attack whatever is said in this space. That being said, I'll take the bait and give you something. I am optimistic about the things that are within our program's control. I agree with SLUSignGuy that our basketball facilities are as good as it gets and comparable with most, if not better than some, Big East programs. They are certainly better than most A-10 schools, West Coast Conference Schools, and Missouri Valley Schools. I am optimistic about having Chris Harriman on board and getting international recruits. There are schools that have had a lot of success going this route. I am optimistic that a coach who typically get us 20-23 wins per season (which, to be clear, is not sufficient for our goals) can make tweaks which lead to bigger and better things (see the Chris Harriman statement above). I, at the moment, would rather have the possibility of that coach making improvements that make us incrementally better than the unknown of whoever would have to be next, because I don't believe we will get some amazing Power 5 coach that much of this board thinks we would if we had to conduct a search. I am optimistic about a new group of guys coming together this season and being, possibly, better than a group of guys we had last season despite the new guys having far less expectations. Sometimes, more talented groups underperform and have injuries, and less talented groups get better results just from capturing the right chemistry. There are other things that I am not very optimistic about, but I won't go into any of them, because this was, allegedly, set up as the Trust Tree for optimism. So, I won't go there. Any bets on whether others will?
  16. The problem is not us being a mid major. The problem is competing with schools with way more alumni than us. I just looked at a website that says that SLU has about 137,000 alumni. Big state schools have way more alumni than us. After that, it's just a numbers game. If the BFV has the same amount of success that in getting the same percentage of SLU alumni to donate as one of these schools, then those other schools still will have three, or four, or five times as much to spend on building their teams than we would. In the past, we have had some success by convincing some local kids to stay home rather than go to the big guys. Now, we have no chance if we are offering a kid $30,000 and another school is offering $100,000. Over time, SLU and schools similar to SLU will fade into insignificance and it will not be because of our coach, our AD, or the guys volunteering their time to run the BFV. It will be 100% because the system that was already stacked against us suddenly became even way more stacked against us.
  17. Most guys start shooting a bit better when then get into NBA style training and an NBA camp. Other than that, which happens a lot, he is the same guy we saw.
  18. So, I guess you wrote a big check to the BVF? How much did you give?
  19. I love that doing nothing different than what we saw at SLU for 4 years is why he's getting a shot and getting praise right now. So many times, you hear about guys not making it in the NBA, because they don't have some necessary aspect of the game in their repertoire. He is just being himself and playing his game and that is what is impressing people. We will always be the ones who got to see that first.
  20. Now that the Champions Center is finished, I would bet that baseball/softball upgrades are next on the priority list.
  21. I disagree. The NCAA tournament would get so-so ratings with a field of only big state schools. It is the Cinderella stories that bring in the casual viewers. Eliminate the surprise upsets and the shocking Sweet 16 teams, and you lose the casual viewers. I guarantee, if that happens, all of the sudden we will hear about below average ratings, and CBS and the NCAA will not be able to comprehend why.
  22. There are no examples, because no one is stupid enough to make that move. You ask us to show evidence that dropping down will not allow you to go up again. I ask you to give one example of a program that dropped down. Give as many as you can, and then we will evaluate what kind of success came out of that strategy.
  23. Jimerson is not a role player. He has led the Billikens in scoring the past two seasons (16.3 per game and 14.0 per game). That is not a role player.
  24. Sadly, I think this is looking at the recruiting process through the lens of the former way things were done. If we had made it to the Sweet 16 last year, kids who we want on our team this year are still going to ask "How much NIL money to I get?" Let's suppose there is a kid that we are recruiting who was also being recruited by Ole Miss. Let's suppose we made it to the Sweet 16 last year, and that Ole Miss went 12-21 last year (their actual record). We offer the kid $20,000 in NIL money and Ole Miss offers him $60,000. Do you really think that kid is going to go to SLU because we had a good year last year over getting 3 times as much money in his pocket? There in lies the problem. As unfortunate as it is, even having good seasons now may not beat NIL money, which, if I had to make a prediction, we will always be short of compared to large state schools.
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