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I hope Chris May is being proactive about this AAC thing. I'm fine with staying in the A-10 as it currently is. But, if Dayton and VCU leave, we need to go to. The worst case scenario is that Dayton, VCU, and Wichita State go to the AAC and we don't. Suddenly, we would be stuck in a depleted A-10 that is full of east coast teams, the nearest of which would be Duquesne in Pittsburgh. It sounds like the wheels are already turning on this. We can't come late to this party if there's a shot at us going in with these other schools.

Let's make an official correction: GOSEETHEKIDSPLAY5FULLGAMESALSOKNOWNAS10HALVESNOTJUSTONEHALF

I agree with Brian. If Wich St. and Dayton were moving to the AAC, and we were also invited, I think you have to go. That basketball conference would be, by its own additions and by the A-10's attrition, a much better conference than the A-10. Leaving would put us in a more competitive conference than we were in. Staying would leave us in a worse conference than we were in. Plus, the regional rivalries would be much better. I like roadtripping to games. There are very few options in the A-10. There would be many more options in the AAC. The key for me would be Wich St. and Dayton jumping with us. If that doesn't happen, then stay where we are. If it does, I think we have to go too.

I agree. I think he starts next year or at least gets significant minutes. He and JJ are the two guys who I think will be better with better talent around them.

That's a good point. Teams considering whether or not the schedule a game with us are contending with the fact that we are good now, but that most in the country only know our women's team by its history. This adds to the idea that a win doesn't gain them much, but that a loss loses them a lot more. This may be why scheduling decent teams is so difficult.

We used to be zoo members also. I totally disagree. The Zoo is one of St. Louis's treasures. It is a top 5 zoo, because of the funding it gets. If you take away that funding, then we have a zoo like Indianapolis or Kansas City instead of a top Zoo. I'm a big believer in lower taxes, but that belief is based upon the idea that taxes should be going to things like roads and the zoo and not for entitlement programs.

Women's Non conference road game locations: Irvine, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Peoria, IL; Little Rock, AR; Cape Girardeau, MO; Tulsa, OK, and Nashville, TN. The only games that could be considered "local" were Cape and Peoria. The rest were legit trips. Men's team non-con road games: Las Vegas, NV (2 tournament games- 1 trip); Wichita, KS; Carbondale, IL. That's it. The women's team did much more than the men's team on non-con travel. I think Stone is a blessing for the program. She has taken it to heights it has never seen. She and her staff deserve a pass for any snafu this year on scheduling. Frankly, she deserves about a five season pass at this point. That being said, they do need to work on better scheduling for next year. Clearly, the budget is there for travel. They just need to take the money for the six non-con road games they took this year and do the same with better opponents next year.

No benefit? So, the State of Missouri is actually not out the $9 million in tax revenue from not having the Rams ($150 million salary cap X 6% state income tax)? Also, the City is not out $1.5 million in tax revenue ($150 million salary cap X 1% City income tax)? Also, the State and City are not out the additional income taxes from all the executives, coaches, assistant coaches, trainers, field maintenance employees, vendors, etc., etc., etc? Drives me crazy when someone who reads one or two flawed personal agenda driven studies that only discuss things like sales tax (which you'll notice I didn't mention above), thinks other people know nothing about the economics of sports facilities. Putting aside the fact that the Rams were probably going regardless of the region putting money into a stadium, the State and City are worse off to the tune of $15 million to $20 million a year simply in lost income taxes. Stop being blind to the economic impact of sports teams just because you read an article about how revenues for local bars don't change much when government doesn't help invest in a stadium or arena.

If the Fox Sports deal with the BE is truly $500 million for 10 teams and $600 million for 12 teams, I would go to the BE and tell them we'll take less than our equal share for the remainder of this TV deal. That way the current member schools would be looking at adding revenue by including SLU rather than it being a wash. I bet we could work out a deal that still puts the same or a little more TV money in SLU's pocket compared to our A10 deal, but creates an incentive for the BE schools to include us. Think about it, if Creighton, DePaul, Marquette, Xavier are lukewarm about SLU or even against adding us, but then suddenly they are looking at taking in more money simply by bringing us into the fold with UConn, then that might tip the scales.

Is there any possibility that this would open up a spot to go in with UConn?

I still have five extra tickets to the Fordam game in the Bronx on Saturday. Any NYC alums that want to go to the game just let me know.

I think that 3 Star's point was that the last scholarship would go to a kid that would start out 12 or 13 on the depth chart. If he does well, he might work his way into the rotation next year. Obviously, you expect him to eventually develop into a starter. We will eventually have to adjust our mindset from this recent frenzy of recruiting. Ford started with nothing and, therefore, had tons of immediate minutes to offer kids. That only lasts so long if you bring in quality guys. Eventually, if your recruits pan out, you don't have immediate minutes to offer to high school kids or transfers. That's a good thing. Eventually, the high school kids you recruit have to be okay with the fact that they have quality guys ahead of them and that they will need to work their way into the rotation in a year or two. Again, if you recruit well, getting to this point is what you want.

They're conditioned to only show up when they get free pizza. I can see the texts flying back and forth now "You going to the game tonight?" "I don't know, is there going to be free pizza." "No." "Let's do something else." Trying to bribe the students into coming to the games with free food, instead of just trying to play to their school pride, has backfired.

Only advantage to Gordon reclassifying, which I doubt would happen, is that we would lock him in sooner rather than give the blue bloods more time to try to change his mind. If he was already locked in for us, I would say wait another year.

Looks like Leech has an offer already from Washington. Is he tight with the Porters?

Anyone else getting the ominous feeling that this Billiken team is getting ready to punch us in the gut. Just starting to get the good feelings flowing. Emotional draining win this week. Team that we are expected to beat. I'm worried.

I don't know that answer to your questions, but as a SLU fan that has gone a road trip with a bunch of guys every year for the past five years to watch a road Billiken game, I can tell you that SLU is much more accommodating to opposing team's fans than other schools are to SLU fans. Seems like we always set the other team's fans up right behind their bench. I've inquired about the same thing for myself and the guys that go on my trip and get no where.

I would if I knew anything about who our soccer signings were. The ad had a picture of a football on it. I know its a third party company, but it still says Official Store of SLU Athletics or whatever. Just thought it was interesting that they wanted us to celebrate national football signing day.

I assume everyone got the email from the "The Official Online Store of St. Louis University" offering special deals to celebrate National Signing Day. Of course, its national signing day for football, and we don't have a football team.

What is not a big deal is a kid from a high school newspaper reporting accurately that a conference had been scheduled. What is a bigger deal is a grown ass man making such a huge ordeal about it, throwing a twitter tantrum, and blasting the high school kid as if reporting that a conference had been scheduled was an attack on his family's privacy. If it got canceled it got canceled. The fact that the high school kid's information was correct at first and then changed isn't affecting Pitino's recruiting. In the end, my opinion of this high school kid remains unchanged. I have no opinion about him. My opinion of Dad Ramey has been tainted.

Is this guy for real? "He wants to spread info about my son 'without my consent.'" So, people need to get his consent to post any tweet about his son? All this kid said was that he heard there was going to be a commitment the following day. It that really worthy of a grown man insulting you? "Little kid wants to post and do things against our families will." This is a doozy. Insults the kid and accuses him of doing things against his family's will, because the kid heard that Courtney was going to commit on a particular day. "Hasn't asked or done anything on our end." Not aware of the new Twitter rules where you have to ask someone if you can tweet something about them. If I were a college coach, I would downgrade my evaluation of Courtney based upon having to worry about dad's antics.

Like to see our shooting percentage if we counted everyone except Reggie

Welmer trying to cancel him out

Reggie's misses are killing us right now

I like Reggie, but his coming into the game has changed what we were doing that was successful in the 1st 5 minutes.