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Welcome to the Bills AJ Casey.

Agree with what you say about Omaha, it is also a very Catholic city. Good place to live and raise a family.

Did he get two NILs, one for basketball, and one for football?

We have in the team 3 returning players that we have all seen play. The question here is not whether or not they can play, but how much they will improve under Schertz. Then we have the two from ISU both of who we recognize as key players with the Schertz system. Then we have Pikaar and McCottry, freshmen and totally unknown in terms of their play. I think that Schertz is likely to get the majority of the remaining players from the same unknown group of freshmen players. I doubt that he is going to pick a large number of well known players for this season, maybe one or two more tops. This will show, hopefully to our total satisfaction, just how good Schertz is at both selecting players, developing them in a short time and playing them. This is promises to be a very interesting season.

Shalom Aleikhem to you too.

Schertz chooses recruits and brings them for a visit fast. 6 this week!

Personally, I would keep nothing from the Ford time, unless Schertz wants to keep it. As far as trust goes, I would trust only one thing: games won, particularly those won against highly ranked opponents.

One single game is not likely to make a major difference to get to the dance. What we need is winning lots of games, and then the committee may dump us out of the NCAA tournament because they like some other school better. After all, that is exactly what they did to ISU last season.

Yes, it is a 2 year old policy but it has not been changed internally, not yet anyways, despite the MO law allowing the school's NIL participation. I assume this MO law does not forbid the schools from NOT participating in NILs. SLU may or may not actively enforce the policy they have in place, but until they change their own policy to specifically allow whatever it is that is done with NILs, whoever does it is breaking SLU's current policy. SLU can use their current NIL policy to defend against any consequences or legal action resulting from NILs.

I watched a lot of West Coast college basketball prior to the end of the NCAA and NIT men's basketball tournaments. It is a world of its own, they play late at night (from the point of view of the Central time zone) and they play primarily among themselves. Santa Clara is (or was during the 23-24 season) not a bad team. It will be nice to play them, and check out how good are we likely to be this coming season.

I believe that a large number of MBMs believes (or wishes which for some is equal to believing) that NILs are an integral part of the recruitment process and that the Coach and the AD have some degree of control over this part of the recruitment. This is plainly not correct. I enclose a link to SLU's policy for recruitment as it applies to athletes. It is here: https://slubillikens.com/documents/2022/4/11/SLU_NIL_Policy.pdf If you want to see how wrong a lot of these ideas are, please check the official SLU policy on recruiting. My understanding after reading the policy posted above is that SLU as an entity wants nothing to do with NILs. So now you know what SLU's policy about NILs officially is.

I know that last season we were very bad and that we will improve under Schertz next season. We ended last season at 185 in Team Rankings and Santa Clara ended at 108. Judging by the end rankings for last year, might be a good opportunity to show how much we have improved under Schertz.

I suggest we call him "Avila".

OK, Avila is in. The waiting is over, a key component to Schertz team is secured. Now we can allow ourselves to start thinking big.

This is not a lateral move, he is not after money, he is following the coach that has made all the difference to him as a basketball player. This makes it a very good move.

This is, I think, the kind of recruiting that Schertz excels in doing. Very good adition to the team.

Did both of the ISU transfers confirmed they are coming to SLU or not yet?

Very glad to hear that Avila is here and Swope will be following soon. Hope they decide to stay,

Fine, this is the way it should rightfully be. However superimposed on this "should be world" you have discordant factors like the following: 1. Love and Kobe apparently want to get 7 figures NILs. Are you nuts? Will any idiot pay this NIL level? Think about it, this is close to 60% of an entering salary in the NBA! Are Kobe or Love professionals already? 2. The lawyers are already involved in arguing all kinds of details about the "student athlete" union. If they are unionized and get a salary, why should they be students and be awarded degrees? The salary should be enough the union makes them employees of some sort. The whole college sports scene is going into a period of massive changes. Neither you nor I know what will happen ultimately, nobody knows.

There is another argument about the money made by college basketball and football. It can be argued that the profits coming from college basketball and football are being spent in financing dozens of other sports both male and female sports and paying the athletic scholarships for the students in the swimming team, lacrosse, or golf. The point I am making is that the arguments and counter arguments to keep things as they are will take a very long time to be decided. I assume that college sports will be divided into semiprofessional teams with salaries but no scholarships. And more of a club like lower sport levels with their own competitions in a variety of sports for males and females similar to Div II and III and with or without scholarships. I really do not think I will be alive to see this set of NIL and salary issues resolved in court.

All of you are correct, most people act and live their lives according to what they are. So A's like A's, B's need C's to feel comfortable. Some go lower than C to look good. What follows is a true story. I have a really good friend who was walking in NYC long ago and met with an old college friend. They talked about their lives and the friend as it turns out had become a very high level executive at a major corporation. My friend who knew this guy pretty well from college and knew for sure that he was not the brightest bulb in the shop, asked him: how can this be? The guy looked around, lowered his voice and said, "You look brilliant when you surround yourself with idiots." Schertz is plainly NOT like most other people you have ever seen or met. Please read the small biography published in this board. He is that strange character that can and does things differently than most other people, and he succeeds at what he does. No need for SLU to spend 7 figures to get a player that may or may not fit a Schertz team, trust him guys Schertz can manage and will get good people around him. Keep the money for NILs safe for more economical and more productive bets than paying 7 figure NILs.

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I think this must be said, those that want money get money. Unfortunately for those that want money, they basically do not know how to handle it, they just know how to spend it. Eventually the IRS will check their finances thoroughly (in an audit or series of audits one after the other). The outcome may very well be pretty bad for them. Enter Schertz, this is a man that has gone through a lot in his life and has succeeded. He can succeed with brand new recruits from lower level schools. We need no 7 figure NIL Kobes or Loves, he can find the kids he needs, he can train them and he can guide them. My time in the Army confirms that there are officers capable to guide people into the jaws of death, there are others that will be shot by their own troops. Money is not the solution.

@sulfan 13 and @HooosierPal. I could see the pictures both times with no problems.

You can be assured that once the legal action has started (as it has regarding the unionization of student athletes at Dartmouth). the litigation will continue and spread to other schools and jurisdictions and the lawyers will spend large amounts of time arguing something or the other. Courts are likely to reach all kinds of decisions that will not form a uniform system everywhere. There will be attempts to incorporate other systems like the soccer transfer market you mentioned. I have no idea what will come out of this but paying "student athletes" NILs will 7 figures in them does not appear likely to me.