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For those who do not understand how the government works. This is just the initial step in turning tax free corporations and businesses into fully taxable status. It starts slowly and with clear guidelines targeting the revenue of a few tax free companies with large endowments and active investments in the private sector. In time the tax free companies become very limited in number as the number of prior tax free companies decreases. This is the way income taxes were first applied, they were limited only to the extremely wealthy and strictly limited to them. That status did not remain the case for long. After a number of years income taxes were extended to cover most of the population.
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@cheeseman I think the primary target of this tax on private school endowment revenue are the schools with very large endowments that own many startup companies and profit heavily from their startups. I am talking about Harvard, Duke, and the like. Small schools with very small endowment revenue are exempt from paying this endowment revenue if they are below certain levels. This tax is not intended to bankrupt smaller schools with small endowment revenue, not yet anyways.
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It appears to me that however LaSalle manages to maintain its accreditation, they will have to let go D1 level sports and NILs. In other words I cannot see how LaSalle can maintain its membership in A10 and maintain its accreditation.
There may be another opening for other schools in A10, coming soon.
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1 hour ago, Brighton said:
It’s not ok, and that thinking is what has held SLU back for years. There’s no excuse for them not to be in a conference with Marquette, Xavier, Creighton, and DePaul.
SLU flat out prefers to be small time because that’s what the donors want.
If that is what the donors want and what they are willing to fund, where do you think the money required to move forward will come from?
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If these cards sell well you will see the style proliferate and become widespread. If they do not sell, the style will not last long. It is all about money folks.
Laclede Gas was there forever until they modernized. They changed their name to Spire and started using a flashy orange envelope for billing. Recently I got a notification that they were going back to while envelopes, maybe they will change the name again, who knows? The really crazy thing is that each and every one of these changes costs them lots of money.
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My wife and I were at the free practice this afternoon, and I was glad I went. I had not been at the Chaifetz since my hospitalization in November 2023 plus all the tough rehab that followed it. Leaving aging and decay aside, I must say I was happy to see Thames play with no evidence of cramps and able to play well. I did not recognize him while the practice was going but I asked one of the assistants iif he had played. He told me with a big smile that Thames had played the whole time wearing the number 6.
I am truly very happy for Thames, they seem to have his problem under control with whatever combination of salt pills and hydration they have decided to use. I will be the first one to agree that real competitive play requires more than the degree of effort required by practice. We will see what happens when the season starts, but I think we are justified to start thinking that Thames may be able to play this season at least as a regular player.
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There is play and again, there is play. Playing the hardest teams provides the best level of hard fought experience to the players, but the largest risk of loss. Playing the easiest schedule is the way to accumulate wins but learn relatively little. I prefer our team to reach the conference portion of the games ready to beat them all, rather than as a weaker team after playing only easy to beat teams.
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Basketball never meant much to me until I met my wife. She had a BS and two Masters from SLU and had had season tickets since she finished her education. I must say that the love for the sport grew slowly inside me until I got hooked.
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@SluSignGuy Very nice clip on Otieno, thank you for posting it.
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@SluSignGuy If you need to travel for meetings and the like and have freedom to stay where you want, it is good to choose a hotel chain with widespread geographical coverage and WiFi that is easy to use and reasonably speedy. Some hotel chains have WiFi which is very hard to connect to, or does not cover all the rooms. I have stayed in hotels where the front desk person had to get into the Windows settings in order to get a connection. A reasonably speedy and easy to connect to WiFi is something you need to have while traveling.
Another thing to keep in mind, Win 11 came up with a cumulative update this past Tuesday that absolutely messed up my wife's desktop. Then they came back next day with a second cumulative update to fix the mess they had made the prior day. Good for the speedy correction from Microsoft but it does not explain why my desktop was working fine after the update on Tuesday, and my wife's was not working well at all.
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In my personal opinion, nothing of a financial nature I have seen coming from Chris May indicates that he is effective handling finances. I do not expect a good outcome from May's handling the NIL program at SLU.
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The event that caused Trey Green to leave Xavier is nothing extraordinary. Something similar may have been the cause for Larry Hughes II leaving SLU. In either case I would expect that whatever the cause for the departure was, it would not affect the players ability to play basketball. We will never know the actual reasons for their departure and it just does not matter.
Every summer before the next basketball season the same inflation of expectations occurs about the following season develops. I hope Thames proves to be a very good player next season but know that we will not find out until the season starts. Same thing for Trey Green.
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On 6/7/2025 at 12:18 AM, VeniceMenace said:
That's what they were saying last year at this time about Thames, right?
Yep, and they were also saying similar things about Perkins. Reality must be based upon reality. Perkins was a major disappointment when he came back into play, he could play, but he could never play consistently at the level he was expected to play. The best we can hope for Thames at this time is that he does not disappoint all the expectations that are held by many fans at this time. Let us hope our expectations become reality in Thames' case, not disappointments as happened with Perkins. We will find out when the season starts, not before.
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I think it is too early to say anything or expect anything from Thames. When he manages to play significant minutes in actual games with no problems, that is when I will start thinking about him as active contributor to the team.
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@courtside Reality is reality, and it usually is not what we hope or dream will happen, reality is what does happen and will reflect how capable we are to afford whatever this new reality is. The lawyers are loose in court suing for any new interpretation of law they can get, they are not going to stop. The way of the lawyers and courts is forward, not what is needed or even what is possible, but what they can get passed in court.
SLU and every other school, including large State funded institutions, are in the same leaky boat trying to maintain some semblance of the status quo. The schools will not win this game, they will have to settle for whatever it is they can afford going forward. The process that starts by cutting employees to free money for legally required uses will expand until the landscape of collegiate sports becomes significantly changed, but mostly until it is affordable to the schools.
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Think in terms of money. Pittsburgh most likely presented the head of A10 with an offer they could not refuse. By this I mean in terms of money.
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If you think about professional sports teams in a different sport category, the NY Yankees fielded the top, or close to it, professional baseball team for many years by paying higher amounts than most other teams. The formula works, the problem for college sports is, and always will be, money. Professional teams do not have the monetary limitations we have.
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I hope all works well for Jimerson and he has a happy life and family.
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It is sad to see people like Grandy Glaze choosing the kind of life path career that he has chosen. I still remember cheering for him during SLU MBB games.
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On 5/8/2025 at 9:13 AM, HoosierPal said:
NCAA Attorney's have responded to Judge Wilken's concerns over roster limits in the NCAA v House settlement. Judge Wilken has suggested that schools grandfather currently rostered players until they graduate, regardless of new roster limits proposed in the Settlement. The NCAA filed a brief yesterday whereby schools will be allowed — but not required — to reinstate players who were cut from rosters during the 2024-25 academic year without those players counting against new roster limits set to be implemented July 1. Purged players exempt from roster limits can also transfer to new schools. The key language in the brief, however, is that roster-limit exceptions are to be made at a school's discretion. The next move is up to Judge Wilken.
There are many ways that you can look and try to explain what is going on, but one thing that should be kept in mind is that judges and lawyers have opened the door to at least some degree of control over the decisions made by schools to staff and pay NIL compensation to their players. This is not a good thing, believe me. From my point of view legal issues may provide outsiders with ways to increasingly micromanage college sports teams. Prepare for the new and wonderful era of college sports.
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Check this out from the National Library of Medicine, NIH. I am not saying this case report describes Thames' medical condition, but the description of the case appears to fit Thames' medical issues. Cystic fibrosis ia a major medical problem to both diagnose and treat. Salt pills will not cure it but they may let him play regularly.
Severe sweating and cramps with exercise can be caused by Cystic Fibrosis. This case documents a case of severe cramps limiting the ability of a young player to play competitive football. The high level of sweat that is often associated with Cystic Fibrosis causes loss of salt (NaCl) from body fluids, in other words hyponatremia. The treatment used in the case described below, a treatment that allowed this patient to play football competitively, was salt tablets before the game start and at half time. Interesting case.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7325396/
This case and its treatment is not wishful thinking or journalistic crap. it was a real and very UNCOMMON case with a treatment tailored to allow this patient to play competitive football.. Please note that the salt tablet treatment only provided the electrolyte balance to allow the patient to play football for limited periods of time. In other words this is not treatment for the disease, it is a treatment tailored to restore electrolyte balance for limited amounts of time and allow the patient to play football. If this treatment works with Thames, the salt dosage will have to be tailored to his individual needs.
Cystic Fibrosis is a really bad disorder primarily affecting the pancreas and causing a multitude of hard to connect signs and symptoms. There is no known cure for Cystic Fibrosis. If Cystic Fibrosis turns out to be the underlying disease causing Thames' cramps, he will be likely to have a significantly reduced life span. Thames' problems if he has Cystic Fibrosis are much more serious that just having cramps and wanting to play competitive basketball.
This is the way Medicine works. If you have a case that cannot be diagnosed by standard tests, then you look in medical libraries for reported cases that fit the kind of issues the person you are working up has. This reported case appears to fit Thames' issues. This may or may not be the correct diagnosis for Thames but the case described in this report fit what Thames has.
Personally, I hope Thames does not have Cystic Fibrosis as the cause for his disease.
To the journalists in this board, interviews with the player, the coach, or the family do not reveal anything useful that can be used to aid the process of reaching a valid diagnosis and providing treatment. The fact that all medical tests done have been negative is NOT good, it is the opposite. The treatment found in the case described may not cure the underlying disease, but it may provide symptomatic relief that allows the patient to engage in play. If anyone agrees that this case as described is very similar to Thames' well documented problems, I would ask that you forward the link to this article to Schertz or his staff or to the Athletic Department Medical staff.
This article is not a personal opinion it is a real case, well worked out and documented, of a young football player with cramps that appears to be very close to what Thames experiences during play. This case as described is REAL.
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10 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Nah I'll have to check it out, I've read, "2034" and "Ghost Fleet" interestingly they both caution against US over reliance on technology. Those books and reality have caused a resurgence in focus on being able to go analog for things like fire mission processing. So what's old is new again.
The reason that analog is making a comeback is that there are all kinds of methods available to alter digital code. I do not think that anything done using analog technology can be accessed and altered as easily as digital code is. Remember, cyber war techniques are used by all major countries, and some not so major as well.
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@MusicCityBilliken No idea if he did more or not, but I have no interest at all in T. Ford. He may be working as a HC somewhere or just living out of the funds he is still getting from SLU.
I just did a search on Ford and he is apparently travelling with no know employer at this time. Thiis information may not be correct or up to date.