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14 hours ago, willie said:
How about from father to son?
I suppose it can happen, in this case it was a girl that threw the party.
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You can read all the ChatGPT you want, but the experience of such a meal was really extraordinary.
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1 hour ago, Band Legend said:
Saw it a couple of weeks ago on a Friday- loved it
Just saw it today, also loved it.
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This is the way the Pestello's administration has worked, you do not know how the next president will want to run things. And, by the way, this was not the way things worked under Biondi. Under Biondi it was his way or out. Assuming we are getting another Pestello is something we should avoid. Maybe the next guy will be a new Biondi, who knows?
1 hour ago, ACE said:Nah - May will want to be held in high regard first and foremost by Chaifetz - a distant second…the 2 or 3 other boosters who matter and 3rd the Prez
We live in a society that increasingly lives by ability to kiss rear end rather than ability to perform a job properly. This is a major problem.
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I just hope that Schertz, who is Jewish, does not take it like the whole school thinks like that.
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4 hours ago, HoosierPal said:
So you are speculating what an unknown person will do sometime in the future.
No speculation, the way I see it May will work very hard to be in held high regard by the new president. His job tenure will depend on it.
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3 hours ago, billikenfan05 said:
I'd imagine it's not a ton of fun just sitting around doing nothing even if the alternative is a job you don't really care to do.
I'd imagine that vast numbers of people everywhere have jobs that are exactly as you describe above.
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For those of you that may be interested in modern Art, the Matisse exhibit at the Museum of Art is open with FREE Admission today. Matisse's life took him through 2 World Wars, saw his birth place occupied by the Germans almost all of WWI and all of the active Western Europe portion of WWII. He loved the sea and primitive cultures and lived in Polynesia a good number of years. He also lived through the transition from Impressionism to modern art., From Cezanne and Renoir to Picasso and Klee. He adapted his work from a new form of impressionism emphasizing form and color, to pure abstract paper cut our forms. The exhibit is well worth going to see, the price to enter could not be better but it lasts only today. Have fun if you who like art.
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1 hour ago, Slowry said:
Ted Wilson is probably the best bread baker in the area. He baked/managed for The Good Pie for a long time. True craftsman when it comes to bread.
The real craftmanship of pizza making is passed from mother to daughter within families. People belonging to this wonderful tradition can make the pizza bread pie to match the specific topping they are planning too top the pizza with. I was invited to one such party once, long ago. Each single pizza had a different topping and a different bread pie, with different thickness, flavor, and texture for the bread. Every pizza's bread matched the topping perfectly, in a mysterious fashion. It was marvelous, I still remember the experience.
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38 minutes ago, The Wiz said:
Here is the way the computer sees it...
Here is a player that doesn't have a full sample size in any category in any of his 4 years. Even his biggest data year(soph...2021-22) he fell short. He played in 29 games that year and averaged 16mpg. He played more that year than the other 3 years combined. He finally has a full size sample accumulated. This 1 year sample size has taken him 4 years to accumulate. This is at best an awkward data sample with no easy way to analyze it but we will try.
We will take the career data (which in this case equals 1 year of data) and compare it with the last 2 years combined for trending purposes.
Career report card(4 yrs)....C / C / C / F+
Last 2 seasons combined...F- / F- / D /F-
Rebs...B.... Ast /TO ratio ...Career...0.61...last 2 yrs ....0.56...remember when Asts and TOs are the same the number=1......1.06 = C....needless to say with many more TOs to Asts these numbers = F-. But what about the points?? He has averaged 15.8 ppg...career and last 2 years. A poor slash line plus high point total= a player who is missing a lot of shots....Inefficient shooting = bad basketball.
It will be more than 2 1/2 years by the time the season starts since he has had serious playing time. Which brings me once again to the same question I ask the computer ...Should we take this guy? The computer's answer is yes. When I ask why ? The computer responds by cranking out ISU data which shows that players 11-13 played an average of 4-5 mpg over about 14 games. The computer says yes because that is where he sees Fletcher fitting in.
I don't agree ...I think we can do better not only from a data stand point but also from a needs basis. If we are to believe Stu's article above about what SLU needs in the final 3 players, Fletcher doesn't seem to fill those needs....I tell the computer I don't have a good feeling about this player and it doesn't understand.
And that's why they call it artificial intelligence...although it can sift through mounds of data it doesn't always know what to do with it. It can't "feel" the data out
That's why this computer has The Wiz.
Great post Wiz, totally agree that data and machines with or without AI can only go up to a point. Your program does extraordinary things, but it needs a Wiz to add a human dimension to the analysis of the data.
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Just to add my two cents worth to this topic. May is still here because Pestello is on the way out next year and he is not about to do anything in terms of firing May. It will not be until the next president takes over before May may be gone, and a lot will depend upon the character of the new president.
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If truth be said, last season I watched a lot of MVC games, including ISU games. I can say with absolutely no doubts that many of the MVC schools played better than we did last season. I also believe we will play a lot better this season lead by a coach and some players that transferred here from the MVC.
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3 hours ago, slu72 said:
If Schertz delivers the success we all want the Beast may become a real possibility, I’d see a renegotiation in his future if that were to happen. If we do land in the Beast, why would he want to leave unless some P5 makes an offer we just can’t/won’t match? I’m talking something north of $5mm. And unless I’m mistaken, there aren’t a lot of college hoops coaches making more than $5mm. There are FB coaches that make more than that but even then not all that many.
There’s a lot at stake here for SLU, and I think the school has learned from its past mistakes. For those who may think getting in the Beast is not a big deal just imagine the crowds that would come when you’ve got schools like UConn, Marquette, X, et al coming to the Fetz every season. I think we’d make sure Coach Schertz is kept very happy and comfortable at SLU.Too many ifs in here. Let's get there first, then we can go ahead and fantasize about the future. All you get doing this is massive disappointment when we do fine or OK but not quite as well as you hoped.
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51 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
Disagree, it could absolutely flood in after a majorly successful campaign and it could absolutely be a single donor.
I was talking about the $ 1 M per game played paid to teams in the NCAA tournament. This is sure to come. NIL money given by big donors is up to donors, nothing certain about this.
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3 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
We make it to the NCAA Tournament the money will be there, we make the second weekend. A lot more money will be there.
That is correct but it will come gradually not in a single payment.
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1 hour ago, TheA_Bomb said:
This is analysis you won't find anywhere else. Living in Bogota at about 8,612' above sea level, about 3,300 higher than Denver, I felt this change. It took me a good month to acclimatize and I'm like in amazing shape. If you leave for just a couple of days, you lose the acclimation.
But probably the change is offensive styles contributed more. Or perhaps ice cubes. Is Boise St on well water? Basically the wild west.
As you mention, it takes time to acclimatize to high altitude. Mind you that acclimatizing to the level of playing Basketball is not the same as to acclimatizing adequately to walk around a city without shortness of breath. Playing basketball in the Mountain West conference requires significant changes of altitude over short periods of time. Let's look into this. Two of the schools in this conference (UCSD and Fresno State both in CA) are at sea level. UNLV and Boise State are not at a very high elevation (2001 feet and 2700 feet over sea level respectively). U of Nevada is at 4505 feet; CO St. is at 4982 feet; UT State is at 4535 feet; U of NM is at 5312 feet; AF Academy is at 5430 feet; and U of Wyoming is at 7165 ft.
As it can be seen clearly playing basketball in this conference presents significant issues for players who have spent most of their lives a low elevation like probably Anderson did. Only two schools in this conference are at sea level. Two schools are at similar and relatively low levels of altitude. The rest of the schools are located at significantly higher elevations. Playing conference games in this conference may have been very difficult for Anderson.
Another factor you may not be aware of is that acclimatization to high altitudes occurs at two different levels and involve two different types of adaptations. There is an initial phase which basically requires making a lot of red cells and dumping them into circulation. This is the one you refer to as taking maybe a month maybe less depending on altitude. The second long lasting phase takes a long time and uses a more complex mechanism. It requires for the body to produce larger red cells with more hemoglobin in them not just a lot more regular sized red cells. This is what happens to people who live permanently in these high over sea level cities, this takes time and does not change rapidly during a visit to a sea level city.
Just imagine this Anderson kid playing one day at San Diego and 3 or four days later playing at Larramie, WY, coming from a home base at 2700 feet high. Not easy to do, to say the least,
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50 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Rowdy Roddie Anderson, CA kid with stops at UCSD and then Boise St. Started most games the last 2 seasons, his production took a hit transferring from Big West into Mountain West, maybe this is a depth piece or someone that could challenge for a starting role?
14 pts vs UC in a NCAA play in game. 2.6 steal % (1.2per game) is pretty good.
Big West is basically a conference with U of California Schools in it. UCSD is at San Diego and is located at sea level. Most UC schools are not located at high altitudes over the sea. Mountain West is a conference of mountain located schools, Boise is not very high at 2700 feet over the sea. But just this level of altitude over sea level can produce 8-9% decrease in performance to players transferring from sea level. Remember that other schools in Mountain West can be located both at higher or lower altitudes than Boise.
If he transfers to a sea level school, with few other schools high above sea level in the conference, his performance should increase, just because he has more oxygen readily available.
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Welcome to the Bills and St. Louis Kalu Anya, hope you find here what you are looking for.
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20 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:
I’m sticking with my initial reaction- “They paid money for this?”
Not only did they pay money, but they had the logos they designed tested against large groups of people collected for this purpose. At the end of the road, the passed the finalists for the final choice by George Mason executives. What you see is their final choice,
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8 hours ago, Pistol said:
Sometimes the truth does not have a positive spin.
I think truth is not uniform, in other words there is no single truth that is applicable to everything. Truth varies with belief and perception and I think it is an individual concept. The variation from person to person may be minor.
Truth is not taste or likes or dislikes. I think issues like logos are more a matter of taste than truth. In other words, as has been agreed throughout history de gustibus non est disputandum.
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1 hour ago, HoosierPal said:
I found that comment interesting. He isn’t going for a second masters. But he has to be enrolled in something to be eligible to play ball. I wonder why that entails….an hour online discussion course in pick and roll? Will @billiken_roybe upset that Gibson is not a 'full time student'
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You are basically saying that he is coming back as a professional player if he is not going into any kind of academic program. Interesting. Will this work with the NCAA?
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High speed train lines have been announced in California, and never went anywhere despite the expenditure of vast amounts of money. I would not hold my breath waiting for this NYC Dallas line to open.
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48 minutes ago, Pistol said:
To be fair, the previous logo was also really bad.
Bad brand, bad school, bad athletic program, bad fans.
I can't stand GMU. Keep up the bad work, losers.
When you have logos that are equally bad, before and after the redo, it shows that some high up someone in the administration has bad taste and does not mind about spending money.
I once took a tour of the mansions inside gated areas somewhere north of Forest Park. Some of the houses were absolutely exquisite, but there were others that were proof of the ugly things you can do with lots of money and bad taste.
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I will place a doubt on your heads about the stats, I hope. Let's say that a coach, like Ford, tells a player to stay at a corner to shoot 3s. If he does not do this, Ford sits the player at the bench. Do you think the stats for last season show the real potential of this particular player to block or do all kinds of other things? Of course not. Avila' s and Swope's stats for last season are reasonably valid for the coming season one because the coach is the same. Even though the other players are not, at least the stats for these two players this season should be close enough to last season because they are players under the same coach. No one else in the team will have the same stats this season with a new coach and new players, for most of the team.
We should expect different stats this season, probably very different stats because Schertz is a real coach, let's not talk about Ford any more.
To have similar stats between seasons, the conditions controlling the play (coach, other players, etc,) have to be as similar as possible, if they are not, we should not expect the stats from the past season to be applicable to the coming one.
I am looking forward to a much better coming season for the Bills, with better player stats this year.
Observation from Down In The Valley
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We have to consider a different point of view in this discussion. Let's look at Schertz, he was a kid with not much in terms of an education who started at a very low level in the business of basketball coaching. As it actually is, most famous and well known coaches may have started at a fairly low level and slowly went up the scale. This was the case with Schertz, and Schertz happened to be good so he went up the scale with time. ISU was a very good break for him, and this last season was a breakthrough season for him.
There he was, he had developed a winning strategy and could recruit kids seemingly out of obscurity and train them into great players. As it was when the light of recognition and fame shone on him he upgraded and brought with him some of his best players. He now has a much better pay than he had at ISU and is positioning himself to repeat what he did at ISU.
The reality of the situation is that if he does at SLU what he did at ISU, he is likely to be nabbed by some of the power schools within a few years and at a better income level. This story is likely to repeat and we, SLU, must expect this to happen. Will Schertz career end at Duke or UConn? Who knows? but it is not an unlikely possibility.
You all at ISU should anticipate that your story may well repeat itself at our campus. For our side's point of view, we should enjoy our time with Schertz and understand that his time here will also come to an end when he goes to a better school with a higher salary. So, lets have a joyful time with a really good coach among us, while it lasts.