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I was there with my wife. I thought the refs were particularly bad this time around, particularly one that appeared to constantly screw us up. Anyway we lost. Still it was a hard fought game and we did reasonably well and shut down Adams most of the game but we lost. As far as the senior night goes, it was very nice. Roby was definitely emotional, I am not sure if there were tears in his face when he was speaking or not. Really enjoyed the senior night part of the program. One item that both the players and Ford mentioned repeatedly was the concept of BLUE. BLUE being the team, with its coaches and managers, the people in Chaifetz (including fans) and the Athletic Dept. I fully believe our guys have bought into the concept of BLUE and that it is important for them. I just hope this feeling of union among the team is maintained in the coming years. Now, like Ford said, we go to DC to see how many more wins we can get. I honestly feel we are heading for the Dance, not this year, but soon. Ford and the kids are doing a great job, and the returning players will be strengthened by a year of adversity and constatnt LONG times of play per game. I think our returning kids may have learned something invaluable facing the odds they have faced this year. Next year will be a lot better. It was a very nice night despite the loss. To all of you that were there and stayed for Senior night, thank you, the kids deserved it.

By TeamRankings, the Vegas implied score for this game has St. Bona 2 points over SLU.

We will be there tonight, can't wait. We can win despite all the negatives.

So Adonys Henriquez is playing professionally in the Dominican Republic. That is nice you have to start somewhere

There is a guy in the team called Jack Raboin. He is a JUCO guard and we got him after two years of Junior College. I assume he is a walk on, but I have never ever seen him participate in practices before the games. He sits with Santos and Welmer and does not suit. Who is this guy, anyone knows? Is he indeed a walk on?

They shot FG better than we did, they beat us in TOs, we had 20 they had 16. Let's face it the refs did their usual horrible calls, but we lost the game. Too bad, now we have to get ready for St. Bona Saturday.

If the police delivered anything to the circuit attorney's office there are no charges as yet, just the results of the investigation which have been sent to the circuit attorney's office. The circuit attorney has to decide whether anyone is going to be charged and specifically for what are they going to be charged. The case can be dropped if the circuit attorney determines there are insufficient grounds to bring the case to trial, or someone may be charged and brought to trial if the circuit attorney decides there are sufficient grounds to go to trial. I think at this time whatever happens is in Gardner's hands. I do not believe anyone has been charged as yet, and as far as I know no warrants for arrest have been issued. This may change of course.

Well, the tables turned against RI. We need to beat Duquesne tomorrow to stay in 4th.

The answer is simple, wins are not determined solely by statistics or records. There are times when a win comes out of nowhere and a bottom feeder beats a top team. You can do all the numbers you want and have no explanation except to say for that particular game the roles were reversed for some reason.

You are most certainly correct here, but maybe, just maybe, we may make one of the smaller tournaments. Anyways Cowboy, I can dream too.

I am not sure about the impact of S2 upon recruiting. IF we manage to beat Duquesne and St. Bona and go into the 4th seed at the tournaments and do well in it. AND if we manage to surprise the hell out of everyone and be invited to one of the at large slots in NCAA or be invited to the NIT, the net effect of S2 over recruiting may be very short lived. Fast forward to next season for which we have a good team in the wings. If we do well next season, S2 will probably carry very little weight afterwards. The kids want to play for a winning team and a winning coach, give them that and S2's effect will diminish quickly.

Well, no you are not a mess. It is really nice to have a problem with too many good players chasing after a fixed number of spots in the rotation. This is coming out clearly in what you have been posting, not easy to decide who will be in or out. I think this may be a very fluid situation at the beginning of the season and will solidify later on.

The way things are right now you would wind up losing your job for allegations of sexual misbehavior by mooning anyone. If you want to do something giving the finger would be a safer bet.

Agree with NextYearBill.

I have been watching the highlights for Jacobs at Hillcrest Academy. He appears to be very good.

Welcome to the Bills Demarius Jacobs, I look forward to see you in action next season. All the best.

Larry Hughes was sitting somewhere behind me surrounded by a large number of kids and their parents, some other coaches brought in kids from their teams as well. There was a photographer with a heavy duty professional camera taking pictures of Larry and the kids. Larry is one very nice guy that really supports SLU and does lots of good work in the community.

I was there, the first half they were not playing like they did the second half. Fully agree that French made a world of difference in the second half. We won, that is what we needed to do and we did it. Good for them!

I am not sure about that, we may have a really good team next year, like we had this year minus S2. I agree we need to fill some holes in the lineup and hope they are filled with good candidates, not just anyone that wants the job.

I know the other 3 did not get justice, but this lack of justice and morality happens frequently in our society. Very few people are safe against this kind of violation of their rights. I can recognize it, accept it, and adapt to it. I have done it all my life and will continue doing it without feeling a deep sense of shame. It is the way it is, it was not fair, this is true.

This is an interesting thought Roy, and it all depends on the definition used for the word "fairly." There is no question in my mind that Goodwin got some kind of a "one of a kind" negotiated agreement that gave him a much lower suspension time than what had been publicized before hand. I have no doubt that the athletic department, and basketball staff all put pressure on the administration to get this agreement through. As part of the agreement Goodwin and his family had to make public statements about his breaking rules. None of these come without a cost to the involved parties and without an obligation to Goodwin. Goodwin, from my point of view owes the basketball department for having (presumably) put themselves in the line to get him back into the team shortly. I think that Goodwin is a kid with a strong character that will not "betray" those that went out of their way to help him out. I also think Goodwin has very much bought into the Billikens and coach Ford. Therefore, and this is my assumption which I think is correct, he will be back in May. I have absolutely no more proof that this is the case than the "proof" used to fill the other 350 pages of this thread. I am not worried about Goodwin going somewhere else and fully expect to see him in blue come May. Please understand that the assumptions I am making refer only to Goodwin and not to the remaining players.

I think you are being overly optimistic when you mention winning the A10 tournament. We are over 50%, I thin we may go a bit above this level but not a whole lot.

We came within a hair's breadth of winning, a lot of minor issues coming together caused the loss. We go on to the next one. I think we are likely to win the next two, lose against St. Bona, and then we may win a few more in the tournament. We will see.

We will see what happens when he gets here, won't we?

Among other things this development proves that Pestello has the full support of Chaifetz.