Old guy

I never heard about this kid, no surprise there I am not really following HS players, but I did check him at Verbal Commits. If we happen to get him that would be a totally incredible get for us.

OT, time to deviate a bit from the subject matter to wish you all and your families a happy Easter.

I think cheeseman is correct, they probably do not want to clear their inventory at cut down prices. They probably want to get as much as they can for it, obsolete or not.

I think it is Isaiah.

And a learning experience it will be Steve. Whenever my company's IT upgraded or modified a major piece of software, there were always weird bugs that would come out over the next couple of days or even more. And these were professional upgrades done be teams of people that do this for a living. So, do not worry if it is not perfect at the first try, or the second, it will get there and it will be better.

You may be completely right in this regard 3 star, time will tell.

Yes, fully agree, you do not raise millions upon millions of dollars (I am talking about the needs of the University not the Athletic Dept. alone) by doing what Biondi did. Oh, I do believe how much money Joe Scott has.

Nothing wrong with having marketing students go through a program where they do actual marketing as part of their education. This is fine. The thing that is wrong is to assume that this program is the basis for all marketing (including fundraising) that is done by the University. This is a truly myopic view, they have professionals do the heavy lifting. You may have as bad an opinion about what these marketing professionals are doing but they have professionals doing it.

What I am reading in your post William Iken is the concept, which may be entirely accurate, that Porter Sr. will be basically useless as a basketball coach after his kids depart the program.

I do not know if you are aware that the SLU Law School went this route with architectural drawings, and solicitation of donors. Then Biondi was given an empty building by someone and moved the Law school there. This did not made the donors happy, they were expecting something else.

In other words, it is a statement of fact, and you are concerned about it, right?

OT, this has little to do with Mizzou's or our basketball program. I just wanted to point out that enrollment in a school does not go down by 25% because of trouble in any athletic department, enrollment goes down for a whole number of other reasons. These include academic standards, problems within the school's administration, feeling by the parents that their kids may not be in a safe or productive atmosphere there, and any number of other issues. Mizzou is in trouble, fixing the basketball program is not going to fix the school, and until it is fixed the enrollment will continue down.

You can do this simply by changing the allegiance of the guy who donated the money to Lindenwood's baseball facilities to allegiance to SLU. Then you can go work on him to get him to cough up another few million for doing the same type of thing at SLU, easy does it. If my aunt had balls she might be my uncle. If pigs had wings they would fly, or perhaps not if they were like ostriches, then they would run around flapping their useless wings... Dream on.

Well guys we have the whole spectrum of reactions right in this board, from pathetic to brilliant. And yes I am sure they are going on contingency in this case. So what, they have to spend a lot of time and effort providing the information and testimony necessary for the suit to move forward. A law suit is costly in ways other than money spent on it, you need to designate resources to maintain control over what is going on, provide depositions, etc... Big lawsuits are complex and cost a lot of money in terms of persnnel and hours of effort assigned to it, this is regardless of whether they are on contingency or not

Doubleday you are probably correct in your estimation of the AD and the way he looked at you. I am sure if you had about $10 M that you wanted to donate to someone he would treat you differently. And yes SLU has big donors, they just do not appear to be interested in baseball, or soccer, or softball. Until they find someone who is interested, the current physical facilities will have to do.

This is pathetic, you (the city and the region/state) screw things up and throw good money after bad and then want to go ahead and spend even more by paying for a lawsuit to prove you were right in the first place. Great leadership guys, you deserve what you get.

Glorydays is like the stock market talking heads: "biggest bull market ever", "market ready to crash tomorrow", "buy gold", etc... ad infinitum. Goes to prove if you talk enough garbage, sooner or later you are right somehow. Then you can puff your feathers and say: "I already said this". True you did, plus you also posted an enormous amount of other conflicting garbage that you see no need to take credit for, simply because it is junk. There is a mathematical ratio useful for dealing with people like yourself, it is called the facts to bullsh_t ratio or F/BS. Purely factual information rates 1.0, pure bullsh_t rates 0.0. Yours is a pretty low number. Now go cultivate your friendships with players families but make sure you tell them that whatever they say or imply will be blown up out of proportion in a public blog.

Dream on Doubleday, until they find a donor committed to baseball, soccer, or softball, we will be playing where we are playing now. How about the swim team or the diving team, where are our olympic level facilities for these sports... in your dreams of course. Just dream your visions of grandeur and when you get enough money in your account donate a stadium or an olympic level swimming and diving center to SLU with your own name on it. Until then you will have to live with yet another disappointment in your hands.

What evidence is there that Ford actually ran Zeke Moore off? I thought it made perfect sense for him to leave voluntarily in order to have better prospects elsewhere. I may be wrong.

It is like the government, who needs a reason?

He is not a transgender female?

The gutter is pretty crowded, is it not?

This may be good news to us

Hoppybeer, whoever wrote this piece does not have much understanding of disease. The trauma in Bo's case most likely caused significant traumatic disruption to the vascular supply of the hip which then developed osteonecrosis. This was a rapid process, traumatic vascular compromise to a joint. AVN is a genetic disorder that progresses slowly. It is true that if you have AVN and then suffer trauma to a hip the vascular supply to the hip is cut down even more than what it had been and things could happen much faster and with much more permanent damage.. Foreman has no known history of trauma and for all we know his process has been slowly progressive. In classical AVN the ball of the femoral head does not die, it deforms to a flatter shape that can be supplied adequately with the diminished vascular supply available. Of course the flat shape of the femoral head limits motion and causes pain. Can any one document severe trauma to Foreman's hip during play?

Does not look good for Mizzou, I agree.