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I think Hines would be best served by graduating from SLU and transferring to another university's grad school that would offer him a basketball scholarship. He would be able to play and save money on whatever eligibility number of years he has left. From SLUs point of view it would be nice if he stayed at SLU and continued playing as a walk on. There are two conflicting sets of issues here. Hines and his family have to decide which way to go. Another factor that should be taken into consideration is that Hines is not likely to ever play professionally at the NBA, and will need a good quality academic degree to help him getting a good job once he is out. I admire Hines for his determination and stamina, but he should do what is best for his future and his family.

Just put him on ignore and leave him alone.

Was there, nice game, my wife thought that big #32 that did the intentional to Reggie had done a "clothes line" hit on Reggie. I liked the way Zeke played, he was quick got tough rebounds, and did at leas two set up passes to Crawford which were easy scores. Happy with the win by 19 pts. Now we will see what comes next. Duquesne lost against Dayton tonight 53-90, not pretty. Overall Duquesne is 9 W 15 L, conference 2 W 9 L. As of today we are overall 8 W 15L, conference 3 W 7 L.

Yes and no HoosierPal, anything that can be numerically classified can be fitted into a formula. Injuries certainly can be classified and fitted into a numerical format. The problem here is that in order to do so you need a lot of information that cannot be obtained without a signed released from the injured party. So you cannot fit injuries into a numerical classification format other than by guessing what the extent of the injury is, etc... The guessing option is not a good way to handle probabilities.

Thank you Wiz. One point, the numbers and the stats would not have predicted the last win against George Mason, nor could they have predicted the surge of energy provided by the team in the last 3 minutes or so of the second over time that won the game. There is always a human factor in play and that makes the game a lot more interesting. Can it happen, yes it can; will it happen? this will not be known until we play the game.

The French Foreign Legion uses or used a ring like this, usually in silver. Magnum apparently liked it, and you can get it anywhere in the internet if you look for it.

I was there, I thought 0 was Graves, 10 was Henriquez, and 2 was Bess. Foreman was sidelined and doing push ups and riding a stationary bike with Bishop. I liked what Ford said, and liked what I saw. Graves is very quick and nimble and he does have a good shot, including 3 pointers. Henriquez and Bess were fast and athletic. Henriquez shot a couple of 3 point attempts almost from mid court, they hit the rim and could very well have gone in, he can shoot. Bess is muscular and will be a good rebounder I think. Our kids were doing their thing, remember it is practice. I thought Moore was ready to go back to play, moved nicely and reasonably quickly and was scoring quite nicely in practice. And now I am going to tell you that I though Neufled was improving and moving better and getting more active under the basket. I know this was practice and I just uttered a heresy but that is the way I saw it. Enjoyed it very much and the practice was held in the main court.

No, if you look closely it is a Folex Submariner, a knock off copy.

He knows very well the meaning of shorthanded. He is just trying to justify his existence by fabricating some sort of insuperable barrier that kept his hard fighting team from a win despite their herculean efforts. Well done bud, you should be a politician, not a coach.

Just do not make fun of NC A&T before we beat them, they are very bad and will most likely lose against us. Just do not jinx it before it happens.

283 on TeamRankings this morning. One thing we must keep in mind is that N.C. A&T looks at us like we probably are the only team they can beat and will be hungry for the win, this may be a more difficult game than we are anticipating. Agree it is tough to keep a team together when the losses keep on piling up, this season we have had a whole load of experience with exactly this type of situation.

I was there, not watching the TV, so I did not hear what the talking voices were saying. I just saw the trainer taping his leg. And Duquesne lost tonight, we are not tied with Duquesne at the bottom of the A10 any longer we are a bit above Duquesne. This may not be much to celebrate, but it is a good thing that we are moving up in A10 rankings, just a little bit.

Amazing stuff! just came back from the game. Wow! I do not know if anyone noticed Crawford took some time out to get his leg taped. His Hamstring is acting up, and he played through this game and basically won it. Double overtime! Wow!

Cheeseman, this is totally beyond the issue of cost of living, it goes straight into the can of worms Mizzou has become. His statement that the only type of person that would want to take that job is a cheater himself says a lot about the sorry state Mizzou is in.

I was surprised the first time I saw his picture in the PD site, not here

It has been my experience that more desirable places pay less not more. In fact during the interview for my first real corporate job in Boston, back in 1978, the head of the department told me I could get close to 50% more if I went to other places. It is true though that places like New York, Boston, and most likely California, have trouble getting the kind of people they want. Their offers have gone up over the years but they are generally not enough to cover the cost of living differential. I got many offers to transfer to Manhattan when I was younger, they never came anywhere close to pay for the difference in costs of living or the wear and tear of the 2+ hour train commute necessary to work there.

Hello, I am smiling because you cannot just judge two very different places in terms of what they look like and the amenities they offer. The sad truth is that places that are highly sought by people, because they are beautiful, or really nice places to live in, tend to be both more costly and offer lower salaries that less popular places to live in. I will take any bets with anyone that wants to dispute the fact that $100.00 goes a lot further in Columbia, MO than in Berkeley, CA. Just in taxes, it is going to cost more, and that is without mentioning the differential in the cost of a house. California's houses, even tiny little dumpy places, cost a huge amount more than pretty nice houses in Columbia, MO. Sure, coaches get paid large salaries, but large salaries go further in places like Stillwater, OK, and Columbia, MO than in Berkeley CA, or Boston, MA. After leaving Knoxville TN to move to Berkeley CA, coach Martin is probably quite aware that even 7 figure salaries shrink tremendously in places like CA. Columbia, MO just might offer the kind of built in expense relief he might desire after his California experience. At the very least Mizzou has this advantage when recruiting coaches coming from high cost of living areas.

In my experience many people with little or no spine tend to go higher than those with a strong spine, or set of convictions.

Really, who knows what Mizzou will do, they are not stable at this time.

This makes a lot of sense.

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I think SLU and Ramey have incompatibilities, mostly due to the fact that he does not want to stay in St. Louis as he has said many times, that will make it very hard to have him in our team as a player.

Wherever Ramey had decided to go to, we can be sure that there is a change and he may announce sometime in the future that he will go somewhere else. I doubt the choice will be SLU, but we cannot assume that he will choose any one particular school school at this time. Many factors are at play here (no pun intended). For example Tatum may have made a poor choice by going to Duke (no SLU was not a good choice for him either). He certainly has not had that much playing time at Duke and his scoring has not been stellar. This does happen when a high ranking recruit chooses to go to a star studded program and then finds out he is not getting the playing time he thought he would get. Hopefully Ramey will decide whatever is best for himself, that is a situation where he will be the star of the team and get plenty of playing time. I plainly do not think he can or will fill that position at Louisville.

Despite all, we are still playing better as a team

I also like the pluses and minuses