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Sure it is possible. An MBA school just like a law school, or a grad school of education has any number of specialized programs. You can get programs in anything you want, from international bartering to the development of synthetic trading algorithms. The problem is to find an MBA school that has a suitable specialized program in a university that has a basketball program at D1 or D2 level. You can always defend your position that your desire is to have an MBA in international bartering, and use it to get approval, although this may take some work. Look at it this way: if you find an MBA school with a program in international bartering you can be almost certain that a) very few if any other MBA schools will offer such a program, and your basic required courses for the MBA will be the same as everyone else's. You will graduate with an MBA, and you may even be able to switch programs after your basketball scholarship ends. This is not unattainable. I bet that there are any number of MBA special programs available elsewhere that are not offered at the SLU Cook School of Business. It is worth a try.

Hold on, let's not think NBA yet, he only had 2 stars. We must wait to see how he does in actual Div 1 play.

Archie is a lot less showy than Shaka is. Archie is blander at least visually he is.

The "Shaka is leaving VCU" yearly show is over?, hard to believe. Well, good luck to you in the next school. VCU will be fine.

He needs a specific MBA program that is not covered in SLU. Most schools cover the standard stuff, and then offer a few more specialized programs. I really have no idea what kind of programs, other than the standard ones, are offered at SLU. He has to look into this if he wants to do it.

Agree with that JettFlight

13, that sounds to me like the silliest question I have yet heard. If you want out and have all requirements for your degree finished you can: a) graduate early (Dec or January early graduation at most schools), go on vacation and apply for graduation with your class in May or June, or c) take extra courses, it is not required that you take gut courses, it is up to you really. When I was young I was required to have 120 credits to graduate from college, instead I had many more credit hours and multiple majors when I graduated in 4 years. It all depends on what you want to do with your life. Now, I keep on mentioning that a graduate degree is a desirable thing. If you have a year of eligibility to play basketball and get a scholarship at a good academic school to play basketball as a grad student, why not do it? In effect you have been given a free pass that pays 50% of your 2 year Masters degree. What can you do with a masters degree? As it turns out quite a lot more than what you can with a college degree. If you can also spend the year playing basketball much the better. Now, I am assuming that if you become a 5th year player you know you are not NBA material. So enjoy the play and the 50% ride on the cost of your masters degree. Make it count, an MBA will make a lot more money for you than an MA in literature will. By the way that is what I would recommend AM to do, get a basketball scholarship and enroll in an MBA. Can you imagine AM in a high level corporate spot after getting an MBA? Woo Wee...

Agree that a chance event is a chance event once in a blue moon. Something that happens regularly (or even yearly) as is the case with the "Shaka is leaving VCU" event is likely to be an orchestrated event with set patterns of news leakage, etc... Boo Hoo, Shaka is leaving VCU..., it must be April or May... And so what?, let him take his dog and pony show elsewhere. If he makes more money and finds himself at a higher caliber school, much the better for all involved.

Not necessarily, the issue is: what is the payout he is seeking? I doubt it is just money. Seeing those kids tonight wailing and crying for him to stay is his true pay dirt. This is what makes him an attention monger. The issue here is the drama involved. A night meeting at Siegel Center so that the students, optimally filing the Siegel Center to the scuppers, have the priceless opportunity to beg him to stay; the drama and the suspense that maybe, just maybe, assuming the kids wail and cry loud enough, he will change his mind and stay. Brianstl, if you are friends with a psychoanalyst ask him about the key role played by the Siegel Center drama that Shaka is spinning for this occasion. If you simply want more money and you get a $2 - $3 M offer you just give your notice to the administration and depart happily for the new place. No need for all the trappings and the blabberdash. THIS, the trappings, drama, and blabberdash, is what qualifies his actions as attention mongering. This said, watch for him confirming tonight that he is leaving VCU regardless of any offer improvements by VCU and the throngs of wailing students. If he does that, he is after the money, not the attention, and it would make my analysis totally wrong. Wouldn't it be nice for VCU to call his bluff and show him an open door, there are plenty of other coaches available. Who needs Shaka?

Shaka apparently lives to be the center of attention. I think a pay increase and the unconditional adoration of the student body may convince him to stay.

I was not referring to the announcements that TL and AM were out, I was referring to the purposely vague tweet about GG that apparently opened a crack in the door and caused a lot of speculation about GG coming back. Agree the announcements about TL and AM were straightforward, came from them largely.

McBroom is gone, whatever he did or did not do and however this affected the team are in the past now. I think we should move on.

I do not know much about basketball, but I know about public announcements. You cannot reach conclusions about public announcements that are purposely vague. You simply do not know the reason for the vagueness.

I saw the short video on JB and liked what I saw.

Welcome to SLU Jermaine

OK this from a certified MBM, myself: Regardless of how improbable it may seem at this time, I will be delighted if we win 20 games next year. Let's hope this is one apparenlty wild prediction that comes to pass.

Nope, any adverse action to be taken after next season is entirely in the hands of the AD. There is no certainty about how next year will end and or what action the AD will take if there is no significant performance improvement.

No David King I am not saying any such a thing. I am saying that Crews holds his fate in his very own hands. He will remain our Head Coach or perhaps he will not depending on how well he manages to heal the team and lead it to an improved performance next season. I am supporting 3 star when he talks about the pretty yarns we are making in this thread about Porter as a messiah or sorts to come and save our team. This is good fiction, nothing else. Reality is that Crews will deal with next season the best way he can and will have to face consequences if we do not show a satisfactory level of improvement. What the consequences may be if he has another very bad season are up to the AD to decide. I hope this is clear now

Besides, the possibility of re injury (repeat dislocation or sublux of the shoulder) after surgery when engaging in high levels of arm lifting and exertion are very real. Surgery works well for normal levels of activity, not for the level of activity required from a Div 1 player. I do not think GG is a good or realistic option for our team. The discussion above seems to assume that his shoulder is fully healed and works like new. This is a completely erroneous assumption. His shoulder has been patched up and should work fine during the performance of routine daily chores. This is NOT what will be required of a Div 1 basketball player, his shoulder may likely be injured during basketball playing. Whether it gets reinjured or not during basketball play depends upon the extent of shoulder rehab he has had so far and how well it has healed. There is no way to say a priori that the shoulder will not dislocate again if he plays next year for the Bills, or anyone else for that matter.

I like your sense of humor.

Just wanted to point out that Utah has a white Canadian center (polish name). This guy was a beast in the Utah / Georgetown game which Utah won. There may not be many but there are white centers that can jump and dominate the games they play in.

Agree sir. There are no real prophets and no prophecies in this board. That said, I believe Crews' fate will be determined by his own actions.

After all all the predictions of a repeat of this year in the next season, and after all the talk of Crews leaving voluntarily or not if he shows no improvement next season, it stands to reason that Crews is aware things have not gone well for him this year and that he has to improve next season. The decision as to who comes into the team for next year is his and his alone. If he makes the wrong decision he may well be out next spring and he is aware of this. I would let him play his cards any way he wants and see if he has good results or not. He is aware that his job may depend on next season's results. Personally, I do not think GG is the answer for next season, let's see what happens.

There is an angle for landing someone like this guy in SLU. Evansville offers only 5 graduate programs (a doctorate in physical therapy and 4 masters in public administration, athletic training, public health administration, and physicians assitant). SLU has a wide variety of graduate programs which may be more suitable to this man's career plans. We could use the greater variety of graduate programs in SLU as a selling point to landing this player in our team after his graduation from Evansville. It is worth a try anyways.

Ah, prophets and prophecies. The problem with these is that historical prophets were never listened to, only charlatans were, and if you are to believe the bible many prophets had to suffer persecution and violent death. Their prophecies only came to be accepted much later or, or if they did not work as they had predicted the prophet was promptly forgotten and his/her end justified. Sorry 3 star, prophecies do not work and prophets who are not stoned (in a biblical sense, a number of the current crop may indeed be stoned sometimes) or otherwise meet a bad end are not really prophets. The current, modern day prophets, the ones that spin a never ending yarn of disaster and catastrophe or fairy tales with happy endings are the media talking heads or the politicians. Their prophecies never work as they intended or they predicted, but that is OK. In this day and age everything, including yarns and prophecies, can be changed, they just spin their tale and look good no matter what.