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Played with Austin a lot at the gym last year. Very good kid. Smart and not into pickup trash talking or any of that junk. Great range. I encouraged him several times to walk on. He's a better player than Sean Duff but not as athletic.

Jolly and Gillman look very similar. Does Jolly have more weight on him? You can always have another big. I'd be happy w/ Jolly, Miyamba, and a guard.

On Power Conferences, if most of us saw about a recruit that LSU offered, or Georgia, we'd figure they were good, and if Utah St. or Ohio U offered, not so much. But in fact the latter two programs have been more successful in recent years. On Bluett, Indiana had offered. Was our man Calbert the lead recruiter? If so, could we get in late?

The Jesuits on the board were not academic types, they were more people that Biondi would roll over, and they rarely raised points that would question some of the less-Jesuit, or less intelligent ways that Biondi was taking things. The board is also so large, over 50 people I think, and only meets around 4x/yr, that a few good members, sprinkled about, can rarely do anything. Brouster, Adorjan, Pat Sly, etc..., on the other hand, were very influential and for the most part trusted Fr.'s judgment.

Yes Old Guy. And the board members were all appointed by.... Biondi. And he made sure the Board never heard from the faculty, and filled them with false facts and dishonest narratives. At relatively healthy places like Wash U., the president actually wants board members and faculty to meet one another and mingle. That didn't happen at SLU. Most board members do very little and have little power. The people who do, the Executive Committee, were carefully selected by LB. Again, the man was pathological.

Biondi doesn't want the Reinert chancellor position b/c it was Biondi that decided Reinert's fate: a janitor's closet of an office as a symbol of humiliation. Biondi, in other words, is afraid that somebody will treat him like he treated a predecessor. The man was pathological. Read that final letter where he spent five pages talking about canning Avis Meyer in 2007, or whenever it was. He did tremendous good from 1987 to 2000, maybe 2002. From 2002-2013, if you exchanged Biondi for a random Jesuit in charge of another high school or university, odds are SLU would have benefitted from the change.

Yes. Which is why I wanted Biondi to go. Too much of the Biondi naysayers focused on his moral failings. But he wasn't overall a very effective president. Yes, he "did" stuff in 26 years (who could be president of anything for 26 years and not do anything?), but he did a poor job of acquiring and keeping academic talent, and of creating administrative structures that demanded excellence and accountability.

Goodman not my favorite reporter. He does get a lot of stories first, which is why espn hired him. I only say healthy Jett because he wasn't up to full speed at the end of last year, and if he is up to full speed, he might be the best player in the league this year.

I play pick-up at the Simon Center and although I haven't seen RA, I have talked with some people affiliated with the program who mentioned advanced footwork and moves. I wouldn't be surprised to hear whispers start leaking out about to local writers like TT and national writers like Katz or Goodman who want to find reasons or teams that could be dark horses for the Sweet 16.

Lost in the 8/27 headline about former Mizzou player/alleged assaulter Dixon is a nice blurb on SLU. No real insider info (it's behind a paywall so I won't post it), but Goodman does mention that McBroom should help this year. Goodman doesn't have the insider info that I have: mainly that RA is a beast down low, and that he and a healthy Jett will make SLU a nasty match-up for every team in the A-10 and every team on our schedule.