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OT - The Red Panda is retiring
HoosierPal replied to slubilliken09's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
The title of this thread is The Red Panda is Retiring. I expected the article to be about that. But reading the article it was about an unfortunate fall. Then I looked again at the title of the thread....it was written in 2014. -
Does only 4 transfers and 13 freshmen bother you? In this day of open transfer, that number seems low. Or are the frosh that good that we don't need transfers?
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This is a fantastic review of the year. The three pillars of the ADepartment: Educate, Compete, Building Community. For those who have forgotten, this is college athletics. Yes, football and basketball have gone pro, but for the rest of the athletes, they are at SLU to gain an education and to compete in their sports. If you don't value education anymore, tell that to the athletes and their parents. How many SLU athletes will be able to make a living playing professional sports in their selected sport? 10%? I'm unsure of the total number of SLU athletes, but with 298 making the A10 Commissioner's Honor Roll, I'll estimate that there are at least 400. So for the 360 that won't get a living wage paycheck for playing sports after graduation, Education is their future. We have several posters who appear to not care about education, or the athlete. The athletes apparently are at SLU simply to provide entertainment, while the "fan" gets to sit in a comfortable seat with plenty of beverages nearby. I for one, and maybe I am the only one, am glad SLU stresses education. Compete: For the poster who didn't find anything about wins, you needed to have the volume on or you had already tuned out. To bash track and field is irresponsible. They put in every bit as much effort as the baseball, softball and every other athlete puts in. I guess winning the A10 softball tourney and medaling in T&F A10 Championship isn't winning? Building Community is a vital part of everyone's life these days. If you volunteered to help out in N. St. Louis after the tornado destruction, you can see how important this is. The video highlighted the basketball team's efforts in N STL, hospital visits, visiting schools and serving others. The Jesuit Mission emphasizes serving others. Building Community-the third pillar Go Bills!
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Good luck TJ. With a solid showing, perhaps a chance for a G League gig. Non-drafted players typically received only a per diem expense reimbursement.
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I'm not sure this was picked up anywhere, but the NCAA has voted to increase basketball schedules to 32 starting in 2026-27. The vote was a rubber-stamp move after the Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Oversight Committees voted in favor of the change back in late March. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-set-to-allow-college-basketball-schedules-increase-to-32-game-season-beginning-in-2026-27/ https://www.si.com/college-basketball/ncaa-approves-change-college-basketball-season-schedule
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There are those who still believe academic success is important in college athletics. HoosierPal congratulates the record 298 SLU athletes who landed on the A-10 Honor Roll. If you want to blame the AD for everything that goes wrong, fine, then give credit for a remarkable achievement by its athletes. https://slubillikens.com/news/2025/6/23/billiken-athletics-school-record-298-billikens-land-on-a-10-commissioners-honor-roll.aspx
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@courtside how serious are the discussions on ‘rebooting’ college soccer?
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Here are the probable pods. Last year they had both brackets and highlight games. (The SLU women play USC in a highlight game last season.) They haven’t listed any highlight games to date so bank on brackets As noted July 14 is the announcement date
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Iowa/Ole Miss/Utah. Is this our MTE pod or just speculation. A few quality games in the A10 OOC.
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Debate Topic: Hardest or Easiest A-10 Schedule?
HoosierPal replied to SluSignGuy's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
I look at the full roster and not just the returning players. Yes, chemistry is maybe the most important piece of building a transfer roster. I use this website to look at rosters. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j_LyW0_d70G0RgVApJbwdJKDlE0TknB_1CG8Q_HMto4/edit?gid=2014337867#gid=2014337867 I look at how many double digit scorers are on the roster, and how many starters from previous teams are on the roster to get a sense of what each team has. GW stands out with 7 double digit scorers. LaSalle has 5, St. Bonnie 4, Rhody 4, Mason 4, and SLU, Richmond, Fordham, Duquesne all 3. The rest are two or one. Certainly this isn't a perfect prediction, but for me it indicates which teams should be able to have a potent offense. Defense? That's a big unknown. -
Debate Topic: Hardest or Easiest A-10 Schedule?
HoosierPal replied to SluSignGuy's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
When you are looking at good versus easy in the conference schedule, you are basically reviewing the double play opponents. You are going to play each team once, so the doubles are the key. I would be extremely disappointed if we didn't double on Dayton, Loyola, and yes, VCU. So that leaves just 2 options for me and that makes the difference between easy and hard somewhat minor. -
We have three of the one's we certainly want for double dates: Dayton, Loyola and VCU. My preference would be GW for either Duq or LaSalle. It's pretty hard to tell this far in advance which of the A10 teams will be in the top half of the league, but I'd bet on GW being better than either Duquesne or LaSalle.
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Another great interview, getting to know our new players. What about Schertz system, "It's fun, it's a new way of learning. You get taught how to play basketball instead of a system." Point guard or shooting guard? "I'm really just an all around player. You're not going to see just one player bringing up the ball. We don't have guys that play just one position. There are position-less guys on the court." Mid-range shots are zero points. A smile and a grin..."It's something I have to get used to".
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Solid. Last year this would have been a Q2 game. The AAC held their tourney last season at Dickies, so not exactly ‘neutral’.
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Good luck to Mr. Swope
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Schertz breakdown of Trey Green. He will be a shooter and primary ball handler.
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https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/slu/article_2b1d1310-dacf-49da-8172-5e838c978be4.html PD article of Timmermann's interview with AD May about revenue sharing. As everyone would suspect, the largest share of payment revenue with go to basketball. Next in line for paying players would be men's and women's soccer.
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Check your sources. This cannot be true. No baseball player would leave the state of the art baseball facility at Maryville to play at the high school field at SLU. Players avoid SLU because of their facilities. Tell Mr. Arnold to read this thread.
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The white elephant no one is spending much time on is NIL. The $20.5m is Revenue Sharing. NIL deals can still be made outside of the revenue sharing limit. NIL deals, however, now have to run through the NIL Clearinghouse to assess fair market value. No longer will you be able to give the third string long snapper $10,000 to mow your lawn. $1,000 to appear at your kid's birthday party, perhaps. How will donors get around the "pay for play" that now exists and provide additional funding through NIL? Money was being paid under the table for decades prior to NIL being legalized. I would not be surprised if under the table deals, not sent through the Clearinghouse, reappear. Robbie and Gibson reportedly both had use of cars last season. Such deals could still occur under the NIL umbrella. How "fair market value" for free use of a car is assessed will be interesting.
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If based on last year’s stats, Sharma’s weren’t good enough to make the list. He was 3.4 ppg and 1.3 rpg.
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I'm not sure what his metrics are, (and I wouldn't understand them if I knew) but here is an interesting ranking of transfers into the A10. As Trey Green is not on the list, I'll assume he used only last season stats.
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Wow, good for Dayton.