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I had to reread that KSDK article to see that the three other suspensions were probably going to be upheld and that none were expected to return to SLU. SLU playing a little PR stunt here? They know Goodwin will be the main headline and 2 months to someone who doesn't know the situation seems light, all the while 3 players just got shafted.

I was at the Xavier-Creighton game.. absolutely brutal ending. Granted I go to CU for med so I may be biased about that. Two extraordinary questionable calls at the end regardless who you cheer for.

IMO if I had to choose one thing that we lack and need the most, it is a reliable perimeter shooter. We'd be a different team.

Unless it was only taken on the 4th player's phone and he wasn't there (as some speculate here).

Fair enough. I just have a hard time believing that the school didn't initially suspend the 4th unnamed player who was allegedly videotaping/taking photos while it suspended the others.

If Graves wasn't represented by Rosenblum then does that mean one of Rosenblum's clients went against his advice and played? I just can't keep any of this straight.

Depends to be honest. In terms of non revenue, I imagine Baseball and Vball probably make the most. Then some of the other ones, the total is probably under 80-100k for all the coaches in that particular sport combined.

It's interesting. My freshman year was the Biondi/interim year with Pestello taking over at the beginning of my soph year. I can tell you that immediately I, along with other students, took to Pestello. He was present walking around campus and really seemed to engage with the students as opposed to Biondi riding around in his golf cart with rumors of a tanning bed in his house. The clocktower protest in my mind put a fairly brand new president (a couple months) into a tough predicament. S2 is a bad situation, but I think more concerning, Pestello is putting SLU into a bad place financially. I remember there were some transparency concerns with the budget when I was there and it only takes a google search to see there were concerns over the budget during his tenure at Le Moyne. SLU decided to build two new, albeit beautiful, dorms. Now don't get me wrong, new dorms are important to attract freshmen students. I lived in Clemens and GFO and they weren't the best. But, SLU "surprisingly" found themselves in the red and had to turn to cutting a number of jobs and discontinuing the secondary ed department (a profession that embodies the Jesuit values and mission) along with other cuts. Probably the most worrying aspect about the new dorm situation to me is that these dorms are named Spring Hall and Grand Hall. It sounds like they (Pestello) couldn't find donors to support the new build. Maybe the donors wanted to be anonymous, but I don't know if I believe that. Biondi had to come back because fundraising was abysmal. I was talking with an administrator at my current school (I go to med school at another Jesuit university) and he mentioned something about a new building when they find the donor support to match the school input. To me that makes sense, its banana land to do otherwise. Side note: I also think the rebranding process was a gigantic waste of time, effort, and money.

One time at the student-athlete fall welcome, Biondi (in his last year) accepted a javelin from the track team and said he could think of a few people over at the law school he could throw it at. Awkward at the time, but hilarious in retrospect. I wish Pestello had the gall to say something like that, or just anything for that matter...

The fact that a most likely fake twitter account was able to stir the pot enough to encourage the players to directly tweet about this shows 1) how ridiculous the situation is/SLU's handling of it and 2) how amazing and hilarious the internet is.