stlwaino50
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2 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
It would make sense if you had any sense. Record doesn't matter anyway, A10 is a one bid league, Dipsh!t.
So you think the Bills are winning the A-10 tourney?
No matter their record they are going to Omaha?
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Doesn't make any sense they were pretty good last year.
It will be pretty embarrassing to not finish above .500 with such a weak schedule.
2 games vs #175 Fordam
1 game vs # 266 Semo
1 game vs #165 Murry St
3 games vs # 180 Davidson
1 game vs # 224 SIUE
3 game vs # 108 Rhode Island
1 game vs #240 Bradley
3 games vs #275 George Mason
1 game vs # 159 SIUC
3 games vs #183 Richmond
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14 hours ago, Schasz said:
Exactly right and that is what UCLA fans don't realize. When he started the run the field was only 32 teams. The NCAA Tourney is a real tough assignment this year...requires a 6 game win streak. The game has changed a lot too. The 3 point shot has had a big impact in the game. SLU hasn't had too many runs at the NCAA Tourney since I graduated. I'm guessing only two or three Final Fours since back in the 70's.
Last NCAA title for soccer 1973.
Last time in the Final 1974 vs Howard (title was vacated).
Last College Cup appearances 1991 and 1997.
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Patriot League Third team.
Wow.
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Didn't know this thread would have been so popular when I started it.
who knew..
Unfortunately the vast majority of posts are just a tad off topic.
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Somebody posted on SLU Talk on www.stltoday.com (Why don't more people here post there?) that there are some big teams after Travis Ford.
Any news on that?
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23 hours ago, Brighton said:
it would be nice if the administration would stay in their lane.
What do you mean by that?
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1 hour ago, Clocktoweraccords2004 said:
Taj, a reminder that almost zero top recruits came to SLU before Ford. Now we have rosters full of them. Ford is averaging about 3 top 150 players a year. The kids magically coming here because of a new coach isn’t random. They want to get to the next level.
You make no sense when you say that Ford putting Bess in the NBA won’t help our recruiting.
You think Davidson would get the players they had if Steph Curry didn’t get involved after he blew up?
Rosters full of top recruits and the Billikens still can't win the A-10?
How does that work?
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57 minutes ago, billiken_roy said:
hochman says , "Many players coach Travis Ford has recruited have left the program, including the talented handful that was Carte’Are Gordon. We counted eight players since Ford was hired in March 2016."
bennie. you do know that 5 of those 8 were kind of forced on the team by our wonderful title IX gang and the BoT. one was a transfer before the season started (johnson) one was a turn pro in iceland (Thor) only gordon seems to be something that might have been avoided.
Henriquez, Graves and Bishop are the ones you need to blame. Not the Title IX gang or the Board of Trustees. Remember Jim Kavanaugh is on the BOT.
So playing pro basketball in Iceland is better than playing basketball at SLU. Who knew? Doesn't say much for the state of SLU basketball does it.
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On January 21, 2019 at 7:30 PM, Adman said:
One thing that P-D does with the Tigers is Mizzou Talk -- a live chat either with Dave Matter (beat writer) or one of the columnists. An advantage Mizzou has is a somewhat larger audience of fans (and the questions they bring) due to having both a football and basketball team. They seem to do one every few days for the Cardinals during the season and weekly (at least) off-season. So the Talk/Chat format is an audience and revenue driver, no doubt.
While SLU doesn't have a football team and much of the Billikens web traffic comes here to Billikens.com, I'd like to see the P-D "test" a live Billikens chat with Stu... or Jeff Gordon, BenFred, etc. Why should they? Five reasons. First, they're easy to do. They already own the digital chat platform, of course. Second, inexpensive, too. Just an hour from our beat writer (or columnist,) and maybe an hour or two of prep. Third, with the Bills a serious contender for an NCAA birth, there could be money to be made. If an initial test is even reasonably successful, it can spur a series of regular Bills chats, each time building a bigger and bigger audience as interest in the post-season is naturally peaking -- driving clicks and ad dollars. Fourth, tie yourself to the only NCAA Div 1 hometown team. Fifth, once driven to stltoday.com, it drives additional clicks there as users browse.
And if they pre-promoted it with Steve here at Billikens.com, the PR, marketing and development teams at SLU Athletic Dept/slubillikens.com, other interested parties (as well as at stltoday,) and asked them to share/push out/spread the word via the tools they possess -- web, social media, email, message boards, etc., -- I bet it would be a success with considerable traffic driven to stltoday.com.
Why wouldn't you? It's such as no brainer. If I were them, I'd test it now, begin the audience building before it's too late.
Are the Bills still a serious contender for an NCAA berth?
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In terms of dominant teams maybe even more dominant than the Celtics - how about UCLA under John Wooden.
Between 1964 and 1975 they won 10 NCAA tournaments.
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17 hours ago, dlarry said:
Elite 8 this year.
Final 4 next year.
You are talking about the A-10 tournament right?
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12 hours ago, JohnnyJumpUp said:
I see you have posted a self portrait.
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3 minutes ago, RiseAndGrind said:
Man f u c k off
Not exactly in the spirit of the season.
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13 minutes ago, brianstl said:
This. I think the fact that Graves dad and the PR firm that was working for Graves both went silent right when he announced he was transferring makes it pretty clear SLU bought silence from Graves and his crew.
13 minutes ago, brianstl said:This. I think the fact that Graves dad and the PR firm that was working for Graves both went silent right when he announced he was transferring makes it pretty clear SLU bought silence from Graves and his crew.
Or they received legal advice they didn't have a chance in the case.
Why suspend or expel and then pay off?
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1 hour ago, billiken_roy said:
So you've never heard of settlements with confidentility non-disclosure agreements attached? I have no knowledge that happened, but i am certain if a settlement agreement was reached with the players concerned saint louis university would have insisted on such.
So you really cant make the conclusion you did.
Possible I guess.
Wouldn't think likely.
So SLU suspended two of the players and expelled one of them and paid them off at the same time?
Then said players left?
Why bother with the lengthy Title IX process then? If SLU knew they were wrong just end the investigation.
Possible not likely. So SLU admits they were wrong to the players by paying them off but wants people to think they were right? Again, possible not likely.
I wouldn't think SLU would be THAT eager to part with their money.
Players Attorney: We are going to sue the school.
SLU Attorney: Don't do it we will write your client a check.
I don't believe it was that easy at all.
Keep thinking that though.
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29 minutes ago, almaman said:
With the near total lack of facts we have unless you have inside info your statement makes sense only because we know they are all gone. We may never know what went down but there may be more people then those 3 responsible for the end result.
Isn't it interesting all three left because of a Title IX investigation.
If they were truly wronged, wouldn't they sue the school?
Many said on this site that lawsuits would be forthcoming, where are they if they are truly innocent of no wrongdoing and they left school for no reason?
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15 hours ago, slusam said:
After the early signing period last year we were supposed to have Johnson, Welmer, Pearson, Santos, Henriquez, Bishop, and the transfer from BC (I can't remember his name). There are our shooters. We have 6 left playing from that 13.
The fact that Graves, Henriquez and Bishop aren't at SLU is their fault and no one else's.
They made an extremely poor decision and paid the appropriate price.
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Without the top 25 percent stadium clause the Rams probably don’t come to Saint Louis.
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3 hours ago, wgstl said:
any cup or final at the college level is held on a higher level. Nothing new about this.
Then why are they having it at UC- Santa Barbara this year?
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13 minutes ago, wgstl said:
because you dont put any major sports event in a crappy place.
It was at Hermann. So you are saying Hermann is crappy?
College Cup unfortunately is NOT a major sports event.
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2 minutes ago, wgstl said:
just because theres less in attendance, doesn't mean you shouldnt have it at nice venues.
Doesn't it look bad when there are one thousand people in a 20,000 seat stadium?
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23 hours ago, billikenfan05 said:
I don't see us ever using the stadium for Billiken Soccer games but this stadium would give us an opportunity to host NCAA Soccer and Lacrosse final fours. I wonder if an athletic department can host a final four in a sport they don't field a team... I know my opinion means d!ck and is bias but I always though st Louis should be an every year host city for an NCAA sport like OKC and Omaha
With all due respect NCAA Final Fours or College Cup as it is known are attendance losers.
I think that last year's College Cup was in Houston at the stadium where the Dynamo play. Barely over 1,000 people for the semi-finals, less for the Final.
The year prior it was in Kansas City and attendance was the same.
This year's College Cup is at UC Santa Barbara on campus. Not at the Home Depot Center or LAFC's new stadium.
College Cup has drawn well on the East Coast or South if there are teams that are within driving distance participating.
Otherwise College Cup is usually an attendance loser unfortunately.
Saint Louis hosted at Hermann back in 2006. You also won't get it multiple years or every year.
Why would you have it at an MLS stadium to attract maybe a few thousand.
Why is Billiken baseball under .500 with a weak schedule?
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My argument is that the Billikens aren't very good even though they play an easy schedule.
Now maybe you want to tell me they play a difficult schedule - looking forward to your information.
The A-10 is only a one bid league.
The A-10 must not be a good baseball conference then.