Lord Elrond

And what a waste of time and money it was!

I’m sticking with my initial reaction- “They paid money for this?”

It will be interesting to see how that translates to playing time. Last year at ISU, the top 6 got most of the minutes, 7 and 8 barely made it into the game, 9 less than that, and 10, 11, 12, 13 only if it was late and you were winning/losing by 30 would they get off the bench.

They paid money for that??? Massive fail, looks stupid

Roster is filling up nicely, it looks like.

Lindenwood athletics does market using the 636, believe it or not.

Coach Tillett just re-tweeted (is it proper to call it a re-tweet now that Twitter is X? Did she re-X it?) Anyway, she repeated that a Billiken is on route. Guess we’ll wait and see, three slots open between returning players and incoming freshmen.

Yep, there are complaints. I actually think SLU will have its work cut out for it to get a good quality schedule together. At least we have a blank slate to work with, but I think getting any game against a good P5 opponent will be hard to pull off. I’m thinking it will be MVC heavy, with maybe a dusting of Summit or ASUN or OVC. And don’t forget we owe a favor to SIUE for hosting the WNIT for us, not sure how they will want to collect on it, but it is there. Also, aren’t most of the Nov tournaments also booked? I’m not going to complain about heading to Sioux Falls against the best opponent they can get for us play. What I’m impressed with is how good a job they do getting teams to head to Sioux Falls. Down here we have Missouri vs Illinois in the Border War and the MVC championship. How about the St Louis Sport Commission set up a Nov tournament, or a least a few more games? Maybe A10 vs MWC challenge? Get a couple good MWC teams to face off against SLU and another good A10 opponent? Maybe a 8 team tournament with both Chaifetz and Enterprise Center hosting games?

Let’s see who the opponent actually is before complaining about it. I don’t think it’s set in stone, or they would have announced it and started selling tickets, The Dec 21st game of Iowa vs Utah is not only announced, but ticket sales started April 10th. The Nov 20th game is the Iowa women vs Kansas, tickets also on sale. They would have announced it and started selling tickets if SLU vs Santa Clara was a done deal. Apparently they are trying for multiple games up there, the rumored Santa Clara game may end up being against someone else on a different day. Gotta give them credit for doing their best to bring good teams to Sioux Falls.

That is the more valid point. Just how many really good P5 teams are going to want to play us, home or away? The answer is none, they don’t need to schedule a team like us (they all saw what Shertz’s team did last year, after all). A neutral sight game like this, with the extra TV money thrown in, is one of our few chances at a really good non-conference opponent. Travis Ford, for all his faults as a coach, was able to get teams like Auburn to play us in a home and away series with his lifetime of connections in D1 coaching. Josh Schertz, with his time in Indiana State and D3, doesn’t have those same connections. What would be nice is if the St Louis Sports Commission would offer some cash to help get good opponents to come here (either Chaifetz or Enterprise Center) to play some games and draw in fans and attention.

If it has a concrete block foundation, you truly are living large….

Bragger!

In 2022 it was Baylor-Gonzaga.

Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls has hosted some neutral site games.

So will there be a Goggles Give-a-Way night?