Lord Elrond

Best thing to do is put Travis Ford in the rear view mirror, go get our new coach, get new players, and concentrate on the future.

Time to put the Ford era in the rear view mirror and concentrate on getting a new coach and getting new players.

10 point loss, season over. Any other Billiken news about to come out?

Duquesne sure stinks on FT’s tonight, 4-13. They are letting us back in.

All year long we’ve played defense like a bullfighter plays with a bull, get them to charge right at you and then you get out of their way…

Duquesne sure stinks at FT’s

Slow start to the second half to go along with the slow start to the first. At least they are consistent…

Isn’t that the way it goes?

Down by 10, 4 minutes in? Is that a new record?

Party time

If we win, I say that Southeastern Louisiana University has to go by SELU, and leave SLU to us

The two highlights of the Ford era, we tied up the series with the Bonnies and Rhodey….

We swung our pillows better, Duquesne next, obviously no announcement tonight

No we can not

Rhodey got interested in playing the game

Rhodey has no interest in playing this game

just because they pull out in football doesn’t mean they can’t stay in the other sports

Congratulations!

And happen they did!

Can we pull even with Rhodey in the series history or not? It will take a PILLOW FIGHT to settle the issue!

I feel bad for him too, but coaching is a bottom line business, and however much he tried and wanted it, it didn’t get done. Time to move in another direction.

Universities and colleges have overbuilt capacity. There are hard times coming for both public and private colleges. More closures and consolidations are coming, at least SLU was bucking the declining enrollment trend (enrollment increased last fall, few other universities could say the same). All those knocking Fred Pestello on here need to bear in mind what else he’s dealing with outside athletics.

First rule about coaching change: Don’t talk about coaching change…

There’s no way a land-locked university like Wash U passes up buying a parcel of land adjacent to their main campus. Even if they don’t know what to do with it, pay a premium for it. They are not building more land near your campus ever. Harris-Stowe is also having enrollment problems. If the State of Missouri decides it’s cheaper to just have the students go to UMSL instead, SLU should buy that land regardless of price. You can figure out what to do with it later.

Wash U is in a conference with schools it regards as its academic peers: the University Athletic Association (aka, the Egghead Eight) with Brandeis University, Carnegie-Mellon, Case Western Reserve, Emory University, New York University, University of Chicago, and University of Rochester. Lots of academic credentials there. When Johns Hopkins was in the conference, it was known as the Nerdy Nine.