BJK Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/bernie-miklasz/bernie-slu-is-succeeding-the-old-fashioned-way/article_16fea282-405d-576c-9964-339b51e5a9a9.html In this article BM refers to our fifth starting senior as JOSH Barnett. I know we are just the lowly Bills who have only lost two games this year and deserve no attention from local media but fu@kin c'mon!!! In other news Bernie sucks. Why does he have to run his mouth defending himseld all the damn time. It is like he has to defend every single word that comes out of his mouth before anyone even has the chance to label it as pure cr@p... which it is. I would like for him and Kevin Slaten to be put in a room together and videotaped for like three days with no hot wings or fritos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJK Posted February 10, 2014 Author Share Posted February 10, 2014 For some reason this is really pissing me off. He blows Majerus for the whole time he is here and then he writes nothing about us for a year and now he can't even remember the name of a starting player on the only two loss college basketball team in his entire reporting vicinity. A$$hat!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NH Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Deep breaths. I'm glad Bernie wrote about us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 "Please allow me to be blunt here: Other than the rich pageant of the NCAA Tournament, which is always colorful and exciting, just about everything in college basketball bores the heck out of me." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I would like for him and Kevin Slaten to be put in a room together and videotaped for like three days with no hot wings or fritos. That's the only way I'd actually watch one of the riveting podcasts where he talks to the camera in front of his office bookshelf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basketbill Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 All in all Kind of a boring article by Bennie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adman Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 While not the most goosebump-inducing column, and bad he got Jake's name wrong, this is nice work. Our team is one for the ages. High praise. Nice to finally see something. Plenty left unsaid in case he wants to write another... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 If all of college basketball bores him, how did he do the research? Or did he do research? Seems a very easy compilation while sitting at the very table/desk he podcasts from in front of. I'll take th\e publicity, but still ....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Except for getting Jake's name wrong, it was a fine article. Unfortunately, he's dead on about the popularity of college basketball decreasing. There are a multitude of reasons for it and he touches on some of them, but its a real problem with no easy solutions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillikenLaw Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I think people are making a bit too much of his error with Jake's name. Other than that, it was a solid column. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Box and Won Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I still don't get how Georgia beat us when we had Dickey in the lineup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseAndGrind Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I think people are making a bit too much of his error with Jake's name. Other than that, it was a solid column. If you're going to make an editorial comment like Bernie's, along the lines of, "Oh Gosh. I really love watching the Billikens, but there just aren't enough fans! Trust me, I reallllyyyyy like to watch the Billikens but it's your fault" he should at least be able to get the names right. Don't chastise fans and then get the names wrong. With that said it was a good article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fansince59 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Bernie has a lot of fish to fry, and we can't be expected to be the center of attention in a city with a lot more baseball and hockey fans than SLU fans. Bernie has been pretty good to SLU, frankly. He has opinions and not afraid to express them. We must remember he is not from St. Louis, and often shows it with no real understanding of SLU's history or the University's place in our town. I thought it was a good article, and nit-picking should be left to the nutjobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Front and center in the paper. Not a great article but it's better than nothing. The casual fan who doesn't root for the Billikens yet probably enjoyed the article. No article will please the people on here but that's fine because it's not like any of us need to be convinced to root for SLU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Hard to satisfy Billiken nation. I commented a week or so ago wondering why he's ignored our season. So, we should take this and be grateful for any local pub we're getting. Yeah, he got Jake's name wrong. Maybe he'll issue an errata. I understand why folks have become disillusioned w/ college hoops. I read that UK's attendance has dropped in the Calipari era because the fans don't like the turnstile program he supports so much. Having spent a fair amount of time in Lexington 20 years ago this is easy to understand. Those folks idolized UK players. Hard to idolize them when you don't even know their names. The NCAA should get their head out of their arse and do away w/ the one and done policy. I understand the NBA is the author of the rule, but if the NCAA counted the one and doners against the APR it would effectively stop this pretense of one and doners as student athletes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Hard to satisfy Billiken nation. I commented a week or so ago wondering why he's ignored our season. So, we should take this and be grateful for any local pub we're getting. Yeah, he got Jake's name wrong. Maybe he'll issue an errata. I understand why folks have become disillusioned w/ college hoops. I read that UK's attendance has dropped in the Calipari era because the fans don't like the turnstile program he supports so much. Having spent a fair amount of time in Lexington 20 years ago this is easy to understand. Those folks idolized UK players. Hard to idolize them when you don't even know their names. The NCAA should get their head out of their arse and do away w/ the one and done policy. I understand the NBA is the author of the rule, but if the NCAA counted the one and doners against the APR it would effectively stop this pretense of one and doners as student athletes. This article is SEC focused but gets at some of the issues regarding college basketball popularity and attendance. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/02/sec_asks_espn_for_help_with_co.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillikenLaw Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 If you're going to make an editorial comment like Bernie's, along the lines of, "Oh Gosh. I really love watching the Billikens, but there just aren't enough fans! Trust me, I reallllyyyyy like to watch the Billikens but it's your fault" he should at least be able to get the names right. Don't chastise fans and then get the names wrong. With that said it was a good article. Sometimes Guy Phillips, who watches at least every home game and is paid to do little more than say the players' names, gets players' names wrong. It's an honest mistake. I just don't see the need to dwell on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I thought the article was fine - in fact if you were a casual fan you probably even got excited about it. For those of you who complained about it you missed the most important part - he called SLU basically a blue collar team who is unselfesh and driven to win as a team. This is the best thing anybody can say about a team in StL- the people love that kind of a team. He did us a huge favor. Now it is important to make sure we don't stumble this year and next. As far as the one and done rule goes - I agree with 72 on this the NCAA should make them count or at least have a penalty for them when they leave. Of course the one and done players are hurting attendance at schools like KY but for places like us as Bernie points out it means nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 This article is SEC focused but gets at some of the issues regarding college basketball popularity and attendance. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/02/sec_asks_espn_for_help_with_co.html Thanks for posting but one thing I would add to their list of issues is that football is demanding more and more money from the fans - it has an insatiable appetite. When Missouri joined the SEC, they put such a squeeze on their football fans financially wise that many fans simply had to pick one or the other - football or basketball because they can not afford both. This need to hold people up for football is one thing that is killing basketball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseAndGrind Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Sometimes Guy Phillips, who watches at least every home game and is paid to do little more than say the players' names, gets players' names wrong. It's an honest mistake. I just don't see the need to dwell on it. Ha. Guy is awful at his job. Embarrassingly bad, actually. Whatever issues I have with Bernie's writing I would never compare him to Guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestCoastBilliken Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I thought Bernie's article was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlumniFan Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Hard to satisfy Billiken nation. I commented a week or so ago wondering why he's ignored our season. So, we should take this and be grateful for any local pub we're getting. Yeah, he got Jake's name wrong. Maybe he'll issue an errata. I understand why folks have become disillusioned w/ college hoops. I read that UK's attendance has dropped in the Calipari era because the fans don't like the turnstile program he supports so much. Having spent a fair amount of time in Lexington 20 years ago this is easy to understand. Those folks idolized UK players. Hard to idolize them when you don't even know their names. The NCAA should get their head out of their arse and do away w/ the one and done policy. I understand the NBA is the author of the rule, but if the NCAA counted the one and doners against the APR it would effectively stop this pretense of one and doners as student athletes. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SShoe Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Hard to satisfy Billiken nation. I commented a week or so ago wondering why he's ignored our season. So, we should take this and be grateful for any local pub we're getting. Yeah, he got Jake's name wrong. Maybe he'll issue an errata. I understand why folks have become disillusioned w/ college hoops. I read that UK's attendance has dropped in the Calipari era because the fans don't like the turnstile program he supports so much. Having spent a fair amount of time in Lexington 20 years ago this is easy to understand. Those folks idolized UK players. Hard to idolize them when you don't even know their names. The NCAA should get their head out of their arse and do away w/ the one and done policy. I understand the NBA is the author of the rule, but if the NCAA counted the one and doners against the APR it would effectively stop this pretense of one and doners as student athletes. The one-and-done is certainly part of it, but I think there are a whole lot of other reasons as to why CBB's popularity has dropped. Bernie touched on a few of these reasons, but conference realignment, soft scheduling, and a general "watering down" of the regular season are also three big offenders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 The biggest problem for a college basketball is the Tournament dwarfs everything else. The tournament is a great event that has killed interest in the regular season for the average fan. Most people don't care about college basketball until tournament time. They don't care about what you do during the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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