cheeseman Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Spoon-Balls said: No articles about the Bills in the local paper this morning? I saw something about Mizery and the bottom feeding Illini program, but nothing about the local team that is currently having a potential tourney season. SMH. Missouri played last night and IL plays today. We did not play since our Friday game. Why would they have an article about us today? It makes sense that they have articles on Missouri and IL. Nobody has been more critical of the Post then me but I am sorry this is not a fair complaint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 38 minutes ago, slu72 said: Actually coverage seems decent this year. Ben Fred's articles have been like gravy. Stu doesn't do any in depth reporting just the pre and post game reports. I think our coverage has been very good. I have never bought into the Missouri conspiracy. It is simply being relevant by winning. White Pelican likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 13 minutes ago, willie said: I think our coverage has been very good. I have never bought into the Missouri conspiracy. It is simply being relevant by winning. It has gotten better but no it is not just a relevancy issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BourbanStreet Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 2 hours ago, willie said: I think our coverage has been very good. I have never bought into the Missouri conspiracy. It is simply being relevant by winning. It has gotten a lot better. Ben Fred with good content and Hochman seems to also be engaged. I've seen him post photos of him watching games while at blues games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adman Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 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. Quality Is Job 1 likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 No one on the PD staff knows anything about the team or who we are recruiting. A chat with Stu or ben would be like talking to a wall. Billiken Rich likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moytoy12 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Stu's article on JGood: https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/slu/slu-s-goodwin-moving-forward-from-tough-experience/article_4971e5d4-f8c6-5334-9709-1946d91a0bfa.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post billiken_roy Posted January 30, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2019 i sit close to the goodwin cheering section at chaifetz. parents and girlfriend dont miss. various friends fill a few other seats every game. it is so uplifting to see that kind of support for jordan game in and game out. the parents are delightful folks. they always have a smile for me, willing to shake hands or fist bump and accept all positive comments with a gleam in their eye. i watch jordan in the games and he has eye contact with his father often. yet I dont see dad, showing negative feedback or trying to over step coach etc. dad sits relatively still yet you just know that jordan knows exactly what dad is thinking. mom might be the best fan in the arena. she is standing most of the time. she is clapping and cheering screaming support, etc. she makes me smile. all in all it is just a pleasure to be there and see the group support their son/friend. the goodwin group are great people and it makes it easy to assume jordan will fulfill large expectations before he leaves slu. i would bet on it. Slu let the dogs out?, moytoy12, Zink and 9 others like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 LA times doing their best Post impersonation. "Meier strode past displays for baseball’s Cardinals, hockey’s Blues, the Missouri Tigers and Kansas City Chiefs. He veered away from the sections for Missouri State and Saint Louis University." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu2016 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 13 hours ago, wgstl said: LA times doing their best Post impersonation. "Meier strode past displays for baseball’s Cardinals, hockey’s Blues, the Missouri Tigers and Kansas City Chiefs. He veered away from the sections for Missouri State and Saint Louis University." If it was a Post impression they would have called it "St. Louis University" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonner89 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 We've been operating as a third tier program for as long as I can recall. It's only fair that the press treats us as such. We're in a big media market with rich basketball talent in our own yard. We should be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Is this guy tilky? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonner89 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Was I wrong ? First step to solving a problem is admitting that there is one. I'm not saying we should be Kansas, but we should be playing for and in the NCAA tournament on a regular basis and miss it 2-3 times a decade. It's time to raise the standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 By responding, you are saying you are tilky? Box and Won likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stlwaino50 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 25 minutes ago, stlwaino50 said: Are the Bills still a serious contender for an NCAA berth? Have you ever been a serious poster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonner89 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 1 hour ago, billiken_roy said: By responding, you are saying you are tilky? I'm not this tilky fellow or whatever. Again I ask, was I wrong ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseOfTheBillikens Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 2 hours ago, stlwaino50 said: Are the Bills still a serious contender for an NCAA berth? Say his name and he appears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 He responds with a question...sounds familiar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 it wouldnt surprise me if bonner and waino are both tilky. at stltoday it was routine for him to sport multiple monikers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slu let the dogs out? Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Speaking of the Post, our secret Mizzou fans on this board aren't going to like this: https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/ncaa-hammers-mizzou-on-academic-fraud-case-including-postseason-ban/article_5bda774a-7b2b-54ee-9f19-ae70ed40972b.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 31 minutes ago, Slu let the dogs out? said: Speaking of the Post, our secret Mizzou fans on this board aren't going to like this: https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/ncaa-hammers-mizzou-on-academic-fraud-case-including-postseason-ban/article_5bda774a-7b2b-54ee-9f19-ae70ed40972b.html Since they were so pissed off at UNC they really threw the book at Mizzou. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 7 minutes ago, brianstl said: Since they were so pissed off at UNC they really threw the book at Mizzou. -I have no idea what the NCAA stands for from an academic integrity perspective, three years ago I would have said these penalties against Mizzou are so light it is laughable but with the UNC decision since then these seem extreme, the haters should take comfort that the NCAA does not see Mizzou in the golden child class with UNC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slu let the dogs out? Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 10 minutes ago, brianstl said: Since they were so pissed off at UNC they really threw the book at Mizzou. This punishment seems pretty extreme given the details I've read. Especially when you start looking at some other programs that have been in hot water (UNC, Baylor, Kansas(?), etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 20 minutes ago, Slu let the dogs out? said: This punishment seems pretty extreme given the details I've read. Especially when you start looking at some other programs that have been in hot water (UNC, Baylor, Kansas(?), etc.) The report basically says the punishments were different because SPUMAC owned up to the infractions and UNC didn’t. Classic NCAA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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