drkelsey55 Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Matt Rogers RT @DanDoyleNCSAmbb: 6'5 SG Markos Psimitis is leaving St. Louis University. Will be a grad transfer. Eligible right away. Looking D2/NAIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almaman Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 16 minutes ago, drkelsey55 said: Matt Rogers RT @DanDoyleNCSAmbb: 6'5 SG Markos Psimitis is leaving St. Louis University. Will be a grad transfer. Eligible right away. Looking D2/NAIA. cool. got the degree and some fun times hope he can get school paid for somehow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFord and TRavs Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 The other walk on can play now right from Illinois. Best of luck to Markos. Nice guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 I wish him all the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Was he here the last year we had a good team or did he just sit through crewsplatt and sit 2.0 his whole time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2010andBeyond Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 6 hours ago, thetorch said: Was he here the last year we had a good team or did he just sit through crewsplatt and sit 2.0 his whole time? The latter. For reference, Mike Crawford was a freshman the last time we had a good team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusam Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 According to Stu Markos, Roby, Bess, and Welmer received their degrees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 They are also listed in the SLU official Athletes getting degrees this week listing. Psimitris, Roby, Bess, and Welmer will receive degrees from SLU this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Eliot Welmer has already earned a bachelor's degree? Doesn't he (basically) have three years of eligibility left? He could get a master's and then some in the time he has available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almaman Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 So could either Bess or Welmer leave to be grad?transfer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 hour ago, almaman said: So could either Bess or Welmer leave to be grad?transfer? Yes for Bess, although no need to worry. Not sure about welmer since hes like 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almaman Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 yep don't worry about him splitting but just trying to understand this grad transfer stuff. I'm amazed about all these kids graduating in 3 years, HS kids reclassifying as seniors. Seems like wasn't long ago that it was trending 5 years to graduate instead of 4. Kids getting smarter? school easier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 7 hours ago, almaman said: yep don't worry about him splitting but just trying to understand this grad transfer stuff. I'm amazed about all these kids graduating in 3 years, HS kids reclassifying as seniors. Seems like wasn't long ago that it was trending 5 years to graduate instead of 4. Kids getting smarter? school easier? Bess has sat out a year of playing so he has been in school for 4 years. A lot of people are coming into schools having taken high school courses that counted for college credits as well. Some freshmen I’ve known have been sophomores before they step foot on campus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextYearBill Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 hour ago, JMM28 said: A lot of people are coming into schools having taken high school courses that counted for college credits as well. Some freshmen I’ve known have been sophomores before they step foot on campus. humble brag... I graduated SLU in 3 years.... thank you Edwardsville PUBLIC High School for the credits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 11 hours ago, Quality Is Job 1 said: Eliot Welmer has already earned a bachelor's degree? Doesn't he (basically) have three years of eligibility left? He could get a master's and then some in the time he has available. Hypothetical. Welmer plays for SLU this year while in grad school. Hasn't graduated from his program. Could he still be a grad transfer the following year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBFan Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 11 hours ago, Quality Is Job 1 said: Eliot Welmer has already earned a bachelor's degree? Doesn't he (basically) have three years of eligibility left? He could get a master's and then some in the time he has available. We might be calling him Doctor Welmer by the time he finishes his eligibility. Billikid likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 13 minutes ago, willie said: Hypothetical. Welmer plays for SLU this year while in grad school. Hasn't graduated from his program. Could he still be a grad transfer the following year? If changes what graduate program he is in, I assume it wouldn’t be an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Welmer is a business major. It appears he's staying this season, so my presumption is that he'll do a one-year full-time MBA at SLU. He could have been a grad transfer this year, but he's probably better off staying this season, logging some actual minutes, and then becoming a grad transfer next season. He'll have an MBA and can pursue anything he wants academically without pressure. And he'll hit the grad transfer market with some actual recent footage for coaches to scout him with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 fan Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 12 minutes ago, Pistol said: Welmer is a business major. It appears he's staying this season, so my presumption is that he'll do a one-year full-time MBA at SLU. He could have been a grad transfer this year, but he's probably better off staying this season, logging some actual minutes, and then becoming a grad transfer next season. He'll have an MBA and can pursue anything he wants academically without pressure. And he'll hit the grad transfer market with some actual recent footage for coaches to scout him with. Since he has 3 years of eligibility left, would this approach cause him to lose a year? Or, can you play 2 years where he transfers to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Are the demands of a one-year MBA program feasibly compatible with the demands of playing major college basketball? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 minute ago, slu72 fan said: Since he has 3 years of eligibility left, would this approach cause him to lose a year? Or, can you play 2 years where he transfers to? He would not lose a year because he's a grad transfer. He'd be immediately eligible to play two seasons anywhere. This is assuming he doesn't want to stay at SLU for whatever reason, of course. I was just thinking that after this many years and an MBA, he might be ready to finish up elsewhere. This is also assuming a return to full health. I can't remember another SLU player on the roster with so many potential question marks for such a long period of time. He's been an interesting case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, Quality Is Job 1 said: Are the demands of a one-year MBA program feasibly compatible with the demands of playing major college basketball? Yes. I believe we've had players in the past do it. He'd take three full semesters beginning this summer, and I think the fall semester is more loaded than the spring in terms of hours, but it would average out to a normal full-time course load. Because of his athletic demands, he might be able to work with them, too, and maybe take another class in the summer or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 23 minutes ago, Pistol said: Yes. I believe we've had players in the past do it. He'd take three full semesters beginning this summer, and I think the fall semester is more loaded than the spring in terms of hours, but it would average out to a normal full-time course load. Because of his athletic demands, he might be able to work with them, too, and maybe take another class in the summer or something. Depending on the credits he brings in and the amount of prerequisites he's already knocked out, he could possibly finish his MBA in a year. Given the fact that he's been in school awhile - including prep school - it's feasible that he's already taken a bunch of classes that would get waived in the MBA program, placing him much closer to a degree. That's a different scenario than SLU's one-year MBA, however. That program is fairly intensive, and it would be difficult to do it while playing basketball. It even has an international component, in which the entire cohort goes to Hong Kong. I believe that takes place during the winter break, so without some sort of waiver, it would be impossible for Welmer to do both. Pistol likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Maybe that's the difference, then. We've had guys get their MBA while playing, but they've been able to spread it out over 4-5 years instead of doing it all in one year. Thanks for the clarification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusam Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Didn't Conklin and Cassity get theirs in 4 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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