billikenfan05 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Coaches and Players. who is on your PERSONAL Billikens Mount Rushmore. By personal I mean who are the 4 most iconic Billikens to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Majerus - hughes- bonner - easy ed Obviously a few others like claggett could end up on there too. If Ford doesn't chill out anytime soon I may be adding him in a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Ed McCauley, Anthony Bonner, Erwin Claggett, and Larry Hughes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 This is a tough question and the personal part is an interesting twist that you don't often see/consider. I'm wayyyy to young to have seen Easy Ed play, but since his number is retired/up in the rafters and he is a distant relative of mine I've heard/read about him more than usual and I think he still qualifies for my personal list. He is unquestionably on the non-personal list. After that I have to go Claggett because he was who I remember most going to the first games that I actually remember as a kid. I'm going to add Marque Perry in that same vein. Once I was old enough to appreciate the game more, understand & follow the entire game, etc. it was Perry who was the stand out player and led the Bills to that win over then #2 Louisville which sticks out in my mind as one of the most fun games I've attended in person. There are a ton of options for the last spot for me. Spoon or Majerus are the coach options. I grew up wearing Spooball gear and Majerus was already an icon when he started at SLU. However, neither really stands out in my mind as much as players when I think about the Billikens. Again I was a little young to appreciate Spoon's coaching and as much as I love Majerus I feel like he ultimately belongs to Utah more than SLU. I vaguely remember Bonner and he's probably #2 behind Easy on the non-personal list. However, not having any real memories of him knocks him off my personal list. Lisch is tempting because he fits in similar to Perry, but he doesn't have that stand out moment for me like Perry and sadly the teams he was on are marred by disappointment in my mind. Kwamain is tempting as well. He hit that shot against Dayton which is up there with the Louisville game for me on the "in person most fun game" list. Conklin's senior year was phenomenal. Evans was awesome / steady presence on those great teams. However, I'm going with Jett for my last spot because he was so unstoppable going to the hole his senior year and won so many close games for us. His hair & name also make him stand out more. There is my list: Easy Ed, Claggett, Perry, Jett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 McCauley, Claggett, Jett, and the coach from Jacksonville who tried to come into the stands to fight 05 after a drunken game in ~2010 billikenfan05 likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgeldmacher Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 McCauley and Bonner are easy. The problem with Majerus is the his impact on the program was submarined by his predecessor. Same problem with Hughes. His only being here one year didn't really result in the program being elevated. For my final two, I'll go Bob Ferry and ...... Travis Ford. I'm betting on him getting us to our first Sweet Sixteen in the next few years. This would immediately put him on the mountain. I'm also counting on him seeing that staying at a place like SLU and having job security while running a Villanova, Gonzaga, Xavier, St. Mary's, Wichita State type program is better than cashing in at a big state school and then getting fired after a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Hickey, McCauley, Spoonhour, Majerus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLU_Lax Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Grawer (he saved the program and I enjoyed his camps as a kid), Majerus, MaCauley, Spoonhour It is a cop-out to have so many coaches, but they can sorta represent eras and they brought in the Bonners, Waldmans, Claggets, Jetts, etc Brighton likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextYearBill Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Majerus, Kwamain, Jett, Goodwin aka... the program savers majerus mojo, SLU_Nick and RiseAndGrind like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyRican Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Hughes, Lisch, Mitchell, McCall I don't know if iconic but these are my 4 favorite players of my fandom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoloj Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 the 1st 4 who popped into mind majerus--bonner--hughes---listch---jett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 MaCauley, Bonner, Ferry and Claggett on the mountain. A statue of SluSignGuy in the Visitor's Center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 -Kwamain is on the top of my list, probably by far, given what he went through and how he came back, never said anything (at least I don't remember anything), got his degree and was a great Billiken - THANK YOU KWAMAIN -tough question, Mt Rushmore is all presidents who were elected twice so I will go all 4 year players, the other 3 are Easy Ed, Bonner, Roland Gray NextYearBill likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Interesting to me that several people have mentioned Jett. I believe Evans was the more important 4 year player on that team. Not a knock on Jett just believe Evans had a better career. SluSignGuy likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 If this is going to be a real list of players and people based on accomplishments Hickey and Boushka probably have to be on there. Hickey coached an NIT Championship team and had an Elite Eight. Boushka was an All-American, 3 time first team All-MVC, and an Olympic Gold Medalist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARon Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Majerus - Kwamain - Lisch - a player to be named later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoop Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Brett Jolly, Obi, Horace Dixon, Adam Knollmeyer joe_davola and DirtyRican like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 That's Mount Shitsmore Tonka likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Got to have Grawer, Easy Ed, Bonner, Clagett and Jett or Mitchell...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlebill Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 35 minutes ago, willie said: Interesting to me that several people have mentioned Jett. I believe Evans was the more important 4 year player on that team. Not a knock on Jett just believe Evans had a better career. Jett was also conference POY and I think that holds some weight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUAILMAN Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Easy Ed, Majerus, Matt Dickey, Red Panda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 8 minutes ago, Scoop said: Brett Jolly, Obi, Horace Dixon, Adam Knollmeyer Kyle Cassity, Jake Barnett, Mike Crawford, Paul Eckerle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 18 minutes ago, Scoop said: Brett Jolly, Obi, Horace Dixon, Adam Knollmeyer joe_davola likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Rich Grawer Anthony Bonner Dr. Richard Chaifetz [To be named later] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 4 minutes ago, Quality Is Job 1 said: Dr. Richard Chaifetz love it. good thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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