2025-26 ROSTER

[CenHudDude]

10 hours ago, HoosierPal said:

You should tell Coach Schertz his methods and terms are b.s.  He most certainly would change back to the 1950 terms you prefer. 

OUCH!

[billikenfan05]

4 hours ago, CenHudDude said:

OUCH!

Ahh those 50s terms that 95% of college basketball coaches still use today. 

[HoosierPal]

News on Thames.

https://x.com/RoccSTL/status/1918411235487367191

 

[kmbilliken]

12 hours ago, HoosierPal said:

News on Thames.

https://x.com/RoccSTL/status/1918411235487367191

Sounds like they still haven’t figured it out, they just figured out that trying to play won’t cause any long term problems. This is just my speculation based on how it is worded. It doesn’t say they arrived at a diagnosis or figured out how to treat the problem, just that after testing he is cleared to try to play.

 

[WVBilliken]

21 minutes ago, kmbilliken said:

 

Or perhaps more likely, the Doctors did determine a medical cause and the Thames family wants the medical diagnosis and treatment kept private.  We fans may never know the true story of Kellen's health issue.

[kmbilliken]

38 minutes ago, WVBilliken said:

Or perhaps more likely, the Doctors did determine a medical cause and the Thames family wants the medical diagnosis and treatment kept private.  We fans may never know the true story of Kellen's health issue.

I hope that is the case.

[billikenfan05]

55 minutes ago, WVBilliken said:

Or perhaps more likely, the Doctors did determine a medical cause and the Thames family wants the medical diagnosis and treatment kept private.  We fans may never know the true story of Kellen's health issue.

From what I understand, this is likely the case. 

[wgstl]

5 hours ago, WVBilliken said:

Or perhaps more likely, the Doctors did determine a medical cause and the Thames family wants the medical diagnosis and treatment kept private.  We fans may never know the true story of Kellen's health issue.

Absolutely not true, one person on this board knows the exact reason. 

[Old guy]

Please read carefully what Mark Rocchio said, particularly the last paragraph shown in  Hoosier Pal's last post. They do not appear to have identified a medical cause for his cramps. They are going to give him a try-out practice test to see if they can figure out if they can use Thames during play. 

Again, they do not know what is causing his cramps and, unless they can figure out how to use him (Thames) in play he may or may not play during the season. The decision to have him play is in the air at this time. Of course, Thames wants to play.

[VeniceMenace]

1 hour ago, Old guy said:

Please read carefully what Mark Rocchio said, particularly the last paragraph shown in  Hoosier Pal's last post. They do not appear to have identified a medical cause for his cramps. They are going to give him a try-out practice test to see if they can figure out if they can use Thames during play. 

Again, they do not know what is causing his cramps and, unless they can figure out how to use him (Thames) in play he may or may not play during the season. The decision to have him play is in the air at this time. Of course, Thames wants to play.

I interpret that to mean it's 50/50.

[slu72]

In this day and age of advancements in medical science it seems strange the MDs can’t come up with a diagnosis. Also, with the multitude of ways to find out if there are similar cases around the world and what the medical community believes is the cause I find it hard to believe Kellen’s affliction is a one off. All that said, I completely agree with the Thames family asking for privacy. Medical info is highly personal and should be respected as such. We don’t need to know the causes. We just want to see the young man cured and fully recovered. 

[billikenbill]

It may be a one off or a rare disorder. Similar situations have occurred previously and remedies such as consuming pickle juice and various combinations of food intake have solved the problem. In this case, those methods didn’t provide a solution and Thames had to shut it down.

At this point, it appears to me that they are trying to determine the optimum combination of food, electrolyte, and fluid consumption, along with both dynamic and static stretching, and periods of rest to see which combination is the most effective. 

[HoosierPal]

4 hours ago, slu72 said:

All that said, I completely agree with the Thames family asking for privacy. Medical info is highly personal and should be respected as such. We don’t need to know the causes. We just want to see the young man cured and fully recovered. 

This is 100% what this board should follow.  Let's end the speculation on what is causing his condition.

[TheA_Bomb]

4 hours ago, HoosierPal said:

This is 100% what this board should follow.  Let's end the speculation on what is causing his condition.

Hahaha says the web crawling bot that continues to cut and paste anything related, adding to speculation. 

How can a web crawling bot not programmed for personality be such a tool?

Taking the I out of AI.

[HoosierPal]

1 hour ago, TheA_Bomb said:

Hahaha says the web crawling bot that continues to cut and paste anything related, adding to speculation. 

How can a web crawling bot not programmed for personality be such a tool?

Taking the I out of AI.

Hey little A_Robbie. Where you been?  I missed your cute little bad post reactions.  I know they give your ego a big boast when you give one out. What do you do next, chest bump your frat brothers?

Do you read your posts before you hit submit?  It certainly doesn't look like it. The adults are having a serious discussion here about medical issues and privacy. But you obviously want this to be about you believing you are the funniest poster on the board. You should stick to your hilarious management templates.  Now those are funny!

[thunderdan]

Kellen is such a good kid. Smart, humble, and driven. Just like his dad. I’m rooting, with all my heart, for him to make a full recovery. He deserves good things in life. 

[Old guy]

6 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said:

Hahaha says the web crawling bot that continues to cut and paste anything related, adding to speculation. 

How can a web crawling bot not programmed for personality be such a tool?

Taking the I out of AI.

AI is artificial, but it is not intelligent. I has a greater capacity for good work in certain areas like graphics and visualization. It is not very good with finances. I have no idea how well it does in other sectors like the military.

[TheA_Bomb]

53 minutes ago, Old guy said:

AI is artificial, but it is not intelligent. I has a greater capacity for good work in certain areas like graphics and visualization. It is not very good with finances. I have no idea how well it does in other sectors like the military.

It's an ongoing discussion. We're using "camo GPT" now, and it's good in that it has access to the whole of military doctrine. So that is very useful. In addition, in my area of focus, target mensuration and joint targeting are ripe for automating some decision-making in the kill chain. It's an ongoing discussion amongst senior leaders. So I've been busy with stuff like that.

Given enough computing power and the right analytics, I wonder if an AI could provide the optimum lineup for the selected offense/defense vs the opposing offense/defense. The human factor would always be there, even if given all the money to buy the highest-paid NIL players. There are just some things a computer program could never do, like be subtle or have a sense of humor.

[Old guy]

2 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said:

It's an ongoing discussion. We're using "camo GPT" now, and it's good in that it has access to the whole of military doctrine. So that is very useful. In addition, in my area of focus, target mensuration and joint targeting are ripe for automating some decision-making in the kill chain. It's an ongoing discussion amongst senior leaders. So I've been busy with stuff like that.

Given enough computing power and the right analytics, I wonder if an AI could provide the optimum lineup for the selected offense/defense vs the opposing offense/defense. The human factor would always be there, even if given all the money to buy the highest-paid NIL players. There are just some things a computer program could never do, like be subtle or have a sense of humor.

Great post. I have never thought about how to apply AI to the military. Doctrine and tactics are worlds apart. And while I agree AI might be a great help for theater level planning, particularly for logistics and placement of force. I cannot imagine how a distributed multi-service AI could be used effectively at small unit tactical level. 

Take basketball, as you did in your post, I cannot imagine a HC like Schertz would be using the recommendations of an AI to determine optimal lineups for offense defense. I will be happy to engage in a broader discussion of issues like tese by personal mail.

 

[VeniceMenace]

10 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said:

It's an ongoing discussion. We're using "camo GPT" now, and it's good in that it has access to the whole of military doctrine. So that is very useful. In addition, in my area of focus, target mensuration and joint targeting are ripe for automating some decision-making in the kill chain. It's an ongoing discussion amongst senior leaders. So I've been busy with stuff like that.

Given enough computing power and the right analytics, I wonder if an AI could provide the optimum lineup for the selected offense/defense vs the opposing offense/defense. The human factor would always be there, even if given all the money to buy the highest-paid NIL players. There are just some things a computer program could never do, like be subtle or have a sense of humor.

SLU should ask the ChatGPT what the heck is causing the extreme cramps for Thames and Thatch!

[TheA_Bomb]

21 minutes ago, VeniceMenace said:

SLU should ask the ChatGPT what the heck is causing the extreme cramps for Thames and Thatch!

Interesting you say that my wife is a Dr and I did ask her about the situation,  she says there's so many possible causes for this condition. Some causes are simple and some complicated some fixable some not and all the tests, trial and error on cures takes time. 

But to relate it to AI and medicine there's a push for it to help diagnose but a likely first case is to automate medical note taking for the file. That would save Dr's a lot of time. 

[VeniceMenace]

23 hours ago, HoosierPal said:

This is 100% what this board should follow.  Let's end the speculation on what is causing his condition.

Let’s not tell other people on this board what to do unless one runs the board.

[billikenfan05]

On 5/4/2025 at 8:46 AM, HoosierPal said:

This is 100% what this board should follow.  Let's end the speculation on what is causing his condition.

Where do you get off? 

[Wendelprof]

1 hour ago, VeniceMenace said:

Let’s not tell other people on this board what to do unless one runs the board.

I didn't take his comment as trying to tell other people on the board what to do.  I took it is a gentle reminder that we should always use common sense and be respectful of others, even when writing on this website.  We are writing about St. Louis University sports, a Jesuit institution.  One might get more members of the fanbase to participate on the website if one treated everyone as if we were talking to them face-to-face as opposed to hiding behind the anonymity of the internet.  That's how I took his well written comment.

[billikenfan05]

1 hour ago, Wendelprof said:

I didn't take his comment as trying to tell other people on the board what to do.  I took it is a gentle reminder that we should always use common sense and be respectful of others, even when writing on this website.  We are writing about St. Louis University sports, a Jesuit institution.  One might get more members of the fanbase to participate on the website if one treated everyone as if we were talking to them face-to-face as opposed to hiding behind the anonymity of the internet.  That's how I took his well written comment.

Hoosierbots history of trying to be an unofficial moderator would say otherwise. He did this same sort of thing when people were critical of Travis Ford the last 2 seasons of his tenure. 

This board is extremely tame in the grand scheme of message boards. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with discussing a non-life threatening mysterious illness. 
 

I do think there’s something wrong his telling other people what to think, or how to post. As opposed to say presenting your opinion on the matter.