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Article about St. Louis University

A St. Louis TV station had a piece last night about Scott Suggs. He is a junior at Washington, MO, high school, and one of the top juniors in the country. In the report they interviewed Suggs. He has had offers from Kansas, Florida, North Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee, and Washington. But they also mentioned the offer from Bradley and implied Bradley was right with the other schools. I thought it was a pretty nice compliment for Bradley to be mentioned with those other top schools.
 
Here are some links with more info about Suggs from our recruiting forum. The kid is very highly rated, and it would be a miracle if he ended up at Bradley. Illini coach Bruce Weber has also spent a great deal of time recruiting Suggs, so I suspect he would be disappointed to hear that Illinois was not mentioned among the schools he is still considering. But stories like this tell what a great job this coaching staff is doing on the recruiting trail.

http://www.bradleyfans.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4117

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=8&c=1&nid=2292687

Here is a recent Rivals article from the OrangeandBluenews.com about how Illinois and Bruce Weber have recruited Suggs as one of their top targets (sorry it may be a premium article)--
http://illinois.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=624135

In the article, it says he is still considering Illinois, and has made unofficial visits to Missouri, Bradley, and Illinois. He says'
""I like Illinois a lot. Their style of play fits me pretty well I think. I like all the coaches and players at Illinois too. When the time comes to start trimming my list I'm pretty sure they'll be on there."

The Orangeandbluenews.com also has a recruiting article about another Bradley target, Leon Powell--
http://illinois.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=630344
It reports that-
Powell is averaging 22 points, ten rebounds, and four blocks per game.....Mizzou, Bradley, Saint Louis and Missouri State are four other programs along with Illinois that have been in-contact with Powell.
 
Re: Article about St. Louis University

Da Coach said:
Article from St. Louis Post Dispatch very critical of SLU coach Brad Soderberg. The move to the Atlantic 10 is not working out very well--

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...0C744AD0D55E562B8625726A00132605?OpenDocument
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SLU really screwed up by chasing the quicksilver lights of the A10. If they had played their cards more wisely, they would have positioned themselves to become a top tier player in the MVC with the built-in advantages of being in the primary market of the conference.
 
St. Louis U. has other problems lurking beneath the surface.


The Billikens get beaten in four games recently by very weak opponents, St. Bonaventure (RPI 304),
Duquesne (RPI 235), Temple (RPI 146), and Fordham and get hammered in the press.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...B130DD28FD97AE8C8625726A0015DCA8?OpenDocument

St. Louis basketball guru Bernie Miklasz (and other writers, too)really turns up the heat with a couple recent articles calling SLU a "bad team",
has bad defense, rips into Soderberg's recruiting, and criticizes him for playing walk ons.
He also seems to long for getting out of the A10 and into the MVC.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...0C744AD0D55E562B8625726A00132605?OpenDocument
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...CFB5D9140CEF44DC86257264001ADE28?OpenDocument

Also- two players have left the team in mid-season.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...77EACBA5A300E2F8862572660083280C?OpenDocument
 
UE will be back (someday). They have a great history, but much of their support and following has been squandered by several poor seasons.
 
Da Coach said:
UE will be back (someday). They have a great history, but much of their support and following has been squandered by several poor seasons.
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Evansville shot themselves in the foot about 4- 5 years ago when there was serious talk of downgrading their athletic programs to Div. III level.
There Coach Jim Crews bolted to ARMY(?) and a combination of his departure, and the downgrade threat, sevely hindered their recruiting.
I do not think they have recovered to this day.
 
SLU should come back to the MVC. Although the A10 is working well for their other sports teams. SLU is a great school academically and would make a good fit in the Valley.
 
beamer said:
I have an idea.
Kick ISU out of the Valley and get SLU to join.
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I would hope that you meant Indiana State? Get rid of them and Evansville and add St. Louis and Butler. Both I(nd)SU and Evansville have been bad for a long time and I don't see that changing drastically very soon.
 
OK.......What if we bring in Butler and St Louis which would put the MVC @ 12 members........only the Top 10 make it to the Valley tourney.......? :wink: I like it...... gives us more press in big cities and 2 pretty good schools to join the league! :idea:
 
I read an article last year where an official at Butler said they have no intention of leaving the Horizon for the Valley. I wish I had a link, but he was pretty clear about it.

He cited that all the schools in the Horizon were similar profile schools in similar big-city markets (Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, etc.). But it was basically the markets that kept them in the Horizon.

Perhaps that could change if the Valley ever landed SLU, but I'd stop holding my breather for Butler.
 
I don't think we want to go to 12 teams, because wouldn't our schedule then become unbalanced? I don't think you're allowed to play 24 conference games.

Regarding Butler, I'd love to have them in the Valley, but I don't see why a team would leave the Horizon League, since I think they're almost as good as us. A lot of the "mid-majors" I'd want to bring into the Valley seem to be in the Horizon League already. (Butler, Loyola, UIC, UWM)

I think SLU would be nice... I'd also actually like to see DePaul in the MVC (since I think the Big Least will get a bit less big in the next few years-- they have waaaaaaaay too many teams). I also always think of Tulsa coming back. That being said, some of the "weaker" programs, like UE, Drake, and InSU have been doing pretty well this year, so I don't know that I'd chase any of them off.
 
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