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Harry
Everything was going great down at the North Texas football complex. The spring game was over, so now coach Dan McCarney could focus on the school’s first season-opening home game in more than a decade.

“You promote, you market, and you do everything you can to get everybody to come back to games all throughout the spring and summer, and then for 12 years in a row, North
Texas gets on a plane to open the season at someone else’s stadium,” said McCarney, who has been the Mean Green coach the past two seasons.

And those who wondered a few weeks ago if the former Iowa State head coach and Iowa assistant would be on the sidelines for that Aug. 31 game against Idaho don’t know this Irish-blooded Iowan very well.

“I can’t tell you once when I got knocked down and didn’t get back up,” said McCarney, who proved that by returning to his office just a week following heart bypass surgery.

Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130503/SPORTS020602/305030077/1017/SPORTS06/Ex-Cyclone-coach-McCarney-doesn-t-take-long-recover-from-heart-surgery
Harry
Zach Peters, a former Plano Prestonwood Academy standout who left Kansas in November, will officially visit UNT on Thursday, a source close to the situation said late Wednesday night.

Peters was rated the top eighth grade player in the country in 2008 and committed to Kansas after his sophomore season. He was still considered an elite player nationally when he signed with the Jayhakws in 2012, when Rivals.com rated him No. 137 on its list of the top players in the senior class.

Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/05/zach-peters-visiting-unt-on-thursday.html/
Harry
Ventrail Vaughns, a 6-2 guard who spent the first four years of his career at George Mason, confirmed this afternoon that he has committed to UNT and will transfer to the school and play his final season with the Mean Green this year.

Vaughns averaged 5.0 points a game this past season for George Mason. He averaged 8.8 points a game as a sophomore.

Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/05/vaughns-commits-to-unt.html/
Harry
I had been thinking about this and thought I would throw it out there for discussion. Will this coaching staff get the light bulb turned on this season with Coleman? Or is he destined to be a backup at UNT? Can he improve to become more of a factor in a year where we bring in some young guys?

First let's look at his season stats last year:

44 Coleman, Keith (2012-13)

Games Played : 30
Games Started: 1
Total Minutes: 254
Avg Minutes: 8.5
FG/FG Attempted: 16/46
FG PCT: .348
3-Point: 0- 0, .000
FThrow: 8-18; .444
OFF/DEF Rebounds; 13/36; 49
Avg Rebounds: 1.6
Personal Fouls: 41
Fouled out: 0
Assists: 4
Turnovers: 24
Blocks: 11
Steals: 4
Points: 40
Avg Points Per Game: 1.3

So he averaged 8.5 minutes a game or a total of 254 minutes for the season and pulled down 49 rebounds and had 11 blocks. He had 24 turnovers

So let's be honest, in the remaining two years of his time at UNT he will probably never become a prolific scorer. And he tends to turn the ball over when he gets it.

But there are minor indications that he could potentially be a decent rebounder and shot blocker in the paint. Can a player like this be developed? Can anyone think of any past development projects that panned out? Could the defense be tailored to his strengths? Could we use him to set screens for the shooters?

6-10, 260 pound athletic guys like this don't grow on trees as we see in this current recruiting period. Coleman sat the bench much of last season behind Tony and Roger - this could be a season where his minutes increase. I don't see him as a great one on one defender but perhaps in the back end of the zone he could be in more of a comfort zone? Or will he be more like a Howerton type of player that rarely sees the court save for when other guys get in foul trouble? Is he allowed to go to any big man camps or could we bring in any experts to try and help his game?
Cooley
Not bad!



From Mlive.com’s High School Basketball Bulletin:
Voss is a load on the court. More than simply another big body, his great agility and sheer basketball skills give him a significant advantage over similarly sized players. And while he’s not the type to sky above the rim on a regular basis, he has an innate understanding of how to leverage his body (gained most likely from his extensive time on the football field), that will enable him to compete inside at the collegiate level. Think of a poor man’s Tyler Hansbrough, on more of a MAC level.
CMU has received a commitment that might be its best of Zeigler’s tenure, when considering not just talent but style of play — 6-foot-8, 225-pound senior Colin Voss from East Grand Rapids. Voss is a hoss in the paint, not just big but with good hands and feet and a mean streak. He’s a good athlete who can play a fullcourt or halfcourt game and is comfortable handling the ball away from the basket.
Voss, Bankhoops.com’s No. 2 power forward in 2010, also had offers from Ball State, Drake, Pacific, Toledo and Wisconsin-Green Bay, as well as some mid-major offers for football (and conceivably could have gone high-major on the gridiron had that been his first choice).

Voss has something else in common with Psycho-T — he’s vicious. He plays basketball angry — like he’s playing football. When used appropriately this can be Voss’s greatest asset, as it is that extra gear that separates him from similarly skilled athletes. But when unchecked, this quality has a history of leading to some issues. Voss’s emotion, when channeled correctly, can be the driving force behind a dominating 20pt/20reb effort. But when unchecked it can also overwhelm him, and has been the catalyst to some unimpressive performances.

The Voss paradox is that his temper is simultaneously his greatest asset and his worst enemy, and his success at the next level will ride in large part on his — or failing that his coach’s — ability to temper his temper (fortunately, perhaps for both parties, that’s exactly the type of thing that college coaches like Zeigler get paid the big bucks to take care of, and channel toward whichever end is most useful).

Ultimately, this signing is huge for the future of CMU basketball, as it brings to Mt. Pleasant the potential cornerstone to a successful program. It also makes sense for Voss on many levels. First, choosing basketball over football is a logical choice, even for a physical specimen with an attraction to contact like Voss, because the career path of a basketball player is theoretically much healthier, and therefore longer. Second, given his talent it is conceivable that he could have played in the Big-10, but had he chosen to do so it would have likely been in a reserve role. His signing with CMU is a win/win, as CMU gets Big-10-lite talent, while Voss gets exponentially more playing time, and will have the opportunity to ultimately have a greater career.

http://www.espn961.com/pages/WestMichiganAllStar.html?article=6160878



Harry
UNT put out a time lapse video of the old Sun Belt logo coming off the field and the new Conference USA logo being put down at Apogee Stadium here recently. I was actually standing there when a couple of UNT officials had the outline for the C-USA logo on the field. It’s pretty cool and kind of funny when the Sun Belt logo is coming off the field to the high drama music. UNT isn’t keeping it much of a secret that it was dying to get out of the Sun Belt. It makes sense. There were no other Texas teams in the league. (click below Read More link for video)

And in other news …

Not that this is a surprise by any stretch, but it is worth noting that Sujay Lama was named the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year.

Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/04/tuesday-morning-notes-c-usa-logo-goes-down-video-lama-named-coy.html/
Harry
Armani Flannigan, a 6-8 power forward from Central Wyoming College, confirmed late Sunday night that has has orally committed to UNT.
Flannigan averaged 14.2 points and 6.6 rebounds a game as a sophomore and was named second-team All-Region IX.

Flannigan visited UNT over the weekend and left to return to Wyoming on Sunday afternoon. He confirmed in a text message that he had told UNT’s coaches that he would continue his career at the school and said that he would sign a national letter of intent in the next few days.

Flannigan will join a recruiting class that also includes three high school players who signed with UNT during the early signing period. Greg Wesley, a forward from Arlington Seguin, Tony Nunn, a center from Oldsmar Christian in Florida, and Josh Friar, a power forward from Kingwood, rounded out UNT’s early signing class.

The addition of Flannigan is a vital one for UNT, which is set to return just one player over 6-6 next season in backup center Keith Coleman as it makes the move to Conference USA.

Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/04/flannigan-commits-to-unt.html/

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