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Chris Jones is ballin. 20 points, 4 boards, 5 assists, and 4 steals tonight. This guy absolutely fills it up, and his FG% is rising by the game. Not to mention, his shot is starting to fall. Don't be shocked when he AND Tony end up on 1st-Team All-Sun Belt.

"Are you the guys from Lafayette ?"

What is this...NCAA you speak of? Don't they oversee the football playoffs of teams like Sam Houston St and Montana? Last I checked, the governing body for professional teams like Ohio St, USC and Miami was the ever omnipotent ESPN.

Ok, so let me know if I'm following this correctly. Does the board automatically replace the word "transfer (who I'm sure has a very valid reason for leaving)" with "transfer"...if the answer to that is yes, why is transfer spelled incorrectly, and why is the board replacing the word "transfere" with an incorrectly spelled "transfer". I've seen this happen twice with "transfere". EDIT: WTF. EDIT #2: The board is changing the word Q U I T E to T R A N S F E R E.

There are going to be UNT fans that hate and SMU fans that are arrogant. Hopefully the rest of us can find common ground and keep the debate/discussion civil.

Wait one second here, there is nothing wrong with owning a BMW. They make some really great cars. Let's keep it above the belt.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm sure more than one SMU fan has given you good reason to feel that way.

Niko Suave

42 points...... You are safe for now JJ. For now.....

I think he may have cracked that code! Why all the SMU hate? Do I need to give you a hug?

sher will.

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This may be one of the worst football games I have ever watched. I will never get these hours back that I have wasted. They have been stolen from me.....

A few things I noticed @ the Jackson St. game, first off, the seats are too small. I am 200 pounds and it was difficult to get comfortable in those seats, can't even imagine what it would be like for someone bigger. The stadiums needs a drastic renovation. They need to gut the press seats, eliminate the bar around the court, put in seats closer to the action, there is absolutely nothing along the east/west walls at the top, why not put in a couple suites? Obviously, sound is terrible, and there's two video boards the size of my HDTV on each side. These things need to be improved because it just looks bad, it's funny how I didn't notice all these things until we had Apogee. If baseball is number one, then basketball stadium renovation needs to be number two. And we need to get these things done ASAP.

Any student choosing to leave UNT for another institution will now be called a [clever, clever boy] instead of a Transfer Student?

Once again it's the "usual suspects" that continue to derail a day that was has lived in infamy. Proud of you. Nice job. Thanks.

Just think of us as Texas A&M to your UT, or TTech to your TAM. Some feel you are our biggest rivals, while most of your fans are oblivious to our existence. But don't get me wrong, I still wish failure on SMU. Not because of any wrong I perceive that SMU perpetrated onto UNT, but because SMU is in a better place in the college football world right now than UNT. There are only so many spots in the club, and SMU got one that it really didn't deserve. More importantly, it got one that UNT will not get. For that, I wish you 10 straight winless seasons, 10 straight terrible recruiting classes, and no fans to come watch your home games, both football and basketball (oh, wait. That one already came true). Even though TCU earned every bit of their Big 12-3+1 membership, I wish them the same fate. See, it's nothing personal, and you seem like a nice enough dude. but you have something we want, and for that, I wish your school nothing but complete and utter failure.

When Hayden was young, there were lots of trees and creek near Odessa. There were also Mammoths, Sabertooth tigers and horses the size of dogs. It was transfere a while back!

How are they ever going to recover from the loss of TWO scholarships?!?!?!?!?!

Thats not a good sign....e for effort tonight

What a joke of a punishment. The NCAA, once again, proves it is a gelding.

I agree... there were times when we could have easily lobbed it into him but instead just swung it around the perimeter instead

Chris Jones seems like a legitimate threat to get a triple-double one of these nights.

Really good to see such an active game from Ked.

If I were an SMU recruit I would ask where my GD money is!

La.Tech I believe is headed to the Alliance and I don't think it is based on market (obviously) nor is it based on any accomplishments they have put forward, nor is it based on their facilities, attendance or any other measure. The Alliance needs a team east of the giant void between UTEP and the rest of the world. La.Tech can be taken without harming a viable conference because the WAC is not viable to remain FBS. It is simply about a warm body that is already FBS that can be taken without harming the MAC or Sun Belt. There are only two reasons that CUSA holds any value for UNT. Rice and Tulsa. The TV deal? It works out to $580,000 per school IF Fox doesn't reduce the money in the wake of losing SMU, Houston, and UCF (three large markets that Fox is strong in). The net dollar difference in the CUSA and Sun Belt deals is $480,000 that works out to roughly a 4,000 tickets per football game with no new donations. Opening Apogee generates more revenue for UNT than the CUSA TV deal and that's if it isn't reduced. If UNT isn't selected. Long-term adding UTSA to the Sun Belt drives nearly the same dollars to UNT as being in CUSA. That's if CUSA doesn't collapse. If CUSA collapses and Tulsa and or Rice gets left behind and one or both become part of the Sun Belt or whatever name emerges, UNT comes out ahead. Amazon isn't in the business of selling Kindles. They sell Kindles because they've got hard numbers showing that Kindle users at least double their spending with Amazon for books and such compared to when they didn't own Kindles. The Alliance and New Big East aren't built around the concept of selling tickets. They are built around the concept of TV dollars. If CUSA tripled their TV dollars that would be $1.75 million. They can make more by increasing ticket sales by $300,000 per home game in football. They are doomed to collapse because they've forgotten they are in the business of selling books and movies and aren't in the business of selling Kindles.

I disagree with the commissioner that we are moving to an eight conference universe. I believe we are moving to a nine or ten conference universe. As I've stated on NCAABBS Sun Belt board, the middle class is disappearing in college football. Look at how the MWC, CUSA, and WAC raids have gone. The elite programs that made up the middle class are mostly gone. Those who remain are left in conferences with lower budget, lower supported schools than exisited in 2004 or even in 2010. The people who did best in the Great Depression or our current great recession are those who had cash on hand and little debt. The AD at FAU was quoted after ASU hired Malzahn as saying Sun Belt schools have been smart in the coaching hires because the contracts offered have been consistent with what we can make in ticket sales. Look at Memphis. They hired a TCU coordinator for $100,000 to $250,000 a year more than ASU is paying Malzahn, drew fewer fans than ASU last year and they are slashing all season ticket packages $50 to $150. The "rich" TV deal CUSA signed with Fox? Works out to $580,000 per school and was signed when Orlando, Dallas, and the better supported school in Houston were in the league. The chasing of TV dollars is like what is happening in boardrooms of failing companies. Slash your core business and dump it to cling to the one steady revenue stream that in the long run won't exist without the core business. Go research the budgets of FBS schools. Whether its Texas or Texas Tech league revenue (which is only partially TV, it also includes NCAA, bowl, league championships, and sponsorships) is generally a third or less of operating income. The core revenue stream in college is ticket sales, donations, and sponsorships. The new Big East and the Alliance are chasing TV dollars and BCS dollars mostly at the expense of playing regionally relevant schools. The problem UNT and Arkansas State share is that we lack a really close school that we can have a rivalry with that helps fuel donations and tickets. Swapping the Sun Belt label for the CUSA label doesn't resolve any of our problems if CUSA doesn't have those regionally relevant opponents. They are ignoring their core business. I tend to believe that if you take care of selling tickets, soliciting donations and sponsorships that the TV part of the picture will take care of itself. You should never make a move solely because of TV. The intelligent conference asks first, "Does this school fit with us in their goals, aspirations, focus, and profile?". The second question should be, "Does adding this institution help anyone in the league sell more tickets and to develop a rivalry?". Look at TAMU. Back in the 80's LSU and TAMU had a short-run series that was extremely popular and Arkansas has a long history with them. Mizzou and Arkansas are a perfect fit though not as currently hobbled up in their division structure. You focus on growing the 70% of your business, not the 30%, especially if growing the 30% is at the cost of the 70%. Rick Pitino has already said he will not comply with a Big East mandate to schedule the football only schools for a total of four games a year for each football only because Boise and San Diego are too far for the program to deal with. How is San Diego State going to help SMU or Rutgers sell more tickets and generate more fan interest? How is a championship game against Nevada and the occasional cross-over basketball game against them going to help East Carolina sell more tickets and spur interest in their corner of North Carolina? Commissioner Waters thinks the Big East will collapse and the fallout will trickle into the Alliance and some into the Sun Belt. I disagree. I think the Big XII will take Louisville and someone else, probably South Florida but maybe Cincinnati or Rutgers. Memphis would be a very long shot. When that happens I have my doubts that the basketball schools will agree to add any more full members. If the ACC were to come back in and take two more, I'd wager heavily they will not agree to take any more football schools to get back to eight full football members. The likely outcome in my opinion is that what is left of the Big East other than Boise State and San Diego State may finally see the light and approach the best CUSA programs and maybe Temple, maybe UMass, maybe a Sun Belt school or two and form a new conference that leaves UTEP, Tulane, Rice, UAB, maybe Tulsa out of the mix. The western schools will take UTEP, Boise State, San Diego State, and maybe USU and San Jose, maybe NMSU (not likely thanks to UTEP and New Mexico) and do their own thing. The Sun Belt will pick up Rice, UAB, Tulane and if available Tulsa. Might take La.Tech or UTSA or TexSt. and we will have the five wealthy leagues. We will have a new eastern/southeastern league to replace CUSA/Big East and a MWC sort of conference and there will be some schools left in the cold like NMSU and Idaho. This post has been promoted to an article

Chase sat thru the whole MTSU game. He and his parents bought a handful of stuff from the gift shop. I'd be very surprised if he backed out

LoveNorthTexas and I are sitting here at the game empty handed. We're not ok with this. What are some sign ideas we can make for the LSU game and beyond?

You didn't watch us at UTA

NT 82 GSU 40

Just after I posted this, he put him in.

NT 53 GSU 32 11:59 to go Jordon Williams playing extremely well too. As the guys said in the broadcast, freshmen of the year in the SBC may be a battle on our own team.

NT 47 GSU 29 14:53 to go Starting to put the Tigers away. The run spearheaded by Jones and Hogans.

NT 32 GSU 20 Half Not a very well played half for us when Tony was on the floor. I sort of expected this really, a few turnovers from Tony passing to guys who didn't catch it, etc.. Gonna take a couple of weeks. Still, playing well on defense to this point.

NT 30 GSU 20 Timeout on the floor with about a minute before half. Mitchell sitting because of fouls, but we're playing better.

NT 21 GSU 16 3:35 to go Still looking sluggish offensively. Our defense is much improved this season though.

NT 19 GSU 12 5:47 to go Mitchell with a great block highlights that couple of minutes.

Not happy with this so far....

NT 17 GSU 12 8:16 to go...Tigers timeout Still struggling integrating Mitchell in the system, but when it clicks, it's pretty.

Sloppy.

NT 11 GSU 8 10:38 to go Neither team able to put the ball in the bucket right now.

Why the SMU hate, because that's how I feel about your program. Sorry if the truth hurts, but that's just the way it is.

NT 7 GSU 4 15:45 to go

Jj is tarred and feathered colonial style if we dont win by 40

AllAboutUNT, he's just fishing for info since they've rumored on SMUT's board that he is committing there this week. Don't feed the Phony Fans.

All I can say is I'm glad we didn't hire Leach- who was a controversial but frequently mentioned fan consideration for head coach at North Texas,

I love the indignant attitude on this board towards the SBC. Half our fans probably missed prom because they were convinced until the very end that the hot girl was gonna come around.

I'll stay in the Sun Belt if we can get LA Tech, NMSU, and/or UTSA.