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Marty, I don't know if I can thank you enough for dragging this thread out of the dumpster.

We've encountered something similar before. In 1989 Corky had signed Todd Wageman who is probably the greatest player to have ever played for Springtown, Tx. The star running back had piled up over 1300 yards and 18 touchdowns in just 11 games his senior season, earning First Team All-State honors. This speedster was going to be lining up behind star sophomore quarterback Scott Davis. North Texas had been ranked #1 in 1AA during much of the '88 season with wins at Texas Tech, Rice, and the infamous UT officiating debacle. Anticipation and expectations were high in Denton. Tragically, Todd was killed in a car accident early in the morning of April 9, 1989. These tragic events within our North Texas family weigh heavily. Like with Willie Simmons, the loss of life of anybody so young is terrible, and that they were indoctrinated into our North Texas family makes the loss seem so much more personal.

Our signee Willie Simmons, star linebacker and honor student from Elgin, TX is reported to be one of the three people killed in the multiple shootings today in Austin. Please keep his family and friends in your prayers. .

Brace yourselves for bad news folks. I am hearing that our recruit Willie Simmons of Elgin was one of the three people killed in the multiple shootings today in Austin. Prayers for his friends, family, and everyone that loved him. .

There's a copy of the first North Texas Normal School (1906) yearbook, then called the Cottontail, on ebay. 1906 North Texas Yearbook on ebay The seller displayed the interior pages, and the only listed sport was women's basketball. I selected a unique name from the team, Cosette Faust, for light research just to see whatever happened to some of these people. It seems that Cosette, born in 1889, went on to have an extraordinary and extremely eccentric life, including exotic world travels, and epic battles with city hall. She, along with her antics, are minor legends in Dallas, and were profiled in a D Magazine feature as one of the "40 Greatest Stories in Dallas History". https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1977/november/the-prisoner-of-highland-park/

I think he would be a perfect fit here and would be able to develop his game. That, and having family and friends be able to attend his games would be a huge bonus.

Must be true, I heard the same thing from Simone Adamley.

Thank you team, not only for this outstanding season, but also for the several preceding it. It's been a wonderful run and we have shared in your many victories and loved every minute of it.

The NIT has also been great for our branding. You cannot watch any game highlights without seeing our logo plastered across the court or on the seating. A special 'Thank You' to Wren Baker and Brint Ryan. And a huge Thanks to the Lovelace and McNatt families for the Indoor Practice Facility. Our branding is not only visible to all on the interstate, the facility with it's huge logos is featured every evening on the news prior to the weather reports. Now, if we can only get our football managers to use our school colors and logos. We should immediately burn all gray, black, tan, mauve, khaki, dishwater, and any other 'secondary' colored uniform they have created, and get rid of every 'throwback costume' that should have been used once and then get disposed. I don't think we played a single game this past football season in our Green & White with current logo helmets. We played our bowl game on national television wearing Little Rascal quality helmet logos created from green electrical tape.

Thanks for the explanation VCU74. Those events are the reason that I am glad that this season doesn't count against any of the players eligibility.

Their message board is speculating that they may have had some VIP visitors at a dinner this week. There could yet be hell to pay by somebody.

Oregon moves to second round with 1 - 0 forfeit victory. Fans are melting down on VCURamNation.com much the same as would be expected anywhere. Their fans that travelled must be going nuts. "How can you be in the freakin' bubble for 6 days and then test positive??? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Multiple Positive Tests reported for their team.

From ODU BBALL: It's too bad that WKU and La Tech have to play each other so early in the tournament, but it's great that the NIT is guaranteed to have a CUSA team in their Final Four. .

Well, it is 2021

We are conference championship contenders in just about every team sport. Not every sport, but most, and even those others are showing promise. Football, which many of us realize has not yet reached it's potential, has earned a bowl game four of the last five years, and we should hopefully start to see results of significantly improved recruiting. Our Soccer team has been nationally ranked and annually racking up CUSA Championship trophies. The North Texas Men's Basketball team is repeat CUSA champs and currently making waves in the NCAA Tournament. The North Texas Women's Basketball team also has had an outstanding season. They would have won the CUSA Championship if they would have been able to maintain their fourth quarter lead on Rice on March 3. Great job Jalie! Softball and volleyball have also been doing well in recent seasons, and have been challenging for conference titles. The Track teams have a brand new facility, the Golf team has, for the first time, a new training facility being built, and there are plans for major improvements planned, including indoor courts, for our Tennis facility. Even a new natatorium is being planned for the Swimming and Diving program. Yes, we are beginning to see that future that you speak of. I contrast this with a school like UTSA, where a message board poster inquired "has UTSA won a single CUSA championship in any sport since they joined the league in 2013?" I couldn't think of one.

They are very good, and they are a legendary program. They were the ultimate giant killers back in 1985 when Ed Pinckney led the regional eight-seed Villanova Wildcats to the NCAA Championship over the heavily favored defending National Champion Georgetown Hoyas led by Patrick Ewing.

The DEATHMOBILE! Nobody knows a damned thing about it until it's unleashed. Purdue was already talking about Baylor because this was all they saw coming down the street.

A couple of things to remember about Villanova: Virginia is the defending National Champions, the year before that, it was Villanova. Since 2013, Villanova basketball has won 10 out of 13 Big East championships (combined regular season and tournament) and 2 NCAA Tournament Championships. Right now, Villanova is the ultimate Blue Blood program in the country. They recruit at an extremely high level, and according to one fan, North Texas doesn't have a single player they would have even looked at. .

Villanova is playing pretty well against Winthrop right now on TNT.

I'm so glad they extended his contract.

Should we rest him?

NORTH !!!

I feel so sorry for SMU. Their team was certainly not prepared for that game.

I keep checking for Texas A&M's Jonathan Aku to show up in the portal. He's a 6-10 260lb F/C that played at iSchool Entrepreneurial Academy ln Lewisville. The former 4* recruit has been buried on the depth chart and only getting a handful of minutes each game. His coach, Buzz Williams, has now signed the higher rated and younger 7-0 Javonte Brown to play the same position.

So true, but I'd also like to see Boise make a very short run in another bracket. 🙂 (Boise opens against SMU) .