TheTastyGreek

Dr. B traveled a lot, especially to season openers.

You don't want to know how far we'd go to keep their athletes away from our stadiums, Quoner.

Hey, I saw "The Cove". I know all I need to know about Shintoists.

A way to save everybody from, like, the corporations, man?

You cover that, I'll patrol Virginia Tech. Watch out, Asians. We're watching you. NEVER FORGET.

A clever name for the tailgating area near the new stadium?

There's a reason I tackle and hog tie every Japanese guy I see at the airport, people.

Good find, Cooley. There's a thread on the OU forum that talks about him pretty in depth. I'd love to hear from some of the AAU followers we've picked up lately on their impressions of Singleton and any insights they may have about why he's not TCU-bound anymore.

If you're referring to La Tech, it very well might.

Exactly. If an OOC game started out like that for us, we'd start handing off to Keronna Henderson and 'just try to keep things from getting crazy out of hand'.

That's not what the NCAA thinks.

Yes. ALWAYS root for the SBC in OOC games. It improves our conference ranking for BCS money distribution, it improves the national perception of the league, it helps everyone when we get to the point in the season when we start beating up on each other in conference play.

1) Louisiana Tech denigrates our league and our conference mates at nearly every opportunity and, until the backlash popped up, flatly refused to schedule them in any revenue sport. Athletic Director made public statements to the effect that playing them was beneath La Tech. 2) Louisiana Tech bailed out on our league and very nearly sank Sun Belt football before it ever began. I'll leave it to ArkStFan to lay out the details on this one, if he happens to stop by. 3) Louisiana Tech actively blocked an SBC member (really, two potential participants when you consider 6-6 and also eligible Arkansas State) from participation in a football bowl game. Through threats and whining, they wound up playing Northern Illinois in Shreveport rather than ULL. Louisiana Tech... The school and it's administrators, not some group of annoying fans on the internet, has actively and repeatedly worked against our conference and our conference mates. As a conference, and as a collection of schools working together to achieve mutually desired goals and objectives, I think the Sun Belt members would think long and hard before considering Louisiana Tech for inclusion. On another level, as a strictly self-interested North Texas fan... What's bad for Louisiana Tech is good for us, in terms of potential C-USA membership. If and when openings pop up on the western side of that conference, the two teams mentioned more often than anyone are the ones who lost out to UTEP in the last round of expansion: UNT and LTU. Since then, La Tech's insistence on avoiding the SBC and playing a WAC schedule has limited their ability to upgrade their programs, especially compared to what we've been able to accomplish. The big example, our stadium, comes from an athletics fee that wouldn't be legal in Louisiana. But even beyond that, we've been able to accomplish things financially with our non-revenue sports facilities that they simply haven't had the resources to do (I vaguely recall something to do with tennis courts and another financial/infrastructure embarrassment along the same lines). They've done everything they can, such as installing a new jumbotron that you'll never stop hearing about if you ever come across their fans somewhere on the internet. But they're keeping pace and modernity with what they already had, and we're taking giant leaps forward. They're treading water, we're making tremendous progress (relatively speaking). If they have to suffer through even just two or three years of independence in football, it could potentially destroy the program. At the very least, it will devastate them financially and competitively. So, should UNT sponsor them? I can't think of a single reason why bailing out Louisiana Tech would benefit the University of North Texas. I can think of at least one powerful reason (watching a potential competitor for a C-USA spot drown in an ocean of their own making) why we ought to actively work to keep them out. It's probably a moot point, as I don't think they'd have enough votes to gain admission, anyway. The schools that would benefit the most in terms of travel costs (us, Arkansas State, ULL, and ULM) and would ordinarily push for their membership are the ones who likely have the strongest aversion to their inclusion. I think they'd need 8 our of 12 votes to get in, and I think all four of those would be strong "no" votes. If anyone else holds a grudge about the way they almost strangled SBC football in the crib (MTSU, I'm looking at you), then that's plenty to block them out entirely.

And the guy who supposedly sent out the Anthrax letters back in 2001 was a pretty hard core Catholic. Apparently targeted Daschle and some others because they were pro choice.

And the guy who bombed the Atlanta Olympics.

If you can think of a better, easier way for me to have passed Art Appreciation for Non-Majors, you should have spoken up years ago.

9 more weeks... 9 more weeks... 9 more weeks...

Too late. If you were a REAL supporter, you'd already have invited that other guy in Houston over to watch the game on Saturday. WHERE'S THE SUPPORT?!?!? (I still heart you)

Refresh my memory... What "very bad" Texas Tech team did we beat in the past 15 years? I seem to recall we beat a Tech team that finished the year with a winning record and beat Texas and Texas A&M, and then a few years later we beat another Tech team that finished with a winning record and beat Oklahoma and Texas A&M. EDITED because I somehow replied to the wrong post. Sorry, jdennis.

Dilaudid FTW.

I miss 97and03. In his honor: Dabo? Dabo? D'Abo? Dabu? DABO SWINNEY.

It's 50/50 whether our group winds up at Fox and Hound or the Pourhouse. If we're at Fox and Hound, we'll smuggle you in. Just try to act cranky and old so you blend in with the rest of us.

And if you're watching on TV, don't forget to schedule a wardrobe inspection for anyone within a 2 mile radius well in advance of tipoff.

Dang... I knew I forgot something. We ought to print up some bumper stickers or something.

The day the Rangers traded for Lee, I still said the team needed to Git' Sum Pitchin'. And nobody believed me. Mark it: If Ron Washington doesn't get this team to practice free throws, they're never going to win the World Series. Also, why is attendance so bad when the team is finally winning? It seems like every game I tune in to halfheartedly watch on TV, the crowd looks depressingly small. I'm very disappointed with everyone else in town.