TheTastyGreek

Not to derail the derailment, but does anyone have this game on DVR? If I could get a copy on DVD from someone, I would be that person's superfriend for a long, long time.

YES!!!! AWESOME!!!!!! What's Canales' favorite soda? I'd like to volunteer to follow him around carrying one.

It says I'm out of +1s for the day. If I weren't such a positive poster already, I'd do right by you, too. Will you settle for a slow clap?

We've hired his wife as the new OC for the football team, just so we'll have another Jones to fire in the event that we don't beat MTSU. Win by 30 points, or they both get the boot.

I generally avoid these threads like a syphilitic whore... But I saw this article and it reminded me of this damn thread title that WOULDN'T GET OFF MY SCREEN ALL WEEK. Union membership dropped 10% last year. If they bought and paid for Obama, they don't seem to be getting their money's worth. And they probably can't afford to keep paying the price tag.

Go UNO, ULM, FIU, Denver, and USA. And us.

Totally agree. Plus one to you, sir.

Just to clarify... I'm not saying that we don't need bench scoring. And I'm not trying to argue with radiogreen just for the sake of arguing. Considering the way we played tonight's game, I'm not surprised (or concerned) that we didn't get any bench points. It was an aberration, both in approach and in results from the use of our bench. It may hurt us on Saturday when the guys are a little more tired than they usually would be... But I'll take the win in the bank and hope for the best on Saturday, no problem.

Tonight, saying that the bench didn't score is effectively the same thing as saying Mangrum didn't score. And he only attempted 2 shots in 16 minutes. He did have 4 assists and 3 boards, so it's not like he didn't do anything out there. It wasn't his best night, but he did bring us something besides points. Spencer played 11 minutes and took no shots. He's not really a scoring option for us, and I was pretty satisfied with what he did do while he was out there. Holmen played 5 total minutes. Alzee Williams played four. Matlock got a 1 minute sniff of the court in the first half. This was not our typical game where we use our bench a lot. If Mangrum doesn't get 4 assists and pulls up to hit 4 jumpers instead... It's the same amount of points. Spencer doesn't score for us, and nobody else played more than one or two trips up and down the floor per half. Not sure what's up with Richard Thomas... Is he still hurt? Did it get mentioned in the pregame show?

Despite his foul trouble keeping him out of much of the second half, Tramiel only played 5 fewer minutes than the entire 5 man bench we used tonight. We put this one on the starting five. Josh/Tristan/George only sat a total of 4 minutes combined. If you add up the scoring for every WKU player who went for 16 minutes or less (the amount of time that Mangrum, our most active reserve, played), you get 4 total points.

Yep. Double teaming a guy 40 feet away from the basket as he takes an off balance shot, up by 3 points with time expiring... The smart play is to foul. Every time. A shot like that is practically automatic, like an extra point or an uncontested layup.

Rick loves this team, and he loves Johnny. He's just a little jilted, that's all. He'll find the passion again soon.

We still need more pitchin'.

Love you guys. Three simultaneous mentions of the same play.

Shouldn't have been an issue because Tristan should have gotten a foul on the 3 point attempt. And the no-call on the play in front of WKU's bench was no worse than the and-one Tramiel didn't get on the layup.

Stole, nothing... That was a freaking boxing match. Awesome, agonizing, intense game. So glad to win. Amazing...

I don't know the last time I've been this tense and anxious watching a sporting event. Maybe watching the Packers/Cardinals game with my dad. I really, really want to beat WKU.

Great topic, great writeup. UALR has been better than their league record. Not exactly good, but better than indicated. It'll be interesting to see if Denver loses there. I'd say it's likelier than not.

My guess would have been money.

Theoretically? Yes, it does suck. In reality? I'm not going to lie. It made me very happy. I don't like to see anyone put out of a job, but I wanted to see a new OC even before last season began. For him to get a job he chose to take is, from my perspective, a win-win situation. Even if it was at a high school.

Yeah, I love North Texas and I'm proud of the education I got here, too. But if Rice (or Duke, or Northwestern, etc.) wanted to pay for 18 year old me to go to school there... And in the case of Rice, grant me the exceedingly difficult opportunity to come in as a Texas resident (from what I understand, they emphasize academic recruitment from outside the state and particularly from outside the greater Houston area)... I would jump on it in a heartbeat. Any kid with the grades and the brain to get in to a school like that, even if it's athletically assisted, should seize that opportunity and never let it go. Congrats to the kid. No matter what happens on the field, if he takes care of business in class, he should be able to write his own ticket in life.

Just to make sure I (and eulesseagle, who posed the question) understand as clearly as possible: What you're saying is, someone who makes a habit of posting inflammatory thread titles, links to stories from politically aligned media outlets, and accompanying 1 or 2 sentence comments that "regurgitat(e) talking points" or simply take shots at other board members and/or broad political parties/thoughts under the guise of rhetorical questions... Someone like that would be violating the spirit of the board rules? Particularly if it was the vast majority of their activity on this board?

I'm practically emotional over here... That seals it. I love the new system.

So is this a system where we +/- posts and threads only, or will we have a reputation system like the one on the Sun Belt forum?

You be Jack, I'll be Ralph, and everyone else gets to compete to be Simon and Piggy. This is going to be an interesting transition.