TheTastyGreek

BYU, SFA... If your school has a bench full of white guys and a name from a dead old historical figure, we have no answer for you.

The team walked out like a Todd Dodge team at halftime of a football game. Body language is not encouraging.

Aikman, for one.

Oh, I realize where he came from. The only way I'd stop hoping for an asteroid to fall from the sky and crush Buzz Williams? If he were doused in corrosive acid and melting in agony, like at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. I'd wish for the asteroid to miss him, just so that he'd have to suffer a little bit longer before making college sports (and the world) better through his departure. Hitler's estate threatened me with a defamation lawsuit if I didn't stop mentioning him in the same sentence with Buzz Williams. If I had a choice between Buzz Williams coaching UNT basketball, or Jerry Sandusky coaching Pop Warner football... I'd go ahead and pre-dim the lights in the locker room to help Jerry set the proper mood. He awful. He just awful. - - - - - - - - - - Going back a tick, because I missed the comments responding to my post about rebounding: I'll grant that rebounding isn't even in the top 10 of things we desperately need to improve with this team. But, that's a sad commentary in itself, when you consider that an opponent roster loaded up with non-D1, transitionals, and bottom tier opponents aggregate to just outside a top 10% rebounding stat in their play against us. And, without some of the metrics you can get for NBA, it's tough to make a quantifiable argument about the nature and quality of our rebounds. I'm not saying it ought to be issue #1 in practice, and I'm not even the one who made particular mention of it. But I understand what the guy who complained about it was talking about, especially coming off a game where BYU outdid us with SIXTY rebounds to our 38, despite them shooting just under 50% on the game. It's all irrelevant, because this guy won't last and it looks more and more likely that this season is going to be the end of his run. It's just too bad that we didn't fire him last August.

With exceptional gratitude that this thread was started in the Eagles Nest, here's my definitive breakdown of the World Cup draw. Group A: Mexico Mexico U.S.S.R Obama Analysis: Looks tricky. Mexico and other Mexico could gang up, but the U.S.S.R. has nukes. You can never rule out the sneaky dirty tricks of Obama, either. Group B: Mexico France Mexico England Jr. Analysis: Another group with two Mexicos. I think we can obviously rule out France, because they always surrender. England Jr. could be a dark horse... Dirty criminal tricks? Group C: Mexico Greece Obama Japan Analysis: Everyone loves Greece. My money is on them and Japan. Obama socialism carries them through to the next part of the tournament. This group successfully built a wall to keep out more Mexicos, and one Mexico probably isn't enough to gang up and vote themselves citizenship in knockout play. Group D: Mexico Mexico England France Analysis: England, plus one of the Mexicos. Probably. Group E: Germany (non-Nazi division) Mexico France Mexico Analysis: Friendly Germany has it easy with nothing but Frances and Mexicos in their way. Good for them. Chocolate and precisely tuned watches for everyone! Group F: Mexico U.S.S.R. Al Qaeda Obama Analysis: The true "Group of Death". Do you trust anyone out of that pod? If you do, you obviously hate America. Group G: Nazi Germany Mexico Obama USA! USA! USA! USA! Analysis: 'Murca gets to take a victory lap against Mexico, Hitler, and OBAMA before moving on to (hopefully) take down Al Qaeda for the Lombardi Trophy at the end. Should be awesome... Someone call me if one of the pretty girls pops her top off to celebrate one of our wins. And we'd better win 'em all by at least two touchdowns, damnit. Group H: France? Germany? Who the hell knows? Al Qaeda U.S.S.R. Japan Analysis: The other contender for "Group of Death". Not sure where I stand on France/Germany... And I'm not going to bother figuring out which end of the stinky Euro spectrum they're actually on. There you go. Enjoy the ties and flopping, everyone!

He's talking about the fact that, even though we're playing a pretty godawful schedule, and even though our per-game numbers are skewed by that double overtime game against Portland... Our opponents are scooping up a lot of rebounds. Despite the D-2 transitional, NAIA, Southland-heavy murderer's row we've been competing against on the boards... If you took all our opponents rebounds and averaged them out as though "North Texas Opponent" were one team, then Incarnate Young of Southeastern Okla-lumbia-daho-land-wood State would be averaging 40.8 rebounds per game. 37th in the country, right behind North Carolina and just ahead of USC.

Y'know... I hesitate to point this out... Because I don't think he'd be playing much here anyway... But... Trey Norris is leading South Dakota in time on the floor, averaging 31 minutes per game and has a 5.7 to 1 Assist to Turnover ratio. He has 37 assists through 6 games. Through our first 6 games, we had a total of 55 assists as a team, and that's with a double overtime game included.

I blame the refs. We can't be expected to play well when our guys are tripping over the other team's lunch pails all night.

I have a filter set up so that anything from bleacherreport.com does not show up in a Google search. Stop ruining it for me.

Rent or own?

We started 13-2 in 2010-11. And beat Tech. 5-2 in 2009-10 8-2 in 2008-9 8-2 in 2007-8 7-2 in 2006-7 But, if we'd managed to beat Idaho... Our record would indeed be right up there in the top 6 or 7 starts to a season out of the past 8 years.

In laws, Thanksgiving #3 this week.

Worse. Looks like nobody brought Tony Denton.

Uh oh...

Fear not, Harry. Saint Anthony of Dentonua is here for you. If you've lost hope, he's just the man to help you find it again.

People, people... Let's not argue. Leave it to the professionals.

Sack up and take some responsibility. You should resign with honor. I've never been more ashamed of you than after what I saw today.

Awww... That's sweet. I had no idea they liked each other so much. I just wish Orr had been able to hug him a few times during the game.

Two nights in a row! Maybe if we can just have an intern print the scouting report, we can get rid of Benford entirely?

People, people... Let's not fight. This Benford Era could be over before we know it. If he gets fired midseason, do we want our last memories of this to be of us all fighting and arguing? Let's cherish it while it lasts. It's practically a miracle to be brought this low this fast. Marvel at it! It's like we're witnessing the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, live and in person!

Basketball fever is taking your breath away, eh? I can't blame you. The future's so bright, I have to wear shades! (Because I gouged my eyes out in horror and revulsion)

I didn't want to insult you, but... Are you saying that you guys are terrible at basketball with a f---ing inept coach who can't possibly be fired soon enough? Because if you are, then we are practically twins!

74 people reading this topic. I think that may be as many people as we're going to see at Incarnate Word.

Don't give up. I still believe in the 2-3 zone!