TheTastyGreek

I've seen the paperwork, too. Here it is: http://www.ncaapubli...nloads/D113.pdf Short answer: You do NOT have an indeterminate period of time to play 4 years. The clock starts when you first enroll, and other than a few blanket exemptions, it only stops for extreme circumstances, and then only by a 2/3rds vote of the Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement. Relevant sections: Waiver procedure and some examples are covered in 14.2.1.5. Unless T.J. is/was: Pregnant, in the military, or doing a Mormon mission, he doesn't get any automatic extra time. He will need an approved 6th year to play out a full college career. It can happen (they outline previous examples of approved waivers of the 5 year clock, like comas, natural disasters, extreme financial hardship, and a few others), but the rule is very clear and anything outside 5-to-play-4 is NOT a given. Clock started when he enrolled at Oklahoma. Unless he gets a waiver, it runs out in 2014-15. Year 1 = 2010- Oklahoma (did not play, traditional redshirt... But the 5 year clock starts here) Year 2 = 2011- JUCO Year 3 = 2012- Marquette, then North Texas (barring a reversal, can not play per transfer rules) Year 4 = 2013- North Texas Year 5 = 2014- North Texas If he doesn't get a medical hardship waiver or some sort of special dispensation per 14.2.1.5, he'll only get 3 years of on-court eligibility during his 5 year clock.

Seriously? Not saying Emelogu isn't talented, but is he power conference good? Reach? Question, minimal info.

What does that mean? What is the "guarantee" here? What's backing it? I have zero opinion either way on the size of the crowd. But what exactly is the guarantee, and what's backing it? The only way to actually guarantee 22-24k would be to buy 22-24k tickets and forcibly conscript 22-24k people to sit in the stadium. Is that what you're doing with your guarantee? Words mean things. #surlyagingman

Shuke-D is the Alzee Williams of GMG.com. Smooth. Cerebral. Knows his game, knows his range. Totally in command of his skill set. Not a volume shooter, but deadly reliable when he decides to step up and assert himself. A professional. A low-profile star. A fan favorite for the obsessive observer.

Me either. ...this thing might just work out after all!

Also, go to bed. It's after one in the morning there.

http://www.gomeangre...tion=boardrules You'd better start making score predictions or complaining about America's presidential election. That's what we do here.

WRONG AGAIN. Twice over. I singlehandedly crashed the Greek economy, AND I slapped that communist woman on live TV, and I made it home in time to do whatever the most outrageous thing anyone is angry about in the Git Sum Presidentin' thread. It's all my fault. Also, this is not Romani Craigslist. Advertising is not allowed here. It's one of the forum rules you supposedly reviewed and agreed to when you created your account. So... Stop advertising things you're trying to sell here.

If you can't trust people from Bucharest in an internet transaction... Who can you trust anymore? http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_hackerville_romania/

Especially since his wasn't a longwinded way of saying "I'm going to see the new Craig James movie", like yours secretly was.

One other thing to take very close note of when looking at that list of quality, formidable teams... How many of them made the NCAA tournament last year without winning their conference tournament? Even Drexel, which went 27-5 in the regular season and lost their conference tournament final to VCU when a last second 3 point attempt didn't land, was left home. RPI 66, only two of those losses came against teams with less than 20 wins on the year. Just making the field in the NCAAs is very hard. What we're (potentially) capable of doing and what we're given the opportunity to do may not match up to everyone's liking.

Even without him, Texas is notably better than us this year. They have a Greek guy named Ioannis. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/61713/ioannis-papapetrou

Budget. The best, most consistent and neutral distinction of a "mid major" team that I know of is the red line: http://www.midmajority.com/redline The site used to distinguish between CUSA as a whole and Memphis (and Gonzaga, Xavier, and a few others), so that the Memphis budget wouldn't skew the average and CUSA was considered a mid major (below the red line) league. They don't separate them any more... But CUSA will likely drop below the red line again next year when Memphis leaves and the incoming programs pull the average down.

Thanks, Cooley. I figured that's what you meant. But, with the constant transfers... Could have been either.

Meaning... Eligibility, or talent?

Yes, it is. I think his real first name is Danrad.

I didn't realize Chicken Knowles wasn't able to play this year. I don't think Houston is likely to be as good as us.

There's a lot of talent over there. Size, shooting... Not sure who plays point for them this year (not paying that close attention), but every other spot on the floor I know is solid. They aren't quite as deep as us, and the top line talent doesn't match up anywhere near Tony... But I think they are going to be a top 2-4 team in CUSA this year. Even with the transition out of a Princeton offense (I assume...) potentially causing some early issues. As much as we joke about Larry Brown being the cryptkeeper... Adding him and Jankovich in place of Doherty was a tremendous upgrade.

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And to answer the question, I think it's Baylor, Texas, A&M, and then four teams who could stake a claim to that 4th spot. Houston, UTEP, us, and SMU. If Tech weren't already such a train wreck this season, they'd be in that mix, too. Lots of talent there, but it's a total basket case of a situation. UTA and Lamar will probably end the season better than half of those four... But I don't know which ones. SHSU, UTSA, Texas State, SFA, and A&M-Corpus probably aren't as good as UTA and Lamar this year, in my opinion. And with Texas Southern... It's always hard to gauge SWAC teams against other competition because of the economic realities of their scheduling. If you really twisted my arm... I'd put that second tier of teams in the following order: Houston, us, SMU, and UTEP. EDIT because I forgot Rice and TCU (screw you, private colleges) Rice is down there with the SHSU group. They lost their Persian guy for some reason... Transferred elsewhere. TCU is probably in the Lamar UTA group.

Another note for the sake of context... One of those was the bizarre finish where Chris drove the lane with less than 5 seconds to go, and ASU caught a rebound carom and hit a half court shot at the buzzer to beat us. Another was a loss to UALR where a Jordan Williams 3 point shot at the buzzer didn't go in. The only loss where we weren't shooting to win or tie with less than 3 seconds on the clock was LSU.

I mentioned this in another thread... On October 6th of last year, Taggart at WKU won his 1st game of the season and 3rd game ever, raising his record to 3-14 overall. A nice bounceback from losing by 4 touchdowns to a 1-AA team two games earlier. Not saying Mac gets a pass... But Taggart had half as many wins as Mac at the same point in his tenure. And a loss to a 1-AA school. As for Berry, he went 5-7 and 4-8 in his first two years at ULM. Never better than .500 in Sun Belt play. And at this point in his tenure... He was sitting at 6-11, with two of those six wins against 1-AA schools.