TheTastyGreek

I think we'll be "arguing" Gonzaga and Josh White's point guard purity for the rest of our lives, sir.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD.

First question: For some people, they seem to be a really big damn deal. Enough to jump to conclusions and still linger on it 3 months later. Second question:

If you're talking about this: I wasn't the one who -1'd you.

I'd second the thread title if it weren't for the jerks who got here before me. Happy birthday and thanks for all your insights on local basketball.

The Marquette program Benford just left has done that to returning players or new commits at least 3 times in the past 4-5 years. I don't know how much Buzz rubbed off on Benford... We may be about to find out.

He had no interest when he bailed on Oklahoma.

NT03 and I were planning on going... But Cooley may be your only hope. I'm stuck in Houston all weekend for an in-laws thing, and NT03 has to pick up his family from the airport on Saturday.

Yes. He's heard from the new staff. No offer yet, though.

I think we just solved an old GMG mystery. She just wants to keep a low profile and avoid anyone associating her with North Texas football. Otherwise, people might put two and two together and figure out what happened to Ray.

... Answer the question, Norm.

All is forgiven. Everyone pulls a boner now and then. Happy belated birthday.

Forget penalties or reprimands or sanctions. Why does/would/should the NCAA allow Penn State to maintain membership? The NCAA's Core Values include the following (bold text direct from the NCAA): 3 out of 7 core values, Penn State has knowingly and willfully violated for a decade and a half with their handling of the Sandusky situation. Not the football program, or the athletics department... But the institution as a whole. The most recent update to Rule 2.4 was in 1996. It reads: That's Page 4 of the 350+ page Division 1 manual. Way before all the crap about tattoos and shoes and text messages. Why shouldn't the NCAA just expel Penn State completely?

From our observations at the April GASO:

Casimiro is, at most, the 3rd best 20 year old Center in Brazil. His stat lines are sub-Fabio Ribeiro. His international experience and his evaluations (international scouting and JUCO/college recruiting) put him in a tier below Niko Stojiljkovic. I'm not saying any of this is good or bad. These are just facts. Set expectations accordingly.

Also absent are the fight songs for Texas, Texas A&M, and TCU: http://kotaku.com/5925264/ncaa-football-13-the-kotaku-review

They speak Portuguese down there. And it's wintertime during the summer. I don't know what to make of this guy.

High School: Southlake AAU: Triumph Select Gold Rivals listing Lists interest in/from 10 schools, including Tulsa, Wichita State, Weber State, and Sam Houston State. We saw Jolly at the April GASO... I'll look up our notes and see if there's anything worth repeating over here.

Western did it last year with a grand total of 3 prizes: A 32" TV, a $100 gift card, and a 15 speed mountain bike (based on a quick Google search, I'm guessing ~$150). Total cost for door prizes for Hilltopper Hysteria was about $550. Public, on the record: If we do a North Texas midnight madness, I'll pay that out of my own pocket to match their 2011 door prizes. And I think I could probably front the cost for 500 giveaway shirts. (If anyone else would want to chip in and defray the cost of that last part... That'd be swell)

Piggybacking on a UNT athletics event solves a lot of problems in terms of logistics and staffing. And it builds in an 'opening act', for lack of a better phrase, that makes it more of a show without costing any extra money or effort. You're boosting revenue for the volleyball game, and you aren't gambling expenses on a from-scratch event in a larger venue. I'd rather have a simple, minimal risk 600 fan Midnight Madness than the more expensive and complicated (aka: not likely to happen) zero fan Nothing we've enjoyed for as long as I can remember. Fill it this year, and then you know it can probably stand on its own next year in a bigger facility.

Well, there you go. There's a date and a venue, no major additional costs for security or concessions, and a nice bonus of providing a built-in revenue boost for a non-revenue sport. All you need now is some donated door prizes or maybe a band (neither are really essential with an attendance cap of ~600 and a pre-practice sporting attraction).

It wouldn't be right after a football game. Our only October home game is on a Tuesday. What WKU and other schools do is use it as an attendance booster for sports like volleyball or something else that would be in season in mid October. If we were to do that, you could promote an event after the October 19th (Friday) volleyball game against FIU. That game starts at 6:30... If you can get a hoop (or two) set up in there within an hour or two after the game ends, it would seem ideal. Holds 600, so you can realistically fill the place with enough people that you'd probably come close to selling out the volleyball game instead of having people wait to get in for a free practice afterwards. Would anyone interested in midnight madness risk not getting in in order to save $5-10 bucks on a volleyball ticket? And then you're not trying to have a high energy event with less than 1000 people inside a facility that's built to hold 10k+. We're already running lights and parking for the place, we'll already have concessions working for the volleyball game... Ninjaface? Can you get temporary hoops in there for a night?

It would be a great time for a basketball garage sale (similar to what we had for football at the spring game).