TheTastyGreek

I'm pretty sure he had a damn fine birthday anyway, and if I'm wrong I'll take my lumps.

I blame his helicopter parent. Also, I don't care whether it was objectively successful or not- your post grades out very highly.

7'2", which is even more impressive. 72 inch would just be 6 feet. One of his coaches mentioned in one of the linked articles above (I think one from Cooley) that you will not see him shooting from the outside. Seems to be a very straightforward, 'pure center' mentality.

Jones was one of our earliest identified 2012 recruits. There hasn't been much indication that either Coach Jones or Coach Benford were/are in pursuit, at least not since summer of 2011. But... He was a player of interest at one point, and one of the things we want to do with this forum is better track who we talk to and where they end up.

http://mavsblog.dall...brother-p.html/ Jones will go to prep school for a year. Same approach to D-1 ball as what Tristan Thompson and Alzee Williams did. No idea whether he's still interested in us at this point, or whether Coach Benford would want to pursue... But we'll roll him over as a 2013 recruit.

Taylor Luster signed a LOI to play at Hill JUCO. http://www.crowleystar.net/ci_20592952

Assuming no unexpected injuries, redshirts, or non-Tony Mitchell early departures, North Texas will lose 6 scholarship players after the 2012-13 season: Brandan Walton - 6'2" SG Roger Franklin - 6'5" G/F Justin Patton - 6'7" G/F Jacob Holmen - 6'8" G/F Niko Stojiljkovic - 6'9" F Tony Mitchell - 6'8" F (non-Senior) North Texas currently has two solid verbal commitments from 2013 recruits: Tony Nunn - 6'8" C (HS) Anthony Norris - 6'7" SF (JUCO) Early signing period for the class of 2013 is November 14th-21st, 2012. Regular signing period is April 17th-May 15th, 2013.

Used to be over 300 pounds? Wow.

https://twitter.com/...066938028273666 That's encouraging... I was worried, not finding any decent photos, that we may be getting a guy built like incoming UALR recruit Andrew "His name is Robert Paulson" Poulter.

260+, man... You may have to stretch out to execute the hug.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/140893/tony-nunn Not a lot of elevation... Granted, the guy is somewhere in the mid-200's, and not everyone is going to be above the rim like Tony. He'll definitely be able to push his way around in the paint.

Nice. Very nice. Thanks for staying obsessively on top of things, sir. At some point, I'll do some housecleaning and updates in the recruiting forum, too.

Alternate timelines are Historically Significant Fun.

Mine are untouchable. Yours can suck it. Frankly, I could take or leave yours.

Just goes to show, San Antonio loves KFC.

I'd go beyond the football team. When it's not just the coaches of that program... But the athletics director AND the university president and at least one other university VP actually discussing the matter in code and pronouns, but never actually doing anything so as to avoid shutting off the money faucet... That's system-wide. Not just football. As the brutal autocrat of NCAA sports, I'd do a 2 year death penalty, then 3 more years after that of bowl and television bans for football. And I'd institute a 2 year postseason ban for every scholarship sport that Penn State sponsors. Same conditions, with immediate transfer eligibility for any athlete who chose to leave for another program. They don't have to be 'punished' for anything. And if they decide that finishing their education at Penn State is more important to them than athletic opportunity elsewhere, that's an informed choice, not a punishment. If it killed Penn State sports, so be it. A charter member of the Big 10 survived (voluntarily) without scholarship sports, and they've managed to thrive as an academic institution. Their endowment is more than 4x that of Penn State, and they didn't have to turn their backs on child rape to bring in football money and donations to get to that point, either.

That was actually unintentional. Just a coincidence that my accidental tastelessness was thematically consistent.

I keep going back to the Baylor situation with the intra-squad murder. They did a half-death penalty for the basketball team, and that was for one instance in one department (and primarily, one coach- Bliss). This thing at Penn State is coach, president... all the way through the institution. And it wasn't one instance or one point in time... They sat on this information for years and years. If the NCAA can blast Dave Bliss (and rightfully so, to be sure), then they ought to be able to hit a target the size of the entire university at Penn State.

This (the original, not the 'summary' I fake quoted) is the way to do a long post. I don't give two poops about the legal profession, but I read every word.

We'll see if/when someone actually suits up for them.

Happy Birthday, sir. Have a very special day, hopefully chock full of majestic, flowing capes.

Always bragging... No wonder that Baylor blogger tried to take you down a few pegs. Side note: You're a traitor to America. Nobody should ever marry a foreigner (other than my mom). Which is my clumsy way of asking... Can we go outside and have a catch?

Frankly, I'm concerned about young Mr. Orr. I've always felt that Photography is a form of witchcraft, and I'm worried that now someone has stolen his soul away.

Extensive discussion in this thread: The more specific stuff regarding dates and opponents is on page 2.

It's actually both, eligibility and retention. Each counts for one of the two 'points' each scholarship player contributes to the APR score. But, when a guy sticks around, there are apparently some appeals that can be made after the fact for people who lost eligibility but worked their way back to solid academic status. I believe that's part of why we were able to improve the APR situation in football faster than would have been mathematically possible otherwise. This came up in football back when we were dealing with scholarship penalties. At the time, the APR scores were still so new that you could literally go back and calculate what each individual year's score was by starting from the first year APR report. Then, one of the beat writers (I think it was Adam Sparks?) did a records request where some of the single year scores at almost every school had changed upwards a year or more after the end of that academic period. I think this is also why we were able to jump back up so quickly in basketball after that one year weirdness with Rich Young's "ineligibility" shortly before his summer graduation.