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I remember the Super PIt hosting Baylor the first year Scott Drew was coach (2003). I nearly ran into him in the tunnel as I was making my way to my seat from the pregame Mean Green Club reception in the Letterman's Lounge. Granted, Baylor then wasn't the Baylor of today, but UNT can get Big 12 schools to come to Denton. It just takes relationships and phone calls.

Jeff Goodman is a slime. Don't forget he's the first one who broke the news about McCasland to Tech right in the middle of the NIT. Yes, the Lubbock TV station tweeted it a few days later when they found it was official, but Goodman actually tweeted it either just before the Okie St. game or the Wisconsin game. Totally uncool thing to do to try and distract the players like that. He's a HUGE supporter of Chris Beard, too. I can't stand that guy.

It should be free. UNT Athletics needs to be building a fanbase, and one way to do that is to have an app...but it should be free.

A lot of what Leach says in that lawsuit is blatantly untrue. I am a Leach fan, my source is a Leach fan, but much of his version of what took place is not true at all.

I have had the fortunate opportunity of meeting Lincoln and getting to sit in a film session with him at the Leach Fantasy Camp a couple of years ago. He is extremely smart and, like Leach, has a very good appreciation for the little nuances in executing plays that most people do not even notice. It is those little things that make all the difference. Todd Dodge would be crazy not to hire him and hand over the reigns. Lincoln is one of the best young offensive minds in the country right now, and one helluva recruiter. He's one of those people that you can't help but like the moment you meet him. I think Tuberville made a huge mistake not retaining him on the Tech staff.

Yes, Saturday was a disappointing loss that didn't have to be. The mistakes and bad luck just took its toll. HOWEVER... the team NEVER QUIT. They played hard and played with their heads on straight until UNT was firing off celebratory fireworks for Ohio (we are so nice that way....but that's another subject*). At the end of the game, soaking wet, I just stood there in awe disbelief at what I had just seen. Very mixed bag of emotions...I was disappointed at the loss but very, very proud of the players and coaches for perserving and never quitting. Hell of a job by everyone on that team. UNT teams of the recent past would have folded up and rolled over when the adversity hit...but this team didn't. If that game is played 9 more times, UNT wins 8 of them. Ohio, let's face it, got damn lucky. I cannot wait for the next home game. I cannot wait to welcome MTSU to the 2009 version of the Mean Green. Stomp. Mudhole. *Another subject: Do we have to shoot off the fireworks after a loss? I realize they are using the fireworks as an added game experience to entice the families out, but I just hate walking back to my car and seeing us celebrate another team's victory at Fouts Field with a fireworks show.

Coach DeLoach Not taking anything away from Coach Dodge. Hell, the whole damn coaching staff deserves the honor!!

Yeah, I think the real wild card in the OU situation is Missouri's rank come Big XII Championship time. I think that ranking and OU's "style points" make all the difference between OU or UT going. There is still so many ways this can play out. Florida and Alabama could also stumble with one of their other opponents, and both of them did, USC could be back in play. I think another interesting scenario would be Tech winning out, the SEC schools stumbling and self-destructing, and UT winning out. Could we really have a Tech-UT matchup for the MNC? Crazy...and I kind of like it, I admit.

Longjim...in scenario #2, if Tech beats a top 10 ranked Missouri team, which more than likely would be top 10 by the Big XII game, it's not out of the question that that victory alone would put Tech ahead of UT for the MNC. But again, with the BCS, who knows. I don't think anyone really understands the formula very well. OU goes to the MNC if they win out from here. Either Florida or Alabama will lose a game. The loser is out of the picture. The winning of the Big XII Champ game would put OU in front of UT most likely in the BCS rankings. They play the winner of the Alabama-Florida game.

1. USC is not the best team right now. The competition they have played has been downright horrible. Their signature win is against a very overrated Ohio State team. Not only did they lose to Oregon St., they were dominated..absolutely dominated...in the trenches. Oregon State ran the ball right down USC's throat. I think USC would lose to OU, Okie St., UT, Tech, and Florida very easily. 2. If Tech loses to OU, but then Okie St. beats OU, Tech goes to the Big XII Championship game because they would be tied with UT for one loss (assuming Tech beats Baylor and UT beats KU and A&M), and Tech goes due to the head-to-head victory over UT. 3. If Tech loses to OU, and OU and UT both win out, whoever is ranked higher in the BCS goes to Kansas City. I'm willing to bet it will be OU, but who knows? Stranger things have happened. 4. I think whoever represents the South in the Big XII wins the Championship game and will be in the MNC, as long as whoever that is only has one loss. I don't see a scenario where a South team goes to KC with 2 losses at this point. If someone held a gun to my head and said make a prediction, I would have to say OU wins the Big XII and faces Florida in Miami for the crystal football.

www.thecb.state.tx.us Go to data/statistics

Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.

I'm willing to bet that you would find the exact same percentages of players testing positive for drugs at any other D-1 program as UNT had. No doubt in my mind. Difference is UNT actually conducted the tests and the results were made public (not saying UNT made them public, but they were made public). UT, A&M, OU, Tech, OSU, Nebraska....you name the program, and I guarantee you they would have just as many test positive.

I saw a college game sometime this year where the cheerleaders were in the back of the endzone and they had their giant megaphones lined up in front of them. Sure enough the receiver comes through, trips over the megaphone, and somehow popped it up to where it left him a nice little reminder of their meeting in a not-so-nice place for a guy. I was thinking that someone at that school's athletic dept should have had the sense long before then not to allow cheerleaders to line up their megaphones in the back of the endzone like that with players coming through there at breakneck speed. Sure enough, someone did tell them after, and you didn't see anymore megaphones lined up in the back of the endzone the rest of the game. That was just a megaphone. The idiots at Marshall allowing those wagons back there were, in my opinion, criminally negligent.

Kram...I put a winky face after it...the winky face out-clause absolves me of poor form. I think the Obama crack was below the belt, though. Honestly, if I'm a coach and one of my players appeared to score a TD and didn't get the credit for it, I'm throwing the red flag. Not because I want to run up the score, but because I want a kid who's busting his tail year round for the program to get credit for a TD if he scored the TD. He put his player first. I can't disrespect that. And besides...it was the aggies. Don't think for a second they're above running up the score against UT or Tech. The past is evident of that.