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Jimmy.....JJ has gone out in the first round.....FOUR YEARS IN A ROW. The only time he won a SBC conference tourney game was in his first year.

JJ is now 63-78 after 5 years. His record against Division 1 schools: 54-78

Food poisoning? No, my friend you were POISONED. And, if I had to guess it was probably done by someone in the Athletic Department. I told you years ago to do what I did: hire a food taster. If you don't make it.....I'll see you on the other side.

Teams deal with injuries all the time, Old Timer. Maybe you've forgotten, but UNO beat us in Denton without two of their best players (Bo McCaleb and one other key player who was hurt--his name escapes me). Also, South Bama drilled us, and they were without Richard Law, one of their best players. We at least had Davis for part of our game.

Jeff....your list doesn't include Nevada....which would be another school ranked ahead of all of the Belt schools. (this past season).

Boy, I get so sick of this "who can we get for what we pay?" junk. Somehow, Idaho just got Dennis Erickson for less than what we are paying Dickey. Yes, he signed for 5 years, at a base of $200,000 a year, with incentives he could reach $300,000 a year. Yet, our fans think we can't get anyone worthy. The last time the b-ball coaching job was open, there were four candidates besides JJ, who were given strong consideration. Of those four, three were hired as coaches by other Div 1 schools (Billy Gillespie, now at A & M, was hired by UTEP; Ray Lopes, an Oklahoma assistant was hired by Fresno State; and Jay John, an Ariz. assistant got a job at Oregon State. So all three of them were quality candidates to say the least, if greater programs than ours hired them. To me the best candidate of the bunch, was Sam Houston State coach Bob Marlin. He has more quality wins in OOC this season than JJ has had during his UNT tenure. So, if the job opens up....we will get some quality candidates who want our job.

Well, I wasn't one of those praising him. I felt like last year should have been his "do or die" year. Anyway, he was given this 5th season. And the rumor is, was told that all he had to do was win 14 games to be back next year. (And if that is the case--that is a ridiculously low standard for a 5th year coach to have to meet...14 wins, when there are three lower Division schools on the schedule). Just lose, baby.

Middle Tennessee beat us tonight 62-60. Our team is now 12-10, with a 5-6 conference record. With four remaining conference games, all on the road (at: WKU, Denver, Troy, and S Bama).....it doesn't look too good for the Mean Green. This is the man's 5th year. There is absolutely zero progress. Tim Jankovich and Vic Trilli were both just given four years to get it done. Why should JJ get a 6th????

If you were a really good wide receiver.....would you want to come and play Dickey Ball? I wouldn't. It's amazing to me, that we've gotten the quality of receivers that we have.

Yessir, it is. I think they have 4 more of those, if I'm not mistaken. Wasn't it 5 games in LR, spread out over 10 years?

In other SBC TV news.....it was noted in the local paper today, that next year's Arkansas--ULM game will be televised on ESPNU. (Channel 609 for DirecTV subscribers).

It'd be fine with me if we did scrap the entire athletic department.....and started over. If you think most of the employees/coaches in our Athletic Deparment are Division 1 "talent" .....you're foolin' yourself.

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Arkansas State was 8-9 going in to this game. And they beat us by almost 30. Now do you see why some of us advocate holding off before promising contract extensions, RV?

At least at this All-Star game, they don't let the players "whore up" their helmets with logos from a bunch of different schools. I hate that. PC has looked good in the 2nd half---several tough runs. Wish Nick had made that 29 yd. FG in the first half.

I know for sure that Punter John Baker was on the 1998 Playboy team.

Kinky's website is www.kinkyfriedman.com. There you can find out more information about the candidate.....and find out how (if interested) you can help out the campaign (through volunteering, donations, etc.) Kinky in '06, SUMG

Where do you get that? With recent extensions....he has I think, 4 years left on his contract. Not one. Read it and weep.

The NFC Championship game starts late on Sunday (5 or so). So, if anyone wants to see 60 Minutes (and they want to watch that game).....I'm giving you all a "heads up" to either have a videotape or Tivo ready for 60 Minutes. Or I guess, you could tune in to the start of 60 Minutes, see what order the segments are in, and turn over to 60 Minutes at the appropriate time. Kinky in '06!

If anyone is interested in finding out more about the legitimate Independent candidate for the Texas Governor's race......60 Minutes is doing a profile of Kinky Friedman, which will air Sunday January 22, at 6 p.m. (central time) on CBS.

I agree with Green Bat's great post.

The Associated Press named Brian Waters to their All-Pro team. He is on the 1st Team, along with Steve Hutcheson (Seattle) and Alan Faneca (Pittsburgh). That's great. I know Brian has been to a Pro Bowl.....has he been named All Pro before? And if so, has he ever been All-Pro 1st Team? Mean Joe, Cedric Hardman, Spider Lockhart, Ray Renfro, others........I'd have to say that Brian is making a good case that he is one of our greatest pro players ever (from North Texas). Congrats to Brian.

I can't do links.....but it's available at www.sunbeltsports.org, if someone would link it. Some wacko questions, as usual. A complaint from a dad who is pissed because his kid (Guillory at ULM) wasn't named Defensive Player of the Year. But the funniest thing......at the bottom, they respond to questions about officiating at the Alamo Bowl. "due to the large volume of questions" (or something like that).

Euless......where do you come up with some of this stuff? When on this thread has anyone said that it's easy to be in the top 25 in basketball. Where? Several of us did say, that with the facility and our location, we should have a top 75 program. No one said "Top 25." So quit making stuff up. Anyway, I hope we do finish out the year successfully. I'm just saying that in my mind, we haven't advanced the program this year.....YET. Maybe we will. GMG!