SUMG

November 16, 17 and 19, 2023 Charleston, SC

What if the seats in Morrison's Pan-Kit Bis-Kit Corn-Kit Arena are black???

I think the fact that event was combined with the press conferences....made the crowd less raucous....than if the celebration had been separate. But who knows? I will say this....your sudden interest in basketball thrills me. I hope you will consider buying season tickets next year. The lower part of Section 121.....is a great place to sit. Right behind our bench. Great fans down there.

I did notice two players fairly high up on the list..........from Midland. I know it's been a while....but he might still have connections there.

Coach Hodge has so many connections in the juco basketball world.......won't surprise me if some of our recruits come from there. https://www.jucorecruiting.com/2023-juco-top-100

The good news to that.....is that the AAC will likely have a top 20...maybe top 15....or top 10.....team at the start of the season in basketball. (if they aren't hammered by the portal). So I'm glad for FAU's ranking. And the league will probably also have a team ranked in football (Tulane) at the start of the season. When have we ever had that?????

https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/polls/coaches-poll/2020-2021/

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings If I counted right......I guess we'd be 31st.....

About 11 minutes long. I love what Coach has to say. I thought some of the questions were lame (irrelevant to us)....but Coach Hodge was great. https://www.audacy.com/1053thefan/sports/college-sports/ross-hodge-on-getting-the-north-texas-job-winning-the-nit?json%3Futm_campaign=sharebutton

Trying to be positive.....I'll say this: Two years ago....none of us knew who Tylor Perry was. A year ago....we didn't know Kai Huntsberry or Moulaye Sissoko. So if we can keep our core intact (Rubo, Moulaye, A Scott, Matty, Moore)...along with Alex Cotton......and add some good pieces to it.....we'll be all right. Hope so anyway.

I've often said....Tylor may not be our greatest player ever.....but I think he is our most beloved. Anyway, good luck to TP..... And even though I bet this guy ends up at Wichita State....I sure would love to have him here: (he played at Dallas Jesuit) https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/36059352/oral-roberts-guard-max-abmas-enters-transfer-portal

Of course you cut the arena in half. Which is exactly what they did....when we had an event AT NIGHT, IN THE SUPER PIT.......celebrating the NCAA Tourney win over Purdue. It was in March/April 2021.

You say that most the players are gone. What school ends in early April now? And that the only coach who is still here....is Hodge. So who exactly will be there for the "celebration" at 1 pm on Wednesday? And btw....you're getting all your BS from the Ath. Dept. The same Ath. Dept. that did so little to promote things.....that we averaged 3700 fans this year....for a 31 win team. So by all means....go along with everything the Ath. Dept. tells you.

Not sure if you saw Twitter footage....but they had a watching party at Eastside Bar in Denton. Fans were outside sitting at picnic tables.... watching it on a Big screen. (Folks who were there, can correct me if I'm wrong on this). But it was a raucous crowd. (Kind of like you'll see when CBS will show a crowd somewhere in SD tonight...pulling for the Aztecs). Anyway....the twitter poster said that there were 500 people there. And that's a local biz that supports NT Athletics. So even if they had the event there....at night.....it would be better than what they're doing.

The celebration should be its' own separate event. At night....at The Super Pit. They're really limiting the crowd doing it this way.

According to our great fan NT03, Noland was at one of our home NIT games.

When asked about the Tech rumors....... "I just know that there are a lot of people recruiting our guys, too. It doesn't mean they are leaving. We have a special thing going here. I'm thankful to be a part of it."

The AAC just got tougher.....great hire.

One thing I wish they would do. I heard someone (Packer? Vitale?) mention this years ago. NO team should be in the tournament....if they didn't finish at least .500 in league play. That would take out WVa (7-11 in the Big XII) and Arkansas and Miss. State (both 8-10 in the SEC). That would open up three spots for deserving teams.

Her season has been over for over a week now.....if she was gonna be let go.... I think it would have already happened.

I went to the Memphis-Dayton game in Round 1. And then watched some of the other games that were there....on TV. I think that's when I first noticed how great our court looks on TV. We have one of the best looking courts in the country. That new design they came up with............greatness.

A little trivia....the last time The Super Pit hosted NCAA Tournament games.....Alcorn State was one of the 6 teams sent here. The others were: Bradley, Texas A & M, South Alabama......and LSU and North Carolina (who both got byes in the first round).

That guy (Jaylen Washington) is a commit. He's class of 2024.