VideoEagle

I'm not going to blame anyone who doesn't want to travel right now. Likewise, I'm not going to shame anyone who does. This year has really demonstrated that everybody has their own place they where they choose to draw a line.

At many (most?) bowl games usually the schools are required to buy a certain number of tickets and guarantee a certain number of hotel rooms. I wouldn't be surprised if this year they need to at a minimum not compete on the merch.

I've read Tech is thinking if offering him the OC position.

He wasn't as good as previous years as was the entire Baylor team. But I think we've got different views of what a "bad" year is. I don't think of a 122.3 QB rating as "bad."

One can only hope!

I'll bet he does NOW. I didn't realize they had a bowl game till this was announced!

According to posts on an Edinburg Facebook group, the kid has had multiple fights through the years. Last year he was removed from the soccer team. It appears there have been a LOT of incidents during practices with his teammates and the coach kept him on the team because he was the best player on defense they had. The school board has stepped in a removed the whole team from the UIL playoffs. And, it appears, some fans are already trying to organize a recall election for the board and working on a court case to reinstate the team AND the player.

That my high school! From what I read, the police are still talking about exactly what to do - still - this morning. I've put a link to the story below with additional information from the local newspaper reporter. Pharr (technically Pharr-San Juan-Alamo) is a big rival for decades and a playoff berth was on the line. Edinburg won and is in the playoffs now. Get you popcorn, this one is going to be interesting. https://www.themonitor.com/2020/12/03/bittersweet-bobcats-beat-bears-6a-playoff-berth-lose-star-defender/

I can't find where I read it, but Rice had strongly suggested months ago UTEP test players BEFORE the flight and Coach DimwIt refused. UTEP could not knowingly put COVID infected people on an airplane with uninfected people - that's just TRYING to spread the infection! Putting sick kids on a bus for who knows how long is bad, but the other choice is worse. It's also a lot cheaper to rent a bus and have it throughly cleaned. I wouldn't want to be the driver on that bus!

And the Sugar Bowl. And the Orange Bowl.

It seems SMU and TCU couldn't find a date that would work. SMU is required by the AAC to keep Dec 12 open for any make up games. I didn't realize this is only the second time TCU and La Tech have played. https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/tcu-horned-frogs/2020/12/01/tcu-adds-game-against-louisiana-tech-in-place-of-postponed-battle-for-the-iron-skillet-against-smu/

Not sure why, but both bowls are owned by ESPN Events and they already have a relationship with Toyota Stadium. They also already run the Military Bowl and the HOD bowl in the area so adding another won't require anymore staff.

A very sad story. I hate to see a young life wasted.

Quite likely. A record over .500 used to be the standard to qualify for bowl games when schools regularly played different numbers of games. Remember when most schools played only 11 games but if you played at Hawai'i you got to play a 12th?

I've been humming the tune off and on since the topic was posted.

A man could wake up dead.

A combination of doing things right and being lucky.

Thank goodness. Now, please, don't do unnecessarily risky things. At least till the end of football season!

Poor NMSU has had to depend on conferences that HAD to have an additional member or pure mercy to get their last several conference affiliations. The Sun Belt let them in for a few years out of mercy. Before that, the WAC took them as a last resort after being turned down by a number of other schools including us. The first time NMSU was in the Sun Belt, the Belt was just forming and desperately needed teams - any teams. I don't remember the details, but @Arkstfan (I think it was him) has written that NMSU joining the Big West was somehow because the Big West needed another school and the available options out west were very limited.

Maybe, but that's very unlikely. If you look at the teams that stayed in the MoValley after we left in 74, Tulsa is now in the AAC. But West Texas is Division II, NMSU is independent (and likely to drop down to at least FCS) and Wichita State dropped football. If we had followed many of the others that left the MVC in the early 70s to the Metro Conference, then we likely WOULD be in a far better place. Most of them are now in the AAC (CInn, Louisville, Memphis and Tulane). Other Metro Conference teams from the late 70s include Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and Florida State. In the mid-80s the Metro included Southern Miss and South Carolina. At the time I was a student from 76 to 81, I kept asking why we didn't try for the Big 8 where many of the schools were more likely to want an annual game in Texas. In the 2020's, being an independent is nearly impossible without some sort of special national following. Notre Dame is THE Catholic university and BYU is THE LDS university. Other independents are working very hard to join conferences - NMSU and Liberty come to mind.

I'm in Coppell. My kindergartener must wear his mask all day. No one can get out of their cars at drop off/pick up. The only time they don't have to wear masks is while eating and they are required to be spaced out over six feet. When the weather allows, they are eating outside. At my daughter's daycare, parents aren't allowed to drop off without masks. Before a child can be dropped, their temperature AND the temperature of the parent dropping off is taken.

It's only $30 for a digital subscription from now till after Christmas. A day pass is 99¢. Neither is an expensive choice to get updates on what's going on in Denton county PLUS all Mean Green sports.

I'm very sorry you are ill and hope you recover soon. I couldn't find an appropriate tag so I went with a heart.

I'm far more concerned about who is filling Wallis' recruiting role!

I'm going to say the ESPN story at the time is likely the most accurate.