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Wonder if the rumor originally started at a car dealership ?

Caddo Mills receiver picks UNT 11:40 PM CDT on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 By Brett Vito / Staff Writer Caddo Mills wide receiver Desmond Brigham wanted nothing more than to stay in Texas to play college football. The fact that he found that opportunity close to home at North Texas was an added bonus. Brigham (6-2, 180) said Wednesday that he has orally committed to play for the Mean Green beginning in 2008. Brigham is the ninth player to commit to become a member of UNT's 2008 recruiting class. Oral commitments are non-binding. The first day recruits can sign a national letter of intent is Feb. 6. "North Texas is close to home, has good coaches and what really caught my eye is the family environment they have there," Brigham said. "I wanted to stay in state instead of going far away from home. I like the decision I made and feel like I can make history when I get there." Brigham had plenty of options when it came time to decide where he wanted to play in college. Arkansas, Iowa State, Missouri and Louisiana-Monroe all offered Brigham a scholarship after his standout junior season when he caught 42 passes for 742 yards and seven touchdowns. Brigham was a first-team All-District 12-2A selection last season and had an even better campaign as a sophomore when he caught 54 passes. Back-to-back solid seasons helped Brigham catch the attention of college coaches, even though he plays at a small school. Brigham said he will become the first football player from Caddo Mills to sign a Division I-A scholarship. "This is a challenge I am ready for," Brigham said of making the jump to Division I from a Class 2A high school. "I want to prove myself to everyone who says I can't do it." The opportunity to play in the spread offense new head coach Todd Dodge is installing at UNT convinced Brigham the school was the right place to spend his college career. "The tempo of the offense is something that I love from a receiver standpoint," Brigham said. "What receiver would turn down an opportunity to play in an offense like that?"

Here's the breakdown on our '08 recruits so far. 2 - Offensive linemen 2 - Wide receivers 1 - Athlete (WR, DB ?) 1 - Running back 1 - Linebacker 1 - Defensive back 1 - Quarterback (Riley shows as an athlete on Rivals) North Texas committmentshttp://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/commi...&School=163

Interesting comments by Arkstfan. My two cents for what it is worth. 1. With the number of BCS 6-6 teams left home last year coupled with the extra days in the bowl season thanks to the BCS Championship Game, I think one maybe two new games is highly likely for next year. 2. The bowl organizers are starting to understand that it makes great sense to manage more than one game. It has worked well for the Fiesta (who actually managed three games last year), Orlando, and San Diego. ESPN Regional Sports is managing multiple games but in multiple cities. Combination management works well because your volunteer base is already there, it allows you to bundle up your sponsorship deals and to package your local ticket sales. 3. Some current games will die and will be immediately replaced. If you look at the games out west, you see real problems, there tend to be more games out there than there are eligible regional teams. Hawaii can't effectively draw a crowd from the mainland, as long as Hawaii is in the game they will be OK, but they have to have TV and corporate money to keep anyone going there. The new Poinsettia Bowl will have to get another regional tie. Army is too unreliable. Unless they have a WAC or Pac-10 team on the other side they are going to struggle. The ACC cannot be thrilled with the Emerald Bowl, they can't effectively travel but the lure of a Pac-10 may keep it floating, the ACC surely wants out of Boise ASAP. Just guessing but I think either Poinsettia or Emerald will relocate east of the Rockies, Emerald has the sponsorship but Poinsettia has the organization. Tough call either way. Boise is probably safe simply because the community support has been solid. 4. The CUSA fans are dreaming when they talk of tying to the Independence Bowl. They like their situation with the Big 12 and SEC. I don't see them giving up 7th or 8th from those league for #2 CUSA. If they come up short having a spare team would be great for us because we don't have to send our #1 to New Orleans, we are only required to send A team to New Orleans, if we have an 8-4 or 9-3 champion and the Independence is short, we can send our champion there and send a 7-5 runner-up to New Orleans to face CUSA. The Liberty Bowl contract with CUSA only permits their champion to opt out for the BCS otherwise the Liberty gets first pick of any bowl eligible CUSA team and their Mobile contract requires they get first pick after the Liberty. CUSA at best couldn't make anything other than their third most desirable team available for Shreveport. Houston seems to be teetering. Being last pick Big 12 means being shorted fairly often, again that's not bad for us.

Off the muts board. New stadium design a knock-out Designs for on-campus football stadium 95 percent complete Adam Ferrise Issue date: 7/17/07 Section: News The new on-campus football stadium designs will be released August 1 at UA's board of trustees meeting. A knock-out. That's what Ted Curtis, the University of Akron's VP of capital planning and facility management, called the design of the new stadium. The design, which is about 95 percent finalized, will be built adjacent to Lee Jackson Field and the Athletic Field House. Although the drawings aren't yet finalized, Curtis said they will not undergo much change from what the university already received from Cleveland-based HNTB Ohio Architecture Inc., the designer of the complex. HNTB is the company responsible for designing the state-of-the-art 75,000-seat San Francisco 49ers stadium. The stadium design awaits the approval of the board of trustees at its Aug. 1 meeting. The new stadium will seat between 25,000 to 30,000 people and includes 17 suites, 28 loges and 400 club seats. Curtis said the building will be used for more than football functions. The stadium includes a 45,000 square foot, two-level area that will be used for classrooms. There will also be residence housing for students in the area of the new stadium, but details aren't finalized. The university is also looking into using the venue for other events such as concerts or high school football games. "We still have a lot to work on, but certainly we would want to develop partnerships with the Akron community so that other events are held at the stadium," said director of athletics Mack Rhoades. "Certainly we think high school football would be a great fit." The university commissioned $2 million for the design of the stadium. The cost to build the stadium is estimated at $52.125 million. ARTICLE http://media.www.buchtelite.com/media/stor...t-2924463.shtml

Thread from the CUSA board discussing article & possible near future bowl shifts. WW did say in the July Ask The Commish that the Sun belt could have a 2nd guaranteed bowl in 2008. Could Mobile or Indy be a possibility ? Thread http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=241772

No thanks Jacksonville State another article in the B'ham News: Sun Belt not looking to add JSU Wednesday, July 18, 2007MIKE PERRINNews staff writer The commissioner of the league that some Jacksonville State football supporters have their eyes on says there's no room for the Gamecocks. Meanwhile, Jacksonville State Athletics Director Jim Fuller expressed surprise that a move to the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A, was brought to the forefront in Monday's board of trustees meeting. The JSU board's athletics committee formed an exploratory subcommittee to discover the pros and cons and costs of moving from the Football Championship Subdivision to the FBS. "Quite frankly," Fuller said, "I've never discussed this issue with anyone. That may surprise you that I was never involved in any type discussion about any Division I-A move. "I'm somewhat embarrassed that we have to answer to the (Ohio Valley Conference) and we have to see where this is going and what's the process. "Right now, I'm concerned with winning the OVC again," Fuller added. Any move from the former Division I-AA would be made easier by the entrance into a conference to help fill a schedule with FBS teams, as the NCAA requires five home games for each member of its football upper echelon. Wright Waters, the commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference, said Tuesday his league's membership is set and he has no plans for expansion. "We're at 13 members for all sports and nine for I-A football," he said. "Nine is an absolutely ideal number for a football schedule. It gives you four home and four away games and you play everybody in the league every year. "That's where we are and we're very comfortable there." The Sun Belt had been an obvious potential home for the Gamecocks due to the presence of former archrival Troy University and Middle Tennessee State. "Our focus has changed from looking at membership issues to really looking at the quality of our competition," Waters said. "We've gotten to the point where we'd like to be a top 10 league in every sport. "When you step back and look, we're not that far away. We were seventh in baseball, softball was in the top 10 and women's basketball was ninth. We've got some work to do in men's basketball and volleyball, but soccer is right there." Waters said the University of Denver, which does not play football, is likely one day to leave the Sun Belt for a more western league, but he doesn't foresee any other defections or any mass shakeup in other conferences across the country. "I don't think we'll see that again," he said of the ripple effect of the changes to the Big East and the Atlantic Coast Conference a few years ago. "Twelve is really pretty much the maximum number - although the Big East is at 16 for all sports (eight in football). "I don't see the ACC expanding. I don't see the SEC expanding and if the Big Ten went from 11 to 12 it won't set off big ripples. "We have no ambition to get to 12 in football," Waters said. Fuller said he would work to answer all the questions posed by the board's investigation into a move. "When our board asks us to check into something, we certainly address it," he said. "We'll address every issue we possibly can, but as I tried to explain to our commissioner this morning, we have no intention to look at any other league than the OVC right now. "All this has to be preliminary work. Who knows where we'll be 10 years from now, but I didn't get the sense (from Monday's meeting) that it was going to be 10 years."

Feel better ?

Louisiana Tech won't leave the WAC for the Sun Belt unless it's a last resort. The possible thought of bring in more schools ie: Jacksonville State is driving me to reconsider my stance on the WAC.

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IMHO WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE NEWBIES IN THE SUN BELT. STAY WITH NINE & SETTLE DOWN. from the B'ham News: Jacksonville State studies move to big time Tuesday, July 17, 2007 MIKE PERRIN News staff writer JACKSONVILLE - The Jacksonville State University board of trustees on Monday formed an exploratory committee to investigate a possible move to the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision. The group was asked to report to the board's athletics committee at the Oct.15 trustees meeting with information about the cost and feasibility of the jump from the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly called Division I-AA, to the FBS, formerly Division I-A. JSU President William A. Meehan called the discussion "very, very preliminary," but board member Jim Coxwell said it is just a matter of time before the Gamecocks are playing in the same division - and possibly the same conference - as former archrival Troy. "We've had contact with the Sun Belt Conference," Coxwell said, "and I've talked to Troy's leaders down there and I've talked to the University of Alabama. It just seems like something that would fit our system here within the next few years. "I think one year we will be Division I-A. We're headed that way. It's just a matter of time when we get there. It might be next year, it might be 20 years. You never know. "We're here to please our alumni and that's what they want," Coxwell said. "All the alumni I talk to are very much in favor of it." Coxwell will serve as chairman of the subcommittee that will also include trustees Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. and Jamie "Red" Etheredge along with Athletics Director Jim Fuller and football coach Jack Crowe. Jacksonville State's first football team took the field in 1903 and the Gamecocks won their only football national championship in Division II in 1992. The team began its two-year transition to Division I-AA in 1993. The team would serve a one-year transition from the Football Championship Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision, new names adopted last year by the NCAA. Meehan said he was interested in learning the costs of making the move. "I think they just want to see what it would cost," Meehan said. "I think it would cost a great deal. "I don't know what we'll find out, but they want to take a look at it. At this point, I'm willing to investigate it with them. It is very, very preliminary at this point." Crowe called the move a natural progression and said the key to success was finding a conference home right away. "There is some ambiguity because you're not in until you're in and all you're doing is flirting," he said. "As long as you have a reasonable chance and you're on a target list for a conference then it's just a matter of whether those opportunities open up. "The obvious one is the possibility of being in the Sun Belt. Middle Tennessee, Troy and Northeast Louisiana, we've been in conferences with them all before. We played Louisiana-Lafayette and beat them and we played Arkansas State and beat them in the years that I've been here. "I caution people who say, `Why don't we play Troy?' I ask them, `Have you been to Troy lately? It's not your granddaddy's Troy.' This has been an unofficial dialogue for some time. I have no problem with it. I feel very comfortable with the idea." The athletics committee members said it might be easier to raise money for a FBS program - and that payoffs from guarantee games are much higher than for a game against a team in a lower division. "The cost of athletics at the I-AA level is pretty well set and pretty expensive for all I-AA schools, whether you're Samford or Jacksonville or Austin Peay," Folsom said. "In light of that, this is something we need to analyze. "There are no preconceived ideas. We need to see what the financial implications are. If it's a positive thing on the financial aspect and a positive for the university, then it's something we'll consider as we move down the road." The board also approved a recommendation to get preliminary architectural drawings by Sept.1 for a renovation of the south stands that would add 5,000 seats to the 15,000-seat Paul Snow Stadium. The six-story addition would include a new press box, executive suites, classroom space and possibly a wellness center operated by Jacksonville State that would serve the Calhoun County area.

Article indicates they want a FOOTBALL ONLY member.

More off season chatter & clutter BIG EAST Big East Looking To Add 9th Football Team Published: Jul 17, 2007 NEWPORT, R.I. - Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said that although his league is interested in adding a ninth football-only member, there isn't a viable option available. Tranghese said his league has had recent discussions with Army and Navy, but "there just isn't any interest on the other side." "We've talked about a ninth member," Tranghese said. "I think our league members would strongly consider it if there was a ninth team that would make us better. But we don't see it out there right now." The Big East's dream team, of course, is Notre Dame. But the Fighting Irish, who are Big East members in all other sports, remain content as an independent. DAVID VS. GOLIATH: Every Big East team except Syracuse and West Virginia will play a Division I-AA team this year. Because league teams need five non-conference games, Tranghese said he doesn't have a problem with league members scheduling I-AAs. "People are playing I-AA teams because they can't fill their schedules out," Tranghese said. "I'm hoping our schools will schedule some quality non-conference games." This is the sixth consecutive season Syracuse has not scheduled a I-AA team. Of the six BCS conferences, the Pac-10 has the fewest games against I-AA teams (one), while the SEC and Big 12 (eight each) have the most. Here is the breakdown, by percentage, of the number of teams in each BCS league with scheduled games against I-AA: Pac 10 (one team, 10 percent), ACC (six teams, 50 percent), Big Ten (seven teams, 64 percent), Big East (six teams, 75 percent), Big 12 (eight teams, 75 percent) and SEC (eight teams, 75 percent). Brett McMurphy LINK TO ARTICLE http://www.tbo.com/sports/bulls/MGBR893S74F.html

Off the Muts board. MTSU football schedule depends on ticket sales AD wants fewer road games vs. major schools By ADAM SPARKS sparks@dnj.com — Adam Sparks, (615) 278-5167 MTSU's season ticket sales will mold the team's future football schedule. MTSU is currently nine percent ahead of last year's pace of football season tickets sold at the same date. Athletic director Chris Massaro said the final season ticket tally and sales in upcoming seasons will determine the Blue Raiders' future opponents and number of home games. "It's critical that we get into a situation where we can develop our own revenue by playing games at home rather than selling ourselves," Massaro said. "To get there, we have to generate revenue from season ticket sales." MTSU generated about $110,000 in ticket revenue per game last season, according to Massaro. His goal is to eventually increase that revenue to $200,000 per game. "I like to deal in easy numbers," Massaro said. "To start to get where we need to be, I figure $200,000 per game times five (home) games and you get $1,000,000 in revenue. "So first, we need to get our season ticket sales up to do that." Beginning with Western Kentucky's complete inclusion in the Sun Belt Conference in 2009, MTSU will play eight conference games and four non-conference games per season. If MTSU's season ticket revenue can increase, Massaro's hope is to play no more than two guaranteed road games per year against major conference opponents. In addition, the Blue Raiders would play one non-conference game against a mid-major opponent and a final game against either another mid-major opponent or a Division I-AA school. "The ideal schedule would be to have a couple of guaranteed games, one home-and-home series with somebody like a Memphis and then either add one more home-and-home with a Memphis-like (mid-major) school or buy a I-AA home game," Massaro said. "That way, we could have a chance to test ourselves against an SEC, a Big 12 opponent or whomever. And then with the other two non-conference games and eight conference games, we can have a chance to win seven, eight, nine or even 10 games every year. "Like I said, it's not going to happen tomorrow, but that's where you'd like to get. A lot of it depends on season ticket sales, so you don't have to sell yourself." MTSU football season ticket prices range from $55 to $80, and group season tickets are from $40 to $65 (minimum 20 tickets) for five home games. Single-game tickets cost between $15 and $24 each, depending on the game. The Blue Raiders averaged a school record 22,037 in home attendance last season, but only about one-third of patrons purchased season tickets. "The bulk of our sales have been walk-ups. About two-thirds are students or single-game ticket (buyers)," Massaro said. "Fans are responding to our success, athletically and academically, but we need to keep increasing our season ticket sales. ... And we need to tie our boosters to tickets. Only about half of our (Blue Raider Athletic Association) members are season-ticket holders." MTSU won the Sun Belt co-championship and earned its first I-A bowl bid (Motor City) last season under first-year coach Rick Stockstill. Returning for his second season, Stockstill said ticket sales continue to influence the program's progress. "I knew that we had to increase the fan base, and so helping ticket sales was part of the deal for me," Stockstill said. "We have to continue to build this program, and we saw the start of that last year. ... People like the improvement they saw in academics, on the field and just in all facets." Predictably, most of MTSU's season ticket holders live in the shadow of Floyd Stadium. Massaro said that pocket of support must spread. "The people we're reaching are close by," Massaro said. "We've been fairly solid in establishing ourselves in Murfreesboro. That's our season ticket holder right now, but beyond that we're weak in sales. "We're working hard to get into the surrounding communities to let people know that this is all of Middle Tennessee's university." Part of that effort kicks off this week, with a Blue Raider Blast rally at Shelbyville's Blue Ribbon Circle at Celebration Grounds on Thursday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Other Blue Raider Blasts will follow at Smyrna (Aug. 2), Woodbury (Aug. 9) and Murfreesboro (Aug. 23). To purchase MTSU football season tickets, call 1-888-YES-MTSU or order online at GoBlueRaiders.com. MTSU football non-conference schedules 2007 Sept. 6 at Louisville Sept. 15 at LSU Sept. 20 vs. Western Kentucky Oct. 6 vs. Virginia Oct. 13 at Memphis 2008 Sept. 6 vs. Maryland Sept. 20 at Louisville Sept. 27 at Western Kentucky Oct. 4 at Memphis 2009 Sept. 5 at Clemson Sept. 12 vs. Memphis Sept. 19 at Maryland WKU in Division I-A transition; complete Sun Belt member in 2009.

Yep, lost 28-14.

UNT/smu trivia. UNT & smu are 2-2 since the ponies returned from the DP. 3 of the 4 games were played when UNT was 1AA (89,90,92). UNT has won 2 of the last 3

With the dismal Mean Green play in '06 we should be thankful that there were actually enough students there to storm the field.

Only OU? Not quite -- Sooners have lots of scandalous company July 13, 2007 By Mike Freeman CBS SportsLine.com National Columnist The University of Oklahoma was punished this week following revelations that a car dealership paid players for work they never did. C'mon, Boomer Sooners. Your standards are dropping. You can do better than that. You can't blame Bob Stoops for having a headache after this problem. (Getty Images) You once ran one of the grimiest, dirtiest, gun-toting, bootlegging, hooligan coddling, cash-under-the-table programs in the history of college football. Barry Switzer was your coach ("And We're Gonna' Do it Ba-By!"). That's about all you have to say. You are among the standard bearers for lack of institutional control with your sexy five probations. You are improper benefits. You are improper recruiting. You are failure to monitor, improper inducements, improper entertaining, unethical conduct, improper lodging and any other improper you can think of. You are stop your grinnin' and drop your linen. You are ... gats and strippers. Now, you have been reduced to the pedantic by partnering with car dealers. Imagine that. A car dealer involved with wrongdoing. You used to be automatic weapons, now you're time cards on a car lot. Shame on you, Oklahoma. You're cliché now. (Although Car-Gate does explain why Bob Stoops was recently asking recruits if, instead of a scholarship, they would like an extended warranty.) But here is the good news, Oklahoma. In the pantheon of great rules-bending, NCAA-infuriating, college football programs, you are not No. 1. Imagine that, Oklahoma. There are bigger NCAA violators than you. The following are the top rules-breaking college football programs of all time. While squeezing in just 10 is like fitting Barry Bonds' head into a key hole, I tried my best. 10. Colorado. Two names: Slick Rick Neuheisel and Gary "Who Me?" Barnett. Five major institutional NCAA infractions at Colorado, including two this decade, according to the NCAA. Numerous rape accusations against recruits and players. Very solid work, fellas, very solid work. The '93 Seminoles sure had nice footwear. Too bad some of it was free. (Getty Images) 9. Florida State. Pains me to put them here because I think Bobby Bowden is one of the best human beings on the planet, but I can't skip over Free Shoes University. 8. Texas A&M. The state of Texas, football and rules violations go together like ham, egg and cheese. Might deserve a higher slot, but the Aggies' cheat-to-win ratio is low. In other words, it hasn't been money well spent. 7. Washington. There's that Neuheisel name again. 6. Miami (Fla.). This is an interesting one. In terms of total school major infractions (all sports), the mighty Hurricanes are tied at five with universities like Baylor, Mississippi State and the University of Texas-Pan American, and behind the University of Memphis and the Minnesota Golden Gophers (such a cute mascot for such blatant rules violators). Thus Miami loses some street cred. You cannot be but so much a bad ass when Texas-Pan American nearly out-cheats you. But ah, the Hurricanes. They are like the Smokey Robinson of rules breakers. They might not be the all-time best but they make the most out of their opportunities. 5. SMU. An old-school classic. Received the death penalty. Harkens back to a time when the NCAA had testicles and did not pucker up to the derrières of fat-cat college presidents. Those were the days, when men were men and cheaters took great pride in their work. Cash payments distributed in a timely fashion, luxury cars handed out like heads of lettuce, players bought and paid for. Made you proud to be an American. 4. Arizona State. Never has so much rules breaking gotten a school so little. But they are creative out there in desert. One NCAA investigation found that a compliance officer allowed a football player to utilize her personal credit account for buying $900 worth of car equipment. She also opened a utility account for the player. I don't understand. Can't a brother get his electric bill paid? 3. Oklahoma. Boy, was that Barry Switzer fun. 2. Auburn. The SEC is to cheating what Superman is to comic book heroes. The best. Just about every school in the conference has a major infraction. The SEC boosters are so wealthy that spending $20,000 on a recruit is the equivalent of a martini lunch. Auburn earns a solid silver in the cheating Olympics. 1. Alabama. This is all you need to know about the skill and greatness of Alabama. An NCAA committee found that booster forked over $150,000 to a high school coach as a guarantee that a defensive lineman would attend Alabama. Yes -- $150,000. Now that is how you break the rules, people. (So what does a great running back go for in the SEC? A small diamond mine?) No payment of water bills. Just lots of cold, hard cash. Even an Auburn booster says: "You guys are my heroes, Alabama." "Not bad," says Switzer. ARTICLE http://cbs.sportsline.com/columns/story/10255471

College baseball's been over for several weeks.

A hoity-toity exchange on the snob board. "One reason that we have trouble getting top recruits has to do with the culture at SMU. Let's face it, SMU is mostly full of white, affluent people. Most of the top recruits around the nation are black and come from lower/middle class families. Many simply don't feel at home at a place like SMU. The recruits are high school kids, and might be influenced by something as simple as a shortage of girls that they would want to date. I realize this scenario is not always the case, but it does hold a lot of validity and might have something to do with why recruits turn us down." CULTURE AT SMU http://www.ponyfans.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=24140

Mean Green Ranks Best in the Sun Belt Courtesy: University of North Texas Release: 07/12/2007 Courtesy: University of North Texas http://www.meangreensports.com/ The University of North Texas has been ranked as the best school in the Sun Belt Conference for football players to enjoy both academic and athletic success in a new study released by two university professors. The Student Athlete Performance Rate (SAPR) was developed by University of Iowa sociologist Michael Lovaglia and University of Maryland professor Jeffrey Lucas in an effort to rank the best Div. I football and men’s basketball programs based on a combination of academic progress and athletic success. The two professors launched a web site detailing their study and listing their findings at www.bestschoolsforathletes.org. The Mean Green football program is ranked at No. 73 of 119 Div. I-A football programs, which is higher than all of the other Sun Belt Conference schools. Sun Belt member Arkansas State was slightly below North Texas at No. 74, followed by Troy (92), Louisiana-Monroe (100), Florida International (102), Florida Atlantic (103), Louisiana-Lafayette (112) and Middle Tennessee (117). North Texas also ranked higher than some schools from the Big 10, Southeastern, Big XII and Pacific 10 conferences. Auburn University is the highest-ranked football program in the SAPR. The North Texas men’s basketball program is ranked at No. 158, which is in the top half of the total 333 Div. I basketball schools to be ranked. The SAPR formula was created to determine if there is a relationship between schools that rank highly in the NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) and the programs that continually enjoy athletic success. There are two basic components used to determine the SAPR. One component is the Athletic Success Rate (ASR) that combines the following information for each NCAA football and basketball program: The number of team wins in the last 5 years The team’s all-time winning percentage The number of conference championships in the last 5 years Total attendance at recent home games Number of bowl games in the last 5 years Number of national rankings 25th or above in the last 5 years Number of program players currently playing in the National Football League (NFL) or National Basketball Association (NBA) The second component of the SAPR is the Academic Progress Rate (APR) calculated by the NCAA to determine how well teams have promoted the academic progress of their athletes. The APR tracks two critical factors for each athlete on each NCAA team: Whether the athlete who participated last year has been retained on the team this year. Whether the athlete remains academically eligible to play this year.

TD stated that he wanted to sign one quarterback, then he went after Vizza and got him to decomit from Nevada. Beleive that TD knows quite a bit about Vizza and his ability to run our new offense. Vizza could surprise a bunch of folks THIS season.

Cooley, I used Rivals & Scout as examples of opinions that differ with yours and I'm well aware of how the star system works, thanks. Personally I am very pleased that we have two incoming quarterbacks that earmed MVP honors in their respective high school divisision & beleive that we have more pressing needs than another quarterback. I'm more concerned at this point with recruiting & building a solid offensive line.

We've got two good quarterbacks Vizza and Dodge. Others have an opinion that Page is not better than Dodge and even Vizza. Rivals & Scout both list him as a 2-star pro style QB. I doubt that TD would pass up a quarterback that he thought would be better for the team that the one's we have. He does have a lot riding on this job with his reputation and the expectations people have for him.

Are residents upset with low income, subsidized housing comin' to town ? Bummer