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BLAKE CANTU http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewp...053&sport=1

PATIENCE !

Rivals is beginning to assign stars for recruits. UNT recruit Troy Franklin would have easily been a lock for a 3-star if he'd accepted an offer from one of the BCS teams that offered. Verbaling to UNT got him a 2-star 5.4, .1 under 3-star ranking. P O L I T I C S ! TROY FRANKLIN http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewp...mp;pr_key=55674

The Rivals Texas Top 100 list is now out. #61 Lanear Sampson a 3-star WR has UNT in his team list Lanear Sampson http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.a...289&Sport=1 Texas Top 100 http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?r...3&Year=2008

Departing Big 12 commish leaves legacy of prosperity Associated Press Updated: June 14, 2007, 2:51 PM ET DALLAS -- Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg will resign next month to take a job with the Big Ten Network. Kevin Weiberg is leaving the Big 12 to work for the Big Ten Network in an unknown capacity. During nearly a decade on the job, Weiberg was credited with doubling the annual revenue distributed to member schools to a record $106 million last year. He started in December 1998. "There is never a perfect time to depart a position like this," Weiberg said Thursday. "I am proud of the growth and progress of the Big 12 over the last nine years." Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers said Weiberg brought unity to the league, a merger of the Midwest-based Big Eight and four Southwest Conference schools in Texas. "It was a shock, unexpected," Myers said. "It's definitely better as a result of his leadership the last nine years. We'll definitely miss him and wish him the best." No replacement has been chosen. Harvey Perlman, chairman of the Big 12 Board of Directors, said he will consult with other board members to determine a transition plan. Weiberg recently helped close a television contract with ABC and ESPN through the 2015-16 academic year. He also served as coordinator of football's Bowl Championship Series for the 2004-05 seasons. One of Weiberg's darkest days as commissioner came in 2001, when a plane carrying members of the Oklahoma State men's basketball program crashed in Colorado, killing 10. Among the dead was Jared Weiberg, a student manager on the team and the commissioner's nephew. Weiberg's new job is vice president of university planning and development for the Big Ten Network, which plans to launch in August. The network, a joint venture of the Big Ten Conference and Fox Cable Networks, will cover Big Ten athletic and academic events. Steve Hatchell was the Big 12's first commissioner, serving two years after the league began competition in 1996. Dave Martin served in an interim role until Weiberg was hired.

Maybe, but their last great teams were when their players were the best that money could buy. Even though we don't like um and want to whup um bad, beating them now isn't a big deal to the majority of the football world.

Can't really say it's a true rivalry. We've won 5 of 6 . A number of their fans are annoying and envious, but kind of pathetic. They're just whinners, especially about UNT & Troy.

You're usually humbled when you get caught.

San Antonio will get a college scholarship footbal team. http://www.uiw.edu/athletics/football/news...ylFEAkuhkHZUpce

Well stated. Good post!

Their second "co-championship" known as a conference championship to them kinda goes to their head and they seem to enjoy running their mouth about the Mean Green SpaceRaider ADMIN Post #21353 yeah, but the earliest public commitment to MT under the previous regime, IIRC, was in October. It'll be interesting to see if these guys stick. They may very well, but they could also be grabbing at an offer, while still taking visits, hoping the offers from unt boosts their stock with more attractive programs say like smu or latech... Posted on 6/12 10:21 PM | IP: Logged blueraiderJT Post #301 Notable 1A coaching debuts feature Sun Belt against Sooners, Gators, Lions Reply -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- they are gonna air it out with meager and will put up about 20-25 picks. I'm predicting 25 picks for meager this season or whoever takes over at QB. As a whole. NT's offense throws at least 25 -30 picks this season. His high school ran that spread with good athletes. the difference is that the competition in HS is farther apart than in college. His HS team probably was the most stacked in their division. So they ran an offense that the comp's D wasn't trained or staffed to stop. That won't be the case in college ball and NT fans know it. They crap on themselves this year, and those recruits are going elsewhere. That's the bottom line. THREAD http://middletennessee.rivals.com/showmsg....142&style=2

FIU's Garcia challenges competition GREG COTE gcote@MiamiHerald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/611/story/115766.html Subtlety is not Pete Garcia's method of operation. They are finding out at Florida International University, where the new athletic director aims to wake a sleeping giant with closer to a hard slap than a gentle nudge. They are noticing in Coral Gables, too, where a different sort of sleeping giant -- the University of Miami, its monopoly on South Florida college sports long unchallenged -- surely lifts an eyelid to see who dares disturb the king's slumber with all of this ruckus. That would be Mr. Garcia. You might picture him holding a slingshot. And aiming high. NOT SCARED ''I want our students, alumni and fans to know we will not be scared of playing anybody, anytime, anywhere,'' Garcia said Tuesday during a break in the Sun Belt Conference meetings upstate. ``I didn't take this job to continue to move FIU at the speed they were going and the level they were at. We're taking aim at the top programs in the country.'' Garcia envisions a day when FIU is to our area what Florida and Florida State are to the north in terms of public state universities competing nationally in sports. He also envisions a day when, locally, the Golden Panthers are competing with UM in all areas: on the field, in fan support, in local media coverage, in national attention -- everything. The new AD said he is working to change the culture and attitude. The coaches, too. Quickly, Garcia changed football coaches, replacing local favorite Don Strock, whose five-year record of 15-41 -- 0-12 last season -- depleted the cache of goodwill accumulated in his term as a longtime Dolphins backup quarterback. Next he changed soccer coaches, after Karl Kremser's robust record over 27 years at FIU gradually eroded to last season's 6-10-2. Kremser attempted to rescind his long-planned retirement and stay, but Garcia was moving on. Most recently, the new AD changed baseball coaches, too. Danny Price had won more than 1,000 games in 28 years at the school, and this season was only his third with a losing record. But the program had seemed to decline since the 1990s. Baseball attendance was negligible and academics a mess, and it didn't help that Price's team had lost 20 of the past 26 games against local rivals UM and Florida Atlantic. Price held a news conference across from the campus Tuesday and said he would have hoped for more loyalty from the university. THE NEXT STEP The thing is, Garcia had again proved his loyalty wasn't to any individuals, even those with great tenure, but to the athletic program at large. To this vision. ''It is time to take FIU baseball to a new level,'' he said. You can only imagine that other coaches, including Sergio Rouco in men's basketball, are on call to produce improved programs or explain why they couldn't. Garcia has a habit of asking his employees, ``What did you do to make us better today?'' It wasn't a coincidence that FIU hired someone who is a Hurricane to lead the younger school's fight to catch up. Garcia, 45, Havana-born, is a 1984 UM graduate who served several years in Canes football operations and the year previous to switching universities as Miami's associate AD. In turn, to replace Strock, Garcia snatched away one of UM's top young and hungry football assistants in Mario Cristobal. By 2008, his Golden Panthers will be in a new on-campus stadium, which breaks ground Friday. Even sooner, Cristobal wants his team to believe it can go from winless to excellent in one year. Toward the end of his first spring practice recently, Cristobal held up before his team an empty picture frame inscribed, ''2007 Sun Belt Champions,'' challenging his players to be the ones in that picture. Some 2,400 fans turned out for the spring game -- huge by former FIU standards. ''We were expecting birds chirping and crickets in the background,'' kidded Cristobal. By halftime, he was on a microphone bellowing to the enthusiastic crowd: ``We didn't come here to mess around. We came here to build a championship program!'' The man who hired him, Garcia, would today be a strong heir apparent candidate to replace outgoing Miami AD Paul Dee in a year had he not left. He might still be. Garcia smartly deflected the question Tuesday, saying, ``When I get focused on a job, that is all that's on my mind day and night. I don't like distractions.'' For now, that job is raising FIU to national prominence, and marshaling the school's 38,000 students and more than 100,000 alumni in Miami-Dade and Broward counties to care as much as he does. Garcia knows the climb to reach where Hurricanes and Gators reside will be neither easy nor instant. Plenty will doubt him. But he has taken the first step, which is to declare his intentions. ''I'm from South Florida,'' he said. ``At the end of my career, I want to say I had something to do with putting FIU at a level with anybody. At the highest level.'' _________________ "Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer."...Dave Barry

First signing day is February 7, 2008.

Don't give them the satisfaction of witnessing your excitement. Appear to be calm, look slightly bored, make appropriate comments that can be overheard about many 1AA teams that would have been a tougher opponent knowing that your Mean Green has just kicked the snooty mustangs butt.

Noticed in another thread that the Ponies along with McNeese State have offered the same kid. Wonder if they can take one away from the Cowboys?

We got too many positive things happening. Let him rehab elsewhere.

They're holdin' off 'til their player payroll budget is finalized.

He's easy to recognize if you see him on the street.

From a MUTS board. How it "went down" from ArkStFan Arkstfan wrote: The Sun Belt had WKU, USA, Jacksonville, South Florida, Virginia Commonwealth, Old Dominion,, UAB, and Charlotte. The American South had ASU, UNO, ULL, La.Tech, Central Florida, Lamar, Texas-Pan American. UAB left to join the Great Midwest. ODU left to join the CAA. The Sun Belt voted to add UALR from the TAAC (now Atlantic Sun) With the departure of South Carolina and Florida State along with the Metro schools that formed the Great Midwest the Metro was on the verge of collapse and raided out USF, VCU, and Charlotte, leaving the Sun Belt with three members in the league and UALR set to join. The Sun Belt rather than trying to put together a raid (they would have lost their auto bid any way) started looking around to find a home for all members. The NCAA said that if a conference wanted to merge with the Sun Belt they would be able to retain the auto bid as well as the units earned by the Sun Belt and any units the old league had. The American South took the bait and opted to become the Sun Belt so they could retain the league's existing contracts (not worth much, mainly the ESPN championship game, plus a guarantee of one national telecast for every NCAA Tournament game played the prior year, and a deal with SportsChannel). The merger took place after the 1991 season (outstanding year for the American South, UNO and La.Tech made the NCAA Tournament, ASU made the final 8 of the NIT, and ULL made the NIT, the seven team league had four 20 game winners). The next season Central Florida and the league got cross-ways because UCF had a TV deal with Sunshine Sports (now Sun Sports) and it conflicted with the league's deal with SportsChannel Florida (now Fox Florida) the mess went to court, there was one game that they were considering broadcasting on both networks while the courts resolved the conflict, don't remember if it happened or not. UCF asked to be released. UCF had basically been added because they planned to go I-A, a budget shortfall had resulted in them backing off the promise to be I-A by 1992 so the league agreed to let them go. That was later followed by UTPA being booted (excuse me voluntarily withdrawing once they saw what the vote was) after their second round of major NCAA violations made them death eligible (they even asked for it so they could get out of a contract with the coach who they suspected of being behind the violations but they couldn't prove it). That was soon followed by the league nearly collapsing when Lamar opted for the Southland and Jacksonville for the TAAC. We added FIU and Denver as part of the "urban basketball plan" Commissioner Thompson favored. He left. ASU's president was head of the search committee to replace him, didn't like the candidates and started making calls and found Commissioner Waters who came in with the plan to get I-A football. The football plan got a huge shot in the arm when Nevada left the Big West for the WAC. It left the league with six members (then the minimum) and one was ASU and the basketball only members were balking at approving any football expansion. It basically came down like this (with a lot of help from UNO's chancellor who was a big proponent of football to promote stability and increase the power of the league). The Sun Belt invited every independent to participate in talks to form a league along with all Big West football schools. They quickly discovered that everyone had conditions (ie. I won't join if X joins) and the Big West schools really wanted to just add some football only members. So everyone was told to go home and send a private letter by a set date expressing interest in joining or rejecting the idea, anyone sending a join letter was bound and had to join IF INVITED. To help the process, ASU who had negotiated a "no notice" agreement with the Big West informed the members it intended to withdraw effective immediately killing the Big West as a football league. Boise hadn't responded but had informally taken the lead among Big West schools to join and bring the bowl game. ULM broke the agreement and publiclly announced its intent to join (they believed it would help prevent Tech from black-balling them). That resulted in La.Tech balking (even though they would be expelled if the vote passed and football was added). Tech balking caused UCF to balk. Then the WAC expanded taking Boise and Tech. The league put everything on hold a few weeks and then voted to extend full membership to NMSU who immediately accepted, MTSU (who had been holding out for football only but wasn't going to get a football only invite), UNT (who had been balking because of some bad blood with ULM from the Southland days), and football only to ULM, Idaho and USU. USU ended up rejecting it, Idaho asked for more time (president was out of town for an extended period at the time of the invite).

The coaches are aware, TD offered and the kid accepted, so we should make him welcome and let his past mistake RIP.

I found a different post on the Tulsa board that compares our facilities to Texas & Texas A&M.

FWIW A recent poster on TexasPrep claims that our "facilities" rival A&M and are some of the best "facilities" in the country. This post is from the Tulsa board. Originally posted by Scott_F: UNT can compete with the likes of A&M and Texas when it comes to facilities. New coach that has a name that is synonymous with championships in a state which worships championships. He'll steal recruits from all the CUSA schools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Always Changing By Allen Wallace National Recruiting Editor Posted Jun 11, 2007 Although Alfred Dupree (ranked No. 37 in the Southwest by Scout.com) says his favorites change frequently, for the time being, he likes Oklahoma State slightly over Texas Tech, LSU, Alabama, Michigan, Texas A&M and North Texas. He says the Cowboys are recruiting him the hardest. Alfred Dupree, the 6-foot-2, 219-pound four-star defensive end from Skyline High School in Dallas, Texas, says he's now up to 24 scholarship offers. Some of his more recent offers are from Michigan, Louisville, Texas Tech, LSU, Oklahoma State, Florida, and North Texas. Dupree also has offers from Alabama, Arkansas, SMU, Kansas, Kansas State, Minnesota and several others. "I want to fit in with the program and make sure I'll be able to get some early playing time," Dupree said. "I'm always changing my top 10, so it's hard to say I have a favorite." Although Dupree (ranked No. 37 in the Southwest by Scout.com) says his favorites change frequently, for the time being, he likes Oklahoma State slightly over Texas Tech, LSU, Alabama, Michigan, Texas A&M and North Texas. He says the Cowboys are recruiting him the hardest. "I really don't know too much about Oklahoma State, but I know a few guys who go there already. I'm friends with Richetti Jones (defensive end, 2007 signee) and he thinks that would be a good place for me too. We talk a lot and he says the people are great and that the coaches really look out for you." Dupree plans to attend summer camps at North Texas (June 17) and LSU (June 21). One school that Dupree hasn't had a chance to visit yet is Michigan. "I really like their prestige," he said. "They compete every year and are always in the top bowls. They have a lot of tradition and talent on that team. They get lots of exposure too." The only school on Dupree's list of favorites that he has already visited is A&M. "They have amazing facilities," he said. "They have a great big weight room and everything is really high tech. Also, coach Dennis Franchione is pretty cool and they always seem to have a good team." Dupree reports a 2.4 core GPA and a 650 SAT. He says he's still awaiting his retake results.

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to think