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  1. Rivals 2-star 6'1 210 4.6 outside LB http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=47239 North Texas committments & verbals http://rivals100.rivals.com/commitlist.asp...ool=163&Sport=1
  2. Kidnapped by decendants of Quannah Parker ?
  3. There's GOOD, there's BAD, there's UGLY. For sure, it ain't always good.
  4. The whole conference is in the bottom 19
  5. Sun Belt doesn't get a lot of love from this CBS Sportsline article. Ten for Tuesday: Where the wild ones are Jan. 16, 2006 By Gregg Doyel CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer After nearly a year in jail, center Michael Southall is putting up all-conference numbers for Louisiana-Lafayette. Louisiana-Lafayette must be proud. 1. Michael Southall: Southall has a rap sheet you wouldn't believe, but there he is, playing for the Ragin' Cajuns. It's probably a coincidence that he has an NBA body (6-foot-10, 236 pounds) and is averaging 14 points, 7.6 rebounds and 3.6 blocks. Here's his rap sheet: Arrested in May 2000 for delivery and possession of marijuana. Arrested in April 2001 for violating his bond by running away from police. (Those two mistakes cost Southall scholarships at Kentucky and Georgia Tech and landed him on three years of probation.) At ULL in 2003 Southall played well but then was suspended for academic reasons and went afoul of his probation by testing positive for alcohol and marijuana, and skipping meetings with his probation counselor. That earned him a sentence of one year in jail. ULL took him back, but the Ragin-Cajuns are just 4-11. To which I say: good. 5. Elgrace Wilborn: Wilborn left Tennessee after breaking teammate Brandon Crump's jaw with a punch in June 2003. Wilborn pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to 11 months, 29 days in jail -- suspended -- and then transferred to Western Kentucky. He's averaging 8.5 ppg and 6.4 rpg. Article http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/9169396
  6. Mean Green’s Hines Named Sun Belt Men’s Basketball Player of the Week Courtesy: University of North Texas Release: 01/17/2006 DENTON (1/17/06) -- North Texas senior guard Isaac Hines (Dallas, Texas) was named the Sun Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week on Tuesday after leading the Mean Green to back-to-back league victories, including a win over SBC West Division defending champion Denver. Hines’ effort has helped North Texas tie its best start ever in league play with a 3-1 record. Hines scored in double figures both games, including a career-high 19 points against Florida International, and averaged 17.5 points per game on a .600 field goal percentage. He came back to score a team-high 16 points against Denver, which also topped his career high prior to the FIU game. Ranked second in the Sun Belt Conference in three-point field goal percentage, Hines made 7-of-11 three’s on the week for a .636 percentage and was a perfect 10-of-10 at the free throw line. Also ranked fifth in the Sun Belt in steals, he moved into a tie for the 10th most steals in school history as he picked up his 90th career steal during the week. Hines also averaged four rebounds, two assists and one steal per game for the two outings. As a junior, Hines became the first player in school history to lead North Texas in steals, rebounds and assists during the same season. Hines was named Preseason Second Team All-Sun Belt Conference prior to the start of this year.
  7. We know ????? Not unless he received an offer or interest & I don't see anything that indicates that.
  8. Thanks & welcome to the board
  9. Vegas has UNT as a 2 to 3 point favorite.
  10. From Brett Vito's response to an e-mail Northwestern. I would have used Northwestern State if it were the Southland school.
  11. Rivals on Seidle http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.a...=1&pr_key=46955 North Texas per Rivals http://rivals100.rivals.com/commitlist.asp...2006&School=163
  12. Latest Sagarin rankings- Women Conference #10 52 Western Kentucky 87 North Texas 88 Middle Tennessee 99 Florida Int. 102 Arkansas St. 124 Denver 142 La.-Lafayette 174 Ark.-Little Rock 186 South Alabama 241 Troy 322 New Orleans 1 ATLANTIC COAST 2 BIG 12 3 SOUTHEASTERN 4 PACIFIC-10 5 BIG TEN 6 BIG EAST 7 MOUNTAIN WEST 8 MISSOURI VALLEY 9 ATLANTIC 10 10 SUN BELT 11 COLONIAL ATHLETIC 12 AMERICA EAST 13 WESTERN ATHLETIC 14 MID-AMERICAN 15 CONFERENCE USA 16 BIG SKY 17 MID-CONTINENT 18 WEST COAST 19 HORIZON 20 METRO ATLANTIC 21 BIG SOUTH 22 SOUTHERN 23 SOUTHLAND 24 INDEPENDENTS 25 BIG WEST 26 IVY LEAGUE 27 OHIO VALLEY 28 PATRIOT LEAGUE 29 NORTHEAST 30 ATLANTIC SUN 31 SOUTHWESTERN 32 MID-EASTERN ATH.
  13. Posted by SpaceRaider on the Sun Belt Delphi board. Here's how they rank (Rankings scores 1-10, 10 being toughest, 1 being easiest) How they rank January 15, 2006 ATLANTIC COAST 9 Wake Forest 8 Duke 7 Georgia Tech 6 Boston College 6 North Carolina 6 Virginia 4 Maryland 4 Florida State 4 Miami 2 Clemson 2 NC State 2 Virginia Tech BIG EAST 7 Syracuse 6 Connecticut 6 Pittsburgh 4 Rutgers 2 Cincinnati 2 Louisville 2 USF 2 West Virginia BIG TEN 9 Northwestern 7 Michigan 7 Penn State 6 Illinois 5 Indiana 5 Iowa 5 Purdue 5 Wisconsin 4 Minnesota 3 Michigan State 3 Ohio State BIG 12 7 Texas 7 Missouri 5 Colorado 5 Oklahoma 5 Kansas 5 Nebraska 4 Baylor 4 Texas A&M 3 Iowa State 3 Texas Tech 2 Kansas State 2 Oklahoma State CONFERENCE USA 10 Rice 8 SMU 8 Tulane 5 Tulsa 5 UCF 4 Houston 4 Memphis 3 Southern Miss 2 East Carolina 2 Marshall 2 UAB 2 UTEP MID-AMERICAN 7 Buffalo 7 Miami (Ohio) 6 Ohio U. 5 Kent State 4 Ball State 3 Northern Illinois 3 Eastern Michigan 3 Central Michigan 3 Western Michigan 2 Akron 2 Bowling Green 2 Toledo MOUNTAIN WEST 8 Air Force 6 San Diego State 5 TCU 4 Wyoming 3 UNLV 3 BYU 3 Colorado State 3 New Mexico PACIFIC-10 9 Stanford 8 UCLA 6 Cal 5 Arizona 5 Oregon 5 Washington 3 Arizona State 3 Oregon State 3 Washington State 3 USC SOUTHEASTERN 9 Vanderbilt 7 Georgia 5 Florida 5 Kentucky 3 Alabama 3 Arkansas 3 Auburn 3 LSU 3 Ole Miss 2 Mississippi State 2 South Carolina 2 Tennessee SUN BELT 3 Louisiana-Lafayette 3 Louisiana-Monroe 2 Arkansas State 2 Florida Atlantic 2 Florida International 2 North Texas 1 Middle Tennessee 1 Troy WESTERN ATHLETIC 4 Hawaii 4 Nevada 3 Fresno State 2 Boise State 2 Idaho 2 San Jose State 2 Louisiana Tech 1 New Mexico State 1 Utah State INDEPENDENTS 9 Army 9 Navy 7 Notre Dame 2 Temple
  14. http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll...369/1006/SPORTS Second Wind: Publicity crucial element to build programs Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com This comes strictly from a selfish viewpoint, but maybe University of Louisiana officials should fly to Denton, Texas, and bring back Rick Villarreal as athletic director. Villarreal, you see, understands how important I am. "I," in this case, meaning the media outlets that cover the university and the UL athletic program. Rick just loves us. He may or may not have interest in the post, but after five years at the University of North Texas he realizes the value of a city and a university benefiting from local media. Denton doesn't have a local television outlet. Dallas and Fort Worth stations cover that market. The dominant newspaper in the area also comes out of Dallas. "We don't penetrate the market like some schools do," Villarreal said. "When you turn on the six o'clock news, they're not talking about North Texas. You're hearing about the Mavericks or the Cowboys." It's a common malady around the Sun Belt Conference. Florida International and nearby Florida Atlantic are dominated media-wise by Miami pro teams and the state's big three colleges - Florida, Florida State and Miami. New Orleans and Denver may carry their cities' names, but they're not their cities' favorite sons when it comes to media exposure. Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky are both close to a pro market in Nashville. When UL starts recruiting for its empty athletic director office, maybe it should take papers and video tapes. "Lafayette has a distinct advantage over a lot of schools in that they have local media there," said Villarreal, who spent much of his youth in New Orleans and several adult years on the LSU athletic staff. "You can turn on the TV or pick up the paper and see about the Ragin' Cajuns and know what's going on." It may not seem like much on the surface, but good athletic directors are good at looking below that surface. "You can't put a price on that kind of coverage," Villarreal said. "We're trying to get our alumni base and our fan base mobilized, and having your kids on local TV and in the papers creates contact with them. All of a sudden there's a familiarity. If people are coming to the games they know the kids, but if you don't hear about them all the time it's not as familiar to them. "That's a huge advantage, but only if you're following that up by getting involved in the public and bringing your community in." Bingo. There's your solution, the winning lottery ticket, the correct question on Final Jeopardy. Community involvement. Before there can be successful fund-raising efforts or season-ticket drives, before there can be support for improved facilities, there has to be a community that believes in the program. And that community watches television, listens to local radio and reads newspapers. "The community there wants to associate with the university," Villarreal said. "Having the media right there helps that. It just takes a little nurturing and someone willing to get into the community and help spread that word." That's why Rick loves us. But to get us, Rick, you gotta come here.
  15. Posted by Space Raider on the Sun Belt Delphi board. RECRUITING NCAA is keeping score Colleges face a tougher measuring stick in regard to their admission decisions Alan Schmadtke Sentinel Staff Writer January 15, 2006 It was a time-honored tradition, an offseason coaching version of one-upmanship. The game, unnamed by its participants, was, "How Low Can You Go?" "You'd go to the convention and hear guys say, 'This kid's got no chance to qualify, but we'll get him in,' " Clemson assistant Brad Scott said. "Then you'd hear the next guy tell about the guys they were going to take." Every year such scenes were repeated constantly behind closed doors after National Signing Day. College coaches would huddle with lists of signees from rival schools, making notes on which academically at-risk players had been signed. Cursing generally followed. Sentiments were mixtures of disappointment, disbelief and jealousy. Coaches then would show up at their conference's spring meetings to air grievances about leveling the playing field. Those days are almost over. "We don't really hear that anymore," Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive said. A new code -- APR -- is sweeping through college football. At the NCAA Convention last week, university presidents received updated Academic Progress Rating numbers, the new, penalty-attached measuring stick for how well schools sign, keep and graduate athletes. Presidents are taking this seriously, and making sure everybody in their athletic department and conference is, too. "There's going to be some peer pressure. This was part of the intent, the scarlet-letter approach," Western Athletic Conference Commissioner Karl Benson said. "Nobody wants to be embarrassed." No two conferences were created equally and no two schools operate equally. Although the NCAA has its standards, at the end of the day each college's admissions director can say yes or no to whatever recruit he or she wants. The only judgment needed is whether there's a realistic expectation that the athlete in question can handle that school's coursework and graduate. "I've been at schools where there's one degree program that's a lot easier than all the rest, and whenever we had a player get in [academic] trouble, we'd put him in that program," said one longtime I-A assistant who asked to remain anonymous. "Some schools don't have programs like that, but a lot of them do. If you have the program and you know kids can get through it, that doesn't give you much heartburn when you recruit a kid who might be at-risk." Some schools also are private, which means they operate with much less outside scrutiny. Such judgment calls will provide some of the intrigue on National Signing Day. Some coaches will evaluate the competition with mixed emotions. Others won't look back. "I'm sure we'll see players we wish we could have taken, but the way I look at it, they're somebody else's problem," UCF Coach George O'Leary said. "Some of those players can help you win, but a lot of times they help you lose." Getting them in Since 2005, the NCAA has required athletes take 14 "core" courses in four years of high school to get into a Division I college. That grade-point average in those courses is then placed on a sliding scale of SAT and ACT scores. The higher the GPA, the lower an athlete's test score could be. The sliding scale was implemented in response to years of criticism that entrance requirements put too much emphasis on standardized test scores, which, critics argue, are racially and culturally biased. The sliding scale is supposed to place more emphasis on academic success in core courses and less on test-taking days. In 2008, the academic sledding gets tougher. Athletes will have to pass 16 core courses, including an extra year of math. The days of the partial qualifier -- a student who has a solid GPA but a sub-par test score, or vice versa -- are gone. The NCAA eliminated the middle-ground recruit as it re-engineered standards both for incoming freshmen and ongoing students. Now recruits are either qualified on the sliding scale or they're not. All final determinations are made by the NCAA's Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse. Where debate and discussion comes in is when schools decide to admit athletes the Clearinghouse declines to certify. Therein lies the competition. In the Mid-American Conference, for instance, some Ohio schools assure in-state prep athletes that if they secure a high school degree, admission is all but automatic. But Miami (Ohio) and Ohio U. make no such guarantee. Schools in other states make similar pledges. Florida schools used to do it, but that was long before the state's population exploded in the 1980s. Now Florida high school graduates are merely assured of a spot in a local junior college. Schools can enroll academic non-qualifiers, but athletes must pay their own way to school for their freshmen year. Often they do so by receiving financial aid. Another issue is junior-college recruiting. A minority of schools thrive on it. Others dabble. In many cases, admissions officers are more likely to approve junior-college prospects than high school recruits with troubling transcripts. "Cal has a reputation of being like Harvard in terms of getting into school," said one Pac-10 assistant who asked not to be identified. "That's probably true for the every-day student. In football, they take a hard look at high school kids, but they're pretty active with the junior colleges. They're not as picky." Since 2000, the Bears have signed 28 junior-college recruits. UCF can relate. The Golden Knights have brought in 26 JC transfers since 2001. Even under O'Leary, who raised the academic bar for high school recruits above NCAA standards, UCF has added seven JC transfers. On the other hand, UCF coaches can tick off names of former high school prospects they couldn't touch but other schools in the MAC and Conference USA did. Likewise, in 2002, Ron Zook's staff at Florida signed coveted middle linebacker Lance Mitchell of City College of San Francisco. But the SEC required a math class Mitchell didn't have, so he instead enrolled at Oklahoma. He started for two seasons with the Sooners and now plays for the Arizona Cardinals. An ongoing discussion Although coaches don't spend much time at conference meetings whining about rivals admitting inadmissible recruits, conference leaders make sure academics have a standing place on the agenda. League leaders don't negotiate standards, but they're always around. When the WAC needed to supplement its roster of schools after a sweeping round of conference realignments in 2003, there wasn't much choice. Almost immediately after Rice, SMU and Tulsa announced they were leaving for a re-formed Conference USA, WAC leaders turned to Utah State and Idaho. Both schools had clamored for WAC membership. How those schools' academics fit with the remaining WAC schools wasn't much of an issue for two reasons. First, Utah State and Idaho are state schools with like missions of the other WAC schools. Second, there weren't any other choices among I-A schools. There was an immediate plus, Benson said. When the new WAC was formed on July 1, 2005, "for the first time in 10 years we have institutions that from an academic standpoint look more similar to one another." Around the country, conferences have made peace with where they are. Commissioners make few apologies, preferring program's win-loss records, graduation rates and APR numbers to speak for them. All, however, are wary. The last thing they want is to go to a league meeting and see their presidents engaged in a fraternal game of "How Low Can You Go?"
  16. Article published Jan 15, 2006 Committee remains on hold for now Dan McDonald theadvertiser.com It's unknown when UL's search for an athletic director will come back to life. UL President Ray Authement put the search on hold in November and said recently the selection committee would resume duties when enrollment figures became available for the spring semester. No date has been established for the 12-member search committee to rekindle the process. "The enrollment figures will give us an idea on the budget," Authement said. "I'm not going to bring somebody in here and then cripple him with the budget on his first day." The UL athletic department is facing a fiscal-year budget shortage of approximately $140,000 due to statewide budget cuts. That figure represents the department's segment of the university's five percent cut in state-provided revenue. "Everybody knows the situation we're in here in Louisiana," Authement said. "I've talked to some of the candidates and they know we're going to have a couple of years of very difficult times." Authement said the committee, headed by Hunter Trahan, will continue to accept applications. "We're so much better prepared than anybody else in the state to meet with a financial crisis like this," Authement said. "We have the best chance other than LSU to come out of this in a positive and productive mode."
  17. Cajun AD search still in limbo Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com Athletic directors across the Sun Belt Conference agree that the University of Louisiana's next athletic director will face budgetary challenges, just like virtually every other AD at virtually every other school. The league athletic directors interviewed were well aware of details surrounding UL's search for a person to fill the school's top athletic post. They knew what hurricanes Katrina and Rita did to the university's plans for that slot. Some of them privately admitted that if the Ragin' Cajun AD job isn't the best in the Sun Belt Conference, it's on the short list. And at least one sitting Sun Belt athletic director, speaking on terms of anonymity, has a serious interest in the position. ARTICLE http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll.../601150331/1006
  18. Desormeaux recovering from accident Cajun QB could miss spring drills after ATV mishap. Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com University of Louisiana sophomore-to-be quarterback Michael Desormeaux arrived at home in New Iberia Thursday and continues recuperation from an all-terrain vehicle accident Saturday in Austin, Texas. Desormeaux, who played in nine games and started four under center during the Ragin' Cajuns' Sun Belt Conference championship season last fall, sustained severe lacerations to his head and face in the accident while on a hunting trip with teammate Erik Jones. ARTICLE http://www.acadiananow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a.../601130321/1006
  19. MEN Denver 80 FIU 50 USA 60 New Orleans 57 UALR 68 MTSU 66 WKU 87 Arkansas State 63 Troy 73 ULL 50 WOMEN Denver 50 FIU 45 UALR 58 MTSU 53 USA 60 UNO 53 ULL 81 Troy 69 Arkansas State 72 WKU 62 ULL continues to struggle losing at home by 23. New Orleans lost, but played USA tough.
  20. Have a anchor/USN/flag tatoo on my right arm that I picked up on a Hong Kong liberty while soused. Made it 3 1/2 years without gettin' one, then slipped up
  21. Geeze. How times change
  22. Here's their on-line selection. NORTH TEXAS http://www.lids.com/did/335?page=1
  23. Interesting. Last year a lot of posters on the Appy board were saying it was time for a change & wanted to get rid of him.
  24. For me Odus Mitchell will always be #1.
  25. Discussion thread on the CUSA board. http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/cusa/phpbb/v...pic.php?t=34366 Post by Eaststang (Knocking the WAC?) First, have any of you considered what recruiting was like for SMU, Tulsa, UTEP and Rice and trying to sell recruits to playing in Boise, Reno, San Jose, and Fresno. No real star programs there. Now we're in CUSA, and in CUSA to compete everyone has to get better. I recall when I was a freshman at SMU, SWC basketball resembled the WWE or UFC. Then, Houston joined the SWC with its history of basketball strength, and suddenly UT, TT, SMU, Arkansas, discovered they had to step it up to compete in basketball. And the conference became a strong basketball conference with the UH Phi Slamma Jamma teams, the Sidney Moncrief Arkansas teams, and some strong SMU, Texas and Texas Tech teams. In other words, competition within the conference will improve all of teams in the conference.
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