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How has the Debate Team done lately What's your litmus test for fans? Free ride ? Occasional tickets ? Season tickets ? Donor ? Curious.

UTEP boosts, extends Price's deal Matthew Aguilar El Paso Times The most asked question in town -- "How long will Mike Price stay at UTEP?" -- may have been answered Tuesday. Price, UTEP's second-year coach, signed a one-year contract extension Tuesday through the 2009-2010 season that included a roughly 10 percent raise -- from $225,000 to $245,000. He also will receive $1 for every individual game ticket sold for UTEP's six 2005 home games -- rather than just the top three-grossing games, which was stipulated in the original contract. The new contract, which could net Price between $450,000 and $500,000 a year after incentives, is effective this year. It ends Aug. 31, 2010. Full article http://www.borderlandnews.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../510260348/1002

Post from the CUSA board. No more excuses for Marshall Coaches, players say no longer can team say youth is reason for lapses By Anthony Hanshew The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON -- Credit Jeff Mullins with the self-edit of the week. Marshall's senior tight end was answering yet another question about red zone struggles following last week's loss at UTEP. A failure to execute obviously was a concern, Mullins said, and those struggles were partially a product of the team's youth. The team captain then hesitated in mid-question, correcting himself. "You know what?" Mullins said. "We're in the middle of the season. We're not young now." Thundering Herd football coach Mark Snyder hammered home Mullins' point Tuesday, explaining to his team that youth no longer was an excuse seven games into the season. Marshall's non-veteran squad looks to return to .500 Saturday against Tulane. Full Article http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.d...5/1015/SPORTS03

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/sun_belt/Sun%20Belt.htm North Texas … Patrick Cobbs and the ground game were able to move on Louisiana Tech, but the defense didn't do anything to help the cause. Daniel Meager needs to come up with one good passing day to prove he can actually be a playmaker at the D-I level; he has to be at least a little bit of a threat if UNT is going to be in within 50 this week against LSU. The penalties and turnovers committed against Louisiana Tech have to stop. …

Beat SMU 3-1. Also beat Rice (got votes) but were beaten by UTEP(got votes) in the first or second game of the season.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I know my son feels that most of the people on the board don't really have a clue as to really what goes on behind the scenes". ---------------------------------------------------------- What are you rambling and ranting about? Where does the above mention anything about someone playing or not playing? The point is that many/most on the board don't have a clue as to the real happenings and what goes on behind the scenes . Now I guess that you'll tell me that you do.........

Ladys Basketball favorite in Western Division of Sun Belt MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (10/24/05) – With all five starters and nine letterwinners returning, the North Texas women’s basketball team has been tabbed as the favorites in the Sun Belt Conference West Division. North Texas received seven first place votes in the poll conducted by the leagues head coaches. http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle...0&ATCLID=207105

Bulls-eye!

Absolutely correct, the full season is the complete story.

Gad-zooks, more "unnamed sources".

North Texas has played Marshall ONE TIME. In the first round of the 1988 1AA playoffs. Marshall won 7-0.

A-ha........... unnamed sources Pardon me if I don't jump on the anti Bobby Ray bandwagon yet, because other reliable, unnamed sources contridict your sources

Poll and thread from the CUSA board. http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/confusa/invi...ST&f=22&t=30837

Lifer, other than opinions on the internet.......what's your source please?

Well said and right on Moot!

Brett Vito: Sun Belt, WAC vastly different conferences 08:35 AM CDT on Monday, October 24, 2005 Louisiana Tech had just gotten done running over North Texas on Saturday when Bulldogs coach Jack Bicknell stopped to ponder the difference between the WAC and the Sun Belt. “I think the WAC is a very good conference,” Bicknell said. “If you look at what the WAC teams have done compared to those in the Sun Belt, there’s no comparison. That’s not to say anything bad about the Sun Belt, but the WAC is an established conference that’s had some success against some very good teams.” For a short time just a few months ago, it appeared as if UNT might leave the Sun Belt to become a member of that far-flung league. The WAC expressed interest in UNT after the school’s failed bid to join Conference USA. After a few weeks that saw several scenarios bantered about, UNT stayed in the Sun Belt while their former conference mates Utah State, Idaho and New Mexico State headed to the WAC. The moves were probably the best for everyone involved when it comes to geography, but there seems to be little doubt as to what teams ended up in a better football league, especially after Tech’s performance against the Mean Green. The Bulldogs shut out UNT in the first half and coasted to a 40-14 win at Aillet Stadium in the Mean Green’s first game against a current member of the WAC since its decision to stay in the Sun Belt. UNT’s loss became just another setback in a dismal non-conference season for the SBC, which has combined to win a grand total of one non-conference game against a Division I-A team this season, despite 23 shots at it. If it was not for Middle Tennessee’s stunning win over Vanderbilt, the league would be zero for the year. That record can be attributed in part to a host of road games against traditional powers, but one would think the league would manage at least a few wins outside of conference play. The stage certainly seemed set coming into the season. The Sun Belt won nine non-conference games last season, the most for league since it starting its Division I-A football ventures back in 2001. Troy beat Missouri and Marshall, went to the Silicon Valley Football Classic and produced an NFL first-round draft pick in defensive end in Dallas Cowboys defensive end Demarcus Ware. UNT turned out a second straight national rushing champion in Jamario Thomas, who followed Patrick Cobbs. The league hoped to build on that momentum this year, but has watched its top program in North Texas struggle and nearly everyone take a step back when it comes to non-conference play. Louisiana-Monroe is in first place in the league standings with a 3-0 record, but fell to Division I-AA Northwestern State in its season opener. UNT knew when it joined the Sun Belt in 2001 that there would be some growing pains that go along trying to help build a new league. That fact didn’t change when the conference realignment puzzle was finally put together. UNT didn’t get into C-USA like it had hoped and stayed put in the Sun Belt to try and grow its program in a regionally based league instead of sending its athletes west on a repeated basis. UNT’s reasoning was solid, but it also left the Mean Green the challenge of trying to grow in the Sun Belt, which has struggled to take a step forward this season. As Bicknell pointed out, the WAC has certainly fared better. Fresno State is ranked among the top 25 teams in the country. There is little doubt the Sun Belt has been good for the Mean Green. UNT has won the league title and played in the New Orleans Bowl in four straight seasons. Despite a slow start, UNT is still very much in contention for a fifth straight title in a league the Mean Green are trying to advance. That process has been painful at times. One of those times came on Saturday. Tech dominated that game. In the process it also provided the Sun Belt another reminder of just how much work the league still needs to reach its goals of moving up the ranks of Division I-A conferences. BRETT VITO can be reached at 940-566-6870. His e-mail address is bvito@dentonrc.com .

San Antonio is team's likely home next season ESPN.com news services Saints owner Tom Benson declared this week that nothing will be decided on the franchise's future until after the season. But ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports that, based on information from key league sources, the team has probably played its last game in New Orleans. According to Mortensen, San Antonio is a likely home for 2006 and Los Angeles is the preferred destination beyond that. The NFL could still include New Orleans as a Super Bowl site when the city is reconstructed, and expansion might even be a possibility, but that's 10 to 15 years away. Full article http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2201514

2003. Two OC wins for 2-3 OC record. 21-0 win over Troy followed 52-14 win over Baylor. Troy was 1-A Indy.

. But I can verify that Bobby Ray is helping take football down the tubes, by not allowing some things to happen. ←

Other than internet rumors, what's your source?

Monroe News Star article Saturday's game against North Texas represented a chance for the Bulldogs to make a statement. As the four-time defending champion of the Sun Belt Conference, North Texas is the league's standard bearer. The same Sun Belt which Tech spurned in order to cast its lot with the Western Athletic Conference, a move Sun Belt commissioner Wright Waters has ridiculed ever since. In easily handling the Mean Green in a 40-14 homecoming victory before 19,481 at Joe Aillet Stadium, the Bulldogs (3-3) were able — for one Saturday — to make a point. "I think this one game does," Bicknell said. "When you look at what the WAC has done and what the Sun Belt has done, frankly there's no comparison. That's not to say anything bad about the Sun Belt, but the WAC is an established conference that's had some success against some very good teams." That disparity was evident in the first half as the Bulldogs rolled out to a 27-0 lead, dominating the Mean Green (2-4) in every facet of the game. Full article http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a.../510230360/1006

Don't bank on anything when academics (college presidents) make the decision

Don't throw yourself in front of a parked car yet.

Thread from the CUSA board with an article. Financial shortfall/Katrina problems may have football in jeopary at Tulane. http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/confusa/invi...ST&f=22&t=30816