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Advocate article http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/89589367.html The 6-foot-6 McGhee committed to the Mean Green of former LSU player and assistant coach Johnny Jones after a weekend visit to the Denton, Texas, school. “It’s something I’d been wanting to do for while,” McGhee said of the commitment. “I was just waiting for the right time. I’ve been talking to them since last fall. “I liked the visit. The guys on the team were great. I liked the team and school.”

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/13113463/-things-for-spring-practice-season-continues-to-bloom-mushroom?tag=coverlist;coverlist_footer 16. Celebrating 10 years of Sun Belt football: Don't snicker. Division I-A's youngest conference is thriving this spring with programs that 10 years ago either didn't exist (Florida International, Florida Atlantic) or were transitioning to I-A (Troy, Middle Tennessee). Remember these Sun Belt upsets over the past 10 years? 2009: Louisiana-Lafayette over Kansas State, Middle Tennessee over Maryland 2008: Arkansas State over Texas A&M, Middle Tennessee over Maryland 2007: Louisiana-Monroe over Alabama, Troy over Oklahoma State 2004: Troy over Missouri Don't sleep on Middle Tennessee's Dwight Dasher, one of the most exciting players in the country. The last time we saw the Blue Raiders quarterback, he was setting the NCAA bowl record for rushing yards (201) against Southern Miss in the New Orleans Bowl.

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Belt schools: School - Income - Expenses Denver $2,266,909 - $2,266,909 Western kentucky - $2,048619 - $2,048,619 South Alabama - $1,589,030 - $1,589,030 North Texas - $1,447,428 - $1,447,428 Middle Tennessee - $1,327,404 - $1,327,404 Florida International - $1,225,261 - $1,688,985 Louisiana-lafayette - $1,147,914 - $1,147,914 UALR - $1,164,873 - $1,459,764 Arkansas State $1,018,359 - $1,018,359 Troy - $937,765 - $865,175 ULM - $789,156 - $789,156 FAU $327,979 - $1,160,222

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/18/news/companies/basketball_profits/index.htm?postversion=2010031807

Good size (6'4, 228), strong/accurate arm, not shabby as a runner. Pushing Tune for the backup spot. Will Thompson be a strong challenger to Riley for playing time ?

Geeze, it's pre-season and we're undefeated. Hope and dreams should be the norm rather than the exception. We're gonna go 12-0 during the season, win a BCS bowl and be the toast of the football world !

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Vito scrimmage notes http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/ Derek Thompson looked particularly good as UNT's backup quarterback.

Tulane, SMU, Rice, Tulsa & TCU......... Too many private schools.

Link ? Can't get it to work.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/sports/stories/DRC_untbasketball_0325.1dec1c7af.html “I am as excited about next year as I was going into this season with the team that we had,” Jones said. “We never stopped recruiting even during the interview process. That is an everyday thing.”

You can't call JJ a quitter for moving on to a much better paying, higher profile job. I hope that he stays, but if he does move on for more money and a higher profile school, I wish him the very best.

Barbee - Iowa interview ? http://www.ktsm.com/sports/barbee-creates-interest

Scheduling below the 150 RPI sounds good, but............. 1. Within our own conference only THREE teams (UNT,Troy & WKU) had better than 150 RPI. Only FIVE (adding muts & Denver) had better than 200. 2. Did a quick check & regional opponents could be kinda sparce using the 150 RPI guideline. Under 150 Baylor A&M Texas Oklahoma State UTEP NMSU Tulsa Sam Houston Texas Tech LA Tech Houston Oklahoma State SFA (at 151) Over 150 RPI Arkansas TAMU-CC UTSA SE Louisiana SMU TCU Texas Southern UTA texas State Tulane Rice Houston Baptist Texas-PanAm

Exerpt from a long interview with the WKU president. (off the Belt board) On the Sun Belt Conference “I am a little frustrated with the Sun Belt Conference. Seven of us met in Hot Springs with (SBC Commissioner Wright Waters) and when we reconvene in May we’re going to put in place some RPI policies. “Part of my frustration right now is with our own conference. I can’t whine about it too much because we didn’t do much to contribute to it this year (in terms of RPI), but we didn’t have a team in the top 100 in the Sun Belt. If we’re going to do what we want as a program, we have to be able to improve our RPI when we get into conference play. “So we’re going to look at some policies across the conference and the other presidents share our concerns. It hasn’t been that many years past when the conference RPI got as high as 10 or 11. And this year, we’re at No. 23 – that’s bad. “We’ve got to get back to that point and we’re going to look at some policies and put them in place that maybe make it mandatory that you schedule teams above 150 in your non-conference games. I don’t know yet, but the commissioner is putting some things together and we’re going to study it.” “What’s good for the league is what’s good for everybody in the league, but everybody in the league has to take ownership. Troy is really trying to build their program, they didn’t come into the Sun Belt with much of a history but they’re really working at it. Obviously Middle Tennessee is as well and will continue to, and some others, too. I’m encouraged, but I’ll say I’m cautiously optimistic that our program can be hitting on all cylinders and we can do it (in the Sun Belt) that helps us get there. “I want the league to get four or five teams in there every year. It’s a battle now, but we’re battling teams with an RPI in the 200s who at the beginning of the year struggle in non-conference, but come February once they’ve gelled are pretty good basketball teams. “I think we’re a better league than a No. 23 RPI, but boy, we’ve got to prove it in November and December and we’ve got to prove it in mid-March. “(WKU has) a strong history and we want to continue to build on that and I want our conference to be a part of that strategy, I’m resovled to helping build this conference.” “We’re going to do all we can to make sure it succeeds. There are only 11 BCS conferences, so if we’re going to go anywhere it’s going to be to one of other 10. I haven’t checked my mailbox today, but I don’t think we’ve gotten anything from the SEC or the ACC in there. There’s no dialogue going on with us and any other conference right now. Will there be movement with conferences in the future? Yeah, there probably will be. The Big 10 is in the process of identifying a 12th team, depending on what happens there it could be someone from the Big East, that might then effect Conference USA – there’s a lot of variables. The Pac 10’s probably going to have to expand their footprint. So who knows how the line of dominos will be, and I’d hate to think that we’re the seventh or eighth dominos in that line, but we’ll cross those bridges when they come. The best thing we can do is get better – as a program and as a conference. And that’s what the president’s concluded, we want to see policies that help the conference get better. “There might be some realignment to where if we can get better as a league, some of those teams in some of those other (non-automatic qualifying leagues) want to come to the Sun Belt,” “But if a suitor comes along, we’ll listen, but we’re not searching.” “We had a policy in place several years ago that said if you were in the conference, you cannot schedule anyone below a 150 RPI. And the AD’s whined about that, because scheduling’s hard and it’s work. So we relaxed that and then really just did away with it and here we are. “Some of the AD’s and coaches might argue that, but the data is what it is and we may go back to that policy. … It’s important that we all grow and get better together.”

UALR talking to Summit League ? UALR THREAD http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=427776