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Nah I say put pressure on the coach. They won't have practiced for that.

He has worked so hard and developed so much. I hope he keeps making big plays for Ravens. Such intensity. Bravo!

He shot through that hole like a bullet, right into the end zone.

The eagle must be green; accordingly, white helmet. As long as the rest is green and white, who cares. No to the crazy 70s design and color.

Universidad Tejas del Norte?

No, we do not, and the only reason I'm replying is to say 'up yours' for starting a thread with such a title at this time. We are not in a conference that distributes megamillions to its members and we are not one of the top teams historically in such a conference. The game structure has polarized. After all these years, we SHOULD be in such a conference, but that is not the fault of the current players or coaches. I wish we were not in an embryonic state after disastrous leadership, but given that is where we are, I am fairly astonished that the score was not like 73-6. Maybe you confused our program for one that had to replace a coach that got hired away because of the great program he built. We are the opposite and that is hard to turn. In the next few games we should start to see whether our new coaches are capable of turning it around. At least they beat on Bethune which won a lot of games last year. At this point I'm actually optimistic. And that's pretty hard to do.

Considering the absolute lack of offense, the defense's performance was outstanding.

The logo list is dead wrong cause they left out the Toledo Rocket.

He really thinks we'll do better than Kentucky of the SEC?

Maybe we should recruit players who care more about winning than about their personal experience. We should never play games against competition that is not at a comparable level. It is intensely damaging to reputation.

Maybe you just don't know the ones who came from families with a lot of money. I assure you there is a gross over-representation of people who come from families who have a lot of money there.

SMU is a destination school for people whose families have a lot of money. It is a lot harder to get into than NT regardless of money. Other than it is very nearby, there would be no interest in a game. The school is so small and different from NT, it would be fine with me not playing them. This is not a rivalry and it can't really be made into one. Unfortunately we are so far down in the pit we can't actually have a rivalry with really the one team we could ever conceivably have a rivalry with. And I mean Houston, not SMU.

Thanks for putting the link. Once again I had to leave a comment. I agree about 'Dentoning'. It really makes me cringe. Sort of reminds me of the 'we Boulevard' SMU thing. Maybe they should try 'Dentonating'. As for Denton streets, I promise that west Tennessee streets are worse.

MT. Only a short extra line segment separates us. They are the most similarly situated university in our class. It should be Houston.

The solution is to build a giant garage with a track facility on top of it.

As I'm a graduate of the fabulous 'Tyler Lee', I really hope our guy gets it. I just have to say for old times' sake ... "JT sucks!" Sorry, Earl.

At least the construction equipment has the right colors.

Yet the SEC has Vanderbilt.

I live up here in the SE part of stAte territory which they share with Old Miss, Memphis and even a lot of MS State and of course Alabama. We have the Hog fans and Tennessee too but they are much further away. stAte has a lot more visible support here than they used to. There are plenty of schools in off the beaten path places that have tremendous support because there is not much else going on in the area. So that is not really holding them back.

There are a lot of Ohio State fans in Houston. Maybe the Big 10 will take them.

The Memphis paper (Commercial Appeal) says Big 12 is having video conferences with 17 of 25 applicants.

There is no reason at this point for that much pessimism about the new leadership. Right now I do not think they would let us get left in a situation like that. Yes there will be changes but I don't expect it to turn out like that. Only 2 of those schools are even remotely comparable to NT.

Now when I say that some of y'all are being too pessimistic and overreacting, that is coming from an experienced practitioner of the same. Even if there is a 'new AA' and we are in it, that is fine as long as the university leadership is committed to winning a vast majority of the games and working hard to get people in the stadium and support the teams. I would rather see NT win a lot of games against less visible opponents than lose a lot of games against more visible opponents.

I have never understood the whole tier 1 thing and it seems there are multiple tier 1 formats. The US news ranking is based very much on the strength of incoming classes like test scores and HS class rank and how many people a school rejects. The Forbes one is more about how successful the students are both during school and after.

In the non-athletic realm, I will take this opportunity to mention that in the latest Forbes rankings, NT moved up 17 places from 570 to 553. In the US News rankings we are still in the National Universities group below #200 that does not get a published rank. But at least the Forbes one is some good progress.