The Fake Lonnie Finch

I don't know. Looks like someone else is selling it. It's always a little confusing to me when athletes sell their stuff. Who know, though? Maybe Mean Joe has an updated one. That one looks pretty old and worn.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...Category=118306 http://www.superbowl.com/history/rings/game/sbix

The most interesting one to me is always Tulsa. Their undergrad enrollment is only about 2,500. And, their stadium is barely better than high school grade...although it lacks the crickets and track that screw up Fouts. Yet, when they win, people show up. There is something about Tulsa, though. Most TU grads grew up in Tulsa and stayed in Tulsa after graduating. That's different than Denton. Now, UNT should be able to draw from the DFW alumni base. Currently, though, I don't thing it's doing a great job of it. Although, it's worlds better than when I was at UNT and we were a losing I-AA team. As our facilities improve, we'll see bigger crowds.

Sounds like a pretty athletic class. Tulsa East Central is the school that produced OU All-American and Atlanta Falcon/Dallas Cowboy DT Tony Casillas. This Patton guy's a lot bigger than Tony, though. Beginning his career at 6-2, 301...good stuff.

A grey shirt is delayed enrollment. It works like this: Player A signs a national letter of intent with a school, but the school doesn't have a scholarship for him that year. He can enroll and go to class part-time, but cannot work out or play with the team. He pays his own way for the first semester, then joins the team in January when a scholarship becomes available. The effect is simply to "add" 1/2 a semester to your "five years to play four." Many colleges are beginning to grey shirt guys with academics problems, but who can afford to pay for part time school themselves. Players injured during their senior year of high school go this route sometimes as well. The reason you don't hear much about it is that most kids will sign anywhere once it comes right down to it, even if it's with a JUCO or lower division. They don't want to sit for an extra semester and not be able to practice, let alone play, football. It take a good bit of discipline because the grey shirting player has to keep himself in shape and focused...while paying his own way, of course.

Oklahoma High School Rivals site listed Kansas State, Kansas, and Missouri as teams that have recruited Gordon as well. Class 5A playoff preview: Don't overlook Ardmore defense By Brandon Chatmon The Oklahoman Ardmore has an offense that averages more than 40 points per game. It features one of the state's top recruits in Jermaine Gresham. The Tigers also have a stellar defense that hasn't received the recognition it deserves. "We don't really feel overlooked," Ardmore safety Ellis Knight said. "The offense goes out and does its job, and we just do ours. It's a complete team effort." Ardmore's starting defense has allowed 31 points in 11 games, including 10 points to defending state champion Carl Albert in a first-round playoff game. "We have good players on defense," Ardmore coach Mike Loyd said. "I think sometimes they get overlooked. It makes you a better coach when you have good players." Loyd singled out Kevin Andrews, Brian Booker, DeJuan Miles, Marquis Booker, Ellis Knight and Robbie Gordon as key components of the defense. "It's as focused a group of young men that I've ever had," Loyd said. "There's a lot of tradition here and they want to bring that gold ball back." Ardmore's closest game was Sept. 30, a 38-18 win over Lawton MacArthur. "We want to win that championship," Knight said. "We just have one goal in mind. We try to just go out and dominate." What brings out the best in the Ardmore defense? "When we hear we're not physical," Knight said. "Before games, we hear teams talking about what they're going to do. That's just motivates us more to go out and dominate." Top first-round performance: Tulsa Washington's Michael Harris rushed for 344 yards and four touchdowns in the Hornets' 44-27 victory over Claremore. All four touchdown runs were more than 30 yards. Second-round matchup: Tulsa Washington at Shawnee. With Booker T. running back Michael Harris and Shawnee quarterback Tucker Brown on the same field, it will be a joy for fans to watch and an defensive coordinator's nightmare. One surprise of the first round: Coweta's victory at Tulsa Bishop Kelley. Coweta, led by all-everything performer Mike Bryan, was the lone road team to win. One non-surprise of the first round: Ardmore beating Carl Albert 33-10. Gresham continued his dominant senior season with seven catches for 133 yards and two touchdowns as Ardmore eliminated the defending champion. Make sure to see: Bixby running back Marshall Fraley. He has 299 carries for 1,797 yards and 20 touchdowns. Bixby's (10-1) lone loss was 17-10 to Class 6A powerhouse Jenks in the season opener.

Ditto Tulsa and Rice with academics and recruiting. Tulsa only has about 2,500 students, but has a good engineering school.

The Alamo Bowl between Nebraska and Michigan simply proved that the Sun Belt officials suck.

If Dickey ever goes: former Marshall University defensive coordinator and Southeast Missouri head coach Tim Billings; or...UNT alum J.T. Smith, now coaching some obscure arena league team in west Texas: http://www.sanangelostampede.com/coach.html

Football: (1) Jack Sisco (2) Hayden Fry (3) Odus Mitchell (4) Corky Nelson (5) Darrell Dickey

You know what, Stebo, I never attended even one UNT basketball game when I was in college. We always sucked...moreso than we did on the gridiron back then! But, as a dude who's been to both schools, a win over Tulsa in Tulsa is no gimme. Throw in that the Golden Hurricane's new coach is a guy that's spent the past five years with North Carolina and Michigan State, and that's a real big win for us. This year, I pledge to take in some UNT hoops games. Anyone else with us?

This is a joke, right? Bush, for sure. You don't need a great QB to win in the NFL. Further, Vince Young only knows a few plays anyway. There's no way he learns an entire NFL playbook. He was dicey at Texas until he convinced Mack and the offensive coordinator to just let him do what he wanted, playbook be damned. Vince Young will be Michael Vick, Part II: a marketing dream for NFL jersey-sellers who makes plays now and then with his feet, but eventually fails to take his teams to the playoffs because the NFL defenses are too fast to simply chuck a playbook out the window and have a QB ad lib. And, please, Dear Lord, please don't let the Cowboys waste a pick on him.

Dude, Vick and Young are both great college QBs. At the pro level, you actually have to learn a playbook and execute it over a 16 game season. Sure, Vick makes great plays from time to time because of his feet. But the guys with the Super Bowl rings are the guys who can throw from the pocket, know the playbook, and have decent run games. The college game is vastly different from the pro game. It's slower and you can get away with not being consistent. The pro game is for the serious QBs who know the game, not just guys who like to play it and can run fast. Atlanta didn't even make the playoffs this year. Vick has never played in all 16 games of a season due to various, nagging injuries. Why? Because unlike in his college days, the NFL defenses are fast and strong enough to catch him and and hit him. The same will happen to Vince Young...if he can even learn enough of a playbook to start somewhere.

If they can just kill the crickets, get rid of the track, and move the stands closer to the action, I'll be fine.

Hey, all- I went to graduate school at Tulsa. Believe me, they follow basketball there more than football. Their basketball team losing to us is big time annoying to them. Reynolds Arena get loud as anyplace you've ever watched a sporting event when the TU basketball team is on. Those people live and die basketball the way some here live and die football. Our win is a big loss to them.

Go, SC; go away, UT.

Good. It'll give the whiners something to complain about for the next 12 months. Keeps 'em off the streets; good for the community.

Briles didn't go straight from Stephenville to U of H, folks. He was at Texas Tech from 2000-2002.

What is your problem? Why is it that everytime I post, you call me Coach Evans?

Amen.

Lame creation by another run-of-the-mill, football-ignorant North Texas "fan."

This whole link thing gets you thinking? How many more years will newpapers last? It's been at least ten years since I've subscribed to a newspaper. There are so many news channels on TV, plus the internet, the newspaper has old news before it even hits the stands.

I wrote a paragraph about the goodwill importance of an excellent athletic program. I suggested they look at the candidates' prior success or failure with the athletic departments at their prior schools as well as the usual academic considerations. Maybe they'll understand. Maybe.

Hmmm. Personally or in general? Personally, one of my girlfriend's friends got a little tipsy one night at O'Tays and starting making out with me. I obliged because it was the night Nolan Ryan threw his seventh no-hitter. Hey, the girlfriend wasn't around and I felt like celebrating a little for the sake of Nolan...at least that was my excuse. In general, it was weird to have all of the equipment trucks everywhere when they were filming Necessary Roughness. Not crazy weird, but just to experience the whole scene and realize what all had to be in place to film a movie.

Huh?