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Really wasn't joking about that. Seven consecutive state championship appearances is impressive. Best line I've seen Hugh Freeze was accused of paying amateurs, but paying a professional is what ultimately destroyed his career https://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2017/7/21/16008350/hugh-freeze-meets-a-snare

I do think once the NCAA rules on Freeze that if he isn't under a show cause someone is going to take him as an OC. I just wonder if a show cause would only apply to coaching football. When he coached Briarcrest Christian he won two state titles in football but coached the girls basketball team as well and won four state titles and made the state championship game seven straight years. Could be a great women's basketball coach.

My thoughts? I'll give him a half point credit for using hookers instead of seducing chicks for fun and maybe causing them to think there might *love* involved. At least kept it a business transaction where everyone got a fair price. He's a helluva coach I am not crazy about guys using their faith as part of their branding. I go to church, I send my church a check every payday, I volunteer, but I don't expect that to be on my performance evaluation at work. If you are at Liberty or Baylor, then it makes sense. Now I drew up tight when the NCAA started crawling all over him and his assistants because nothing the NCAA enjoys more than knocking a little guy around. They started digging in 2012 and actually started over women's hoops. By December 2013 they had enough to chase Louisiana Lafayette over assistant David Saunders and that wrapped up January of 2016. Clock ran out on anything he did at AState on December 4, 2015, so they didn't find anything, but he came to AState in 2010 after signing day and his only class at AState was mostly guys Roberts had been recruiting. Wasn't a notable bunch, rated 4th in the Sun Belt and 102nd in the nation. I was stunned when he had his superclass at Ole Miss because I hadn't seen any signs of him being a megarecruiter, I mean his starting QB at Ole Miss the first three years was a kid who quit at AState because he not only wasn't starting, he wasn't playing and got mad at then OC Freeze when Freeze shut him down when he claimed he was the best QB he had. I mean guys who are second best at AState aren't exactly the guys you expect to start 39 games in the SEC, Freeze wasn't at AState when either were recruited. Terribly stupid way to embarrass your family and on top of that, everyone who took a job with him at Ole Miss will be on the chopping block come December, the kids who signed to play for him don't get that. Pretty much everyone who put faith in him loses because he liked hookers. Now come 2021, I'll stand up and clap for him and the players who make it back when we honor the 10th anniversary of his team but beyond that it's his life to repair. Not a chance. Guarantee you Kiffin is thinking, have a good year and I can get the Ole Miss job or whatever decent P5 opens. He's not going to saddle himself with Freeze. Why should he have stayed at AState? Unless he went crazy with the money he has more banked than he would have made if he had stayed at AState.

AState plays SIU I think next season. When we were I-AA that was our second most played series. Even though it was quite lopsided in AState's favor we played home and home nearly every year. Just under 200 mile drive.

It was a home/home deal signed when Golden was coaching Miami so it looked a lot better for us (winning wise) when the deal was signed. Miami went home/home with App State. We've got a home/home coming up with Iowa State and hosted Mizzou in 2015 as part of a home/home. Plus have the usual suspects, Tulsa, SMU, UNLV, Memphis home and home.

Well the bigger question is why can't you find a QB in Texas. Bonner was offered by UTSA and USM but not UNT. We had Fredi Knighten. Came off the bench to win the GoDaddy Bowl as a sophomore and was named game MVP in 2013 after a 55 yard TD drive in the final 1:25 and had Mizzou on the ropes in 2015 until he was injured. Since 2005 our starting QBs have been Utah, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, California, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Oklahoma (the second Louisiana only started because of injury and transferred later).

If I could flip any two games, I'd flip Nebraska and Miami. I think the Canes are easily top 25 maybe top 15. If Kaaya hadn't gone NFL top 10, maybe top 4. I'd really rather go to Miami and host Nebraska. We lost 12 starters including most the OLine but physically we are MUCH better at OLine this year. Last year we were unsettled at QB so I think we could be better. Hansen went 8-2 as the starter and Rowlett, TX QB Logan Bonner will push Hansen.

Help? Yeah he's not a complete eff up. If he had a better football IQ, he probably would still be at TCU. Amazing amount of talent but I don't for a minute think a dinky pot arrest is why he was kicked off at AState. He either didn't do his punishment, didn't do it in a timely manner, or didn't show that he felt bad about the perception he created about his team. One of those is almost certainly involved. Question really is, did he learn from getting booted. That's a call the coaches have to make.

Back on topic. Blake Anderson was asked about Echols-Luper on radio Friday. "he may go play for someone else, if anyone chooses to take him"

That was the FIRST regulation of pot, at the urging of the head of the Prohibition Office because they were about to be out of work with the repeal. Sent letters to a group of doctors asking about the dangers of pot. Only one deemed it dangerous and that's the only letter that got put before Congress. Also there was a murder in Florida by a young man who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia that was attributed to him using pot rather than being schizophrenic. BUT please do your own research. When the controlled substances act was adopted Nixon did in fact appoint a commission and they did in fact split between the lowest schedule and no regulation and he ignored their findings.

If someone wants to make me emperor, I'd take pot off the schedule of drugs or move it to the lowest classification. When the current law was adopted, President Nixon appointed a panel of doctors and scientist to determine where it should be classified. They split. Half said at the lowest level, half said it shouldn't be federally regulated at all. Politics being politics, President Nixon had it classified as the most dangerous of drugs. I find some amusement that the people most opposed to legalization are people who generally utter words like "states rights" well more than half the states have sent DC a message, we want to regulate this just as we have a constitutionally protected right to regulate alcohol. I was Mr. Skeptic and long felt this was something we should do greater research on before making a decision. Then the study comes out showing that states that have permitted sales have seen small dips in prescriptions for anxiety medication, depression medications, and large decreases in prescriptions for opioids. That tells me people are using it as a substitute for medication in addition to the recreational use we all know is taking place under the guise of medical. That also signaled to me that there would be a strong fight to do anything because there is a lot of money on the table to be lost. I know a guy who lives in a non-medical state whose wife was severely injured in an accident, spent a long-time in a coma and had serious cognitive issues. He is talking to her neurologist months later as her recovery had slowed and the neurologist said, if you believe in prayer, pray, but if it were my wife, I'd also find a pot dealer. He eventually did. Tremors were reduced, anxiety attacks decreased, memory improved. She is now back working a professional job and smokes about a joint over the course of a week. I've no interest or desire in smoking dope. I rarely drink and avoid medication as much as I can, but if the early studies related to Alzheimer's continue to support slowing of symptoms and used early enough even reversing some symptoms for a time, I'll rethink my position based on watching my mother's decline. My ultra conservative father saw such a report on Fox News and told me if he had known earlier he would have tried to find a way to get it for it (way too late now). We vacation quite a bit in Colorado. I read a report about a park that is just covered in trash and homeless people swarm it smoking pot. I drove past it and all I saw was pre-school age kids and their mothers in the park and it sure looked clean (maybe the horror is away from the highway). While we were in Breckenridge last trip the local paper said that some of the ski communities that banned sales locally out of fear of losing tourists have seen their tourist numbers be flat or decrease while the communities allowing it have seen growth. They now are viewing it as just another amenity to offer. Reality is no member of Congress wants to go on the record reducing pot from the most dangerous drug to something you could buy by presenting ID even though most states have already voted to do so. One thing I would do differently though, is ban the sale to anyone under 25 unless medically approved because the worst impact seems to be on people under 25. Odd as it seems it may be beneficial to developed brains in some cases but the evidence regarding people with developing brains seems much more negative.

Why would he walk on at UNT to work on a graduate degree when he can find plenty of schools within 2-3 hours of his mom that will give a full ride. Thats the beauty of grad transfers. They don't count against 25 newcomer limit but can help you get to 85.

If you are a Texas resident should be a simple public records request.

Jeremy is a swell guy but he had a man crush on CEL. He is a special athlete but his football IQ holds him back. A 24 yard kickoff return from the end zone is a negative. Running hard to catch a short punt and muffing it is a negative. Chasing a punt over your head and trying to catch it Willie Mays style and muffing it is a negative. He was falling down the depth chart at TCU and they gave up on him as a WR and moved him to DB. His playing time was dropping at AState and you knew certain plays were on and off the table based on whether he was in or the #2 A back was in. I am unclear as to whether the last straw were the arrest or how he did or did not take responsibility (I know Anderson rained down hell on a player because he didn't fess up and staff found out from media) or how he responded to the consequences. What I do know is it is highly likely that Anderson and Littrel have talked. They are both out of the Fedora tree and Anderson is very active in AFCA so I'm sure their paths have crossed. UNT won't be going into this blind. CEL has an immense upside. He either hasn't found the focus or a guy who is 149-52 and one who is 24-15 don't know how to coach him. If he checks out after straight talk between Anderson and Littrel and there is a vacant scholarship for a year he's probably worth taking a flier on.

Not really. He can chunk it but where it goes nobody knows. We gave him a shot at QB after working at QB sat him down with film and he elected to move to A back. We let him punt a few times. Got a 70 yarder and a 7.

He doesn't graduate until August 4. He's "technically" off-limits until then. It might get worked out but UNT can't say anything about him until then.

Good luck. Hope he gets his head on right. Still don't understand why he quit track, had pro potential in track.

Cincinnati filed suit and won an immediate stay from the local (friendly) court. By the time they got the thing on the docket for hearings on the stay the NCAA or Cincinnati proposed a settlement. If Cincinnati met the I-A criteria in 1982 they'd stay I-A case dismissed. If they came up short then they would reclassified case dismissed. The MAC had a handful knocked down and they just hustled to make sure everyone who was out made it back in. They kept them in the conference. With the schedule UNT had, slapping some bleachers up for the 1982 season would have solved the issue.

Go find who the twenty poorest P5 programs are. That'll give a good idea which ones are willing to travel to play a G5.

Uh they took the gold and left. Simply illogical that CUSA had to go to 14 to get a per team roughly on par with Sun Belt.

I'm intrigued by the Twitter streaming.

I think the TV partners story was a cop out. Before expansion a guy I know who has a pretty good in with the UAB program had told me after Memphis left that the debate was whether to go to 9 or 10. He believed UNT was in and FIU if they went to 10. The story was that ECU held out wanting Charlotte and ODU while UTSA and La.Tech came into the mix to close the gap between USM and the rest of the West and UTSA was picked up to round it up to 14 and prevent the Sun Belt from having two teams in San Antonio area. I've no evidence to think he's wrong but nothing to confirm it, but with CUSA taking the cut I'm skeptical there was a significant per team difference between 10 and 14. With ECU's past on the record history of advocating for a 16 team CUSA that could eventually be split, the story fits.

The partners that cut the pay before the contracts expired?

Generals prepare for the last war. The era of TV markets is over. Probably never existed once the ratings services moved past the diary to compile data. The Big 8 wanted Texas and TAMU and no one else. They didn't go looking for SMU, TCU, or Houston for markets. Taking Texas Tech and Baylor were nothing but the ransom paid by the Big 8 to get the two they wanted. CUSA increased its market reach and took an 80% hit on rights. The Big East+AAC combined have greater TV markets than the old Big East but make $8.5 million less per team on average (and that's with the new Big East bolstering the per team average) than the offer on the table before the old Big East melted away. You get paid based on whether a cable or satellite system will lose subscribers if your content isn't available and you get paid based on how many people actually watch. Under market theory Fordham or Stony Brook are super valuable if they'd just move FBS. Under market theory UAB is highly valuable because college football viewership in the Birmingham TV market is roughly the same number of viewers college football gets each week in New York City.

No idea about the SWC but in general conferences require 3/4ths vote. With 9 that would be 7 to expand and 3 to block.