Quoner

Why? Because it would verify what you are saying to look it up. Why are you responding to me with anger - you could probably have gotten the information in the time it took you to type that. I'm sorry you went to a school that didn't teach you how to research, but I'm very glad you are aligning yourself with UNT. You did learn the value of good decision making however you got here. I'm glad you can tell me what you have been told - what I am asking you is too look at the entire picture. I could make $50,000 one weekand you could make $20,000 that same week, but if at the end of the year, I have a net loss of $70,000 and you make $100,000 (these are all random numbers BTW), it is not hard to see who did better. If you don't want to look it up fine, but don't restate your original statement and what you heard to respond to a simple "Why doesn't someone look it up" question. Pretty please. I won't bag on anyone unless they either repeatedly snap at me or just continue to spout crap continuously (it's the Quoner Qode!) so we can either agree to disagree or we can grab the numbers, and all is cool.

Just say no to Schottenhymen.... we played conservative enough...

Past success always predicts future success - everyone knows that. That's why the Parcells and Gibbs eras have both been so freaking awesome for the Cowboys and Skins....and why Jordan's comeback with the Wizards went well...and Montana won a title with the Chiefs...and why porn stars from the 80s are still pleasant naked...

We need basketball to have success, but look up how many of the D-IA programs make a full year profit some time before this starts becoming gospel truth....

Speak for yourself - Dodge is lucky to even sniff my jock...and you better believe he will. Infinite jest indeed.

"It's something I'd have to evaluate. You take showers together, you're on the bus, you talk about things. With teammates, you have to be trustworthy. If you're gay and you're not admitting that you are, you're not trustworthy. It's the locker room code; it's a trust factor." - Lebron James "For real? He's gay for real? Nowadays it's proven that people can live double lives. I watch a lot of TV, so I see a lot of sick perverted stuff about married men running around with gay guys and all types of foolishness." - Steven Hunter, 76ers "As long as you don't bring your gayness on me, I'm fine." Shavlick Randolph (I just know he played at Duke, he's probably mad its not a gay white guy like he's used to) Yup, looks like the league will handle this pretty classy-like. On the other hand, Shavlick Randolph probably sums up the feelings of 95% of this board....

Via deduction, Travis = silly I hope you two don't fight.

Wade Phillips, as underwhelming as he is, will win 10 next year. Joe Gibbs will also win 10 games, except replace win 10 games with "crap his pants 100 times and get lost looking for the men's room." Being regular is a bitch...

Ladies and gentlemen, he's not just a men's and women's basketball expert.... Viva la Triple Threat!

Whenever the day comes where Plumm snaps, he could be like that guy from Con Air and wear this girl's head as a hat... http://www.cricketsoda.com/content/KristyK.../norahjones.php

Whoa whoa whoa...you mean the world wide interwebs saves the words we type for later?

But I just watch Mavs playoff games and the NCAA tournament. I totally called 4 upsets last year and had George Mason in my pool. Hey, what night is Big Monday on?

If they win, they could bomb the thing afterwards. And if we won, they could bomb the f'n thing afterwards. Win. Win. (win)

BUT MGE, This is 2007.... everyone should be blogging and posting and communicating directly. You're just jealous that your AD doesn't do things like this... Oh wait, you went here? And still find it ridiculous? You, sir, are a radicial. I fear and don't understand you.

Next time just have me post it...

Other pressing questions: When will TD pull a Bruce Pearl and show up to a bball game in body paint? When will TD pull a Larry Eustachy and get drunk at my next party? When will TD pull a Ray Lewis and help "get me into" a club? When will TD pull a Sean Salisbury and send me picture phone messages? When will TD pull a Harold Reynolds and take me to Boston Market? When will TD pull a Randy Galloway and bail me out of jail? When will TD pull an RV and defend himself on the Insall thread and make the situation hover longer than it should? When will TD pull a Harry and lock this thread for all the right reasons?

Damn it...must fight overriding urge to disagree with anything...you...say... Go...Mavs

This is the stupidest thread in the history of this board. Let's think about exactly what that means

I'm excited to hear your thoughts on marketing...especially for someone who chastizes the other posters who complain a lot, I'm sure you have much to bring to the table (and no, I'm not even a complainer.)

Double wow... damn this computer

In other news, my girlfriend's seen him naked after he got drunk, stripped off his clothes, and ran around an apartment courtyard. He then sat on her recliner and she didn't tell me this until I sat in it. I hate her so much. And yes, Quinn's leaving may be making me like ladies again. He's stronger than nature vs. nurture...

What do you market? The win over 10-10 Rice? A loss to a 7-14 UTA team? Beating a 9-11 UNCC team? A squeaker over 3-18 Nicholl's State SFA was a good win since they are at least 13-7, but that won't grab hearts and minds... the Tulsa win is looking big depending on how they continue to push in conference... The problems here are deeper than the need for posters - people at this school will not even remotely start giving a crap until something over the top happens. Football needed 4 conference titles and a bowl win to really start solidifying their status as anything above a joke to many students and fans and for some this still never happened. This is an apathetic school and the problem is not that people don't know, it's that they don't want to know. You don't overcome that by bombing them with messaging. Besides, for a budget as tight as ours, you need a 3:1 or 4:1 payoff to justify any of the promotions you all are thinking about. I recommend reading anything by John Spoelstra, a highly regarded figure in sports marketing who's worked for the Nets and Trailblazers. In some of his books, he talks about how crappy the Nets product was in the 90s and how the strategy became market the opposition and the schedule. We don't have that luxury here because we are still building b-ball credibility and taking the Billy Gillespie schedule approach - which is fine, for now - if it keeps moving forward (we can debate that later.) After selling the schedule and building a base, Spoelstra then went to work on the in-game experience, but since most of our fans seem to know how to do little than boo or sort of follow cheers, that won't turn around any time soon either. I think his approach is more notable than what Cuban did b/c Cuban had resources on his side we will never see. Spoelstra did it on a shoe string. I'm not against blasting marketing, but until the schedule or the results change (and they may this year), arguing for more posters and waisted advertising to give the appearance of something won't do it. This is much more than a simple messaging problem. Of course, we could always shoot more threes....consequences be damned.

Something that didn't exist I guess can't be hooked up, so technically this is true. In other news, as of 2 months ago, my $60M donation hadn't cleared yet....

Rice fun "fact*": Not sure if this is still current (heard it in 1999), but Rice had/has the highest suicide rate of any college in the country thanks to their sliding scale grading system where everyone is ranked off their peers! Pressure makes the man... why not go there? *And by fact, I mean probably someone pulled this out of their anoose while I was looking at schools for engineering