island eagle

Good analysis on both your parts. Yeah, the Lehigh game was painful to watch. They made shooting three's look like the most natural and easy thing on earth, we made it look more complicated than a manned mission to Mars.

Here is what the 2011 issue of Phil Steel's "College Football" had to say about Brock when talking about the Kansas Jayhawks. "Then add in Brock Berglund, a dual threat true frosh who I project to be the starter. No matter who wins the starting job, I look for improved QB play". In this same issue, he has Brock listed as the #28 best nationally incoming QB. Anybody ready for spring ball?

What a waste!

Amen. And so looking forward to spring practice.

Spika and Blakeley are still my two favorite coaches to watch. Their teams were always entertaining and competitive.

We'll win at least half, give or take 6 games.

It's sad. But, if you pay any attention. We had some players who could hit 3's last year. They graduated and we have nobody who can even hit the basket from 10 feet away. That is one of the root problems with this squad.

Bottom line....the worst shooting team I've ever seen at North Texas. You can blame the coach, but they had plenty of open looks against Lehigh and failed to either make them or try to make them. Lehigh made them with ease from the same locations with approximately the same amount of defensive pressure. It the players can't put it in the basket, no coaching scheme on earth will fix that at this level. The other teams quickly learn to crowd the inside and ignore our outside game....because we have none.

We aren't worse with the same players, we are worse with some key players missing. The ones we lost from last year could actually hit a basket.

Well, if you count the shooters who are gone, the problem was lurking there and it would have appeared this year regardless of who was coach.

It is the worst shooting team I've ever seen at North Texas and you cannot pin that on Benford.

I was at the game last night and I saw a team that could shoot beat a team that couldn't shoot. On the contrary, I saw the guys give good effort, but effort won't do it if you can't hit the basket. There were signs of this last year....and if I had paid attention to who was leaving the squad, I would have known that we'd be in trouble. No amount of coaching can fix what is wrong with this team.I hope Benford concentrates on getting some shooters. We had open looks and either couldn't hit them or we wouldn't even try. Lehigh had open looks and knocked them down. That was the whole story of the game.

"There are no valid excuses for this team to be this bad". There is one. They cannot hit the side of a barn with their shots..

Rice is going to be one of the better teams in the CUSA next year. Wouldn't count that as a sure win.

The Houston Chronicle's Houston Top 100 list contained two North Texas recruits. Darvin Kidsy, WR, Elkins and Dominic Walker, Fort Bend Austin. Interestingly, ULM had one ( a defensive end) listed. There remain three uncommitted DL recruits, though one is so small and light that he is likely to end up at LB.