GrandGreen

I dislike having ten member teams, seems like nothing but an easy way, not to make a decision on identifying the very best. I am sure it is a common fan feeling, but it seems that NT always seems to be under-represented on these selections.

I wish you are right, but I highly doubt it. Cal Baptist is a bad team with a 8-11 record against mediocre competition. Winning the tournament could negate most of the effects of the loss, but getting one hit in the game and atrocious baserunning is going to be hard to ignore.

Really a bad loss, forget about any decent rankings after this. It going to take a lot of winning softball to wipe away the stench of this game.

There are certainly more schools that maybe looking for basketball head coaches than those that are so bad that are going to replace their current hc. Those are schools that their coach has left for a better offer or just retired. I also think Hodge likes it here and it would take more than just a higher salary or higher tier conference to lure him away. However, there probably is a salary or conference level that he would strongly consider. Neither you or I know why Grant left, but almost any coach will leave for both a substantial salary increase and couple of steps up in conferences.

All depends on what your definition of move-worthy programs is, there will be plenty that will be looking at what he has accomplished at NT. I guarantee you, he is on a lot of programs radar. You don't believe that other schools aren't interested in a coach that keeps having to replace most of the starting five every year and still wins plus 20 and has difficulty even scheduling games because no one wants to play his team. He may not have the name that impresses perennial top 25 teams, but that only leaves about 300 teams that would seriously consider him as their next HC. Unfortunately about 150 of those teams can pay more and have a lot more fan and financial support. I don't even think his slow down defensive oriented play is going to be that big of problem. Colleges want to win more than play a more favored brand of basketball consisting of more scoring and uptempo offenses. There are AD's out there that are going to wonder what he can do with copious NIL money and a school that actually supports basketball.

Any success is countered by when will the coach be hired away and how many players will be lost to NIL bids. Enjoy the damn ride instead of worrying in season of what is going to happen. There is plenty of time left for gloom and soon after the season.

Did you hear on the broadcast that Tech's starting picture was paid 1 million Nil money a year, supposedly the highest reported for a softball player. Adds joy to beating Tech, although if she had pitched the whole game; there would probably have been different results. They per announcers wanted to save her for a more important game (A&M). I would say that didn't work out for them.

Skylar unfortunately was back to the wild version, with too many walks. Anderson as you stated was great. Kayleigh Smith, who I haven't seen before looked strong in the seventh. If NT has three good pitchers, this should be an outstanding team.

It doesn't get any better than this. Not that I particularly remember softball games, but this has to best I have seen.

NT can and should improve their internet game presentation. However, I wonder if any of you bother to compare the NT product to other like school broadcasts. Some schools put out awful products, both in terms of the video and more often the announcing team. Watching some away games with their sub-par announcers is a challenge. Even the ESPN broadcasting team is IMO often terrible. Telling stories and touting other games and too often not even acknowledging the plays on the court. I don't give a damn about the SEC schedule or some other tale that does not involve the game they are supposed to be working on. I know part of their job is to hype other broadcasts, but it should never be to the detriment of not providing the basics of the current game.

Those numbers are only meaningful to me if used in comparison to other AAC teams. NT is at the max and I think most of D1 schools are also unless they are currently replacing coaches. Unless, you want to make the point that the NCAA limits are too high for all D1 teams.

Yeah, it is obvious that we fans need to help Hodge coach. I agree to the extent that more players be used in blow-outs. The problem is that NT game style doesn't create a lot of blowouts for either team. I would like to see more of Vice, but even with big foul problems in the last game apparently Hodge didn't trust him in a very close game. At this point, there may be eligibility involved with the freshman players. It would be stupid to burn an eligibility year with players like Mason and Smith. What giant coaching/support staff? That seems to imply that NT has more staffing than the typical AAC team, I doubt that.

An away win is not very disappointing under most circumstances.. Rice played a very good game and in this particular game had IMO a couple of players that had great performances. This game went as a lot of Rice games have ended with the Owls on the wrong side of a very close game. NT is not going to overpower many teams with superior players, they win with stellar defense and coaching.

Kind of strange results, lost bad to the worst team in the tournament than won all the rest. Lots of new freshman pitchers, this would be a much easier season if one would develop into a good option on the mound.

I guess you didn't read the second sentence. The problem is that Kentucky or the like is highly unlikely to want to play NT. Too much risk even at their place of losing to a nobody in their view.

The problem is and should be obvious, good teams seldom schedule oc away games. Without a name like Memphis and/or money like Memphis, scheduling upper tier or even pier schools to games in Denton is very difficult. In fact, NT has been so good lately, that it is hard to even get decent away oc games.

Lost to a mediocre Ohio Valley team, bad start. NT signed a bunch of new pitchers, none looked good in the opening series. Delong has lived on his first recruiting glasses, this group is going to have to get a lot better to even be a factor in the conference race.

Makes about as much sense as exempting tips. That is an attempt to get votes from people who depend on tip income and the other is to get Georgia votes from Univ. of Georgia fans. All well and good till someone figures out that others will have to make up those taxes out of their pockets.

Lose 52-54 as UTSA goes 17-23 compared to NT's 12-24 from free throw line. It was geniuely amazing how UTSA's big momas despite their pushing and pulling under the basket seldom fouled the much quicker Green players. Despite that and an awful start by NT, NT should have won this game in front of UTSA's massive much ballyhooed crowd of maybe 1600. Yes, a very disappointing last week of NT basketball.

This has the real potential to complete what NIL started and totally eliminate D1 athletic competition outside of about thirty teams. Does anyone consider how many athletes that currently have scholarships that will not if this legislative trend continues? In reality, forcing students to pay for athletes that are now getting paId on top of a normal scholarship is definitely wrong. Why should Joe or Susie Student have to pay for games they don't attend and have no interest in?

Not even many bandwagoners. The Denton area has in my fifty plus years of following the team always took advantage of the school and provided little fan support. There are some great fans, but the norm is most are much more concerned with the Cowboys and the very top college squads. They enjoy the commerce the school provides, but do nothing to support the school or it's athletics.

Looked like a classic example of a team thinking that they were playing a bad team and they don't have to try. One of the worst halves of basketball at NT in a long time. Give credit to UTSA for taking advantage of an opportunity to embarrass a good team. Hopefully, this game will be a great lesson for NT and not the beginning of a significant decline.

NT should do what they can to retain both basketball coaches, however both coaches will leave at some point if they continue to excel. This is the future of any successful team not in a first tier conference. Enjoy the ride, it will not last long.

Great win; down big early, down 9 going into fourth quarter and end on 10 to 1 run. Deck scored 16 and I don't think missed a shot. Lampkin, obviously the focus of Temple's defense; still got 16. This team may be peaking at the best time.

Why all the commotion about the intentionally fouling, it has been part of the game as long as I remember. Do you really want a rule that forces the referees to rule on whether a foul is intentional or just a regular foul? The late foul strategy seldom works, but IMO it makes the games better than just watching a team holding the ball for 20 seconds every possession till the game is over.