GrandGreen

I would like to know how anyone on this board knows how hard any of the coaching staff work at NT or anywhere else.   One thing I learned in a career was the more people talked about working hard, generally the more the opposite was true.  There are also a lot of people who work very hard, but just are not very good at their job.  
I don't remember any press, not counting message boards, talking about how little a college coaching staff worked.  I have also not see any staff that doesn't try to convey how hard they are working.  
There is only one accurate gauge of how hard a staff works, and that is the results on the field.   However, it is impossible to know those results until that information is mostly useless.   Things change and 5 year old data may help explain why a particular coach is still here or why he is gone, but it provides little insight into the current state of recruiting.  So the only basis fans have to rate current recruiting is the various rankings which by the way have been proven to be very accurate on a cumulative basis.  They miss on a lot of players, but generally their overall results prove to be pretty good.   Coaching staffs know how they are doing but you will never hear anything but the party line that recruiting went well.  
Obviously, no one who has any understanding of college football, expects a g5 to win recruiting battles against most of the P5.  I can think of only a few G5 programs that NT should not be competing with.   UH is on a roll now, but what other region g5's should logically have any significant advantage over NT?  
If UTSA ends up soundly beating NT in the recruiting race, you have to question why.   I can't think of any other conclusion than they are just much better at recruiting because I think NT has a lot more to sell than they do.   
 
 
 
 

Didn't know Morris played defense.  Anyone blaming Morris for this debacle, should add a lot of other people including the coaching staff.  

One of the dumbest threads ever.  For the record, I stayed till the end as always; but calling out any of the "few" fans that showed up at all is very questionable.   The thousands that never support the program in anyway that are affiliated with NT, the hundreds that come to tailgate and never enter the stadium and the many board posters that complain about attendance yet seldom ever made a game are all better targets for criticism than someone who leaves early.    

I do believe that anyone that looks objectively at NT athletics both past and present has to be elated with what is going on.    Not just the personnel changes, but the fact that NT is taking athletics more seriously than ever before and funding the program at a level that should yield very positive results.   
In the past with few exceptions NT has only done what is necessary to maintain NT at the minimum level of competition.   That begin to change with the hiring of McCarney, a bad hire; but it signaled a new era.  Since than NT administration has terminated RV and McCarney at a huge cost and employed two very promising replacements.  
At the G5 level of competition, NT is in excellent position with the only major obstacle being fighting a losing history.   Perceptions can change fast, and I am looking forward to seeing how successful Littrell, Mitchell and Baker are.  It is a perfect time for NT to rise not from the ashes but from the malaise that has lingered over NT sports for decades.  

They apparently have a real problem at Chicago Loyola with most of the team transferring.   They actually had a good team projected to return but apparently no one wants to play for the HC, Sheryl Swoopes.  

I think the game has changed so much since the standard starting lineup of a point guard 1, shooting guard 2, small forward 3, power forward 4 and center 5, that those designations other than point guard are obsolete.

Now, with all the motion offenses; the game is usually played with a point and one front court player either called a center or forward usually depending on how tall he is. The other three positions are usually two that play on the wings and one primarily a front court player who can play both inside and out.

At NT, last year used a point, most often out of position Taylor, two wings (Harris, Antifiok, or Williams), inside, out player Voss and Combs primarily on the inside.

Some random observations:

NT is a point guard away from being at least an average CUSA team
Breakout game for Harris, pun intended
UTEP is a very good team, fast guards and seemingly an over supply of front court players
UTEP defense appears very solid, yet NT shot very well
Turnovers killed NT, along with UTEP seeming to get every loose ball in the second half
When did the rules change, so that someone complaining of getting hit or elbowed causes the game to stop and a long review, refs obviously didn't see anything when it occurred
NT is going to miss Voss more than Williams next year
Miss Jones's teams ability to get to foul line
Ahmen needs more court time

Even an opponent dominated crowd is better than no crowd
Anyone who thinks not going to a games, makes a positive statement is very misguided