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By the way. am I the only one thinking that it is weird that we play Georia state in the final? I did not even properly realize that they were in our conference.

over. NT won. Finals here we come

total squeaker. we lost the nr 5 singles. it is all coming down to the last match between Vykydalova and Krachok.... 4--4 in the 3rd set edit: can't always be first

so it is starting to turn in NTs favor again I think. Bardabush is close to winning the nr. 1 single, and we also have a slight lead in the nr 2 single.

lol i'll leave it too you. by the way... can you tell me which game they is it that they got on the stream?

Sprinkemeyer won the nr 3 singles. back to 2-2

not looking good right now. need some 3rd set magic. we lost singles nr 6, score 2-1 for USA. 2 2nd sets still going on, we have not yet won a single 2nd set so far.

still superclose.

I don't know whether DT will start or not. what I DO know is that this season his leash will be a lot shorter if he is the starter. No more interceptions on top of bad drives without consequences. And that in itself is a nice change, because one of the things that made me go nuts last season was that Mac would not let anyone else play even if DT was having a bad night.

The boys got 7th out of 12 at the tourney. That is respectable as they beat 2 teams that are top 25 and 2 more that are top 50. They did get beat though by two teams that are slightly below them in the rankings. Still, I think their ranking will move slightly upwards with this again. Currently they are ranked 36th, Their ranking should be good enough to guarantee a bid in the superregionals even if they dont win the sunbelt tourney.

Really? I thought RV had it turned that we would get a home game with Tulsa next year and then no games after that. At least that's what I had garnered from this post on vitos blog a few weeks ago.

most encouraging: so far only one long time injury. the rest of spring practice is hard to judge

I think lets let all this movement settle for a year or two and reassess then. I am not categorically against adding new schools, but it is easier to know what is best if everyone in conference has gotten time to see problems and good things in action, before jumping the gun. Also: before we add more, maybe we should first see if C-USA is gonna loose more members, if we add 2 teams to a conference that includes USM or one that does not makes a big difference to me.Amd finally: I think the teams we might want to add will pretty much all still be around in a year.

So I guess if 3 people made interceptions... then somebody must have thrown those interceptions... I am going out on a limb here and say it was not the 4th string guy. So which of our 3 star QBs was it?

I think they will be somewhere between mediocre and middle of the road. There certainly still is talent. But two system changes in two years is not easy to overcome and usually also leads to some attrition. Also I don't give new HC coaches credit before they prove it as HCs . Probability is Monken is better than Ellis Johnson (hard not to be), but experience says it is another gamble that southern miss has taken. Most people assume it will go well, but it can just as well go bad again. Even assistants at good schools are no home runs, Johnson is actually a good example of that (we could name some that have come through Denton too).

not going that well anymore.... down to last place

After the last tournament did not go all that well this is another chance to shine: 12 teams all ranked among the top 45 (NT is ranked 33rd right now, which is actually the second lowest in this tournament!) start was ok (8th after 3-5 holes)

That is done for every team... the adjustment is a statistical adjustment for whomever it is your playing that week, to show basically if the score you got agianst that team would have been good enough to beat an average fbs football team. It's a try to correct for schedule strength. If you do that with last years ohio or ball state teams, you'll be surprised how close their record is to ours. I am pretty sure he swhowed the past records "adjusted" too.

And here is the preview on NT The fact that we came in at this moment means he has us as nomber 5 in the west and number 10 overall in C-USA He clearly did his homework on our team too The perception I had that he challenged the most: I thought we had trouble defending the pass mostly, but according to him, NT is actually decent at it, but terrible at run defense, it's just that other teams did not notice and kept passing anyway.

So Bill Conelly at SBNation does IMHO quite outstanding previews of all FBS college Football teams.&nbsp; They are bit stats heavy, but that is ok with me He tends to go from worst to first and has thus far gone through the Belt and the MAC and now started with C-USA. A bit less stat heavy but even more up to date are the previews by Paul Myerberg. I put it Up here for all our opponents and the c-USA teams we will not get to play (before the championship game that is). Very interesting reads. August 31 Idaho Paul Myerbergs writeup Athlon Scout If we are loosing this one the suicide watch is indeed merrited. Myerberg reall does not think much of Idaho, particularly as he thinks both lines will struglle mightily and receivers are not talented enough, a good recipe for disaster in other words. Conelly thinks even less of them and looking at what Personell Petrino has to work with, there really must be no way NT loses this game at home. Cout does not Love them either, but does not have them as far down as the others.... on top of that coust has the game with NT as Idahos 'key game'. coveragewise the blog http://www.thevandalnation.com/ seems interesting boardwise the scout site seems the most active September 7 Ohio Their record too looked better than it was, and run defense was not their strenght. But they do also return a decent batch of starters everywhere including the line, yet a ton of injuries might keep that from beeing as helpful as it would usually be (sound familiar NT fans?). I think this will be a tough game overall, partially because this is a game you have to beat the opponent with the pass, and how we will fare there this season remains a question mark Athlon Scout Spetember 14. Ball state Athlon scout If Ball state had played a semi decent schedule last year, their record would have been much worse. their skill players on offense return generally, but nearly the whole offensive line has to be replaced and there will be little depth.... I take from that that this is the game where our DL has to come up big, if it does we do have a shot. Also their DL is not big and the top 3 DTs are gone...cue NTs running game...I am optimistic about this one Myerberg is really high on them though Boards: it seems the independent site BSUfans.com is the way to go September 21 Georgia Athlon Scout Connelly has them as the possibly best offense in the country but only as average (by SEC standards that is) defense. This game will be extremely tough. NTs best hope is to completely get forgotten in the midst of a Georgia schedule that has 2super difficult games before and 1 after NT visits. Talkwise - as you'd expect from a football school like Georgia, tere are many options. I like the independent DawgRun the best. Blogwise if you like it to be all text and very detailed go to get the picture. If you like it a bit more graphic and don't have time to sort through everything, the SBnation blog dawgsport might be your best option. October 5th Tulane Less nervous here, even though they return a ton of starters, because it seems they were very dependent on their departed QB and their defense is awful against the run. Myerberg thinks the are two years away from breakthrough, that their depth on DL is terrible but that their incoming QB is probably the answer. Scout is not very high on them Athlon Boards: there is the independent one http://www.yogwf.com and then there is the rivals one. October 12th MTSU Conelly is really high on them. Their offense does look scary. their defense was terrible, particularly against the run, but returns almost every one. This might be a tough game. Myerberg seems a lot less high on them, and thinks even with everyone returning the defense was terrible. Scout Athlon Almost all those reviews were made before MTSU had 3 players arrested. Boardwise the rivals forum seems the best used, but not super impressive either October 19th La.Tech Reading Conelly makes me surprisingly confident about this game. They lose sooo much production on offense and have to cope with a new coach. Other than medium class DT starters there is not too much left in defense either. I think they may struggle mightily this season. Myerberg Thinks that a lot is gone but thare is still enoguh talent for 8 wins. Athlon Boardwise it seems you best go to http://www.latechbbb.com/ October 26th Southern Miss I don't know. Their recruiting rankings say there is still a lot of talent... but the 3rd system in 3 years, almost no offensive line returning, but otherwise an experienced team. really hard to judge before the season starts what identity they will have. I don't think they will be worldbeaters though. Myerberg has the NT game as the one to watch for them. He blieves steadfast in the offensive coach but does not see greatness in their personell, particularly the line. Their OL against NTs DL might be the cruicial match up. Athlon Scout Boardwise the eaglepost seems to be the best October 31 Rice Looks like a tough game for us. They are on a streak from last year and bring 19 starters of quality back. It seems their run defense is most probably their weekest spot, so if we can establish a good running game we have a shot. And NT will be sadled with the disadvantage of having only 5 days to recoup and prepare. Myerberg does not like Rice very much, considering their stretch run was very good and how much quality they return. He thinks that the overall talent level is to little to really make more noise. Still: he has them clearly winning against NT. Scout Athlon Boardwise their csnbbs site called the parliament might be the best place to go November 9 UTEP This spells interesting game. what I take from the article is that their deense ought to be terrible , 6 of the back seven starters are gone and the line was terrible last year, but their offense brings back almost everyone except the starting qb and they have some star transfer from A&amp;M to mediate this. Might be a game that comes down to who fails to score first. Myerbergs preview: basically they get a big hope from getting showers at QB, but he better be mobile, cause the OL is a major concern. Defense lacks depth across the board. Scout. Athlon The miners have the only SBNation blog of C-USA: http://www.minerrush.com minerillustrated.com is the rivals site and possibly the best forum for UTEP and seems pretty active. November 23 UTSA Makes me a bit anxious. What I take from this is that you beat em easily if your passing game is halfway decent... but I am not sure ours is. Myerberg on the other hand is really low on them, saying that with the severly more difficult schedule they will have serious depth problems. That would bode well for NT, which plays them rather late. Athlon Seems the best fan board is http://www.rowdytalk.com/forum.php November 30 Tulsa A lot of people act as if Tulsa was gonna be a certified loss. I am not so sure, even less after reading this. The offense was actually not as good as it seemed last season, he contends it was more the defense that made the big splash. Now apart from loosing 3 OL the offense does not lose extremely much, but this great defense does. The DL gets a complete makeover, the best LB graduated and the secondary is a construction site too. Then again with this coaching staff the regression might not be that big and we might get blown out anyway. But right now I see NT having a shot at this one. Scout does not agree with my feelings on Tulsa. Athlon boardwise it seems really thin to me. Previews of North Texas: Connelly Myerberg Scout Athlon C-USA teams we don't play: Eastern Carolina Athlon Myerberg we don't play them. They are one of the favourites in the east; Quite a few people returning Marshall recruited well for a few years now, now the record might start really showing it. Offense comes back quite complete and the defense also only loses a lot in secondary (but is clearly worse than the offense). Scout Athlon for message boards it's been suggested below to go to http://www.herdnation.com FAU: SBN ; Myerberg Athlon Scout Boardwise owlsnest is interesting. owlaccess is less active but still ok it seems. FIU Conelly calls them a total wildcard, I on the other hand think we missed out on an easy game. Myerberg seems to agree with me. Athlon Boardwise FIU's fans can be found at FIUGoldenPanthers.com UAB another interesting read... but we don't play them. Myerberg Athlon Scout Boardwise blazertalk the CSNBBS board- seems actually the most used for UAB</p>

I can live with logos... ...if I have to.... and I guess I will have to

No. Just.... no

to get back on topic: Vito asked, and it seems they covered this in the contract: we seem to get a home game in 2014 vs tulsa: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/03/quick-scrimmage-notes-4.html/ What it does not say if we have to return this game in 2015, but I hazard a guess that not. I f this indeed holds up, this would be a major win for our schedule and would represent great contract planning by RV.

Ok I admit this is not relevant..like not at all...and maybe even somewhat confusing.... still..Seems this is the kind of press our football program gets these days http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2013/3/28/4157960/peggy-didnt-believe-in-one-word-cant

I hope this is sarcasm