Andrew

1-14 from the field in the first ten minutes of the game. I will just take a nice little lay up at this point. Cmon green!

If it weren’t for the football success this might have been a miserable winter 😬

Thank goodness most of the guys we brought in our seniors and will free up roster sports (hopefully for high school recruits) because they are awful.

Perry and Jones are out and they were our returning offensive threats. 😞

And Saint Mary’s isn’t going to sit their starters in crunch time. This is going to be a tough one.

Cannot find the game anywhere. ESPN plus needs to expand and be everywhere.

Benford was most likely the best recruiter we have ever had… as a coach eh…. Would have been a nice assistant coach.

So is it true more truck owners are switching to Ram? That’s what I hear….

So I thought he was maybe ranked 20th in the state? In comparison Combs and Wesley were not like top 12 I thought… we have had many higher recruits in state but those were under Benford and Jones. For Mac this seems like a big get.

Aune with the genius move to throw to the CB knowing he would have to adjust and get injured. Now that’s genius football! Well played Aune… well played…

Always… but I feel like I should be switching to Ram…..

It’s a done deal now! 🙂

You should have hung it up almost a decade ago… but I’m sure nothing I could offer you would make you ever change your mind… you enjoy being obstinate.

Seems like the perfect game for ESPN plus it’s not listed 😞

I will take the support and I assure you I am correct. I am unsure what else I am suppose to say short of attending to email and have conversations with people and screen shot it and post it… I mean the game was clearly thrown and even a casual fan can tell. I even asked two of our coaches who didn’t watch the game whatsoever and w showed them the box score. Immediately the question was asked why would their starters not play starting minutes and why go 12 deep. It’s not rocket science….

I will just leave the box score here and let the minutes of the starters sink in….

Nothing… because they decided to make it an exhibition while the game was not one for us. They don’t get a win or loss… but we do so it mattered for us. Not them. Again… find me a game where a team was up 6 in the second half and decided to sit thier starters. And not just one at a time but pull all 5 of them twice from the game and then never let them return. They legit subbed out all 5 of them 6:47 ish mark and never put them back in. Not a single one…

When they are healthy and we are up in the second half and they sit and don’t play again and we lose then get back to me.

So their starters were tired after only playing 3-4 minutes in the second half. Getting pulled again around the 6:48 mark and then even after a time out at the 1:11 mark when down 4 points still their entire bench (some of which were true freshman) come back into the floor. Y’all are absolutely delusional. If Mac pulled out starters next game and keep them out 80% of the second half y’all would loose your marbles…. But if it benefits us you don’t bat an eye… pathetic.

I’m all for supporting the team. I rode out Benford and Mac is the best coach I have seen and arguably the best coach in UNT basketball history, but Benford did not get handed a win. He lost outright at least and it was awful. This should have been a loss. I would have understood the loss and moved on, but what fees like a “dirty win”. That feels worse to me. It doesn’t feel like a win at all. We had to have a D2 team come into our house and play their bench players in order for our team to win. It doesn’t feel right at all.

That’s the issue. Would be openly throw an exhibition game to benefit an opponent knowing it wasn’t an exhibition for them? To me that’s wrong. It’s not competitive basketball and it’s doing a disservice to the other team and the game itself. What we saw tonight wasn’t basketball. It was an embarrassment. We shouldn’t have won the game and most people know that. We won because they showed mercy and pulled their starters because they had nothing to lose and we did. Plus I believe the announcers mentioned multiple times our teams/players/coaches had connections from the past. It’s all suspicious. We get a win…. However we should have got a loss and everyone knows that if we lost it would all but do us in for any favorable rank coming seeding time if we won our conference. We received mercy to benefit us later in the season… but cmon you know Cobra Kai…. It’s a sport. No mercy. They should have just finished us off tonight and sent a message to our team that we are going to have to do better. Handing us the game did us no favor.

I don’t understand. I bleed green. I am there for the highs and the lows… this game screams dirty win and everyone is simply ok with that? I don’t get it. I would have felt better if we lost than be handed the game. We legit lost to a D2 school at home. That’s what this is…. Only we didn’t because they played their bench almost the entirety of the second half. Again… if anyone who is throwing negatives at the comments could provide evidence of any college basketball team being up on the road and sitting their starters the second half I would be more than happy to listen…. The evidence is clear and yet people are silent…. It isn’t right. -if UNT decides to sit their starters against St. Mary’s on the road next game and only play their bench in the second half and then end up losing the game you would be completely fine?

Now do a piece on why Southern Nazarene sat their starters almost the entirety of the second half…. 🤔

Well something happened…. Ironically all the people who for a decade wanted to call out poor basketball play are suddenly silent. I got a few texts and calls about it so at least we aren’t crazy…. Southern threw the game.

Well losing to a D2 opponent pretty much lost all respect for Benford…. What does it do for Mac at home?