Coach Bill Lewis

Carthel link to bio http://lionathletics.com/coaches.aspx?rc=123

That's pretty respectable given the record and the opponent.

The Vikings went into the North Dakota game having relied heavily on the run and without having showed a lot in the passing game — and not much changed. PSU had trouble throwing the ball, other than Kuresa’s 76-yard TD slant pass-and-run to fleet Grant High graduate Paris Penn on the team’s first play from scrimmage. North Dakota was playing to stop the run first, which led to PSU gaining only 97 yards on 30 carries. “When that’s happening, we need to throw the football better,” Barnum says. “When there’s eight or nine (defenders) in the box, two more than us, we have to distribute to our receivers until we loosen you up.” By loading up defensively near the line of scrimmage, North Dakota was locked into playing man-to-man coverage on Portland State’s receivers, and the Vikings couldn’t make them pay for it. “If someone’s going to go man against us consistenly, we’ve got to throw the football and get them back into zone,” Barnum says. “This game is simple: If they’re in man, throw it. In zone, run it. That’s football 101. I’ve talked to (offensive coordinator) Steve Cooper about how we have to improve that part of our game.” Overall, when it comes to run-pass, “we need to get to 50-50,” Barnum says. Through four games, the Vikings are at 75 percent run, 25 percent pass. The Vikings suffered one key injury in the North Dakota game, losing standout cornerback Aaron Sibley to a pulled hamstring. Sibley, also a key contributor on special teams, has had problems with that in the past, and the Vikings went into the week waiting to see if scar tissue was the issue this time and could be treated enough for him to get back on the field at North Texas. North Texas quarterback Andrew McNulty is a 6-1, 210-pound senior from Iowa City, Iowa (North Texas coach Dan McCarney is an Iowa graduate who used to coach there and at Iowa State). McNulty has completed 60 of 126 passes (47.6 percent) for 699 yards and three touchdowns in the Mean Green’s 0-4 start, with four interceptions. View full article

These five teams will enter the weekend still seeking their first triumph of the season. Central Florida (0-5): The Golden Knights have already lost to Furman, and could be winless into November if they don’t beat Connecticut at home this week. Temple, Houston and Cincinnati await George O’Leary’s suddenly woeful team after that. Kansas (0-4): The undermanned Jayhawks opened the season with a loss to South Dakota State, were easily handled by a dysfunctional Rutgers team and have already played (and lost) their most winnable Big 12 game (last week at Iowa State). It’s a tough situation, and one unlikely to yield a triumph before the end of November. New Mexico State (0-4): A visit to Mississippi on Saturday will not cure what ails the Aggies, who have dropped 14 in a row dating back to last season and have just two victories over FBS schools since the start of the 2012 season. New Mexico State might have to make the most of back-to-back home games against Troy and Idaho at the end of the month to avoid its first winless season since 2005. North Texas (0-4): Gets Portland State (which stole a check from Washington State earlier this season) on Saturday. Plus, it’s not as if Conference USA is littered with heavyweights. On the down side, the Mean Green do draw both Marshall and Western Kentucky in crossover games. Nonetheless, this is far from the greatest threat to go 0-for-2015. Wyoming (0-5): Another team with a loss to a FCS school, the Cowboys have dropped home games to North Dakota and Eastern Michigan in nonconference play and find themselves on the far tougher half of the Mountain West. Three of their next four are on the road, with the an Oct. 17 date against struggling Nevada coming in Laramie. View Full Article

C-USA COACHES COMPENSATION Middle Tennessee State, Rick Stockstill, $801,504 base, $126,142, max bonus Rice, David Bailiff, $805,088 base Marshall, Doc Holliday, $755,500 base, $145,000 max bonus North Texas, Dan McCarney, $720,000 base, $945,000 max bonus Southern Mississippi, Todd Monken, $700,000 base, $125,000 max bonus Western Kentucky, Jeff Brohm, $610,800 base, $450,000 max bonus Florida International, Ron Turner, $604,190 base, $150,000 max bonus Charlotte, Brad Lambert, $600,000 base, $120,000 max bonus Old Dominion, Bobby Wilder, $550,000 base, $504,125 max bonus Florida Atlantic, Charlie Partridge, $525,000 base, $100,000 max bonus Louisiana Tech, Skip Holtz, $500,000 base, $295,000 max bonus Texas-El Paso, Sean Kugler, $509,541 base, $486,052 max bonus Texas-San Antonio, Larry Coker, $425,000 base, $255,000 max bonus http://www.dnj.com/story/sports/college/.../73590630/

Five conference games are on this week's television schedule. Southern Miss visits Marshall Friday night to begin the week's action (6 p.m. CDT on CBS Sports Network). On Saturday afternoon, the long-standing rivalry between Middle Tennessee and WKU begins the day (11 a.m. CDT on FOX Sports Regional Networks), along with UTEP's first visit to FIU (11 a.m. CDT on ASN). Rice is at Florida Atlantic Saturday afternoon (1:30 p.m. CDT on FOX College Sports), while West Division rivals Louisiana Tech and UTSA meet Saturday night in San Antonio (6 p.m. CDT on ASN). PDF Release: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/c-us...stings.pdf

Cost estimates up to $120 million. It will be connected to the Civic Center and Uptown. It will be an open air stadium. UAB will be the primary tenant. Those that made the C-USA basketball tourney will be familiar with that area. Film at 11 as they say!

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More than 60 additional men's basketball games during the regular season and at the C-USA Championship are set to be picked up through the league's partnership with Sinclair Broadcasting Group and its American Sports Network. Additional games remain a possibility and will be announced when finalized. A complete schedule to date of televised games is listed below, all times are Eastern: FOX SPORTS 1 Friday, December 4 -- Alabama at Southern Miss -- 8:00 p.m. Saturday, December 5 -- WKU at Xavier -- 8:30 p.m. Monday, December 21 -- North Texas at Creighton -- 9:00 p.m. Thursday, January 28 -- UAB at WKU -- 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 6 -- WKU at UTEP -- 5:00 p.m. Saturday, March 12 -- C-USA Championship Final -- 2:30 p.m. FOX SPORTS NETWORKS (FSN) Wednesday, December 2 -- VCU at Middle Tennessee -- 9:00 p.m. Saturday, December 19 -- Florida Atlantic vs. Florida State (Orange Bowl Classic) -- 5:00 p.m. Sunday, January 3 -- Florida Atlantic at FIU -- 3:00 p.m. Saturday, January 16 -- Middle Tennessee at Old Dominion -- 4:00 p.m. Sunday, January 31 -- UTEP at Louisiana Tech -- 4:00 p.m. Saturday, February 13 -- UAB at Louisiana Tech -- 2:00 p.m. Thursday, February 25 -- UTEP at Old Dominion -- 7:00 p.m. Saturday, February 27 -- WKU at UAB -- 12:00 p.m. FOX SPORTS 2 Tuesday, November 17 -- UTSA at Creighton -- 8:00 p.m. CBS SPORTS NETWORK (CBSSN) Thursday, November 26 -- Middle Tennessee at Alaska Anchorage -- 9:30 p.m. Friday, November 27 -- UAB vs. Illinois (Emerald Coast Classic) -- 9:30 p.m. Saturday, November 28 -- UAB vs. Virginia Tech/Iowa State (Emerald Coast Classic) -- 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 1 -- Louisiana Tech at Memphis -- 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 22 -- Georgetown at Charlotte -- 7:00 p.m. Thursday, January 7 -- Old Dominion at Louisiana Tech -- 9:30 p.m. Saturday, January 9 -- UTEP at UAB -- 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 14 -- UAB at Old Dominion -- 7:00 p.m. Thursday, January 21 -- Rice at UAB -- 9:30 p.m. Saturday, January 30 -- UAB at Marshall -- 12:00 p.m. Saturday, February 20 -- Louisiana Tech at UTEP -- 4:00 p.m. Sunday, February 21 -- UAB at Middle Tennessee -- 6:00 p.m. Friday, March 11 -- C-USA Championship Semifinal -- 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 11 -- C-USA Championship Semifinal -- 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 Wednesday, November 25 -- Charlotte vs. Syracuse (Battle 4 Atlantis) -- 2:30 p.m. ESPN or AXS Thursday, November 26 -- Charlotte at Battle 4 Atlantis -- TBD Friday, November 27 -- Charlotte at Battle 4 Atlantis -- TBD ESPNU Thursday, December 17 -- Marshall vs. West Virginia -- 7:00 p.m. Saturday, December 19 -- WKU at Louisville -- 11:00 a.m. BIG TEN NETWORK Tuesday, November 24 -- Louisiana Tech at Ohio State -- 8:00 p.m. Sunday, December 27 -- Marshall at Maryland -- 4:00 p.m. PAC-12 NETWORK Friday, November 13 -- Rice at California -- 10:00 p.m. Sunday, December 13 -- UTEP at Washington State -- 4:00 p.m. http://m.conferenceusa.com/m/sports/m-ba...15aac.htm

UTSA played very well on the road against #22 ranked Arizona. Let's see if they can play mistake free football and get the schools first P5 victory. UTSA is everyone's dark horse to win the West. Their freshman QB is extremely good. Bill Snyder teams are well coached and tough as nails. This should be a good one. Go Runners!

The new enrollment numbers are out and UNT now has over 37,000 students. Our athletic department has done an outstanding job of engaging the students since coach Mac arrived. With these kinds of numbers don't be surprised if the Mean Green Nation starts swelling as these kids graduate.

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USM - MSU rematch in HoD Bowl Could their walk through the wilderness be near an end?

But there are calls of nepotism and the messages boards are fuming as the son of our OL coach, Mack Leftwich, gets the QB job. To be fair, it has been a heated competition between 4 decent QBs and Coach Kugler has worked hard in the off season to put some new wrinkles into our two dimensional offense. Last year it was run, run, run and make a pass occasionally. This year we'll see a Wild Cat offense and there should be a more developed passing attack. Our optimistic fans believe that Coach Kugler has some tricks up his sleeve and others think that we'll see a plain vanilla running game, like last year. If you think UTEP is going to stomped, or not, you can join our prediction thread and win a $50 gift Certificate at the UTEP bookstore. Predict the score. About UTEPs QB battle.

A Sunbelt press conference on Tuesday will announce the addition of Coastal Carolina. Looks like they beat out Eastern Kentucky for the slot. Very good addition.

Pretty close IMO. The top three match up pretty good and question marks in both divisions after that. Marshall WKU MT VS. LA Tech Rice UTEP ODU is transitioning from the Heinicke era so we'll see how that goes. With some positive news regarding the defense out of camp and some solid weapons remaining at RB &WR I'm hopeful we can maintain the competitiveness level from last year. We finished .500 in conference but each of those four wins were decided by a last minute feildgoal. On the other side of that equation FAU lost 4 games last year by a fieldgoal. They were a better team than the results show and I think either FL team could have a good year if they can bring it together. Charlotte's probably not there yet and play the whipping boy this season. In the west USM fans are feeling confident they'll make some noise this year. I wish them well, they're certainly due but does improvement mean 5 wins? Bowl game? In the top of the west? Trouncing Miss St? I'm excited to find out. I honestly don't know much about UTSA or UNT's situation but I'll take the fact that we're not hearing too much crowing from them to mean they're not expecting much or at least taking a wait and see approach. It may be that Eastern bias but I think the east takes the title and ends stronger top to bottom. But again it's close. And sadly I think UAB would have pushed the west if not for He Who Must Not Be Named.

https://twitter.com/JPktik/status/637060537180819457 Quote: Tuscon Bowl Exec. Dir. Alan Young tells me they have secured a title sponsor

I don't know how this will affect those of you with DISH for games this fall. Hopefully it will get resolved soon or you can pull out the old rabbit ears. https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/dish-loses-12...31328.html

Said on his Instagram, Tyrell Tomlin will join Marshall. He is a former class of 2014 player 4-star coming out of HS and the 16th ranked ILB in the class. He was recently ruled ineligible at UNC. He played in 10 games last season as a freshman. So, he will have 3 years to play 3 after sitting out.

http://247sports.com/Player/Quentin-Jackson-33517 247 ranks him a 4 star with a national ranking of 109. Held 27 offers including Tennessee, Iowa State, Temple, Miss. State, Kansas State, Houston, UCF, and more. Tomorrow we host a 4 star power forward, John Fulkerson. The Mark Price brand seems to be carrying some weight and Charlotte is for real. We have a lot of solid players with legit offers considering us. Can't wait to see Coach Price's guys actually take the court. Not sure what to expect this season, but he has me feeling good about the future.

Our ticket office now directing fans to the Charlotte ticket site where there are still tickets available. Charlotte fans better get buying or there will be 5,000 Marshall fans in your stadium.

The Texas Longhorns have added the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs to their 2019 football schedule, the school announced today. Texas will host Louisiana Tech at Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin on Aug. 31, 2019. The game will be the season-opener and the first-ever meeting on the gridiron between the two schools. As a result of adding Louisiana Tech, the Longhorns have moved their previously scheduled game vs. USF on the same date to Sept. 5, 2020. Both the addition of LA Tech and the USF change are dependent on approval from the UT System Board of Regents. Louisiana Tech now has three non-conference games set for 2019. The Bulldogs also travel to Bowling Green on Sept. 14 and later host UMass on Oct. 19. http://www.fbschedules.com/2015/08/texas...-schedule/

Rice is going to be tough this year.