Coach Bill Lewis

I was just curious as to why the CUSA went to 14 teams in this latest round of expansion? Was the conference trying to be proactive in case the AAC took two more CUSA teams? Or was there a different reason or more specific plan? And is the hope to eventually get back down to 12 teams?

Joke #20Q: How do you keep UTSA Roadrunners out of your yard? A: Put up goal posts.Joke #19Q: Why did the UTSA Roadrunners grad cover her ears? A: She was trying to hold in a thought. Joke #18Q: How do you neuter a Roadrunners fan? A: Kick his sister in the jaw!Joke #17Q: What do UTSA Roadrunners Football players always get on their final exams? A: Drool.Joke #16Q: Did you hear about the UTSA Roadrunners fan who won a gold medal at the Olympics? A: He liked it so much that he decided to get it bronzed. Joke #15 Q: What's the difference between UTSA Roadrunners cheerleaders and The Titanic? A: Only 1,000 went down on The Titanic. Joke #14Q: What's the biggest lie told at UTSA? A: "I was just helping that sheep over the fence."Joke #13Q: What is the difference between a litter of puppies and UTSA Roadrunners fans? A: Eventually puppies grow up and stop whining. Joke #12Q: What do Roadrunners cheerleaders and Roadrunners quarterbacks have in common? A: They're always on their backs.Joke #11Q: Why did UTSA disband its water polo team? A: All the horses drowned. Joke #10Q: How did the UTSA Roadrunners fan die from drinking milk? A: The cow fell on him!Joke #9Q: Did you hear about the UTSA Roadrunners fan who tried to blow up the opponents team bus? A: He burned his lip on the tailpipe. Joke #8Q: If you have a car containing a UTSA Roadrunners wide receiver, a UTSA Roadrunners linebacker, and a UTSA Roadrunners defensive back, who is driving the car? A: The cop.Joke #7Q: What do you call a good looking girl on the UTSA campus? A: A visitor.Joke #6Q: How do Roadrunners brain cells die? A: Alone. Joke #5Q: What is the definition of safe sex down at UTSA? A: Placing signs on the animals that kick. Joke #4Q: Why dont Roadrunners fans use 911 in an emergency? A: Because they cannot find "eleven" on the phone dial. Joke #3Q: How many UTSA Roadrunners does it take to change a tire? A: One, unless it's a blowout, in which case they all show upJoke #2Q: Why do UTSA Roadrunners fans like smart women? A: Opposites attract. Joke #1Q: Why can't UTSA Roadrunners players go on the internet? A: They can't put 3 w's together. View Full Article

This years team will be very different from the past few years as UTEP has outstanding guard play. Here is a link to our local papers write up. http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/sports/.../74546392/ Some things that excited me are that our new point guard had 13 assist and ZERO turnovers in addition to 31 points. Look Dominic Artis to be the newcomer of the year. UTEP also has shooters. Trey Touchet won the 3 point contest by going 28-30, he was a perfect 15-15 in the first round. Interior play is/and will be a big question mark but this is the first time UTEP has had great guard play in over 4 years.

Ten years at .500 is enough of a sample to know what you have. No one more than I has tried to keep a level perspective regarding Stockstill and dismissed calls for him to go, but the camels back has been broken. I have officially seen enough. One stat you won't here from the Middle Tennessee athletic dept is that Rick Stockstill's teams have now allowed 40 or more points to non-power schools 18 times. That's an average of nearly two per year. Or that Stockstil's record when facing a QB ranked in the top 50 in passing is 6-26. Middle Tennessee has never had a good defense under Stockstill sans Manny Diaz' last year. That, coincidentally, is the only season a Stockstill led team did not give up at least 40 points to at least one team. Since our board is down, I'll say this for our MT folks. I intend to contact the President on Monday and put forth a plan to remove Stockstill. We don't have a lot of money, but we have been putting money away for facility upgrades. That money should be pulled from those plans to put together a buyout package for Stockstill. We can no longer support the piss poor efforts we've witnessed year after year where the team just simply fails to show up in certain stretches of the year and we play olay with the opposing team's offensive players. We didn't show up for Western and we didn't show up today. Though this will hurt us in the arms race for facility upgrades we can't afford to continue doing what we are doing. Any energy and excitement has been sucked out of the program. The wind in the sails is gone and has been for some time. A change will infuse some energy back into the program which hopefully leads to increased revenue streams. Bottom line is Stockstill's tenure is officially a failure and we can no longer afford to keep him.

Marshall's starting RB Devon Johnson is injured and will be out for the game today. Let's hope for a good clean game. 17-0 1st quarter. Marshall has UNT on the ropes. Not impressed with the UNT D.

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I really like this hire of Judy MacLeod. CUSA has a bunch of under-valued assets, and I think she will be just what we need. Just watch. She was a WBB player and I'm sure she knows the WBB royalty that resides in CUSA with La Tech and ODU. It's about time we have someone that doesn't just roll over and settle for mediocrity. She may be the best thing to happen to this conference since our MBB National Championship game run. I've always had the feeling that Bano was coasting on the job. I think this lady comes into this job with a chip on her shoulder. The best way to throw a wrench into the GOB network is to hire a woman. Val Ackerman seems to be doing ok in the Big East. Maybe her and Judy can secures us a series in roundball. Hillary Clinton is just about to become President. This seems to me to be a statement that CUSA is getting with the times. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...mmissioner

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.