BillySee58

Commits to WKU

Well, they are gone. Hopefully permanently, but even just temporarily it is much more pleasing to look at these type of schedules.

Mavericks do not currently have a draft pick in this year’s draft

Neutral site matchups with Kansas, UMass, and Tulsa are all testaments to how far our program has come. Gone are the days of playing Maryland Eastern Shore, Maine, and Saint Peter’s in the Wolfpack Classic.

Guess he is playing DT. Can’t remember if Vito or Brune said that was the case in spring, but I remember at least one of them reported as such. Mccrae and Novil inside with the Murphy twins outside definitely sounds like a solid group on paper.

In that way, we might be. Looks like our non-conference schedules are shaping up with 4 types of games: 1 - Preseason tournament games 2 - Road games at High Major and At-Large caliber Mid Major programs 3 - Home and homes with top quality Mid Major programs and hopefully High Majors 4 - Home games with no return games from Sun Belt and lower competition Wren might just feel like at this point he can get better quality programs than UTA to take up spots in that 3rd category. In 19-20 we hosted Little Rock, who went on to win the Sun Belt regular season title that year, and it appears as though there was never going to be a return game there. I don’t know if we really have the status to be “big-timing” UTA, but Wren’s job is to put together the best schedule he can. If that means home & homes and neutral-site games with programs like Nevada and Tulsa in lieu of a UTA series, then that’s what he has to do.

I wouldn’t expect return trips to Denton from any of our non-conference road opponents from last year’s schedule. Those games seemed to be last-minute scheduled games rather than any sort contractual series’. UTA on the other hand, that does seem strange for that series to seemingly be discontinued.

Reunion with Mike Miller

It’s kind of a default thing. Not gonna show a dude who never even took a snap in spring showing as the starter. There’s no evidence, so it’s hard to make the claim that Ruder is the projected starter. Alternatively I remember at least one magazine in 2013 showing Brock Berglund as the projected starter.

CFB Film Room showed Aune as having graded top 20% in most areas. Statistically, not opinion formed.

https://collegehoopstoday.com/index.php/rothstein-files/matchups-set-for-2021-espn-events-invitational/

Thanks for putting this together. So far Baker and Mccasland’s MOs have been to release the schedule later than our peers. It’s nice to have a pieced together schedule for reference since the real one is typically not released until a matter of weeks before the season starts.

Ones I can remember are Esteban Santiago, Khatib Lyles, and the guy who posts on here (forgot his username) who played on the mid 90s teams.

Not super close to you but the football team will be playing in Las Vegas and the men’s basketball team will be playing in Reno within about 3 months of each other next year.

Also shows us traveling to Wichita State at a date TBD. That was a matchup that was scheduled last year but removed due to the altered COVID start date. And then the previously reported home game against Nevada.

Gotcha, my bad. Thought you were following up on the Simmons posts being made.

Was talking about Zach Simmons. Not Hamlet

Fwiw he didn’t enter his name into the NBA draft so definitely seems like he’s looking straight to options outside of the US.

You’re good, it wasn’t rhetorical. That was the only I can remember besides A&M cancelling due to COVID this past year but that wasn’t a home and home, didn’t know if I was missing any others.

Which ones got cancelled before the return? Only one I can think of is Cal but that one didn’t end up being cancelled like we thought. They just changed the return date and are coming to Denton in 2023.

Anything remotely comparable to that happening now with Smatresk and Baker seems completely out of the realm of possibility. Not to say they are perfect, but they are damn near the antithesis of Bataille and RV when it comes to running this AD. So much so that I don’t think we can use what happened under them as any real predictor of imminent AD decision making.

North Texas will be playing at UNLV in 2022.

Yup 😕

Correct. We should have 16 redshirt freshmen and 31 true freshmen on this year’s roster. 47 of 81 players on scholarship will be classified as freshmen this season, by my count. Sure a big chunk of those players will transfer but how many will get replaced through the portal or JUCO ranks by transfers of the same class? We have to gradually even things out the next four years, otherwise you’d be looking at 30 or so Seniors all leaving at once. Giving players an extra season may have been the right thing to do, but it is complicating things big time down the line. That plus one-time sit-out free transfers all at once has created the perfect storm.

Yikes. Feel for the 2022 kids. NCAA has to step in and make a rule where transfers don’t count towards the 25-per class limit. Maybe say you get 25 HS/JUCO kids and 10 D1 transfers? Coupled with all these kids getting an extra season, there isn’t enough room in the 25 class spots or the 85 roster spots for 2022 kids.