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Gotcha. I think I have heard of that now that you mention dunks. I guess, I blanked on dunks because it was a male commentator making that comment during a women's game. #MeToo is getting to my head.

Important question... When Holmes hit that deep 3 with about 3 minutes left in the 2nd quarter, the male commentator said "that's a facial, there." Ummm... I've heard that, ummm phrase, but never in a basketball sense. What does that mean in basketball terms? 😳

It worked with WKU basketball getting Hollingsworth so you truly never know.

Bama, LSU, Texas, USCal, Florida, Ole Miss, Notre Dame, A&M, Nebraska, and a few more have all offered. Kid has blown up.

My beef is this: CUSA has had upsets in 3 or 4 straight ncaa tournaments. THAT is what should garner your conference more bids. When some major conferences consistently get 4 or 5 bids and only 1 team advances past the second round, that's when you know the system is flawed. In the fifa world cup, confederation allocation is determined by strength of each confederations (generally continents or continent groupings) teams. Perform well, get more spots.

Lost by 3 to ODU and 1 to LaTech this season. Even though we've lost many close games, I feel like we can hang with anybody in the conference. Let's make a run!

He reminds of Cordarrelle Patterson out of Tennessee a few years ago. Average receiver in his one season at the FBS level but was an all-purpose yards beast. Regardless, drafted in the first round due to measurables and athleticism. Result is an average NFL career.

Our last 2 weekday games at apogee had decent attendance. Per espn, in the 17000s against ULL in 2012 on a Tuesday. In the 22000s against Rice on Halloween on a Thursday in 2013. I was at both games and attendance iseemed good in both.

Taco Bell with extra hot sauce?

Good article on WKU's Hollingsworth. The passage below is about his recruitment and why he snubbed Kentucky as a local player to go to WKU. This is why you need to take chances on high profile recruits but if you do, you make them your priority and you show them they aren't just some other 4 star. If only more kids thought like he did... "Yet, growing up in Lexington, Western was not the school of Hollingsworth’s basketball dreams. In 2015, Hollingsworth told the Herald-Leader’s Ben Roberts a chance to play for the hometown Kentucky Wildcats would be his “dream offer.” As his recruitment headed toward a climax in the fall of 2016, UK made him a conditional scholarship offer. “UK told me, if you are willing to wait (and sign in the spring), then we can give you a scholarship,” Hollingsworth says. “I think they wanted the people they (really) wanted first, then I would come after that.” Hollingsworth had long conversations with his parents over what to do. In his heart, he kept coming back to the fact WKU was treating him as a priority recruit. “I don’t like to be anybody’s backup plan,” Hollingsworth says. “WKU told me they would give me a scholarship on point. So that’s what I chose.”" http://kentucky.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mark-story/article201630349.html

That or it could be not knowing what's going on at their school. I graduated in 2014 and very few students were aware of votes or elections. Generally, SGA would go to different organizations to meet with larger groups of people and those were the ones who seemed to constitute most of the voting parties. When I was involved in Greek life, they would come to our houses and talk to us but Greek life is still relatively small at UNT. I will say, most of the people in SGA are plugged in with other groups already so those people will generally support their buddies in SGA and vote in their favor. Other than that, most students live off campus after freshman year and only go to campus for classes even if they live in Denton. Many students who do live on campus or spend large amounts of time on campus really don't pay attention to the occasional sign posted around campus regarding a vote. It isn't just athletics related elections that don't garner attention. In my time at UNT, apathy was always very high. SGA elections garnered little votes as well and it's usually the same organizations that constitute the votes.

I'm thinking of Singletary at FAU and how that type of back, if the talent is there, can really dominate at the CUSA level. Quite frankly, I think our offense would be terrifying with Mason at QB and a playet like him in the backfield. Obviously he would have to get it together but could be worth the shot. I posted a link above. Looks like he's declared for the NFL. Star Telegram reporting the same. http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/article198799599.html

Just to close the loop... He's apparently declaring for the NFL: https://www.burntorangenation.com/platform/amp/2018/2/16/17021320/chris-warren-academics-transfer-texas-longhorns-2018-nfl-draft

We would be tied if it weren't for all of the missed free throws

And if Dimel doesn't let him it'll again be a pass for Chico? It'll just be because of UTEP? At some point you gotta look at the guy's entire body of work and see what else he's done. Winning the lottery once doesn't mean you have the magic recipe for winning the lottery. If he's had other mildly successful qbs that you would like to point out I'm all ears. The problem isn't that Rivers is some old dude. It's that at this point he's Chico's only dude.

Agreed. He was drafted almost 15 years ago. The only thing Rivers shows at this point is that Chico was lucky to coach on a team with a talented player.

Almost looks like a practice gym with bleachers...

I agreed with you at the time we blueshirted these guys but now I don't mind the decision. When SL took over we needed immediate contributors and depth. Ultimately, the guys blueshirted last year will be here 1 year less than the guys who would have signed this year. In the grand scheme of things I don't think it's that big of a deal. We were in a bad place and now we're not. Blue shirting speeded up the process of becoming competitive since we picked up several Jucos who ended up contributing these past 2 years. I would rather not blue shirt 6 guys per class though so hopefully moving forward we blue shirt less and less every class so that we can slow build towards regularly having the maximum 25 slots available during recruiting cycles. If it weren't for blue shirts, we would might still be a below .500 team due to the lack of depth. After seeing SL work magic his first 2 years here, I would think people would be a little less critical of his tactics until proven otherwise. I guess some will always complain.

I don't think it would be worth it... We are already solid at wr and the guys we have are young. That's one of the few positions we should only be taking true freshmen unless the transfer is a blue chip talent like Trey Quinn when he transfered from LSU to SMU.

I'm sure his father told him he would gladly pay for his UT tuition. Honestly, can't say I blame him. His college experience at UT will be better than the one at Rice and if he doesn't mind the playing time it's not a hard choice. And those saying life as a p5 is tough, we have guys who turned down d2 and fcs offers this year to accept a PWO at UNT. Not they are not 3 star prospects but it's just the way it works. Some guys will take the flashier option even if it means paying more.

We usually get a couple guys the last day that nobody even knew about beforehand. I would expect the same. And if I'm not mistaken, previous years under SL those last second guys were some of the better signings of their respective classes.

If you re-read my post, you would see that I said not everybody that goes there is racist and that wasn't what I was saying. At the same time they have had some problems involving racism in the past couple years and It's something I would hope athletes are taking into consideration when deciding where they want to spend the next 4 to 5 years of their life.

My question about SMU is the fit. Growing up in Dallas, I've experienced the culture and it's just not the right fit for everybody. We've seen the news stories of racism and other types of discrimination going on at SMU. That alone would make SMU a "no" for me. I know not everybody who goes to SMU is like that, I've known good people who went there, but it's still on going problem they've had.

This happened both of SL's first classes. I expect us to get 1 or 2 three star guys at the last second who had their other offers dry up. We'll see how things play out.