MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF

Exactly. "ESPN3 is available only on computers and streaming devices...." So, where's the "landmark" part? Oh, I guess that C-USA is the first conference to admit they don't have enough stroke to get a television deal that would, you know, put their football games on television with ESPN. That is a landmark. And...of course ODU would be excited about it.

Wow. Just google his name and file through his deep involvement in the community. He's been totally dedicated to UNT and Denton as well. Amazing that anyone would question Dickenson. This is a sad place. That's where I've got to jump off, questioning the motives and career of Hank Dickenson. Whew.

Could be just the first domino to fall.

Hank is a lackey?

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/14/8912981/student-debt

Okay...but, you know not all P5 schools have baseball programs, right. Not every school in the Big 12 has baseball. As far as the top two G5's: AAC: 12 football playing schools, but only eight baseball playing schools. Mountain West: 12 football, seven baseball Baseball is the least of our problems when it comes to attractiveness.

Look, you are talking about a kid with no other FBS offers. We already have plenty of those on our roster. You're now wanting to compare two rosters full of kids with only one FBS offer, such as UTSA and UNT have? And. what's more, to say we missed out because a kid ended up at UTSA...and who hasn't played a snap of college football yet? Nuts. The goal of Littrell, hopefully, is to not have to entice kids without FBS offers. That's the goal. The goal isn't to sweep no offer kids away from UTSA. I mean, can we raise the bar just an inch or two? Fighting about who got a no offer kid?

Sand Aggie and Oklahoma Aggie have no pull academically or athletically. They will be left behind when OU and Texas decided to jump. KU will be saved by their academic and basketball reputations. And, if politicians couldn't keep A&M and Texas from separating, It's comical to think they'll keep Texas and Texas Tech from separating or Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. At that point, expect the P5 to become the P4, and the P4 will give the Big East treatment to the Big 12. Big 12, at that point will be SWC 2.0, severely watered down without old Arkansas, Texas, and Texas A&M to lead it. I expect the NCAA to either blow up or for the four major conference to just split off and do their own thing, leaving everyone else with the NCAA. Whether any of this is right or wrong is irrelevant. I personally hate it. But, there really nothing the schools with no pull can do.

Screw the mob squad. My family had fun at the Plano Caravan. Again. Because the athletic department was nice and helpful to us, I was supposed to be blind to their failures. Stupid.

Yes, I suppose time will tell. What it will tell on the minuscule college football stage of UNT versus UTSA, I'm not quite sure, but....

<sigh> I'd insert Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" video in honor of RV, if I thought it would help, but...lord have mercy. I f*cking sat in dilapidated Fouts Field as a UNT student from 1990-1995 watching us play the likes of Southwest Missouri State year in and year out, and I'm supposed to now sit in Apogee and pretend nothing has changed in 15 years.

Here I'll say more: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/8145 http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/206829/josiah-tauaefa Doesn't look like anyone else wanted him either. So what? We've already got a roster of kids with only one FBS offer. So, because we didn't add one more because he was local, you and his little brother are miffed? Give it a rest. If he turns out to be a good player, that's one thing. But, kids with no or few offers to FBS schools are a dime a dozen. Well, from the looks of it, our analysis of him was no different than 126 other FBS schools. Kudos to UTSA...who waited until the week before signing day to offer? I mean they beat everyone from Alabama all the way down to Eastern Michigan for this kid, then. And, they did so at the wire. Please. Congratulations to him for UTSA taking a flyer on him when no one else would. But, man...ease up. I'm sure every high school football coach in the country has stories about kids who played hard, were nice, etc. not getting scholarship offers from FBS schools, near or far from home. UTSA recruiting trash talk. For a kid with no other offers. Wow. This how bad it is for us.

I don't care where you sat, personally. I'm just saying, if his offers were from the likes of us and UTSA, what's the difference? He hasn't done a damn thing yet on the field, so I don't understand the upheaval. There are a sh*t ton of kids who aren't heavily recruited, year in and year out. So, what's the big deal? The kid's brother goes off on twitter over a game between UTEP and UNT, and that's supposed to trigger some kind of remorse out of us? I mean, what kind of pitiful life must he be leading to take time out for that? He's rehashing his older brother's recruiting woes through the one game misfortunes of the UTEP's, UTSA's, and UNT's of the college football world? Wow. Recruiting trash talk among UTEP, UTSA, and UNT? Does it get any more pathetic than that in the big picture of FBS football? If that's what gets little brother hopped up, I'd drug test him immediately for the presence of meth, bro. Seriously, step back and gain some perspective.

I think a program would know whether there were multiple rapes/sexual assaults occurring. Our problem has been the opposite - if you consider it a problem: because our donors don't hand piles of cash to our players, some have resorted to pilfering at Wal-Mart. Hopefully, the stipend now provided will be the end of that. Sexual assault and rape, which beget public records, are harder to squash. Look at the whole deal going on at OU where their broadcasting association has had to go to the Oklahoma Supreme Court to get the release of the video of the RB Mixon breaking the girl's face. The DA is full of OU Law grads. The local judge is an OU grad. OU's president, athletic director, and head coach visited the DA's office together when the event went down, which played no small part, I'm sure, in the eventual Alford Plea. It's dirty self-dealing with the Big Boys. Baylor is Waco, much like OU is Norman. Fort Worth probably has too many other fish swimming in the judicial pond to get away with too much more than they have, but they're tried. If only they could stuff the local courts with TCU Law grads, like Baylor and OU...oops! No TCU Law School...and A&M bought the nearest one a few years back! I doubt there was a rape/sexual assault problem under Grant Teaff, Roberts, or any other failed Baylor Big 12 head coach before Briles. Unfortunately, often times the toughest, most aggressive sons of guns make the best athletes. And, the aggressiveness often doesn't stay on the field, but follows them off the field. Happy that we not in those situations. Baylor can have them - and the wins - if that's what it takes.

One thing is certain in all of this: we will someday share a conference with Abilene Christian. Mark my words. It will be the ultimate thrill for them, and the ultimate defeat for us.

Hasn't this been asked before in another thread, whether with the rise of Hulu and whatnot, that we find someone who will stream? Or, am I dreaming? Dreaming is free.

Did we not beat UTSA last year? So...why do we care about a kid who plays MLB on a team that couldn't even beat us last year? I mean...come on. Texas State probably also has some starters that we didn't recruit...and vice versa.

Okay, and here is my problem: we're not talking about the debate or tennis team. We're talking about what Briles has control over - the football team. I had the same problem with Littrell here earlier in the year when the WR involved in a hit and run was still working out with the team. The head football coach is the head football coach. The players are his responsibility. If he doesn't like that, he shouldn't be a head football coach; he should be an assistant. It's a big job. And, if the kids under your charge feel like they can get away with stuff or cut corners, they will. It's happening now at Baylor. It's happened more and more at TCU as they've gotten more competitive. OU has the RB Mixon who broke a girl's face. Georgia just dismissed a player after his third marijuana arrest. First two at Georgia apparently earn you free passes to test the system again. Briles is responsible. To make Baylor more competitive, he's taken on players with off the field problems. It's what competitive schools do. But, he can't sit by, throw his hands up in the air and say, "Man, I'm just the coach." I guarantee you that everyone of these coaches sits in the players' mamas' living rooms and says, "Don't worry, Ms. Momma of Four and Five-Star Recruit, I'm gonna make sure your boy doesn't get into any trouble at our school. We're like family at Bullsh*t U., moreso than Horsesh*t U. and Chickensh*t U., who also want to sign your boy."

Everyone knows the Big 12 is dying. Would love to be a fly on the wall at the BOR meetings for Texas and Oklahoma to know which conferences are currently wooing them. Although SEC makes the most geographic sense, my bet is Texas to the Pac-12 or ACC. OU to either the SEC or Big Ten. KU to ACC or Big Ten. Everyone else in the Big 12 is left sucking hind tit. Prediction: Biggest meltdown comes from Baylor fans, first, then Oklahoma State fans.

Reporting police report shenanigans with sexual assault files is a "hatchet job?"

Yes, we shall. And, as the season draws nigh upon us, and the non-mushroom consuming people begin to scrutinize the depth charts even more closely, the line will probably increase to OU being favored by double digits... ...and, hopefully, when the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on September 4, 2016, both SMU and Houston will sit at 0-1 to start their seasons. That will put the proper damper of their respective unrealistic fanbases.

Um...Harry started the thread about Houston's coach thumping his chest over lowly SMU. So...ask Harry why on his NT site he'd start a thread about Houston. Although, I think it was to produce just what we have produced... ...easily drawing the Couger lurkers offsides in a conversation about where they really stand against the Big Boys, no matter what their hashish-smoking head coach proclaims.

NMSU needs to drop football and just concentrate on basketball. They have some history of being competitive there. Then, pick up the other futbol for men with the scholarship difference between the men and women, for Title IX's sake.

Except that, uh-oh...Vegas can read depth charts as well: http://www.wagertalk.com/news/early-2016-college-football-lines/ http://www.oddsshark.com/ncaaf/oklahoma-houston-odds-september-3-2016-729538

You'll have to live a long, long time to see that day. Better focus on the more realistic for 2016 - repeating as AAC champs. Unfortunately, OU's Mayfield and Perine are both Heisman candidates, so Stoops may leave them both in til midway through to fourth quarter to pad their stats during the blowout.