MeanMag

The worst in the conference tourney. So non-competitive that I'm not sure how the conference did not revoke our conference membership immediately following the blowout loss to Rice.

George is my wife's favorite Ticket personality. So, when she found out that if she came to hot springs with me she might get a picture with George Dunham, she was in for staying the week in Hot Spring, Ark. I was then obligated to get her a picture with George Dunham. This meant waiting to talk to George before a game, until after he was done talking to his broadcast partner for the tourney games, Brad Sham. I asked her if she wanted a picture with Brad Sham too, and her response was, who is Brad Shame? George, of course, obliged and he was very gracious. I remember thinking that other SunBelt fans (mostly ArkyState fans) were probably completely oblivious to the greatness before them in George and Brad as a broadcast team, and how lucky the Mean Green fanbase was to have both of them to listen to. Having that guy as a member of the Mean Green Family, from a broadcast perspective, really means a lot. He is a well respected radio personality by people who are not only in this market. I often wondered how that guy did it. He would do a show on the Ticket, broadcast a basketball tourney game, and then do another show on the Ticket the next morning. He was tireless. He loves his job and loves his team. I love my team and have had some abnormal work hours over the years, and I know how little sleep I got. But, that guy wakes up at VERY abnormal times to be at a place where he is at the top of his game every morning, writing bits and preparing for anything that is thrown at him> AND,he probably goes back to sleep and then wakes up to do UNT basketball? He has short patience for e-brake of the week voters, but who could blame him with the schedule he keeps? UNT will be VERY hard pressed to find someone like that to take over.

Maybe Combs will get drafted.

Who can blame them? If they want to see good college basketball, it's the place to go around here right now. When the F are we going to wake up?

I'm confused by this. We're there not any great (as good or better) shooters after Calvin Watson during all of the conference championship appearances? Tony Mitchell was good. Tristan Thompson. Dominic Johnson. Josh white. A lack of shooting didn't seem to kill us around that time.

Might be of some interest to Mean Green fans at 2:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDp-ABzpRX8

Not worried at all about keeping players, but I'd hope they choose to stay. Can't worry about that kind of stuff. If they want to be here, we'd like to have them. If not, we will find others and might be better off.

I thought we learned our lesson about scheduling UNT events to run at the same time as other UNT events...

Yes, but where does Tyler Hall come in?

No team can shoot that well against air all game, let alone getting a hand in your face.

#LJK5H?

Derek Thompson should be admitted only after Giovanni Vizza is.

Pictures are for kids and sissies.

Spoelstra is an NBA coach. What are his previous credentials?

I will probably donate money to the program forever because I think that needs to be there to get better. However, my time is is worth more than my money. There are a hell of a lot of things I'd rather do than watch bad basketball, but nothing I want more than to watch my alma mater succeed and play good ball. Call me a bad fan or a fair weather fan, I'll call you a sucker with too much time on his hands.

Teams with good, smart, guards with handles and sound passing will beat this D every time. When one person steps out that far from the basket it becomes feast or famine. You are banking on getting turnovers to change the momentum of the game, and against a well coached and practiced team, it's tough. UTEP plays good ball. CUSA typically plays sound ball. That crap might work occasionally against a team that has careless, unskilled ball handlers. My hope is that we only went to this when we were behind and needed a spark. If you do not think you can keep a guy in front of you and challenge every shot, this is what you do. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. This time it did not. This is my opinion, but it will not work against the majority of teams in CUSA. You shut down good guard play with good guard play. 1v1. I agree with Mean Green 09. I'd prefer to make them shoot for it rather than getting slicing looks at the basket behind a defender when fouls become a concern. All this talk about defense, but that isn't the problem, right?

What are we doing comparing this coach to some of the worst in our history? What kind of a justification is it that he's maybe not our worst coach? Is it too much to expect someone to have at least maintained or improved the (some would say moderate) amount of success as the previous guy? If our best historical teams weren't good enough for where we want to be, we should at least be comparing his performance to our best performance. If the consistency and indication that he can either meet or exceed those performance standards aren't there - Move on. There was a time we expected to win/be competitive in a game against Texas Tech. Why is that not where the bar is set? I hear that word progress, but progress doesn't lose to Prairie View A&M and slip into the lower rungs of NCAA basketball on offense. If you want to say they've progressed over the season, I'm not sold. I don't know how you beat Creighton and then lose to Prairie View and wet the bed at Tech and call it progress. If anything, we've regressed if Creighton is considered our high point. I wish they played today, because it seems these last 2 games certainly did not sit well with the fan base. Rightfully so.

For almost 10 years our efficiency and points per possession has outpaced our opponents. Our points per game has always been in the upper echelon of the NCAA. These last 2 years has seen a shift back to what happened previous to 2001-2002. I think it best if we all just ended this failed experiment as soon as possible to give the next guy a head start.

That is because in basketball when you start to beat decent teams at home, the people fighting for your recruits don't want to play you. Tcu wasn't looking for an rpi boost (they weren't in the hunt) and they weren't looking to lose in front of the very recruits they were trying to get. We were right at the point where power teams were willing to schedule us at our house for an rpi boost and resume builder for them. Basketball and football scheduling are very different.

Giving is a habit, whether it is $5 or $500. I hope $25 gets them mean green club news, invites and emails.

I am not concerned about the fees because if the athletic dept is smart they will keep refinancing to make sure they always owe a balance on a loan building something for athletics. If I remember correctly, as long as there is a loan, the fees can stay in place.

Yep

I'm not going to start by asking that a guy whose job it is to win or lose a college football game which in the aggregate world of coaching is a zero sum game be held accountable. I'm asking people at this university do their effing job. Whether it is counting money, raising it, or being responsible for spending it. A change at chancellor. A change at Governor, whatever. Start there. End with coaches and/or janitors/librarians/professors if need be. UNT is lucky to have A donor for anything after the proved inability to count money. If the university leadership cannot be held accountable to account for the life blood that allows it to exist, how can we expect them to be responsible when it comes to the decisions that need to be made for sport? I am not saying I do not care about wins/losses, I just care even more that everyone whose job metrics do not require a loser to stop f$%@ing losing. AD included.