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Why is it NIT PICKY to expect a UNIVERSITY website to use correct grammar and have correct spelling?

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DING, DING, DING -- That is the correct answer. We can get a color man in football, basketball broadcaster and MGI host for a heck of a lot less than we pay a Senior Asst. AD.

Talent won 16 of the 18 games. Coaching didn't have anything to do with those victories. Coaching also had everything to do with all nine of the losses

See post in NON-UNT Sports

Like his Dad was!!

I agree Hank does a great job on the Radio and hosting the MGI, but is he not doing a good job at his main job, FUNDRAISING?

Former NBA star Dennis Johnson dies Five-time All-Star was coaching Austin team in NBDL 04:08 PM CST on Thursday, February 22, 2007 Associated Press AUSTIN – Dennis Johnson, the star NBA guard who was part of three championship teams, died Thursday at 52. "He is deceased and is in our building. He will be autopsied," said Mayra Freeman, a spokeswoman for the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office. Johnson, a five-time All-Star, played on title teams with the Boston Celtics and Seattle SuperSonics. He had been coaching the Austin Toros of the NBA Developmental League.

Wide receivers coach Clayton George will be speaking at Frank Glazier Football Coaching Clinic at Sheraton Grand Hotel DFW Airport. He will be speaking on Defeating Press Coverage, Winning at Top of Route and Coverage Reading on SAturday afternoon. LINK

I don't care who you are, that's funny!!!!!!

Coaching School. This year it's at the end of July

Lone Star Classic a remedy for the everyday all-star football game 02/21/2007 By Jake Shaw/TexasFootball.com Let's face it, all-star games have a tendency to get a little stale. Collecting top players from their respective sports often produces games that lack defense, passion, and ultimately, fan interest. Douglas MacGregor might have found the antidote for the all-star blues. The president of Austin's Arena Football League franchise, MacGregor is fusing the AFL with Central Texas high school football. The result is the Lone Star Arena Football Classic, an arena football-style game featuring 66 of Central Texas' top graduating seniors. "Of course people in Texas love football," MacGregor said. "But we found that a large number of people who love football didn't understand arena ball. In fact, the spread-style offenses permeating every level of 11-man football closely resemble the fast-break style of the Arena Football League. "The biggest difference is the size of the field and the quickness of the game," said Round Rock Westwood head coach Anthony Wood, who will coach the North team Friday. "It's such a faster game." Said Logan Johnson, a Seguin defensive line standout: "We only have like six plays to learn. Everything we do on defense is still the same. The speed of the line on the defensive line is the same as the arena game." A committee of local media, members of the Austin Wranglers Foundation, Harry McCrary of the Longhorn Foundation and area coaches picked the roster from cities between Florence, on the north side of Austin, down to Seguin. MacGregor said the organizers limited it to the region to better generate local interest, and to make practices accessible to players. "We didn't want kids to drive too far," he said. "Driving from Lampasas or Seguin, we didn't want to go any further than that." Depending on the success of the event -- MacGregor said he'd like to see 7-10,000 of the 15,000-seat Erwin Center filled -- the Lone Star Arena Football Classic could expand to regions around the state. Having Arena 2 Football teams in Laredo, Edinburg, Lubbock and Houston (aside from the Austin and Dallas AFL franchises) would allow for similar events across the state. MacGregor said to expect the Lone Star Classic to stick around — a welcome addition to the all-star circuit. "We probably got started a little later than we would have liked, but we're already planning for next year," he said. "The NFL association wanted to have a banquet for kids this year, but we couldn't get it organized in time. "Next year, we'll get all the pieces in place. We'll build on it. Our philosophy was to keep it great. We do that by keeping it simple." More about the Lone Star Arena Football Classic Revenge factor? What shouldn't go unnoticed at the Lone Star Area Football Classic is the impact it will have on Central Texas communities. First of all, the proceeds from ticket sales will go directly to charity. Secondly, without a previous all-star game for Central Texas preps, some deserving Texas high school football players finally will receive due credit. "We thought, what a great opportunity for some kids to get some recognition," said Doug MacGregor, President of the Austin Wranglers, the driving force behind the event. "We wanted to make it a celebration of football in Texas. We wanted to say thank you to the trainers, to the boosters, the fans, the bands, to all the people involved with high school football. "What we wanted people to recognize is that what you see on Friday is really a culmination of a lot of effort by a lot of people." Still, a competitive game will be played, and it might give South coach Jeff Dicus (Austin Lake Travis) a chance at revenge. Lake Travis only lost three games this season, but one came at the hands of Anthony Woods' Round Rock Westwood team. Woods is coaching the North team Friday night. "(The loss to Westwood) has nothing to do with Friday night," Dicus said, "it's about celebrating the great performances of these players." But ... "Like I said, I'm a competitor, (Wood's) a competitor," Dicus added. "I don't know too may people that like losing. I like winning, we've got a great group of kids that like winning and have been practicing really hard. It's just been a neat deal that Doug and the Wranglers put together." Wood is also counting down to the event. "It's going to be a lot of fun," he said. "Hopefully it's going to be a high scoring game. At least on one side." Star power Of the 66 players, nearly all will play football at the next level. Many of them signed Division I letters on National Signing Day a couple weeks ago. "There are two kids that really stood out, Jimmie Anderson at Round Rock, and Trevin Wade from (Round Rock) Stony Point," North coach Anthony Wood said of his team's practices. "Those two kids are just incredible athletes. That's just looking at it from the skill positions." Defensively, Wood said there hasn't been a shortage of eye-grabbers. The most impressive might be a Leander product. "Ryan Douglass from Leander, he's just an incredible athlete," Wood said. "Baylor got a good one." Ironically, South coach Jeff Dicus also raved about his defense. Though the point totals of AFL games suggest an offensive-minded league, he said his defenders have adjusted to the game well. "The guys on defense, I'm just excited to set them loose," Dicus said. One of them already got a head start. Seguin lineman Logan Johnson, having a hard time not going all-out, put a hit on a ball-carrier in practice. "The third practice," he said, "I think I gave this kid a concussion. We weren't supposed to go full speed, but it's kind of hard not to." ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When: 7 p.m. Friday Where: Austin's Frank Erwin Center Tickets: $10, all proceeds to charity More info: austinwranglers.com "I had a coach who called me once, he had a lineman who was a pretty good prospect. He said, 'Too bad (Arena Football) doesn't have any lineman, because I've got a lineman who can really play.'" Despite the presence of walls, fewer players on the field, and goalposts as narrow as a country road, the Arena Football newcomers have learned the games have more similarities than differences. Rosters

You spell the number 2, two, not to.

Home Opener (Take II) The Mean Green (3-7) will try for a second time to have its home opener this week. The Mean Green will play Nicholls State in a doubleheader on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 1 pm at Lovelace Stadium. Last week, NT’s fi rst home opener was canceled ue to inclement weather. The Mean Green is 1-1 in the series against Nicholls, splitting a doubleheader last year. North Texas is 2-1 in home openers.

Still sends me to the HotMail page!

Deion Sanders recruiting sagas Deion Sanders is back at the forefront of his sometime-ward Noel Devine, a highly rated running back from North Fort Myers (Fla.) Devine and Trinity Christian-Cedar Hill running back Josh Hicks are expected to enroll at Hargrave Military School in Chatham, Va. this fall. Sanders also has a relationship with Hicks who attends the same school as Sanders' middle school son. Devine, who had committed to West Virginia, didn't sign on the Feb. 7 date after meeting with Sanders, a former Florida State standout. Sanders tried to get Devine to move into his Prosper home last summer but Devine made a late summer return to Florida. Devine will work on his academics and sign as part of an '08 class while the speedy and shifty Hicks will try to add some muscle. Hicks (5-8, 165) rushed for 7,547 yards and scored 593 points in 47 games at the small classification private school.

BURN

ME TO!!!!

I guess Florida is medicore then after losing at Vanderbilt.

Chicago doesn't plan to retain D-coordinator Rivera By Len Pasquarelli ESPN.com Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Ron Rivera, who has interviewed for nine head coach positions in the NFL over the past two years but landed none of them, is poised to become a man without a job. Negotiations between Bears officials and Rivera's representatives, aimed at extending the coach's contract, have produced no progress toward a new deal and have broken off. Unless the discussions are suddenly revived, and a new contract is struck before Tuesday, Rivera will become a free agent. "I believe this is just a football decision and it was made," Rivera said. "Emotionally, I'm disappointed in not getting the opportunity to come back in '07 because as I said at the end of the year after the loss that this is a football team that's headed in the right direction." Rivera's contract has technically lapsed. But according to league rules the Bears had an exclusivity period, for three Tuesdays following the Super Bowl, to negotiate a new deal with him. During that three-week window, Rivera could have been hired as a head coach by another franchise, but not as an assistant. That window expires Tuesday, but sources said Bears officials have no intention now of renewing Rivera's contract. It is believed that Rivera, who played linebacker for the Bears for nine seasons before embarking on a coaching career, earned $500,000 for the 2006 season. If that is the case, it likely put him at about the middle of the NFL's salary range for defensive coordinators. Given the popularity of Rivera during the NFL's past two firing-and-hiring cycles, when he interviewed for nine vacancies, his entry into the unemployment line would be fraught with irony. Still, team officials indicated to ESPN.com during the week preceding Super Bowl XLI that they would not overpay to retain Rivera. "As much as anything, it's just a fit that we have and right now the direction I would like to go and the direction that Ron would like to go, we're going in two different directions," head coach Lovie Smith said. "It's been my goal all along to help Ron, to do everything I could to get Ron an opportunity to get a head football coaching job and it's no more than that. We've tried to do that. Ron had a contract. I don't see it as a firing or anything like that. His contract expired and he wants to go in one direction, and I'd like to go in one. No more than that. " The feeling then was that Chicago could survive Rivera's departure, since their defense is primarily the design of head coach Lovie Smith. The Bears also felt they had a replacement on staff already in assistant coach Bob Babich. The Bears' linebackers coach, Babich is highly regarded and, assuming Rivera departs, he will be elevated to the coordinator post. A Chicago official noted before the Super Bowl that the Bears would be in worse shape if another club pursued offensive coordinator Ron Turner, since there was no heir apparent on the current staff. The Bears have been negotiating new contracts for general manager Jerry Angelo and for Smith, but are not believed to be close to a deal for the latter. Smith was believed to be the NFL's lowest paid head coach in 2006, with a salary of $1.35 million, and has one season remaining on his original contract with the club. Rivera, 45, played for the Bears 1984-92, then became an assistant coach on the Chicago staff in 1997. He moved to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999, then rejoined the Bears, on Smith's staff, in 2004. Of the seven head coach openings since the end of the 2006 season, the only one for which Rivera did not interview was the Oakland vacancy. "The timing sometimes could have been better or it could have been worse. It is what it is right now," Rivera said. "It's just something that's happened and I'm going to go from there." Len Pasquarelli is a senior writer for ESPN.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Already posted. See Damn High School Player Of The Week, son of former NT player

Because Johnny Jones is our coach!!!!!!!!!!!

"BoBo" Morgan is headed for a program that makes the tournament on an annual basis. He has NBA potential. Busby-Hayden might be a recruit, but like his dad, who went to Baylor first and then transferred to a JUCO, is a flake with grade problems.Kimetria Hayden is a player as well, might have a chance at her if we get on her right now.

No, it would actually take somebody who was tying to draw a crowd to the SuperPit and that leaves out everybody in Ricky V's administration.

NFL analyst Michael Irvin no longer with ESPN ESPN.com news services ESPN announced that Michael Irvin, who had been an NFL analyst for ESPN since 2003, is no longer with the network. ESPN Communications Vice President Josh Krulewitz issued a statement, saying "We thank Michael for his contributions to ESPN and wish him well." Irvin retired in 2002 after 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame during Super Bowl festivities two weeks ago.