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Corky was the AD during the SMU win at Fouts Field, the only sell out in Fouts History. And I believe Corky was a Baylor grad.

The top 3 QBs on the depth chart are freshman or redshirt freshman. Andrew Smith's death and Byerly's stupidity have hit this team harder than expected. I had a coed tell me before the Troy game Meagar is stuck on himself. He is the starting QB at a Div. 1A school and is overly impressed with himself. Phillips and Haynes are not talented enough to play QB at the D1A level. We will be breaking in a new QB next season, the freshman from Missouri or a JuCo QB.

But the Football players can hit their freethrows!

I can go back 4 Rick V Craig Helwig Steve Sloan Corky Nelson

What type of defense do the Panthers run? Who is their top player? Is the QB good, what about the running game?

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Covington can't even get on the field!

No offense meant to anyone, but HOW in the HELL is the offense going to score more points in this one game than it has all Year. MT-14 (7 by the defense) Tulsa-2 (by the defense) K-St.-7 Troy-10 Total-33 Offense-24

Hughes has 97 carries for 686 yards with 11 Td’s. He has 3 catches for 150 yards and 2 Tds.

I wonder if he likes Coconut shrimp? Should we nickname him Bubba Gump?

Matt Postins, the author of this story, is the former assistant sports editor at the DRC. I believe he is also an alum. However that doesn't take away from it being a good story.

Prep school jettisons coach -- so players disappear Oct. 5, 2005 By Gregg Doyel CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer The young marriage between Babacar Sy and Florida Prep School has ended in divorce -- fascinatingly, if not amicably. Sy, a former assistant at College of Southern Idaho, and Florida Prep are the leading characters of this story, but the supporting cast is equally intriguing. It includes nine vanished international players, an NBA agent and U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris -- the same Katherine Harris who rose to prominence during the 2000 presidential election as Florida's secretary of state. The international players, including Connecticut recruiting target Hamady N'Diaye, came to Florida Prep this summer to play for Sy, who runs a basketball school in his native Senegal. Once it became apparent he wasn't going to be their coach, all nine players were taken to a local airport by Sy's personal assistant late Monday night. Tuesday morning, school officials discovered empty rooms where there were once nearly 7-foot-tall teenagers. Empty closets. Empty dressers. "We feel sort of betrayed and shafted," says Florida Prep principal Steve Rodriguez. "I'm not self-righteous, and I'm not pious. I'm a get-it-done kind of guy. But the nature of what took place here is bizarro world." The players are expected to re-emerge in the coming weeks at another prep school, perhaps to be coached by Sy after all. Sy was unavailable for comment because he is in Senegal. His agent, Darren Weiner, said Sy will return to the United States soon, after he accepts one of three coaching positions he has been offered. Sy won't be coaching at Florida Prep, but it's difficult to ascertain exactly why. The two sides have a polar-opposite version of what happened. Rodriguez said he fired Sy for a number of reasons, including: Sy's lengthy stay in Senegal this summer rather than being on campus to prepare for the 2005-06 school year; his request for non-negotiated recruiting money; and his desire to decide which of his players would be on the prep school team, which would be on the high school team, and where they would live. Weiner says Sy was stranded in Senegal because Florida Prep didn't file the necessary visa paperwork, and that Sy couldn't return to the United States without an employment contract. While that was going on, Weiner says, communication breakdowns between the school and his client left Sy unsure he still wanted to coach at Florida Prep. By late last week, Sy and Florida Prep had parted ways. His nine international recruits continued to attend school and practice, but on Tuesday morning they were gone. "We couldn't tell you where they are, even though they're (in the United States) on our visa," Rodriguez said. "I called Katherine Harris at our local congressional office, told them the deal, and asked, 'What do you suggest?' They suggested I call customs and the border patrol. We're just flabbergasted." In hindsight, Rodriguez said, Florida Prep's antennae were raised when Sy had Weiner negotiate his contract. Weiner is a registered NBA agent, though he says his connection to Sy isn't an effort to one day represent the players Sy brings overseas. "Babacar has been a friend of mine for a few years," Weiner said. "I've been to Africa a number of times, and I met him at an NBA camp over there. As far as this (Florida Prep) situation is concerned, he told me about it and said, 'Look, I haven't been down this road before as far as putting a deal together. Will you help me?' I said sure." Sy had spent 2003-04 and '04-05 at College of Southern Idaho as an assistant to Gib Arnold. In that time two of Sy's best players, Mamadou Diene from his school in Senegal and Mohamed Kone from CSI, signed with Baylor coach Scott Drew. When Kone didn't get eligible at Baylor he went to Valparaiso, coached by Drew's father, Homer. After Arnold left CSI this spring to become an assistant at Southern California, Sy was in need of a job. At the same time, Florida Prep was about to add a prep school to its high school team and in need of a coach. Rodriguez, who founded Florida Prep and has served as its high school coach, says the Baylor staff recommended Sy. Along with UConn, Baylor also is recruiting N'Diaye, a 6-11 senior center. Until Sy and his players reappear at another prep school, this is a story missing its ending. And Weiner says it's a story worthy of publication. "One day it will all come out," Weiner says. "It'll be a book."

There are 119 Div. 1-A teams, so we could do worse.

If you want to see this kid play here is the Richland Thunderduck Basketball schedule

Matt, As a former player, do you think a player (take Cotton & Covington for an example) should be punished for a stupid unsportsmanlike penalty that cost the team 15 yards & momentum? What does DD do to players who commit an unsportsmanlike penalty, what are the consiquences?

Thanks LongJim. The game probably wasn't as bad as we're making it out to be. But it's like a parent expecting more from his child than anyone else. A parent picks apart a performace and points out only the flaws. We NT fans are hard on our teams because we expect nothing short of perfection, which isn't fair to the team. There are many problems on this team, but if the team keeps working hard, better times are in front.

We had to run between the tackles. Troy had too much team speed to run the corners. More than once PC or JT seemed to be just one step from breaking it and they were tackled by a very fast Troy defense.

I did mean TJ Covington. Thank you for pointing out my obvious mistake.

Roderick Cotton and TJ Covington should be dismissed from the team for their stupid unsportsmanlike penalties. Their performance made me embarrassed to be an NT fan. Both are suppose to be senior leaders and act like HS bullies. It is evident the team is going to lose this year, so I say bench all of the seniors, except Cobbs (who actually is a leader) and play the young kids. If the team is going to lose, lose with kids who can help next year! It's time for a Dickey team to have some discipline.

Is TJ Raymond still around?

Just spoke with the Ticket Department and asked if we could bring our 3 x 5 battle flag. They told me no. It is ridiculous that we can't wave the UNIVERISTY- and ATHLETIC- sanctioned battle flag at a game on NATIONAL T.V. I believe the University is trying to make it difficult to support the Football team by taking the fun out of the game experience. WHY?

TEXAS!!!

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This kid's brother had a great first half for Mizzou against Texas.