Mad Hatter

I just can't see our defense having their best game ever against a ranked opponent whose strength on offense lines up perfectly with our weakness on defense. I'd guess we punt 4 times and they punt once and we lose 63-42. Should still be an exciting game like 2007 vs Navy.

"Hosting"

MAJOR renovation in Fort Worth of University from I-30 down thru TCU. The city worked with the construction company to make sure that any lane/road closures would be done, reopened, and cleaned up before football games for TCU and the Rodeo in January. Seems like the city could have made arrangements with the company and the University to coordinate these. Maybe they did?

Is that new? 2021 volleyball recruiting didn’t work that way. If that’s the case then I can see how the rule change would make sense.

Recruits only get so many Official Visits (I think it's 3)but are allowed to schedule as many Unofficial Visits as they want (because the school doesn't pay for it). In my daughters experience going through the volleyball recruiting process, the Visit experience was the same for her whether it was Official or Unofficial, the only difference is whether I had to pay for travel, lodging and food or not. She loved the photoshoot at each of the schools and would look back at those pics, imagining herself representing that school, during the decision process. I guess I can see how local schools might get abused by recruits bringing friends along on visits, but to me that's more of the schools fault for not making it clear who the visit is for and what the recruit can expect vs anyone they bring along. I'm not a fan of this decision.

I’m going 7-5.

My daughter just started up at The University of Dayton, where basketball is king and they consistently sell out their 13k seat stadium. Basketball is big business and the students (school size around 10k) are often on a waiting list for tickets. The University created a way to increase your chances of getting tickets to the games, and it's through a points system. Living on campus gets you a certain number of points, but attending other sporting events earns you points as well. They get a pretty consistently loud student section at volleyball, soccer, WBB, etc because people want the points to increase ability to attend the basketball games in the student section. Now I know we currently don't have a sporting event that is so highly coveted that this system would work, but I wonder if we could do something like offer a discount on tuition, or get free books, or SOMETHING, and students could earn points towards that goal with a point system for attending sporting events. You might end up accidentally creating a culture of people who truly enjoy going to the games and become lifelong fans if they are given an incentive to go to the games? Just spit balling ideas.

Maybe he doesn’t know about the 3 phases yet? Apparently they’re pretty important.

Watched #58 Big Zeke all game. He definitely kept going until the whistle every single play. Love an enthusiastic offensive lineman! He went to my kid’s high school and he’s a close family friend. IMG_8095.MOV

College Basketball Rankings 2022-23 - RPI - CBSSports.com Nice to see us continue to move up in the RPI rankings. Makes a better case for 2 bids to the NCAA Tournament?

I like it. He's the reason I've EVER heard of UIW. Remember thinking how awesome it was that they got a young guy who put them on the map.

Nah. Don't need a new beat writer for the DRC, but we do need more of a cheerleader mentality from some type of publication. Whether it's a fan dedicated site or even the NT Daily, we should have somebody with high expectations and a positive vibe.

26,500 - solid crowd

I'm encouraged by the seeming continued improvement of our Defense. I still feel a little like Charlie Brown just waiting for Lucy to pull the ball back.

UNT- 31 UTEP - 21