MeanGreenTexan

BlazerCali sounds good.

I'd be on board with this.

Nice job of battling back by the ladies. Nice game for them.

USA is already in the Sun Belt... that is why they get to make the jump.

Fantastic start to the season for the ladies!

I can't stand this thread.

This was the first time I've ever turned off a game. 41-6 is when I quit... it sounded like the guys had given up, so why shouldn't I? Let's hope this is a blip and not a precursor. Actually, let's hope this is a galvanizing, turning-point, don't-ever-let-this-happen-again kind of game. All the talk of the top 30 recruiting class is valid. These guys will be good and there's a reason these guys are so highly regarded, but please be prepared for them to struggle this season while learning the ropes. Especially prior to Mitchell riding in. I'm looking forward to a much better showing against MS St. & Texas.

Exactly. I'm sure UTEP's chancellor is just as excited as the ECU chancellor about adding 1 or 2 teams in the west.

People actually do this?

What are your ideas on a "New Southwest Conference" featuring teams from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas only? Right now, we're in the Sun Belt. We play MTSU, ARSt., WKY, et... We have been invited countless times to the WAC to join LATech and now TXSt. & UTSA. Sure, they're close and they may travel well to Apogee, but what about Utah State, Idaho, San Jose St...? Are those fans going to travel well? Are UNT fans going to travel to those places? What makes that scenario any better than an improving Sun Belt? Because, unfortunately, we have no other alternatives (keep your fingers crossed for a CUSA invite though!) Look, if we are counting on other teams travelling fans to Apogee in order to fill the stadium, we're doing something very wrong. Can you agree with that?

"The Tops are falling apart like Humpty Dumpty."

Did Troy Aikman quit caring about kids?

Precisely. Hence the comparison... Jones scored a bunch. Also, I made a point that the rest of the team appeared to be standing around watching him with the ball quite often... if this is what he's stuck with, then he needs to score. He definitely took what Tech gave him. I haven't seen enough of him to say: "He's a ball hog".

This could not have been further from reality: Slow game (shot clock run down consistently on both sides of the floor). Not alot of scoring. sloppy OFFENSE all around. UNT loses I'm a terrible basketball prognosticator.

Postgame thoughts: Chris Jones is scary-good, but with being scary-good comes being scary. He's young and will need time to develop, but (I can't believe I'm saying this right now) he looks like Josh White 2.0 in the early going. My only concern with Jones (and I think someone made a reference to Iverson in an earlier post) is that he is close to being a ball hog. I'm not sure why though... it could be because he's the only one doing anything. That DeWayne Wade style, circus shot layup late in the game was beautiful, but I hate it. Too much standing around on offense watching Jones dribble the ball around. Gotta have some movement so he can find open guys without turning the ball over. Jordan Williams is an enigma in the early going. I watched him make a strong move across the baseline early in the game for a nice finish. And then WHOA! That fast break alley-oop was the play of the night! He can fly. Strange 3 pointers out of him (none of which fell), I thought he was supposed to be a slasher type? I think he'll get his confidence in short order. When he does... watch out. Contrary to what alot of other folks are saying on here, I thought Holmen played a decent game and his shot selection was pretty good! Unfortunately, he wasn't hitting many of them... but neither was the rest of the team not named Chris Jones & Alzee Williams, which leads me to my next point... Where's Alzee? 14 min is not enough for him in this type of game. Need his defense on the floor, and he was hitting better than Jordan on O. Also, Where's Niko? I thought he was supposed to have a nice outside touch? Stats show he didn't get a single shot off in his limited minutes. I like him though. I thought defense was pretty good overall. Need to see more out of Edwards though. The difference in the game was that Tech wasn't as atrocious shooting the ball as UNT. Surely we won't shoot that badly on a consistent basis? Gotcher was a nice player. Too bad he didn't come up here.

Oh! Since UNT football is playing tonight, we may as well have the football game on TV! PICK UP THE PHONE RICK!!!!1!

UNT: 83 Tech: 79 Fast-paced game. Lots of scoring and probably some sloppy defense all around. UNT will win a FT shooting contest in the end.

Hmmm... I found this little nugget interesting: Crockett had a great game against us last year. If he's not on the floor, we have an even better chance of winning.

Probably beacuse they work out more.

Wow! I knew Chris was going to be a good player, but I didn't know Johnny has become a puppet coach to him already?

I dont think so... but Chris Jones' teammate Toddrick Gotcher plays for them.

Oh, Ray...

Very young, and very beatable... unfortunately, we look the same. I don't see a blowout either way though. I think this one could come down to a free throw contest after a pretty high scoring affair. Let's just hope we hit ours and they miss theirs.