greenminer

NIT will take into consideration attendance, but not the NCAA. Those conferences get nice bball attendance numbers because most of them have no football program to speak of. It's a little bit easier to take ownership of a team when there aren't any other shows in town, or across campus for that matter.

It's weird how some of the stuff we're fighting against is stated so "matter of factly" on that thread, rather than meant as a demeaning insult. If you really want a dose of the stereotypes that UNT athletics is up against, they're in that thread. That might have been more painful for me to read than the junk they're saying on the SMU thread. **edit what am I saying? It IS more painful. The SMU talk didn't affect me at all.

I'm in El Paso

Pleasantly surprised at the kind words coming from Fort Worth. It strikes me how the two schools further south on I-35s can react so differently.

or post pics?

ditto

bump. Just curious which sign was made and shown.

What? an east-coast bias? surely not...what are you suggesting, you crazy fool!

Those hats are pimp. Where do I get one?

He can whine about the system all he wants, but it's because of the system that we SHOULD be in the tourney. We took care of what was necessary. Screw him. I don't care for cold pizza anyways.

He's a very classy guy, and an articulate speaker.

Emmit's post in that thread is priceless. My favorite part:

Kind of a sad irony that there are fans of this program so far removed from NCAA tourney experiences that they have no idea how the whole process works, i.e. Selection Sunday. Good to see that it is all being fixed

There were a couple shots of JJ (including the ESPN highlights) where he looked like he was crying he was so happy. I wonder how big a monkey is off that man's back? He must be so excited at the thought of how much this win and tourney appearance can help the program's - and his own - success.

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yes

probably my next wallpaper at work

recap on espnnews

NORTH!

wtf?

Something that sounds so exclusive might be counter-productive to what we want. JJ should use this tourney run (whether we win tonight or not) as incentive to see a quality team next year; an invite to those that are apathetic because of previous under-achieving squads.

Pure speculation, but if KD returns, tack on another 5-6 to that average. And if we start hitting the 3, tack on another 25 lol. point taken, though. We've been running through this tourney on scrappy, defensive play and a sudden, if not pleasant surprise, display of ball distribution on the offense.

Just an FYI: JJ won his 100th game as a coach last night. From the DRC (link)

thought so. got a laugh outta me

Coat the unis with this stuff. The can't catch us if they can't see us.