MGB: Mike Thomas will not play for UNT this year

Brett Vito · September 25, 2015

MGB: JUCO center will sit out season after failing to qualify

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/09/mike-thomas-wont-play-for-unt-this-year.html/

MEANGREENCOACH2 · September 25, 2015

insert dumpster fire here

BillySee58 · September 25, 2015

After the initial story I checked the roster and saw he was no longer listed at all, so it seemed like this would be the case.

Harry · September 25, 2015

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Andrew · September 25, 2015

We will see a lot of freshmen in the post this season. Brice and Fuller will see a lot of minutes. Exciting to get a chance to watch freshmen get a bulk of the play time, but frustrating another player won't make into the floor.

Edited September 25, 2015 by Andrew

greenit · September 25, 2015

Benford may have 3 or possibly 4 new recruits here by semester break ready to go for the stretch run to the tourney.

MeanGreenTexan · September 25, 2015

B-ball roster over the past 3 years:

It's one thing for it to be difficult to be a fan because of the losing, it's another thing when it's difficult to be a fan because you don't know who plays for your basketball team from year to year.

UNT90 · September 25, 2015

Fly, remind me again about all those great buildings and why RV should keep collecting a check from UNT?

forevereagle · September 25, 2015

Fly, remind me again about all those great buildings and why RV should keep collecting a check from UNT?

I get that you are on a firing spree, but I am not sure how one player not qualifying academically means he should be let go.

UNT90 · September 25, 2015

I get that you are on a firing spree, but I am not sure how one player not qualifying academically means he should be let go.

big picture, buddy.

What is going right with UNT athletics right now? And I mean on the field/court in the big 3 sports?

forevereagle · September 25, 2015

big picture, buddy.
What is going right with UNT athletics right now? And I mean on the field/court in the big 3 sports?

So you want the big picture, but limit that big picture to just a portion of the picture and focus on details of that limited picture for the cause of the AD's firing. Just wanted to clear that up.

Not saying that everything is rosy, but this is a huge stretch. If you want to point to the failure of the basketball program at large under Benford as a reason to call for his job, then that is an argument that makes sense. To use this is does not.

Edited September 25, 2015 by forevereagle

Censored by Laurie · September 25, 2015

So you want the big picture, but limit that big picture to just a portion of the picture and focus on details of that limited picture for the cause the AD's firing. Just wanted to clear that up.

it's a magic-eye big picture. if you relax your eyes and look past the initial picture, you'll see an image of RV eating a Jimmy John's and giving you the finger

forevereagle · September 25, 2015

it's a magic-eye big picture. if you relax your eyes and look past the initial picture, you'll see an image of RV eating a Jimmy John's and giving you the finger

UNT90 · September 25, 2015

So you want the big picture, but limit that big picture to just a portion of the picture and focus on details of that limited picture for the cause of the AD's firing. Just wanted to clear that up.
Not saying that everything is rosy, but this is a huge stretch. If you want to point to the failure of the basketball program at large under Benford as a reason to call for his job, then that is an argument that makes sense. To use this is does not.

this is a recruiting failure by a failure hire that deconstructed the only proud sport at this unversity.

Fair enough?

Oh, buildings and stuff... That we aren't winning in and attendance is declining in...

MeanGreenTexan · September 25, 2015

this is a recruiting failure by a failure hire that deconstructed the only proud sport at this unversity.
Fair enough?
Oh, buildings and stuff... That we aren't winning in and attendance is declining in...

You owe some major apologies, foremost to the most consistent winners:

UNT90 · September 25, 2015

You owe some major apologies, foremost to the most consistent winners:

is soccer even a sport?

Kidding.

Referring to the big 3, obviously.

But you are right, I must account for the soccer attendance increase, which climbed a massive 20% from 300 to 360 per game this last year...

forevereagle · September 25, 2015

You owe some major apologies, foremost to the most consistent winners:

Not the part of the picture that we look at around here.

Green P1 · September 25, 2015

I forget... Who did we kick off the team to make room for this spare?

MeanGreenTexan · September 25, 2015

I forget... ~~Who did we kick off the team~~ WHO WENT PRO to make room for this spare?

FIFY.

Censored by Laurie · September 25, 2015

are we still 1:1 with players and their former coaches, now grad assistants? does Thomas's have to drop classes now?

drex · September 25, 2015

And so it begins....mayhem by November.

Army of Dad · September 25, 2015

Not the part of the picture that we look at around here.

I'm sorry, but at which major university is soccer (either gender) a sport that really fires up a fan base to to point where a large portion of the fans either laud or roast the AD?

Quoner · September 25, 2015

You owe some major apologies, foremost to the most consistent winners:

You guys are taking this all wrong. He doesn't mean the team - he means the Hedlund family.

forevereagle · September 25, 2015

I'm sorry, but at which major university is soccer (either gender) a sport that really fires up a fan base to to point where a large portion of the fans either laud or roast the AD?

I never said that it did. I didn't say "big picture" and then define that as something less than the big picture. If we are truly looking at the big picture, then all sports should be considered. I actually sit somewhere in the middle on the whole fire RV discussion, but when we talk about the overall health of the Athletics Department and then only look at the big three, I get a little annoyed. If you want to make the argument that we should focus on the big three as the only view of success, then do that. But don't call it big picture.

MeanGreenTexan · September 25, 2015

I'm sorry, but at which major university is soccer (either gender) a sport that really fires up a fan base to to point where a large portion of the fans either laud or roast the AD?

I brought up the soccer ladies in particular to refute UNT90's statement that JJ's b-ball teams were "the only proud sport at this University".

Do you agree that the soccer ladies have a proud tradition of winning? Or, are you along for 90's winding road journeys?