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I draw the line at shots taken towards DePaul. My wife is a grad of that wonderful university where the degree means so much more than NT. DePaul is a Tier 1 university and on par with any Ivy League school or Oxford. People from NT could only dream of ever setting foot on the campus let alone attending or watching a sporting event of that most prestigious institution of higher learning! Of course I am mocking the tone of that ridiculous thread on the SMU forum. Although my wife did graduate from DePaul and we were married at the Church on campus. Patrick

Tony Mitchell will single handedly beat LSU so bad that their football team will move down the rankings to #3.

La.Tech I believe is headed to the Alliance and I don't think it is based on market (obviously) nor is it based on any accomplishments they have put forward, nor is it based on their facilities, attendance or any other measure. The Alliance needs a team east of the giant void between UTEP and the rest of the world. La.Tech can be taken without harming a viable conference because the WAC is not viable to remain FBS. It is simply about a warm body that is already FBS that can be taken without harming the MAC or Sun Belt. There are only two reasons that CUSA holds any value for UNT. Rice and Tulsa. The TV deal? It works out to $580,000 per school IF Fox doesn't reduce the money in the wake of losing SMU, Houston, and UCF (three large markets that Fox is strong in). The net dollar difference in the CUSA and Sun Belt deals is $480,000 that works out to roughly a 4,000 tickets per football game with no new donations. Opening Apogee generates more revenue for UNT than the CUSA TV deal and that's if it isn't reduced. If UNT isn't selected. Long-term adding UTSA to the Sun Belt drives nearly the same dollars to UNT as being in CUSA. That's if CUSA doesn't collapse. If CUSA collapses and Tulsa and or Rice gets left behind and one or both become part of the Sun Belt or whatever name emerges, UNT comes out ahead. Amazon isn't in the business of selling Kindles. They sell Kindles because they've got hard numbers showing that Kindle users at least double their spending with Amazon for books and such compared to when they didn't own Kindles. The Alliance and New Big East aren't built around the concept of selling tickets. They are built around the concept of TV dollars. If CUSA tripled their TV dollars that would be $1.75 million. They can make more by increasing ticket sales by $300,000 per home game in football. They are doomed to collapse because they've forgotten they are in the business of selling books and movies and aren't in the business of selling Kindles.

We're really going to miss knoxxy's physical presence in this one.

I am all for a new scoreboard over the court, painting the brown boards at the top of the stadium green, and finally a new sound system! Not to mention it would be nice if we could take seats all the way to floor and get rid of the green bar and concrete wall just off the court...

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Agree, but I am constantly amazed that establishing anything regarding SMU around here takes 3+ pages. Including establishing that we don't care.

Did that five game winning streak include teams that had Tony Mitchell on it? Didn't think so.

We'll have issues with their size...6'9" 215, 6'9" 250, 6'11" 260 is the front-line they started against Marquette...with 6'7" 230 Storm Warren coming in off the bench. We might be big by UNT standards, but we will be considerably smaller inside against LSU. Also, LSU's leading scorer Andre Stringer has missed the last 3 games with fainting spells (hey Pit Crew, bring a swooning couch for him)...no idea if he'll be back Thursday, just something to keep an eye on. And...the one thing really missing from this thread so far...HAHA...EFF YOU BUZZ WILLIAMS!!!

So if the AD wanted to spend the money to get a video board, the school would tell them no?

The Super Pit is NOT owned by the athletic dept. Hard to spend money on something you don't own.

Then that should be two getting awards as Devante Davis of Baton Rouge Woodlawn also received one for best skill player on the Black Knights. As far as I know, he is still committed to us.

Here's Tulsa's new videoboard at the Reynolds Center. These new amazingly clear LED boards seem to add a lot to the game experience, and it sure would be nice to watch clear replays of some of the monster dunks and amazing assists. Would something like this be a cost effective addition to the Super Pit experience?

The tailgate was great! As I was driving in, I noticed the tailgate and thought I should stop by. I was in a hurry to get with the basketball band, but I figured a few quick bites of bacon wrapped duck was well worth almost being late. Thanks guys! Looking forward to the next tailgate.

How horrible is life when the Super Pit becomes the inferior facility when comparing basketball with football? I was looking up on Friday, and noticing the absence of a hanging scoreboard though. I'd say that even a basic "Home: Away:" LED display would be nice there. But the 10,000 cushioned chairbacks? That's some premo college basketball real estate there. It's tough watching 48 minutes riding a pine bench. As for audio, for a university with a school of film, radio and television, it seems nigh impossible in both facilities for anybody to wire speakers up to a mic. I wonder if I started going to basketball games if I'd become as fluent in ref signals as I've become in football ref hand signals.

So the PAC-12 has filled its quota with USC? I don't think there's any stigma associated with being a directional school. It certainly didn't stop USF and UCF from getting into the Big East

Chase sat thru the whole MTSU game. He and his parents bought a handful of stuff from the gift shop. I'd be very surprised if he backed out

LSU is going to be a tough struggle for this team. They are light years better than last year and we are light years younger. Hoping for the best.

Does he want a coach that has been whoring himself all over the country and a maxxed out fanbase consisting of 5 spoiled babies wearing pink polos sitting on their hands all game long?

Hi, i'm here. first post. just like i promised.

I made the mistake of looking at the recruit's Twitter page . . . and HoopmanX is actually right on that one. Ignorant doesn't even begin to describe it. But if HoopmanX is a booster, that would be a (minor) recruiting violation against SMU.

I think this is great. A few months ago, I was on campus for the first time in many years. Unfortunately, I was not able to catch a game but I did see the very impressive Apogee Stadium and all the other new buildings around campus. The physical aspect of North Texas may have changed but that special atmosphere that was present forty years ago is still there. And this video captures all that is unique and special about our university. Link

like it would make a difference in the impending destruction of them tomorrow...

good times at the tailgating and game...that duck was damn good...the beer was awesome....and the company was decent!!!

To further your analogy....adding UTSA to an already weak and disrespected SBC is like realizing that all the pretty girls are already being taken to prom so you ask the fat ugly girl the night before just so you can say you have a date. No thanks, I'd rather go stag.

More people in that video than showed up to a couple home games...

I love the indignant attitude on this board towards the SBC. Half our fans probably missed prom because they were convinced until the very end that the hot girl was gonna come around.

I'll stay in the Sun Belt if we can get LA Tech, NMSU, and/or UTSA.

sher will.

I highly doubt any conference (CUSA) is going to pick up any team (La Tech) because they don't want to harm an existing conference. That has not been a factor in any conference move I am aware of. CUSA may pick La Tech or some one else but it is not going to be because they care anything about the Belt.

I think we can all agree that the best case scenario here is that we get that invite to CUSA, with the next best possibility being to get invited to the MWC. The worst case scenario is for CUSA to expand with La Tech. Most of us believe that we are the perfect fit here, but La Tech has more name recognition because of their success in recent years. By the way, this is why we should root big-time for TCU to destroy them in their bowl game--anything that makes them look good (and a bowl win over a ranked TCU team would do that big time) is a huge punch to the gut for us. If we were to be stuck in the SBC as it currenty sits, with no local teams to help with attendance issues and travel costs, our situation will not get any better long-term. Again, I know people hate the idea of playing in a conference with UTSA and Texas State, but the upside of finally getting in-state conference mates that provides easy travel for fans is huge to me. A SBC with La Tech, Texas State, UTSA, and NMSU would make me feel much better about staying in the SBC. But if La tech got the final CUSA spot, the SBC would have no reason to expand, so we would still not have a conference mate closer than Monroe, LA to play against for many years to come. I think it has become rather obvious that nobody travels of major note from any of the SBC schools to Denton, the SBC provides nothing in the form of a decent contract for TV (exposure and $$$), nor does the SBC excite anyone outside of the hearty 10k fans who basically support this program. It just keeps us on the perpetual wheel of irrelevance that we have always been on for decades. This isn't even factoring in the very real possibility that the MWC and CUSA will probably have some or all of its members stay as FBS programs if a new line ever gets drawn again on who gets to stay at the top level of college football and who get re-classified.

Well while I applaud Denver for their good run and jacking up this years respect and RPI for the conference.... as far as I know they will leave the Belt next year for the WAC, and I sure want UNT and the blue raiders and even USA to demolish them as often as they play them this season. It is not a lot of use if they are good and then next season every commentator will say that we lost the best team to -of all possibilities- the WAC.

The storyline is.........SMU loses recruit to UTSA.

I have not tried that yet, but you are second person I have heard talk about that recipe so I will have to get around to trying it. This time I just used some canned jalapenos (from my father in law) and some pear. I first tried pear in there with some dove for the FAU tailgate and everyone loved it. next time might be like you described for one batch and water chestnuts in the other. Vocabulary, good to see you on the board and not just lurking.

I wouldn't take anything those boneheads say seriously...I bet he sticks with us.

Yes, I was also transfere impressed with the video - very nice indeed. Was cool to see Coach Jones out there - he really loves UNT. Brave Combo Rocks

Oh yeah? That's awesome. Do they have any affiliation with UNT?

It all started in order to get a creditable opponent for the Apogee opener. If Houston insisted on 2012 when they agreed to be our opening opponent then we're honor-bound to keep the away date for next September. It would be terribly expensive to get out of the LSU contract but we may have to bite the bullet. Could K-State be talked into making the return in 2013? If none will acquiesce and we can't afford the buyout with LSU, the we must have the best home game that we can get; certainly not an FCS opponent. We're going to have to realize that the schedule won't be to our liking until we are in a conference with opponents known to our students, townspeople and to a lesser extent, our alumni. We need to buy season tickets and attend games for a couple of years, regardless of who we play. Poor fan support could keep us out of a higher-profile conference and hinder scheduling the known regional teams who would be out of our conference. I'm far less worried about the team that we will put on the field than I am with the attendance for the next two years. We desperately need 25,000 fans who are willing to sacrifice a less than spectacular schedule for the chance at a bigger trough. Hold your nose if you must but step forward and support your university. If you don't the progress of the last year will be lost...perhaps for years.

Good because it makes the Belt look better, good because it'll possibly make FIU that much more beatable in the near future. I'll take it.

apologies!

So, I think I'm right about this, but I believe the 2012 home schedule will be Texas Southern, South Alabama, Troy, Arkansas State, and Louisiana-Lafayette. My question is this: Will we draw 20k for any of those games? I guess if we beat one of the brand names in the OOC, it would be probable, but assuming we don't beat LSU, KSU, or UH, I just don't see the season average for attendance being over 17k, even if we do win in the SBC. Great timing for a program that should be trying desperately to get a step-up during confernece realignment so as not to be left behind.

Let's be fair. SMU fans aren't gay. But their boyfriends are.

It was great meeting everyone that came out for the tailgate. For the rest of you who couldn't make it, don't miss it next time we tailgate a basketball game!

Ditto. Can we move this to the Pwny board?

thanks!

I thought I told you it wasn't a date.

Why are you people so upset about 5 home games? Its not like we built a brand new stadium or something to accommodate more high-profile teams and attract new fans! You people are so delusional!

Agreed. The vocal displeasure of the bit has become much the much funnier bit.

Let's not underestimate Texas Southern. It is the language of Mordor's numbering system.